Customer Reviews

Cheezy Horror , Vol. 1

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Cheezy put together a really fun package here - but instead of trying to stretch their catalog between two volumes, might have been better off combining what they had into one uber volume for a slightly higher price ... or perhaps we're just spoiled by Synapse Films' great 42nd Street Forever and 42nd Street Forever, Vol 2: The Deuce products!

Content covers a lot of ground, from previews for great old b/w numbers like The Old Dark House, Curse of the Demon and The Tingler to 50s drive in spectaculars, to the lurid, blood-drenched titles that likely drew most of us in.

Be warned that Cheezy tries to stretch its library by duplicating some of the trailers on both volumes - sometimes within the same volume! (Humanoids from the Deep definitely appears twice on Volume 1), and some of the prints scream "fullscreen VHS", but this is largely counteracted by both the programs themselves and the extra cool additional trailers to be found under "Also From Cheezy Flicks" and "Intermission" from the main menu.

Stay Scared!!!
Minister of Sinister

I actually ordered the entire Cheezy Trailers library from Netflix recently. Nearly every disc (with the exclusion of Cheezy Exploitation) has duplicate trailers on them...and some of the discs (including Horror Vol. 1 & 2, Scifi 1 and Fantasy) have duplicates of the same movie trailer on the same disc. Did these folks even watch what they were adding to their product?

While many of the trailers decent quality you just can't overlook the numerous dubbed from video trailers (complete with authentic scan lines and squiggles and sometimes static from crash edits).

On a positive note, you do get some interesting drive-in intermission reels on each disc which add to the variety (but once again, beware of duplicates).

I work in the horror business and love wonderful old trailers, but I would have to warn against spending your money on these discs...you're better off renting them if you can.

I had a fun time watching this dvd but I wasn't blown away by it. There's a good mix of trailers, spanning from the 1950's - 1980's, some of them were for movies I'd never heard of. As a previous reviewer noted, some of the trailers are repeated during the program (I counted 3.) The picture quality mostly looked like vhs. This is a good compilation to pick up if you have a little bit of extra money, nothing to go out of your way for though.

I picked up both volumes of Cheezy Flicks Horror trailers and I came away very disappointed. Compared to the superb 42nd Street DVD's by Synapse this is not even in the same league. Very shoody VHS transfer quality with poor editing as most of the beginnings and endings are cut off. The runtime on the cover said 60 minutes but volume one was 57 minutes and volume two was 54. Both DVD's repeat at least three of the trailers between them including multiple repeats on the very same DVD! Who was editing this? Each DVD also opens with some stooge warning you about how "scary" the movies you are watching are for about three minutes so in fact you'll be lucky to get even fifty minutes of trailers. The Cheezy Flicks insignia appears in every trailer in case you forget every few seconds who's responsible for this garbage. It could have been much better as I enjoyed the various old intermission movies which were also poor quality and some of the movies I wouldn't necessarily catagorize as "cheesy". Friday the 13th? Are you serious? Don't waste your money.