Description

Now Available for Pre-Order for shipping on or near April 15, 2010!

Any movie can be great in 2 ½ minutes.

Trailers--you know, those fast-paced 2-to-4 minute theatrical promo shorts that have preceded the Feature Attraction since the dawn of sound? An exciting montage of all The Best Parts of a movie the exhibitors want you to NEED to see! Full of swirling letters screaming hyperbolic promises of THRILLS! ACTION! MYSTERY! ROMANCE! Packing all the highlights of a whole picture into its own mini-movie in just a few minutes!

THE BEST FROM TRAILERS FROM HELL!, Volume 1 showcases the cream of the award-winning website series, concentrating on promos for horror, science fiction and fantasy films which viewers can watch both as originally intended or accompanied by pithy commentary by Trailers from Hell Gurus: Joe Dante (Gremlins), John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Mick Garris (The Stand), Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) and Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead).

The trailers and commentaries are:

Joe Dante - The Tingler, Blood and Roses, Curse of Frankenstein, Earth vs. Flying Saucers

Mick Garris - Rabid, The Valley of Gwangi, Scream and Scream Again, Horrors of the Black Museum

John Landis - Curse of the Werewolf, Green Slime, Private Parts, Mighty Joe Young

Eli Roth - Squirm, The Birds, 3 on a Meathook, Forbidden Planet

Edgar Wright - Corruption, The Sentinel, Silent Running, Phantom of the Paradise

Included as an added bonus is the 1933 Majestic Pictures horror classic, The Vampire Bat, as well as two animated cartoon classics: Foster & Bailey's The Haunted Ship (1930) and Ub Iwerks' The Headless Horseman (1934).

Cast

Trailers from Hell Gurus - Joe Dante, Mick Garris, John Landis, Eli Roth, Edgar Wright

The Vampire Bat - Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Dwight Frye

Festivals

SXSW Film Festival, Mar del Plata Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival

Production Credits & Notes

TRAILERS FROM HELL is the brainchild of film director Joe Dante, new media entrepreneur Jonas Hudson, graphic artist Charlie Largent and producer Elizabeth Stanley. The series was born out of their mutual love of classic films of all types, but particularly horror and exploitation films.

JOE DANTE

Joe Dante is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art. After a stint as a film reviewer, he began his filmmaking apprenticeship in 1974 as trailer editor for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his directorial debut in 1976 with Hollywood Boulevard (co-directed with Allan Arkush), a thinly disguised spoof of New World exploitation pictures, shot in ten days for $60,000.

In 1977 Dante made his solo debut as a film director with Piranha, which went on to become one of the company's biggest hits and was distributed throughout the rest of the world by United Artists. During his tenure at New World, Dante edited Ron Howard's directorial debut Grand Theft Auto and co-wrote the original story for Rock n Roll High School.

For Avco-Embassy Dante next directed the highly praised werewolf thriller The Howling (1981), followed by the It’s a Good Life segment of the episodic Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).
Having worked with Steven Spielberg on Twilight Zone, Dante was chosen to helm one of the first Amblin Productions for Warner Bros. Gremlins (1984) became a runaway hit and grossed more than $200 million worldwide.

Dante followed up with Explorers for Paramount, a sci-fi fantasy about three kids who build their own spaceship, and then Innerspace (1987) for Guber/Peters, Amblin and Warner Bros., an action comedy in which miniaturized test pilot Dennis Quaid is injected into the body of supermarket clerk Martin Short.

Tom Hanks starred in Dante's next film for Imagine/Universal, The ‘Burbs (1989), which was followed by Gremlins 2: The New Batch for Warner Bros. in 1990. Matinee featuring John Goodman as a huckster showman premiering his new horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis, was a production of Dante and partner Mike Finnell's Renfield Productions for Universal in 1993.

Dreamworks/Universal's Small Soldiers was released in 1998, followed in 2003 by Warner Bros. Looney Tunes: Back in Action featuring one of Dante's favorite actors, Bugs Bunny.

Dante’s Homecoming, an episode of Showtime’s Masters of Horror series, debuted in December 2005 to rave reviews from critics and audiences alike and was named to numerous “Top 10” critics lists. The Sitges and Brussels International Film Festivals both honored Homecoming with Special Jury Recognition Awards, and the New Yorker called it the best political film of 2005. His most recent work includes The Screwfly Solution, also an episode of Masters of Horror, and the Halloween 2007 episode of CSI: New York. He recently finished the 3-D thriller, The Hole, for Bold Films. The Hole won the 2009 Venice Film Festival’s inaugural Best 3D Film Award and will be released soon in the US and abroad.

Along the way Dante contributed several comedy segments to the multi-part Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) spoof produced by John Landis, and directed various episodes of the tv series Amazing Stories, Twilight Zone, Police Squad!, Night Visions and Picture Windows. He also directed the network pilots for Caleb Carr's The Osiris Chronicles (1995) and the NBC series Eerie, Indiana, on which he was creative consultant throughout its run.

Dante received Cable Ace nominations for his direction of Showtime's Runaway Daughters (1994) and HBO's The Second Civil War (1997).

One of the creators of Trailers from Hell, Joe is producing the series through his company, Metaluna Productions and is also one of its hosts and commentators.

TOM EDGAR

Tom Edgar has been building websites for more than a decade. You can find out more than you ever wanted to know about him at tomedgar.com.
 
JONAS HUDSON

Jonas Hudson is an entertainment and new media entrepreneur who connects music labels, musicians, Hollywood studios, gaming companies, Fortune 500 brands, and top-tier talent in the entertainment industry and syndicates the content through a digital, de-centralized, “4-Screen” distribution network.

Mr. Hudson currently runs Global Digital Syndication (GDS), a new media syndication and production company. GDS distributes live stream events via connected devices, creates branded entertainment properties for connected and traditional distribution, and distributes audio and video content via mobile devices worldwide.

In 2002, Mr. Hudson created The Nickels Group (TNG) - A traditional and new media company focused on mobile distribution and online music and video syndication. TNG distributes mobile content to over 3 billion mobile devices worldwide and has created the mobile brands; Reggaeton Nation, Trailers From Hell and Nexxt Mobile which can be downloaded on over 80 carrier decks worldwide. In two years, TNG produced and distributed over 200 "made for mobile" video episodes and distributed millions of wallpapers, ringback tones and truetones worldwide. In August 2006, Mr. Hudson sold The Nickels Group to Mobile Streams, Ltd, a public company in the UK and the mobile arm of Liberty Media. At Mobile Streams Mr. Hudson took a senior executive role in building out new mobile and online distribution channels.
  
Prior to forming The Nickels Group, Mr. Hudson worked in marketing and distribution at Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. At Warner Bros., he planned and executed marketing and promotional strategies for the launch of the patented, new DVD technology, under Warren Lieberfarb. While there, he also created and implemented promotional partnerships with numerous Fortune 500 companies including General Motors, Coca-Cola, and Nestle.

CHARLIE LARGENT

Indiana native Charlie Largent received his BFA at the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and his MFA at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. After graduation, he created commercial illustrations for advertisers and publishers while also developing his fine art. He began a series of one man and group shows (in New York, Chicago, Indianapolis and Los Angeles) that continue to this day.

In the seventies he worked as an art director at the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis which led to an interest in video and film production. In the early eighties, Largent directed and produced several corporate videos including the official music video for the city of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Indeed. In 1985, Largent served as production designer for the theatrical film, The Escapist. In 1997, Largent developed CHARLIE HILL ILLUSTRATION which provides digital illustration to the advertising and editorial world and includes Coca-Cola, Microsoft and A&E Network among his clients.

In 2000 Largent moved to California, beginning a stint as film reviewer (for Video Watchdog) and writing screenplays. He sold an original story, Tagged, to UPN for the most recent incarnation of The Twilight Zone hosted by Forest Whitaker and co-wrote the original screenplay The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes, which will be directed by Joe Dante. In addition to his illustration and design for Trailers From Hell, Charlie is currently working on another art for an upcoming gallery exhibition and a book about film. Charlie is represented by Judy Coppage of The Coppage Company.

DAVID MOORE

David Moore is a second generation Hollywood kid who has spent most of his life in and around stages and post houses. By 18, he was already an accomplished sitcom editor, and was able to put himself through UC Irvine with weekend trips to LA to cut commercials. After five years of onlining everything from music videos to documentaries, he opened his own post house, Media Island, in 1999. With his own slate of productions growing, he branched out into the studio business in 2006, and opened Arizona Film Studios. Today, he continues to own post facilities and a production company in Hollywood.

ELIZABETH STANLEY
After seven years as Assistant Executive Director/Director of Organizing for the Directors Guild of America, Elizabeth Stanley left the DGA in late 2004 to establish Elizabeth Stanley Pictures, her independent production company.

Her new media ventures include Trailers from Hell; The Dark Path Chronicles, a vampire-themed VOD/webisode series written and directed by Mary Lambert which premiered on FEARnet in November 2008 and is being distributed around the world by ContentFilm; and Splatter directed by Joe Dante which she co-produced with Roger and Julie Corman. In 2006, Ms. Stanley produced the award winning feature documentary The Doctor, The Tornado and The Kentucky Kid written and directed by Mark Neale. She currently is developing a number of feature film and television projects including The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes to be directed by Joe Dante, The Price of Peace (also to be directed by Lambert) which she will produce with Marge Piane through their Mayday Pictures banner; and Expecting Someone Taller, an adaptation of Tom Holt's cult fantasy novel of the same name, which will be directed by Joe Dante.

From 1997 to September 2004, Ms. Stanley served as the Assistant Executive Director/Director of Organizing for the Directors Guild of America. From 1987 to 1997, she was the chief executive for the Directors Guild-Producer Training Plan, the pre-eminent US entertainment industry joint labor management training plan.