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42nd Street Forever Volume 3: Exploitation Explosion (2007)
From Synapse Films we get another installment of one of my favorite DVD series in a long time, the 42nd Street Forever collection. This time it's 42nd Street Forever Volume 3: Exploitation Explosion. When I first picked it up and read the trailers on the back one thing came to mind, they're really starting to run out of trailers for these types of DVD's. But to be honest after actually watching the DVD, I felt totally the opposite. This release is a goldmine of great trailers from a lot of the lesser known films of the era. I've seen some of them before on other compilations but the ones that I hadn't were a total riot. Here's the complete listing of all of the trailers included in Volume 3:
Sudden Death
The One Armed Executioner
Jaguar Lives
Enter the Ninja
Lighting Swords of Death
Five Fingers of Death
The Stranger and The Gunfighter
Beyond the Door
Demonoid
The Night Child
Devil Times Five
Patrick
Jennifer
Phase IV
Bug
The Uncanny
The Pack
Alligator
Killer Fish
Shark's Treasure
Blood Beach
Hot T-Shirts
Cheerleaders Wild Weekend
Summer School Teachers
Gorp
King Frat
Prision Girls
1000 Convicts and a Woman
The Penthouse
The House by the Lake
Night Call Nurses
The Young Nurses
The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Survive!
Guyana Cult of the Damned
Seven
Scorchy
Savage Streets
Convoy
High Ballin
From Noon til Three
Telefon
Lies
Tattoo
Now if that isn't a healthy helping of some good old grindhouse glory I don't know what is. The trailers are a wide range of the films that you would expect and it delivers in areas where Volume 2 didn't. This is actually a better release than that one was even if this has the shortest running time out of the first three releases. Not only do you get all that, but you have a commentary track that runs through all of the trailers on the disc! The commentary features Fangoria Managing Editor Michael Gingold, film historian Chris Paggiali, and AV Maniacs editor Edwin Sanuelson.
Some of my favorites in this collection would have to be the kidsplitation flick "Devil Times Five", the rape revenge film starring Linda Blair in "Savage Streets", the excellent cult classic film "Alligator", along with a whole host of nudie flicks, ripoff's, and just about anything else you'd expect to see on a marquee on 42nd street.
Overall I would definitely recommend that you pick this one up, especially if you are already a fan of the series. It'll fit in nicely with the first two volumes as well as the XXX-edition that Synapse released prior to this one or if you just want to find out what all the fuss is about when it comes to these compilations it's worth a buy. But be warned, you might find yourself attempting to find a lot of these hard to find titles if you haven't already seen them! Pick this one up today!
Rating - ***
-Ed Demko
