Changes

New changes to the site is starting now. I´ve been away the last week, working on the Norwegian show "Sporløs", but now I´m ready to do some work on "A Fistful of Prevues"!

Prevues of Coming Attractions is not gone, I think I´ll make an episode now and then, just not as often as before. Also, expect to see all previously made episodes on DVD. Just need to make them.. ;)

More to come!

Happy New Year!

New year, new trailers! And it´s time for a change here at Prevues. I originally had planned to start a new blog, called "A Fistful of Prevues", with a new webadress and all. Then I thought, why not change the name of this site, why start a new one. So in the near future, expect some small changes to this site.

It will still be about trailers, of course, but maybe expand a little (if I feel like it). Time will tell. I´ve got some ideas.

So stay tuned!

Coming soon...

Oh yes! Coming soon, before christmas sometime :)

New look

Changed the template, and have also added pages on the top if you hadn't noticed. Don't know when a new episode will come, but as you probably have figured out, it'll be part 2 of the Norwegian series.

Update 10th of May: Comments are disabled because of alot of spam lately.

I´m big in France!

A while back, I was interviewed for the French fanzine Peeping Tom. It´s now available for your reading pleasure, if you can read French that is ;)

I can´t read French, but I can say that the fanzine looks really good. Printed in colour, on glossy paper, it has a professional look.

You can head over to the official site here: http://fanzinepeepingtom.blogspot.com/

It costs 8 Euros, or you can buy a subscription for 3 numbers (incl. postage) for 30 Euros. If you do that, Jan Jouvert, the gentleman behind the publication, will make you a free copy of Prevues very own Blaxploiteasin´ DVD as a subscription bonus! Can´t get better than that :D

Giallorama on Rapidshare

Just a small update on Giallorama:

izchaboi has uploaded it as an ISO-file here, in 21 .rar-files.

Hello!

No, I'm not dead! Just very busy with my final semester at the University. I didn't have the time to finish the episode that was gonna be my christmas present for you guys, sorry about that. Hopefully I'll find the time some day soon.

Stay tuned!

News

Just a little heads up that Prevues isn't dead! I'm working on episode 9 at the moment, and have plans for the 10th. I also know the theme for the 3rd DVD, but that probably won't happen this year.

Hopefully episode 9 will be out this weekend, but no promises!

Update on Vol. 2: Blaxploiteasin´

Hi guys!

A small update on the blaxloitation DVD I´m working on. It´s pretty much finished now. I´ve fixed most of the menus, chapters and all the "linking" if you hit the menu button on the remote if you only want to see 1 trailer. Now you get rerouted back to the button for the next trailer on the playlist. If you didn´t understand that, you´ll know what I´m talking about when you see the DVD. It´s a good thing! :D

I´m waiting for Stian Andrè to make me a nice background on the main menu, and the DVD sleeve. Then I´m gonna split it up and upload it. When that´s done, it´s all yours!

Stay tuned!

Merry Christmas

Have a merry christmas and a happy new year!

I had plans to put up episode 4 today, titles "Directed by Peter Jackson", however I made a few errors, so it'll have to wait till next year. Sorry about that.

If you still haven't seen it, check out Star Wars Holiday Special!

See you next year!

Prevue of Volume 2: Blaxploiteasin'

The DVD cover for Volume 2, Blaxploiteasin'!!! Once again, Stian Andrè (who made the cover for Vol. 1) has made a smooth cover! It's not finished yet, but as you can see, it'll be great! He also came up with the title, which I really like :)

The sad news about Volume 2, is that I'm not gonna be able to finish it this year... you'll have to wait untill the middle of January before I can upload it. I just didn't have time to finish it before I went home for christmas.

Check out Stians website to see all his skillz :D (it's in Norwegian, but there's lots of pictures (custom DVD covers amongst others), and other goodies).

Coming soon: DVD Volume 2

Update 8th: I made a mistake and thought that Blacula and Scream, Blacula, Scream was the same movie, just different titles (as the Grindhouse movies often have). But it is in fact a pair, Scream being the sequel. So I´ve added Blacula to the compilation, and re-encoded the whole thing, so it is now 30 trailers!

Yes, it is true! The second volume of the Prevues of Coming Attractions DVD series is coming soon to a computer near you!

This time I´ve collected 29 groovy trailers from the 70´s from the Blaxploitation genre!

They are:

1. They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!, Gordon Douglas, 1970
   
2. Honky, William A. Graham, 1971
   
3. Shaft, Gordon Parks, 1971
   
4. Black Girl, Ossie Davis, 1972
   
5. Cool Breeze, Barry Pollack, 1972
   
6. Blacula, William Crain, 1972
7. Cleopatra Jones, Jack Starrett, 1973
   
8. Coffy, Jack Hill, 1973
   
9. Savage!, Cirio H. Santiago, 1973
   
10. Scream, Blacula, Scream, Willian Crain, 1972
11. Sweet Jesus, Preacherman, Henning Schellerup, 1973
    
12. Black Samson, Charles Bail, 1974
    
13. Foxy Brown, Jack Hill, 1974
    
14. Mean Mother, Al Adamson & León Klimovsky, 1974
    
15. Sugar Hill, Paul Maslansky, 1974
    
16. Truck Turner, Jonathan Kaplan, 1974
    
17. The Black Gestapo, Lee Frost, 1975
    
18. Boss Nigger, Jack Arnold, 1975
    
19. Bucktown, Arthur Marks, 1975
    
20. Dolemite, D´Urville Martin, 1975
    
21. Friday Foster, Arthur Marks, 1975
    
22. Mandingo, Richard Fleischer, 1975
    
23. ´Sheeba, Baby´, William Girdler, 1975
    
24. Take a Hard Ride, Antonio Margheriti, 1975
    
25. Welcome Home Brother Charles, Jamaa Fanaka, 1975
    
26. Black Shampoo, Greydon Clark, 1976
    
27. Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde, William Crain, 1976
    
28. The Human Tornado, Cliff Roquemore, 1976
    
29. The Guy from Harlem, Rene Martinez Jr., 1977
    
30. Disco Godfather, J. Robert Wagoner, 1979

Stay tuned!

Soon to re-open!

Yes, it is true! Prevues is soon to re-open! The Grand re-opening is set to be this weekend!

I´ve finished the first episode of the series. It clocks in at 22 minutes, and 10 trailers. What genre you ask? It´s the good ol´Rape/Revenge! It´ll be available from Megaupload first, but I´m gonna try to get into the Content Distribution from Mininova. (I´ll apply this weekend.)

If you want to get some technical info about the episodes, there a link on the top right of the site.

And just to let you know: all the previous uploaded single-trailers are now deleted. Some will maybe appear in an episode, but they will not appear as single files again.

I´ve also started work on a new DVD, I have 10 trailers ripped. But I have several more on various DVDs. More info about this later...

Be sure to check back in the next few days!

Onar Films in trouble

From the blogg:

As if I didn't have enough problems, I just received a threatening message from Yilmaz Atadeniz, the producer of the 3 KILINK films I have released, that our contract period is overdue and that I must either give him MORE money to prolong the contract or return him ALL my remaining DVD's!

Yes, our contract mentioned 18 months and I was stupid enough to believe that he wouldn't mind giving me a break.
I was stupid enough to ASSUME that after that period, he was JUST free to sell the copyrights to another guy too.
And I was stupid enough to believe that 18 months were enough to sell out.

And now....

So, while we're talking, I'll try to buy some time, for maybe 1 month and try to get rid of my 2 KILINK dvd's (KILINK ISTANBUL'DA & KILINK DOUBLE BILL).

Thankfully, I've ALMOST sold out KILINK ISTANBUL'DA.
There are about 120 dvd's left.
But there are at least 400 dvd's left of KILINK DOUBLE BILL, which means 1 month is NOT enough to get rid of them.

So, for about 1 month, the 1st KILINK will be available on my site. After that, it will HAVE to disappear!
I don't think I'll sell out in 1 month but I'll just have to remove it from the site.

As for the other KILINK dvd, I'll be offering it at a ridiculous price and then I'm not sure...
Return all the remaining ones to the producer?
Or double- pay like a damn fool a small fortune for a deadbeat that will not sell out even in 10 years?

I really don't know what to do.

What's worse is that Atadeniz will probably demand the same thing for stuff I haven't EVEN released!

I bought from him ZORRO KAMCILI SUVARI & MASKELI SEYTAN about 2 years ago and I bet he'll be asking for more money before I even release them!!

...Which means I'll prefer to NOT release them at all and stuff them in my ass, instead of doing him the favour and pay again before I even release them.

So head over to the official site, and support Onar Films! Buy the coolest DVDs of your life! Tell them Prevues sent you ;)

R.I.P. Don LaFontaine

Don Lafontaine

August 26th, 1940 - September 1st, 2008

The man with the voice of God has passed away. Rest in peace.

Official site

Wikipedia

The Trailer Compilation Database

Check out my sideproject The Trailer Compilation Database, and let me know what you think!

In other news, I've started planning the upcoming episodes of the trailershow. I'm guessing that I'll get out 3 or 4 episodes this year. I've also started on Volume 2 of the DVD series. So check back in a month or so, in the middle of September. Things will be happening then ;)

If you'd like some of the single trailers that I've uploaded, get them now! I'll delete all when I release the first episode.

Summer break!

I'm taking a break for the summer. I really don't have any trailers that I haven't uploaded already, where I am right now. Or anything else for that matter. So I'm taking a break until September. In August, I'm going to South-Africa, Cape Town, to visit my girlfriend! That'll be great!

But I have some plans for the future of Prevues, hopefully you'll all like them :)

First of all, I have plans for a new volume of trailers on DVD. It'll not be another giallo compilation, but it will be within the exploitation genre. Enough said. Check back this fall and you'll see what it'll be ;)

I'm also thinking about quiting uploading just one and one trailer, and instead make small trailershows/episodes, at about 30 minutes of lenght. Each episode will have a theme; a director, a genre, etc. They will be in iPod/mp4 format, high quality. I thought about just making them in low-quality, since you don't need high for wathing them on an iPod, but making the in high-quality others who don't have iPods can also watch them. I think the resolution will be 600pixels wide or something. They will come about once a month, at least. Maybe some specials. We'll see.

Short/feature films/documentaries, and maybe TV-shows, will also be uploaded if I find them interesting. You should expect some Turkish mayhem this fall ;)

Now I'll just lay back, have a cold one, and just relax! (...and maybe fix the design and layout of this blog. Especially the links-section will get a makeover...)

Have a great summer guys! And keep spreading the gospel of Prevues ;)

Giallorama DVD as torrent

Hi guys!

The Giallorama DVD seems to be a small hit (keep spreading the word!)

If you are a member of Cinemageddon, you can download it from there as a torrent. Thanks to user SignorWardh for doing it. Your ratio will rise ;)

If you have uploaded it at any other sites, let me know and I'll post the link here.

Let me know if the DVD works

Hi,
if you have downloaded the Giallo DVD, please let me know if it works.

If you already have StuffIt installed, and you get errors, try to install the latest version.

Prevues of Coming Attractions, Volume 1: Giallorama

Happy birthday to me! It´s now been 2 years since the first trailer from Prevues hit the web! And how do I celebrate this? I give you the DVD I promised a long time ago. It is a collection of 36 trailers from the giallogenre. It hasn´t got fancy menues, mainly because I didn´t have time to make any. Check out some screenies:

As you can see, it is fullscreen, letterboxed. I tried to get them in widescreen 16:9, but something went wrong. However, the trailers look pretty good!

List of trailers:

The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Mario Bava, 1963)

Blood And Black Lace (Mario Bava, 1964)

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970)

The Case Of The Scorpion´s Tail (Sergio Martino, 1970)

The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion (Luciano Ercoli, 1970)

The Strange Vice Of Mrs. Wardh (Sergio Martino, 1970)

A Lizard In A Woman´s Skin (Lucio Fulci, 1971)

Death Walks On High Heels (Luciano Ercoli, 1971)

Four Flies On Grey Velvet (Dario Argento, 1971)

Short Night Of Glass Dolls (Aldo Lado, 1971)

Slaughter Hotel (Fernando Di Leo, 1971)

A Bay Of Blood (Mario Bava, 1971)

The Black Belly Of The Tarantula (Paolo Cavara, 1971)

The Cat O´Nine Tails (Dario Argento, 1971)

The Fifth Cord (Luigi Bazzoni, 1971)

The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (Emilio P. Miraglia, 1971)

All The Colors Of The Dark (Sergio Martino, 1972)

The Case Of The Bloody Iris (Giuliano Carnimeo, 1972)

Torso (Sergio Martino, 1972)

What Have You Done To Solange? (Massimo Dallamano, 1972)

Who Saw Her Die? (Aldo Lado, 1972)

Death Smiles At Murder (Joe D´Amato, 1973)

Spasmo (Umberto Lenzi, 1973)

Autopsy (Armando Crispino, 1975)

Eyeball (Umberto Lenzi, 1975)

Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)

Strip Nude For Your Killer (Andrea Bianci, 1975)

The Killer Must Kill Again (Luigi Cozzi, 1975)

The Bloodstained Shadow (Antonio Bido, 1978)

The Pyjama Girl Case (Flavio Mogherini, 1978)

Tenebrae (Dario Argento, 1982)

The New York Ripper (Lucio Fulci, 1982)

Murderrock (Lucio Fulci, 1984)

Stage Fright (Michele Soavi, 1987)

Trauma (Dario Argento, 1993)

Sleepless (Dario Argento, 2001)

Now to the technical stuff:

The DVD is split into 8 parts, and you´ll need all 8 parts to get the DVD. Total size is about 3,5Gb, and they can be found here.

If you are a member of Cinemageddon you can also download it as a torrent.

If you use Rapidshare, you can get the file from here, in 21 .rar-files.

To open the files, you´ll need a program called StuffIt Expander (Download for Mac, or Windows). That was the only program that I found that could be used on both Mac and Windows, that allowed me to use split archives. It is freeware. When you open the program, open the first part, and start unpacking.

When unpacked, you can burn the VIDEO_TS folder in Nero, or if you use a Mac, Toast.

You can also download a SWEET DVD cover, it can be found in the same folder as the DVD, it´s at 7,36Mb. A HUGE thanks to Stian for making it!

Please let me know what you think! Enjoy!

If you have any questions, let me know and I´ll try to answer them as good as I can.