This second disk of movie trailers from Trailer Trauma is an improvement over the first volume for several reasons.
The first reason is that this three and a half hour collection consists of (mostly) horror movie previews, and I am a horror movie fan. The first volume was a little too scattershot for my taste.
The second reason is that more thought has gone into the organization of these trailers than in the first volume. A reason exists for the order of the movie previews. Sometimes a group of films were from the same studio (there are several trailers from Hammer studio). Sometimes films were linked by country (Latitude Zero and The War of the Gargantuas were both Japanese productions). Sometimes two films that had originally played together in a release had their trailers consecutive. I appreciated this organization.
Third, there were some unusual and fun trailers in this one. I am not a fan of Horror Hospital, but it was fun to see a preview for the film under its "Computer Killers" title. I enjoyed seeing previews for personal favorites like The Blood on Satan's Claw, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Night Evelyn Came out of the Grave, The Tower of Screaming Virgins, and Zombie. Furthermore, because of their trailers, I wanted to give a second try to a few films that I did not remember liking that much on a first viewing, like Latitude Zero, Lost Continent and Screamers (represented by a foreign trailer). Finally, as usual for these collections, there were films represented that I was unfamiliar with, like The Blood Rose and Horror House.
The disk also includes an audio commentary. The track is by George Reis of DVD Drive-in and Keith Crocker of Cinefear. Reis provided the nice looking trailers (sourced from 35mm), but Crocker probably dominates the commentary. Both men know their movies. They have seen and liked the vast majority of these films. However, both men spend too much time talking about where they saw the films, mentioning movie theaters, television channels, and video stores around Long Island. These references meant nothing to me since I am from the Midwest. The speakers do better when they give information about the films. I thought their comments on Horror House and the double bill Women and Bloody Terror and Night of Bloody Horror were especially good. I would say the commentary was worth a listen to once, even if it is three and a half hours long.
Trailer Trauma 2: Drive-in Monsterama offers good movie preview viewing for horror movie fans.
