Naked! Screaming! Terror!* (aka Dagmar's Hot Pants Inc.)

Today I'm doing something I'd wanted to do since I first began Monstruos Calientes forty posts ago (were we ever so young?) and finally getting some Trashorama Radio Spots up here for y'all. These sick little nuggets (86 in all here on Vol. 1) are the perfect background white-noise-sleaze for your next gathering of footstompers and/or gluesniffers, or as interludes on mix tapes (MIX TAPES?! Like it's 1994 all over again, no one makes MIX TAPES anymore! Hello, Art of the Mix!).

I love the deeply-crappy audio-quality of some of the spots here; peppered with pops, crackles and hisses-aplenty, the aural-grit of these vintage radio advertisments for exploitation, horror, monster and sci-fi movies makes me wonder if they'd been distributed to drive-ins and radio stations on vinyl 45's, and just passed along from screen to screen with the prints themselves, collecting wear and scratchy-flavor along the way...

Without further delay, here is the filth:

Trashorama Radio Spots - Volume 1 (zip)

01. Chrome And Hot Leather
02. Hell's Angels '69
03. The Hard Ride
04. Peter Fonda Festival: The Wild Angels + Spirits Of The Dead + The Trip
05. The Dirt Gang
06. Angel Unchained
07. Evel Knievel
08. Destroy All Monsters
09. Tentacles (American International)
10. (In A) Small Town In Texas
11. The Island of Dr. Morreau (American International)
12. H.G. Wells' Empire of the Ants (American International)
13. Futureworld
14. Squirm
15. Dorian Gray (aka Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, 1970...screening at the American Cinematheque in a few weeks!)
16. Scream And Scream Again
17. Boris Karloff: The Terror + The Raven + Black Sabbath + Die Monster Die + The Comedy Of Terrors
18. Murders In The Rue Morgue
19. Spirits Of The Dead
20. The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant
21. The House That Screamed
22. Frogs (American International)
23. Schizoid (American International)
24. Who Slew Auntie Rue?
25. Simon, King Of The Witches
26. The Horror On Snape Island
27. The Devil's Widow (American International)
28. Black Jack
29. Street People
30. Scorchy
31. Coffy + J.D.'s Revenge
32. Madame Kitty (aka Salon Kitty)
33. Venus In Furs
34. Two Gentlemen Sharing
35. Kidnapped (American International)
36. Three In The Cellar
37. Lola
38. A Bullet For Pretty-Boy (American International)
39. The 24 Hour Lover (American International)
40. Dagmar's Hot-Pants Inc.
41. Pacific Vibrations
42. The Great Scout And Cathouse Thursday
43. Girls On The Road
44. The Gay Deceivers
45. School For Unclaimed Girls ("...in a perfumed zoo for teenage she-cats!")
46. Bloody Mama (American International)
47. Kama Sutra
48. A Thousand Convicts And A Woman
49. Gas! - Or, It Became Necessary to Destroy the World In Order to Save It
50. Chastity (American International)
51. I Am A Groupie
52. Wild In The Sky (American International)
53. Joyride
54. Pick-Up On 101
55. Motorcycle Races!
56. Hard Women
57. Wavelength
58. They Came From Within
59. Blood Rose + The Body Stealers
60. The Return Of Count Yorga
61. Up From The Depths
62. The Last House On The Left
63. Mondo Kiezen + Wild Woman With A Whip
64. Sex Fiend
65. Futureworld
66. The Italian Stallion
67. The Body Shop
68. The Crypt Of Dark Secrets + Seven Blows Of The Dragon
69. Massage Parlor Hookers
70. The Love Slaves
71. The Love Factor
72. Fiend For Flesh
73. The Female Butcher
74. Sugar-Pie
75. The Girl Snatchers
76. When Women Had Tails
77. Redneck County
78. Little Whorehouse On The Prairie + How To Pick Up Girls + The Haystack Hookers
79. Beyond The Door
80. Obscenity, Obscenity
81. Blood Feast
82. The Strangest Secrets On Earth
83. The Color Of Her Skin
84. The Sting Of The West
85. The Eyes Of Hell + Explosion
86. Moonshiner's Woman

TRT: 70:12

There's two more volumes of these that will be hosted here over the next few weeks...don't be a stranger and be sure to swing back on by....

photo: ClevelandSGS

*The title of today's installment was pretty much a 3-way-tie between the two up there and A Perfumed Zoo For Teenage She-Cats! (it really is difficult to ever say no to Dagmar's Hot-Pants). Credit for the winning entry, however, should be properly attributed to J. Rocky Colavito, author of the essay Naked! Screaming! Terror!: The Rhetoric of Hype and Drive-In Movie Trailers (from Horror at the Drive-In: Essays in Popular Americana, McFarland & Co. Publishers, 2003).



In his fascinating essay (one of 18 total in the book by various contributors), Mr. Colavito reminisces on the breathless, forbidden monster movie trailers of his youth, as well as dissecting what makes all those bombastic coming attractions so dang enticing. From Revenge of the Cheerleaders to Reptilicus and beyond, the marketing campaigns, design elements, editing techniques, trailer typefaces and jagged blasts of screaming soundtrack all work in bludgeoning unison to lure us in. Highly recommended and available for purchase here.

The Harris / TSNKE photo credit: www.beckerfilms.com