The Carrier – Would you like cats with your trailer?

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Today we’re taking a look at two very different trailers for the same film: The Carrier (1988)

This fairly obscure horror feature follows a mysterious and deadly infection that breaks out in a small American town. An infection that can be on anything: your chair, your book, your bed. Touch it with your flesh and you’ll be instantly infected and start to melt away right there and then.

How do the townsfolk deal with this? Besides going completely insane and resorting to extreme violence they realise they need another living being to check things for them, what do they choose to use? CATS!

Yes cats become the number one commodity as the town splits into violent warlike tribes, all bent on surviving this horrific infection their town is suffering.

Which leads us to the film’s original USA trailer, which is a cat-tastic overload of people shouting about their four-legged feline friends. Sample lines include:

“Go out there and get me cats!”

“Get the children and cats inside.”

“Cats or death!”

“Cats are what you need!”

This makes for a highly entertaining trailer as if you watch it cold for the first time you have no idea what they’re talking about. It sold us totally on it and for once the actual film itself just about lives up to the craziness of the trailer. Watch the original trailer packed with CATS here:

Which leads us to this alternative trailer which we found on a VHS tape recently, of which there’s not a single mention of CATS! It’s like the person who cut this trailer said “Oh we’re not having any of that cat weirdness in this version!”

Here’s our NO CATS version of the trailer:

Take a watch of both versions – which do you prefer? With CATS or without CATS!

Duke Goes Nine Worlds 2015!

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This weekend we’re heading back to Nine Worlds Geekfest to take part in their Here Be Dragons Film Festival, this’ll be our third year there and we always have the best time possible. Here’s our special festival trailer we’ve put together to give you an idea of what we’ll be unleashing on them:

Catch My Soul – The Trailer

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One of the highlights from Monday night and our 8^th Birthday Party was the unveiling of a very rare trailer find, an original 60-second 16MM trailer for the very rare film ‘Catch My Soul’, the only feature film directed by Patrick McGoohan and unavailable for many years.

This trailer is currently the only way you can see any footage from the film, as although various versions of the film have been found in the past few years, none of them are available to view publicly, so this brief trailer at least allows us to get an idea of what the film looked like.

How did we find this trailer? I’d like to say we went on some epic long quest that lead us around the world’s film archives, but it simply popped up for sale on ebay late last year, with a Buy It Now price of $5.99, so we didn’t waste a second and picked it up straight away.

The version here is simply filmed from a Steenbeck with my camera, I’m going to look into how much it’ll cost to get it properly transferred from the print,.

For the full in-depth story behind Catch My Soul, including the making of, how it was lost and then how it was re-discovered, head to the incredible article over at The Unmutual

Also for there’s some great information and press material over at Temple Of Schlock