i still remember 42nd street back in the day and before former mayor rudi giuliani transform the area into a vega like tourist death trap . it use to be a different kind of tourist death trap . i remember the area twilight year in the 80 and early 90 . during this time the area be still predominately full of pimp and prostitute and drug dealer and xxx theater and the grind house . for an idea of what it be like during the transition and you can reference schwarzenegger last action hero ( when it go real ) a a representation of the change . this be because by the late 80 this wasn not quite the one you remember from midnight cowboy . i have be live in the area for the last couple of year and there be very little remnant of what the area be . at the changeover from dawn to day and in the area west of 9th avenue and you can still see the world old professional quit for the night . they have become sparse enough in this area and that the professional be almost there for the tourist and a historical re creationists and rather than a a professional perform a civic duty . the legitimate place of business have move out to the outer borough and hunt point and green point and queen bridge and etc . this first volume in the series be a stroll down memory lane for me . it remind me of the area and the theater and a a child and thing i be not allow to see . the area and it movie represent a taboo to me . for those that do not know and grind house be the genre representative of the movie show in some of the theater on the small strip from 7th and broadway to 10th avenue on 42nd street ( and the surrounding side street ) . they be not necessarily porn but contain graphic sex and gratuitous violence . the story be usually gear around that graphic sex and violence . one can not deny the silliness and camp of a majority of the movie in this genre . some of them be homegrown and others be quite foreign . they be your non typical kind of movie . they be not the type of movie you would bring home to show mom and dad and yet you still find a way to sneak it in . the series collect the trailer and usually show before and during a double feature and into a continuous reel . if you want to know and learn about grind house movie and then this be a good place to start . just like in modern trailer and these trailer tend to give away critical information about the movie . have see the full version of some of these movie in this collection and it be sometimes sufficient to have see the trailer to get the best aspect of that movie . it be also a good vehicle for me to get into movie i have never see or vaguely remember . there be more movie than you can image and that fall within this category . for example and you can expect trailer such a represent sylvester stallone italian stallion and matango and the green slime and destroy all monster and the cripple master and they call her one eye and maid in sweden and shock asia and chappaqua and death drive and the raider of atlantis and star crash and superfuzz and ironmaster and many and many more . i find volume 1 to contain a great cross section of the genre and a good representation of the trailer for the most well know movie in the genre . i definitely enjoy it much more than volume 2. that make me even more excited about the prospect of volume 3. till rodriguez and tarantino homage to the genre and i will await volume 3 while secretly shoot up on volume 1 in the papaya dog bathroom . celluloid rehab .