Driver's Ed Scare Films V02
Signal 30 (new transfer), Freeway Driving Tactics, Traffic Rules, Fatal Meeting, Alco Beat!
As if the charred-flesh and head-through-the-steering-column horrors of Signal 30 (color) aren't enough for you, there are five other gruesome spools of road rage on this second collection of when good drivers go bad! Night time is considered pure evil in Visibility (color), geared toward the total idiot behind the wheel. For instance, when the weather outside is frightful, your visibility is decreased, so slow it down! If you don't understand what this means, a superimposed speedometer will show you the way. A dead-ringer for Fidel Castro has a cameo. To test your reaction time, there's a fun interactive game involving pesky brake lights. Freeway Driving Tactics (color) also assumes you don't have opposable thumbs, enlightening the driver with wisdom on the ABCs of merging, changing lanes and pulling over to help pretty ladies stranded on the shoulder, with its points driven home with a brief cartoon of a convertible plowing into a moving semi. To demonstrate why you shouldn't follow closely, two guys tie their cars together with a tow rope and test if car No. 2 can avoid smashing into Car No. 1 when hitting its brakes. Kids, don't try this at home. Following is Traffic Rules (color), aimed at kids with its nifty retro cut-out animation, and Alco Beat (color), which pits a couple of inebriated partygoers against a makeshift obstacle course, reminding one of that killer Brady Bunch episode where Greg and Marcia square off against eggs atop traffic cones. Finally, Fatal Meeting (color) recalls the glory days of primitive crash tests, in all their slow-motion, neck-snapping, limb-flailing glory! Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
Code: SW6548 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQE Retail: $15.00

Driver's Ed Scare Films V03
Wheels of Tragedy (color), The Bottle and the Throttle (b&w), Help Is... (color), Short Stops (b&w), You Can't Stop on a Dime (b&w), What Right of Way (b&w), The Perfect Crime (color)
Thinking about taking a nice quiet drive this weekend? What, are you nuts?! Watch this third VOLUME of Driver's Ed Scare Films and you'll undoubtedly never want to get behind the wheel of a car again... Wheels of Tragedy (color): More charred corpses and smashed skulls from everyone's favorite highway gore film makers! But this doozy marked the first time a Highway Safety Film featured third-rate actors in goofy re-enactments moments before the inevitable footage of real dead bodies. One minute it's pretend, the next, real corpses! And not only do we get the ominous narrator guiding us through the usual blood 'n' guts footage, now we have a host of cardboard cops commenting on the action. Like all good HSF productions, this one is impossible to turn off. Incidently, HSF's motto was Motion pictures that tell it like it is! Scary says: Grim postcards from the endless highway of death! The Bottle and the Throttle (b&w): You really fouled up this time, didn't you, Bill? That woman is dead and her child is in critical care all because you had that one extra beer. You had a Superman complex behind the wheel just when you should have been paying attention. How does it feel, Bill? Might we remind you that this moment will haunt you for the rest of your life?... Scary says: SID DAVIS' moral blitzkrieg rages on, darker and harder than ever before! Help Is... (color): What do you do if come upon a bad car accident? Why, just wait for the echo-chambered voice to start giving you first aid tips! Funky grooves and lots of zooms make this weirdo Canadian flick a sure-fire block-party rocker. It even looks like a zombie movie. Scary says: Get high with a little help from Help Is...! Short Stops (b&w) The art of braking is explored using an array of giant old 1950's gas-guzzling cars. Later we see strange archaic experiments involving darts shooting out of tires (don't ask), all the while our happy narrator chirps on about brakes, brakes, and brakes. Scary says: Things just aren't what they used to be! You Can't Stop on a Dime (b&w): Sid Davis soft-core about young people's misconception of how long it takes to stop. Looped muzak and out-of-sync narration bring unintentional surreality and hilarity to the proceedings. Surprising for a Sid Davis picture, no one even gets hurt (let alone dies). However, all his sly hallmarks are in place and it's as nutty as ever. Scary says: Like looking at a field of ghosts! What Right of Way (b&w): Limited access highways and left-turn fender benders come under the close scrutiny of our unnamed host. He yaps away, fumbling lines, and looking like he needs a very stiff drink. Scary says: More proof that the world needed HSF to shake things up! The Perfect Crime (color): It starts like a sleazy crime film: a gunman goes into a store and shoots a little girl. It makes the headlines but the cops eventually bust the guy. What does all this have to do with Driver's Ed? You just wait and see. Our hard-as-nails narrator makes a heartfelt yet head-scratchingly strange case for vehicular manslaughter being the perfect crime. Ouch! Scary says: What the hell were they thinking? Scary Ed
Code: SW7411 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQE Retail: $15.00

Driver's Ed Scare Films V04
Highways of Agony (color), What'll You Do If... (b&w), Don't Be a Sitting Duck (b&w), Winter Driving (b&w), The Golden Rule of Driving (color), Matter of Judgement (color), Ride to Live, Live to Ride (color)
The theory, apparently, is that a good driver is a terrified driver. And what better way to scare people about getting behind the wheel of a car than with this fourth VOLUME of Something Weird Video's Driver's Ed Scare Film series... Highways of Agony (color): After Dick Wayman's alleged porno film scandal, Highway Safety Films was in desperate need of a hit. With Highways of Agony it got one. It may have been with a new crew, but the approach was tried and true. Trust those offal hounds from Ohio to one-up their own oeuvre (Signal 30, Wheels of Tragedy) in not only gore quota but in tone and shock value. Just as horrific and scary as you remember it being. Possibly more so. Scary says: 100% Ohio gore strikes again! What'll You Do If... (b&w): We see a little boy behind the wheel of a car. Classical music is playing. Is this boy really a race car driver? No, but a faux Rod Serling tells us that children who play act driving will grow up to be better drivers. This wacky day dreamer will become the type of driver you want to meet on the highway! Soon he's off reminding us that neighborhoods have special needs and to always apply the brakes slowly. Scary says: A place we like to call the No-passing on the right Zone! Don't Be a Sitting Duck (b&w): Anatomy of an accident. Boffin' geezer looks at all sides, draws conclusions, and rewards the viewer with a comprehensive understanding of how not to be a sitting duck. Best bit: said geezer acts out what it's like to drop a cigarette while driving. Scary says: Glad handed reminder of how bad live TV must have been! Winter Driving (b&w): Goofy music. Goofy narration. Amazing footage of old cars spinning out on ice, snow, and sleet. Scary says: More fun than winter driving actually is, I'm told! The Golden Rule of Driving (color): Hippy dippy narrator is just dying to let us know what the golden rule is. Do you know? Do you want to know? If the rule suggested here is in fact the golden rule, millions of teenagers across the country have been cheated out of an education. Great cars, too. Scary says: He who drives the golden car makes the rule! Matter of Judgement (color): A Highway Safety Film that makes up for its lack of blood through bold editing and casting. Scary-looking old men and teen punks drive aimlessly through the great Ohio expanse, their narratives intersecting and skidding together periodically. Perhaps HSF was trying to go legit. Perhaps crash test dummy footage was redefining the genre. Regardless, crank the bass and invite the kiddies: an HSF flick for the whole family! Scary says: HSF goes PG-13! Ride to Live, Live to Ride (color): Warning: If you thought HSF took Highway gore to its apex, think again! This grizzly film was made by a company called the Suicide Club (!). The narrator sounds as if he's had a few beers to help ease the task of looking at all these grim pictures of torn bodies, decapitated heads and charred children. Not a film to show at your Grandma's birthday party (unless you want to get cut out of the will). Scary says: [no audible comment] Scary Ed
Code: SW7412 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQE Retail: $15.00

Driver's Ed Scare Films V05
The Last Prom, Courtesy, Dateline Today, Why Take a Chance?, Split Second Decision, Teenicide, Highway Driving, Left Turns, The Last Date
"Produced in Drive-a-vision! Those long sought-after shorts The Last Prom and The Last Date (starring Dick York) stand out among this collection of scenes of ""reckless teenicide,"" but hypocrisy rules in a Chevy industrial packed with ""more stunts-per-minute than Dukes of Hazzard"". Plus, a multi-part series featuring the notorious Sergeant Bruce!
" Code: SW7413 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQE Retail: $15.00

Highway Safety Films
Signal 30, Highways of Agony, Wheels of Tragedy, Mechanized Death!
Bone-crunching, gut-churning bloody highway gore!
Code: SW4205 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQE Retail: $15.00