I want to meet Damon Packard, but I’d also be a little freaked out about it. The Early ‘70s Horror Trailer is so inside my brain and filled with the imagery I love most about, well, early 70s horror, without anything like a plot to get in the way. 

Why is everyone running? Why is there so much blood? Who drowned that girl? Make your own movie inside your head with this, as these are, but moments in a reality we will never experience except in these split seconds. The layered, distorted audio that sounds like a cassette tape melting in a hot car, something else we may never hear again. Packard doesn’t make a movie influenced by the past here. Instead, he captures the way we remember old movies in a fragmented, terrifying and disconnected-from-reality manner.

I hope no one ever remakes Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, but if someone does, let’s kill them and have Packard be the director instead.

You can watch this on YouTube.