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post #1 of 43
9/3/08 at 2:31pm
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Preface: I've seen most of Cronenberg's flicks, but SHIVERS has escaped me. It's not easily available on DVD (out of print), but I recently checked out the trailer on youtube and it's done its job and got me really wanting to see it. It's a mixture of its audacity, Cronenberg's legacy, my love for mind-controlling slugs (NIGHT OF THE CREEPS and SLITHER!), and the late Percy Rodrigues' amazing narration. FYI: Percy also did the VO for the NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (and JAWS, and EDDIE LOVE YOU, etc) trailer as well.

There're threads on the boards about effective trailers, artistic trailers, and chart-topping trailers, but specifically, what are some great horror trailers? What are your faves? Which are scary on their own? Which get you in the mood? Which are a product of their time?

Personally, I love the hyperbole-filled ones of the 50s:

“More terrifying than any horror known to man comes a creeping crawling monster whose towering fury no one can escape. Tarantula. Science Fiction’s most terrifying thrill! Bullets can’t stop it. Dynamite can’t kill it. Tarantula.”

“Evolution reversed and horror that waited a hundred million years becomes a terrifying reality! Monster on the Campus. Your flesh will crawl. Your blood will chill… in TERROR. Monster on the Campus.”

“From outer space they came. Meteor borne, meteor strange. Now these amazing Monolith Monsters reveal powers. Shocking beyond belief! The Monolith Monsters! The most startling science fiction concept ever brought to the screen! Stranger than anything science had ever discovered. As thrill crowds upon thrills.”
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post #2 of 43
9/3/08 at 2:41pm
It's been mentioned in the Exorcist 2 thread, but the trailer makes it look like the most amazing film of all time.
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post #3 of 43
9/3/08 at 2:47pm
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Originally Posted by Aquafresh View Post
It's been mentioned in the Exorcist 2 thread, but the trailer makes it look like the most amazing film of all time.
It does. I've only seen the 1st one (classic), but this trailer makes me wish I was watching this NOW.
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post #4 of 43
9/3/08 at 2:56pm
It's a glorious mess. If you go into it expecting a decent Exorcist sequel you will be sorely disappointed but if you go in expecting an inexplicable Exorcist-flavored fever dream, you'll be rewarded. You should watch it.
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post #5 of 43
9/3/08 at 8:35pm
I thought the almost silent one for "The Shining", with the elevator door/room full o' blood sequence played out in slo mo was very effective. Scared the piss out of me as a kid, when I saw it in front of "Hangar 18", I think.
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post #6 of 43
9/3/08 at 10:49pm
For some reason, when I was little, the trailer for "Child's Play 2" sent me literally running out of a theater. It's a slow fade-in to a music box playing "Pop Goes The Weasel", spinning in place, and before the thing pops out (which we're all terrifyingly anticipating), Chucky steps on it and, in his trademark sneer, goes, "Sorry, Jack. Chucky's back!"

It still kinda bothers me to this day.
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post #7 of 43
9/3/08 at 11:05pm
I hate threads like this, because they make me recall something that scared the shit out of me as a kid, I go find it on youtube, and it's just not that scary 27 years later. I AM A PUSSY.
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post #8 of 43
9/3/08 at 11:13pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx7smh7YHKg
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post #9 of 43
9/3/08 at 11:16pm
Movie was a piece of shit, but the trailer for VISITING HOURS was chilling. Also, good the AMITYVILLE HORROR.
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post #10 of 43
9/3/08 at 11:18pm
Don't!
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post #11 of 43
9/4/08 at 1:51am
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
I hate threads like this, because they make me recall something that scared the shit out of me as a kid, I go find it on youtube, and it's just not that scary 27 years later. I AM A PUSSY.
Well, it was for your eyes only...
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post #12 of 43
9/4/08 at 3:48am
The original Alien trailer freaked me out as a kid because I couldn't make heads or tails out of it. I loved it when trailers were like that.
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post #13 of 43
9/4/08 at 11:31am
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Originally Posted by Abbott & Prospero View Post

Yep, that one owns this thread. Imagining watching that when you were nine years old in the house alone at night.
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post #14 of 43
9/4/08 at 11:33am
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Originally Posted by Cylon Baby View Post
Don't!
I did.
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post #15 of 43
8/6/10 at 10:47pm
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HUMONGOUS.

Something evil has been growing for 30 years.
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post #16 of 43
8/6/10 at 11:12pm
I can't remember what I linked up there.

Silent Scream scared me shitless.

So did Suspiria.
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post #17 of 43
8/6/10 at 11:21pm
I had an old VHS tape filled to the brim with classic trailers. The music cue that plays as the announcer says, "Night...of the Living Dead" freaked me out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gUKvmOEGCU
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post #18 of 43
8/6/10 at 11:25pm
They showed these two before a screening of The Evil Dead last month or so.

Orgy of the Living Dead triple feature, though the YouTube clip cuts off the rating at the end, which was PG and made a great capper to the trailer.

The Gruesome Twosome
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post #19 of 43
8/6/10 at 11:30pm
I think it's interesting that one of the best, most elegantly simple horror trailers I've ever seen (frankly one of the coolest teaser trailers period) belongs to one of the worst films in recent memory...

THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKrB21bwOGI
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post #20 of 43
8/7/10 at 8:38am
The Italian trailer for DEEP RED.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn993IF4xKc

I love how some of the shots are still frames, and others are of the actors posing. It's really weird.
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post #21 of 43
8/7/10 at 12:50pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
Silent Scream scared me shitless.

So did Suspiria.
That SUSPIRIA still scares me shitless.

Some of my favorites:

CHRISTINE

SLEEPAWAY CAMP

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
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post #22 of 43
8/7/10 at 2:57pm
Return to Horror High's trailer did the Suspiria gag a bit better I think. I definitely remember being freaked out by it as a kid and turning the channel when I saw the commercial for it coming on.

The Jaws 3-D teaser is so simple, yet effective. Unfortunately, it's also misleading, cause it paints a picture of more terror out at sea, which turned out to only be half-right.

I never saw this Halloween III trailer while growing up. I probably was spared a night of missing sleep from having missed it too!
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post #23 of 43
8/8/10 at 8:14am
one movie that scared the crap out if me when i was a kid was The Blob remake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sixDADVVnxA that sink scene made me jump so high and the trailer freaked me out too.
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post #24 of 43
8/9/10 at 3:52pm
Cold Creek Manor

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vVDnitpsA

Really only the last 15 secs of the trailer, with the creepy hand grabbing Sharon Stone (if I remember correctly there is no such scene in the movie). The trailer actually does a nice job of selling the idea of new arrivals Quaid & Stone vs The Most Terrifying Thing Ever... then you watch the movie, and it's like relax guys, false alarm, it's just Stephen Dorff.

Also, Red Eye:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2w2zB2Un4

Always loved this one. Fools you into thinking it's for some kind of light, breezy chick flick with a chance encounter at the airport, but then Cillian Murphy turns on the creepy, suddenly developing a bad case of Dark Shadows conjunctivitis, and we find out it's a Wes Craven flick. Brilliant! (but as with Cold Creek Manor, shame about the movie)
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post #25 of 43
8/11/10 at 2:40am
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Originally Posted by Disciple_72 View Post
Cold Creek Manor

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_vVDnitpsA

Really only the last 15 secs of the trailer, with the creepy hand grabbing Sharon Stone (if I remember correctly there is no such scene in the movie). The trailer actually does a nice job of selling the idea of new arrivals Quaid & Stone vs The Most Terrifying Thing Ever... then you watch the movie, and it's like relax guys, false alarm, it's just Stephen Dorff.
This flick soooo pissed me off with the supernatural bait&switch.
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post #26 of 43
8/11/10 at 2:44am
I really like the Rec 2 teaser.
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post #27 of 43
8/11/10 at 6:41am
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285ImXTYdsg

Dawn of the Dead '78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpuNE1cX03c

Creepshow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bO3gyT3Imc

Return of the Living Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wylpeAXYcBQ
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post #28 of 43
8/11/10 at 8:30am
Well, naturally.
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post #29 of 43
8/11/10 at 1:53pm
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Originally Posted by tommy five-tone View Post
That teaser is creepier and more disturbing than the movie itself. I can't imagine what it would have been like to see that in the theater and go "What the fuck was that?"
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post #30 of 43
8/11/10 at 7:14pm
I don't think there is a more awesome trailer than the one for Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.
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post #31 of 43
8/11/10 at 7:16pm
That trailer promised so much and the film delivered so little.
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post #32 of 43
8/11/10 at 7:30pm
My friend and I absolutely LOVED it when we saw it on MonsterVision back in the mid 90s, then 2 or 3 years ago we picked up a copy of the DVD from a bargain bin somewhere and... yowza. Wish we'd left that one a fond memory.
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post #33 of 43
8/11/10 at 7:44pm
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Percy R's narration again kicks my ass in the WARLOCK trailer!

The TORSO trailer is just so bizarre. The way the narrator announces the title "TORSO!!!", I almost expect a superhero to come bustin in on the scene. Or atleast a midget luchadore. I'm reminded of Cleopatra Schwartz from KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE. Samual L Bronkowitz presents TORSO!!! And the Dr Zhivago/War & Peace text? Weird.
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post #34 of 43
8/11/10 at 7:56pm
Even the New Line Cinema logo from this "Nightmare on Elm Street 3" teaser gives me the heebie-jeebies. The trailer itself always gives me a good jolt, too. You know where it's going and it still nails you.
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post #35 of 43
8/11/10 at 7:57pm
I found the trailer for THE VILLAGE to be terrifying when I saw it, back in the day. Then again I was on a nutmeg trip at the time so I have no idea if it would still hold up
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post #36 of 43
8/12/10 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
Percy R's narration again kicks my ass in the WARLOCK trailer!
Nice. Always preferred Rodriguez to LaFontaine. Don tried too hard, lacked Percy's effortless gravitas.
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post #37 of 43
8/12/10 at 11:47am
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Originally Posted by Disciple_72 View Post
Nice. Always preferred Rodriguez to LaFontaine.
Every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
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post #38 of 43
8/12/10 at 3:05pm
a little bit of Percy at the butt end of THE STUFF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6Z1nBqLwo What's funny is this trailer creeped the fuck out of me when I was little. Oh, kids.
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post #39 of 43
8/12/10 at 6:44pm
Percy was so great when they let him have a bit of fun with the lines.

Popcorn:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7oPGyR4fI

Chopping Mall:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLMyInUPQ2g

Graveyard Shift:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA2xo93CtCI

Creepshow 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPS9V5GLoBc
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post #40 of 43
8/12/10 at 6:50pm
Couple more gems from him, just for the hell of it:

The Gate:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOX6-Rw5PWc

Dead & Buried:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmlEh34unM

Children of the Corn:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTmMiueFHb8

So grim, so cold, so awesome.
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post #41 of 43
8/12/10 at 7:07pm
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You rock! Thanks for all the links.
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post #42 of 43
8/13/10 at 2:01am
Here's a classic way-better-than-the-movie horror trailer (couple of non horror movie openings will be hogging all the attention tomorrow, but we shouldn't forget what day it is!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfondQHok_8
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post #43 of 43
2/6/11 at 9:11pm
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Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

The end (well, really the rating after all that build up) made me laugh hard.

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