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October 17, 2005

Busy Busy Busy

So, no substantive posts for a few days.

However, I leave you with a follow-up to the wildly popular Shining post.

Apparently, the good (and twisted) folks at PS 260 have an internal contest to see who can make the wildest re-cut film trailer. If you haven't seen Shining, go read the post and then watch the clip. It's a scream. Then check out the next entries on the PS 260 site:

West Side Story as a zombie movie:

and Scary Titanic:

Now, I personally believe that making Titanic "scary" is redundant. The use of that damn Celine Dion song is a form of psychological warfare from which I fear we will never recover.

Also, I think that the West Side Story clip is brilliant but flawed -- it's just not fair to add glowing eyes and mouths to make the scary kids even scarier. The effects are gratuitous, especially when you think about how scary the brief glimpse of the little girl is in context.

If you've never thought about what it is that lets a trailer function as a condensed re-telling of a film's story -- a re-telling that may be your first experience of the story -- these clips will give you a lot to think about.

UPDATE! -- Holy crap, there's another one! Starting with 2002's most profitable horror movie ($1.5m budget, $22m box office), Cabin Fever has now become the feel-good-feeling-bad movie of 2005!

Pure genius.

Posted by reparent at October 17, 2005 9:36 AM

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Posted by: coeurlion at October 20, 2005 6:14 PM