Horror Movie Trailers That Were Better Than The Actual Movie!

[Antonio]

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Cinemax currently features an excellent promo for VALENTINE. Hope all those first-timers out there read the reviews!

[FlickJunkie]

The Haunting (1999) comes to mind.

[AlienClown]

The Incubus!

[FeydRautha]

Isn't this really the point of trailers, though? To make the film look so good, you want to go see it? I've been conned so many times by a good-looking trailer into seeing a dud film, I can't count them all.

The most recent was the trailer for Jurassic Park III. Man, what a let-down that was. Call me a dupe, but after years of theatre-going I still get hooked-in by an intriguing-looking trailer. The House on Haunted Hill re-make is another example that comes to mind.

[Lindsey]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by FlickJunkie:
The Haunting (1999) comes to mind.</font>

I agree with FlickJunkie. The trailor looked cool, but the movie sucked major ass.

[Cyclonus]

Hellraiser: Bloodline had some pretty neat trailers but the actual film was a bore! http://www.joblo.com/ubb/frown.gif

[Juice]

There are lots of trailers that make you expect more then you get. I remember Scream 3 very well.

[Seph]

most trailers are better than the actual movie. What with the music, the prime sequences, it's always so intense. I love trailers, I get pissed if I show up late and miss 'em (which is why I lie to people about start times when I'm going with a group).

Anywho, the trailer to The Haunting was definitely better than the movie. The trailer to 13 Ghosts as well, that shit looked intense, but the film turned out pretty mediocre. And while it predates me and obviously isn't better than the movie, the teaser for The Shining must've been something to see in theaters back when it debuted. Me & my boy talk about it, 'cause it was just the blood coming out of the elevator. People unfamiliar, seeing it for the first time must've been like "What the hell...?"

[countchocula]

The Cell

[Santa Claus]

Valentine.....the preview looked great. But the movie itself was not that great.

[Pumpkinhead]

I agree with Valentine. When I saw the trailer, I was dying to see the movie, but once I saw it, I thought it was kind of a letdown.

I have thought about this question before, and if you think about it, if a trailer is better than the movie, does that necessarily mean that the movie is bad?

If you sat down, and decided to review a trailer, and gave the trailer a 9 out of ten, and then you saw the movie and gave it an 8 out of ten, that would mean that the trailer was better than the movie, but the question is misleading. It makes it sound like a decent movie with an exceptionally good trailer is a bad movie, because by this logic, that would mean that the trailer is better than the movie.

Think about it!

Sorry, maybe I'm just thinking too hard about this.

[Casbal]

Jeepers Creepers.

And "The Avengers"... Oh wait, that's a horrible movie, not a horror movie http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif

[Hans, wihout Franz]

Almost everything that was put out in the last 10 years or so. Some exceptions, not many though.

[nightmareman]

Im sorry but House was not a bad movie but the trailer made it look more scarier than it was

[Ghostface 2000]

I know what you did last summer i loved the film but i thought the trailer was better.

[Ed]

Disturbing Behavior (It didn't scare me at all, and the trailer still is one of the best i've seen)
and Valentine (Bad.. yet I liked it)