After the 9/11 attacks, the trailer and its associated teaser poster were quickly pulled from theaters. This trailer is also infamous due to the visibility of the World Trade Center buildings. This teaser had a great reveal of the bank robbers being trapped in a spider-web between two skyscrapers.
After the jump you can find my list of the best teaser trailers of all time.įramed as a documentary-style featurette about poltergeists, this teaser uses very little footage from the film, instead selling the film on talking heads and stills. Over the last week I tried to compile a list of the best teaser trailers of all time and rank them. I love that a teaser trailer can show so little of the actual film yet get me more excited than the two and a half minute final trailer.
I love that teaser trailers can act as a tone poem for a more complicated dramatic film. I love that teaser trailers can spotlight the promise of a high concept idea. Other editors, like Mark Woollen, craft great teasers with input from directors such as the Coen Brothers. Some filmmakers such as Brad Bird, Christopher Nolan, JJ Abrams, and, yes, Michael Bay, are still able to take creative control over the early marketing and cut awesome packages that are big on excitement and mystery without revealing too much. We live in a day and age where most Hollywood trailers show too much, valuing cool footage over mystery, surprise and a well-constructed edit. The tropes that would define that genre (including their buttoned-up morality), can all be traced to “Psycho.” It still slays.I love teaser trailers. This was a film that not only inspired a slew of imitators but also established its own horror sub-genre - the slasher movie. The fact that Leigh was murdered in the first third of the movie was one of many brutally surprising twists Hitchcock was fearless and wanted to watch his audiences scream. Janet Leigh became an icon as Marion Crane, a determined and ultimately doomed woman who steals a ton of cash and winds up in a motel on the outskirts of town, run by a creepy mama’s boy named Norman Bates (Perkins).
(Someone once described seeing it in the theater as “bedlam.”) Hitchcock, working with a television crew and in the cheaper medium of black-and-white, adapted a pulpy novel (itself inspired by the infamous crimes of serial killer and graverobber Ed Gein) and turned it into something transcendent - the world’s first A+ B-movie. When Alfred Hitchcock released “Psycho” back in 1960, nobody had seen anything like it.
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