Fake Trailer

[Jim Harper]

The Grindhouse fake trailers came from big names like Rob Zombie and Simon Pegg, and were, without exception, better than both the main features.

'Fake trailers' can be great. One of my stepkids was told to direct (with three friends) a five-minute short film for a school assignment. After going through a bucketload of trailers for 'Versus' they decided to direct a trailer, and ended up getting the highest marks in the class (none of whom thought of doing the same, surprisingly).
 
Jamie Blanks (not quite Orson Welles, I know) got the job directing 'Urban Legend' by putting together a fake trailer for 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'. A Spanish horror director (can't remember which one) also used a specially-made trailer to raise cash to shoot the movie.
 
Sorry for the ramble!
 
Jim.

--- On Fri, 18/9/09, =%utf-8? <s_hurlet at yahoo.fr> wrote:


From: =%utf-8% <s_hurlet at yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Fake Trailer
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Date: Friday, 18 September, 2009, 10:29 AM







In the 2007 two full length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez "grindhouse", they both put some peculiar fake movie trailers. Here are the four : 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmckBc0aG3M
 
Sébastien Hurlet

--- En date de : Ven 18.9.09, matteo boscarol <matteo.boscarol at gmail.com> a écrit :


De: matteo boscarol <matteo.boscarol at gmail.com>
Objet: Re: Fake Trailer
À: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Date: Vendredi 18 Septembre 2009, 7h55


There are so many examples, most of them fan made movie trailers. I
really like  "The Ufo"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc89zI8X9d8&feature=related)
www.theufo.net

Best

Matteo Boscarol



2009/9/18 Edan Corkill <e.corkill at japantimes.co.jp>:
>
> I always loved the trailer at the end of Mel Brooks' "History of the World:
> Part 1" - a trailer for Part 2, which I don't think he ever intended to
> make.
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> Subject: Fake Trailer
> Colleagues,
> This is question which may be specific to Japan cinema, or may be a more
> general question, but has anyone, either in Japan or elsewhere, ever made a
> fake trailer advertising an upcoming movie they never intended to make, just
> as a sort of meta-joke and way to draw attention to themselves? I am aware
> of unorthodox trailers such as that for Welles' F for Fake, but that is not
> quite what I have in mind.  What I have in mind is a trailer that purports
> to be about an entirely new and upcoming movie, and is presumably sent along
> with a current movie, but which depicts a movie that no one ever intends to
> make.
> Best,
> Bruce
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