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Other, similar "redux" trailers linked from that site:
The zombie West Side Story is also very clever, though it cheats by adding sfx.
Eternal Dark (...Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), in its clumsiness and amateur voiceover, usefully shows that it's not as easy as you might think to pull this trick off.
Horror Titanic -- not so much of an achievement as the original was hardly a romantic comedy, and was always based around mass death, panic and foreboding.
Together, these three trailers demonstrate the reliance of horror trailers on almost subliminally-fast cuts, high-pitched sound and that "whiteout" flash; but that's probably something you realised anyway.
Psycho as romance: again, there's far less work to do here than there was with Shining, because if you focus on the scenes before the shower-murder, Marion is an unfulfilled, attractive office girl, Norman is a charming, nervous young man, and their relationship is polite, friendly, verging on flirty. The only real innovation here is to cheat Marion's early love scenes as a bedroom clinch with Norman (based on the link between underwear shots)... and the title isn't really sold by the slogan about being "crazy in love". Wonderful lazybones voiceover though. |
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