Misleading Images

[Cullen]

You've probably seen the ad, but humor me.

One of the banner ads on this site blares the words "Teenage Vampires!"  Next to this is a picture of two Goth Girls.  All good so far.

However, the girls are from the movie "Ginger Snaps," a movie about teenage werewolves.

Cracks me up every time I see it.  Don't ask me why.  

(For the curious, the banner links to www.svbell.com, a site that sells cult movies.)
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On a similar vein:

A couple of years back, when I first was getting into DVDs, I found a DVD edition of "King Kong v. Godzilla."  While I loved the movie, I didn't pick it up.

Not because it was a bare bones DVD (which it was).  Nor because of price, or anything reasonable like that.

The reason I put the DVD down and walked away was because the cover had the images of Kong and Zilla FROM TWO DIFFRENT MOVIES.  The remake of Kong and, unless I'm remembering wrong, "Godzilla '85" were the images used.

Now, can someone explain to me why the first example (Teen Vamps) tickles me, while the second irritates?  To me, the former is just a goof of some kind, while the latter is a bit of sleazy selling.  Or am I being over sensitive?

[Vermin Boy]

Huh... I have a video guide (Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics-- an excellent read for anyone who would go to this site) that has another picture allegedly from KKvG, but it's just shots from the monsters' respective debuts matted onto each other. Of course, if the monsters in my movie looked like the ones in that one, I'd try not to advertise it either...

[J.R.]

What I find perplexing is when a scene from a film is shown in trailers but then you see the film and that particular scene never happens. I've seen it several times, but I can only think of this right now: In all the ads for The Cable Guy there was a scene with Jim Carrey lying on top of a car, blowing his face against the windshield. Then I went and saw the movie and it wasn't there.

[AndyC]

Or when two completely different scenes are cut together to create dialogue in the trailer that doesn't really happen, or using one line out of context.

[john]

The trailers/previews for Spaced Invaders had scenes of the martians, but all the dialog in the ads was stupid, dubbed crap. Like it showed them running along and you hear something like "Da da da, we go home now".

[Gerry]

That's actually pretty common.  It happens when scenes used in a trailer end up on the cutting room floor during the final edit.  The HOLLOW MAN trailer is a good example of this.  Most of the trailer is made up of scenes that can now be found on the DVD in the deleted scenes section.  Verhoeven talks about it a bit in his commentary.

Sometimes scenes are shot just for the trailer.  Like the first SPIDER-MAN trailer or the shot at the end of the DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS trailer when Steve Martin shoves an old lady off a pier.

There are plenty of examples of both types.

[systemcr4sh]

Holy s**t, I was about to post that exact same thing. Just this second but I thought I'd check out this thread first. Craaaaaazy
-Dan

[Vermin Boy]

My favorite instance of this is in the trailer for From Dusk Till Dawn, which ends with a shot of George Clooney and Juliette Lewis running out of an exploding bar. The bar never explodes in the movie (IIRC, they filmed it, but accidentally destroyed the set and the footage was unusable).