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* The ''Deconstructing Harry'' trailer made the film out to be about [[Woody Allen]] dying and going to a Hell run by Billy Crystal as Satan. The film is about no such thing and the one (1) Hell scene is a ''fantasy sequence'' showing you an idea for a novel that Woody's character Harry is describing to other people. Billy Crystal plays Satan in this scene because his actual character in the film is someone Harry hates. |
* The ''Deconstructing Harry'' trailer made the film out to be about [[Woody Allen]] dying and going to a Hell run by Billy Crystal as Satan. The film is about no such thing and the one (1) Hell scene is a ''fantasy sequence'' showing you an idea for a novel that Woody's character Harry is describing to other people. Billy Crystal plays Satan in this scene because his actual character in the film is someone Harry hates. |
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* The ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]] Resurrection'' trailer made it seem like Laurie was in the house with the teenagers and would turn out to be a main protagonist in the plot. In the actual film {{spoiler|she dies in the first ten minutes or so, due to an out-of-character amount of [[Idiot Ball]]. The moment in the trailer when she greets Michael is taken from this sequence, which occurs at a mental asylum and not in the Myers house, and deceptively juxtaposed by the trailer with scenes involving the teenagers.}} |
* The ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]] Resurrection'' trailer made it seem like Laurie was in the house with the teenagers and would turn out to be a main protagonist in the plot. In the actual film {{spoiler|she dies in the first ten minutes or so, due to an out-of-character amount of [[Idiot Ball]]. The moment in the trailer when she greets Michael is taken from this sequence, which occurs at a mental asylum and not in the Myers house, and deceptively juxtaposed by the trailer with scenes involving the teenagers.}} |
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** Surprisingly subverted with ''[[Halloween III: Season of the Witch|Season of the Witch]]'', [[Canon |
** Surprisingly subverted with ''[[Halloween III: Season of the Witch|Season of the Witch]]'', [[Canon Discontinuity|the one Halloween film that doesn't feature Michael Myers]]. Plot synopses don't even try to make you think Michael Myers is there, and while a mask is featured in the teaser trailer and the poster/video cover, it's not the iconic mask worn by Michael. |
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* ''Case 39's'' trailer essentially gives the plot to a completely different movie: it insinuates that the young girl protagonist is stalked by a demonic force {{spoiler|when in reality she IS the demonic force, and several scenes in the trailer are, like many examples before it, not in the film or there in a completely different context.}} There's one which states that the church has investigated 38 cases of supernatural activity, and this is the 39th... no church plays any part in the film, and it's called that because it's a social worker's 39th case. It's so overt that [[Phelous]] even comments on it in his [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/phelous/27836-phelous-case-39 review of it.] |
* ''Case 39's'' trailer essentially gives the plot to a completely different movie: it insinuates that the young girl protagonist is stalked by a demonic force {{spoiler|when in reality she IS the demonic force, and several scenes in the trailer are, like many examples before it, not in the film or there in a completely different context.}} There's one which states that the church has investigated 38 cases of supernatural activity, and this is the 39th... no church plays any part in the film, and it's called that because it's a social worker's 39th case. It's so overt that [[Phelous]] even comments on it in his [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/phelous/27836-phelous-case-39 review of it.] |
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* As [[William Goldman]] tells it, this happened to him with ''Invitation to Happiness''. Trailer: A tough boxing match - fifteen to twenty seconds. Something every action fan would love. Movie: Lots and lots of smooching. Twenty-three kisses, he counted 'em. Yes, the boxing bit also was in it - but no more than in the trailer. |
* As [[William Goldman]] tells it, this happened to him with ''Invitation to Happiness''. Trailer: A tough boxing match - fifteen to twenty seconds. Something every action fan would love. Movie: Lots and lots of smooching. Twenty-three kisses, he counted 'em. Yes, the boxing bit also was in it - but no more than in the trailer. |
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