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So you're sitting in a movie theater, [[Innocent Bystander|minding your own business,]] when all of a sudden a trailer for a scary movie comes on! It looks cool and the plot is abo-- {{spoiler|[[The Scream|blooD hatE deatH!]]}}-- what the hell?!
Wow! That hidden frame/half a second flash cut with the scream sure was scary, more so than a [[Cat Scare]], and [[Stringy
So anyway. Trailers, films, and [[Video Games]] that [[Nothing Is Scarier|can't rely on time to build suspense]] will use the [[Screamer Trailer]] to scare and shock with glimpses of the movies' monster, mayhem, or even random things, often paired with a scream or other scary and loud sound to catch the viewer by surpri-- {{spoiler|1=pIstAcHiO AVocADo iCecrEAm!}} Okay, you can cut it out now, it's not scary anymore.
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In fact, this technique is quickly moving towards becoming a [[Discredited Trope]] from overuse. This still shows up played straight in several Internet videos premised precisely on this kind of scare. Some moviegoers have even become desensitized to the strobe light scare, and come to expect the last half second of every such movie trailer to contain one fina-- {{spoiler|Boo!}}
Contrast [[Subliminal Advertising]].
'''''Troper General's Warning:'' Strobe light effects can be hazardous to the health of small children, epileptics, or the overly cute. We recommend using [[Rickroll|Rickrolls]] instead.'''
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* The classic example is ''[[Suspiria]]'', which told you nothing about the movie except that the word "Suspiria" [[Say My Name Trailer|was highly relevant]].
{{quote|"You can run... from ''Suspiria''...}}
* ''[[13 Ghosts|Thirteen Ghosts]]'' and ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]'' use the Screamer Trailer effect in-movie, as new ghosts are revealed or about to do something nasty to the heroes.
* Most asian horror movies with a [[Stringy
** Although the trailers for the American version of ''[[The Ring]]'' were standard fare (and later ones even spoiled the infamous Well scene), the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkWhFa6LCTU teaser trailer] for ''[[The Ring Two]]'' is basically a full-fledged [[wikipedia:Computer prank#Screamers|Screamer]].
* The sci-fi film ''[[Sunshine (film)|Sunshine]]'' includes a possible subversion in a sequence within which the main cast's wandering through a {{spoiler|seemingly}} abandoned spaceship is intercut with flashing images which, at first, look like closeups of human faces with far too much red...and are revealed immediately afterwards to be from a photo of the crew celebrating a birthday party against a red backdrop.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The trailer for ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'' (a science-fiction horror game) starts out with shots of a spacecraft and its dead crew, accompanied with a [[Ironic Nursery Tune|creepy lullaby]]. About thirty seconds in, screamer scenes from the game start appearing. The trailer eventually fades more and more into the screamers, and eventually just plain features the gory scary bits.
** The sequel's trailer is even worse, as it's just scary bits with the rhyme playing over them.
* ''[[Exmortis]]''? It's one of the best flash games ever, you can see it at http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/189227
* ''[[Call of Duty]] 4: [[Modern Warfare]]'''s trailer. Though it doesn't have the distorted sound effects and the transition happens at medium speed (except for the end where the whole trailer rewinds), it did a great job at getting the sinister implications and the [[Darker and Edgier|tone of the plot]] through.
* ''[[F.E.A.R.]]'' sometimes flashes images such as [[Nightmare Face|horribly disfigured faces]].
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