# Scariest movie trailers?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 11, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393 "2011-08-11T23:28:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/1 "2011-08-11T23:28:42Z")
What are the scariest movie trailers you can think of? links if you have them, please.
Not the scariest **movies** , mind you, but the scariest trailers. It’s fine if the trailer ended up being much better than the movie, and made you mad because you thought the movie would be scarier, like [Cold Creek Manor](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63im_q9i660).
So, your nominations?
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/2 "2011-08-11T23:31:22Z")
christine
the exorcist1
necromancy
dr. evil
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/3 "2011-08-11T23:33:00Z")
[The Strangers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lm2hZ50sN4) trailer, in my opinion, was very good. Gave me chills and was probably more terrifying-looking than the movie itself.
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/4 "2011-08-11T23:42:34Z")
Monkey Shines
It was a very scary trailer when I was eight, but the movie is shit.
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmAZr4QxNw)
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/5 "2011-08-12T04:06:59Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#):
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> [The Strangers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lm2hZ50sN4) trailer, in my opinion, was very good. Gave me chills and was probably more terrifying-looking than the movie itself.
I’m still a bit miffed that IMDB removed my Strangers thread. People thought that saying it had a strong anti-smoking message was _funny_ (first there’s smoking. Then friend-beating. And then the stabbings…). Then poof, it was gone.
But yes, it was a scary trailer. What I don’t get, though, is how a trailer for a 1978 movie called “Magic” ended up on people’s lists on other message boards. It’s on youtube. It’s…boring.
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### Author:  [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/6 "2011-08-12T04:13:16Z")
The trailer for [White Noise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHHr5_VX7I) was a hell of a lot scarier than the actual movie.
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### Author:  [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/7 "2011-08-12T07:13:01Z")
[Beyond the Door.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bDdncqvtfQ) This used to scare the hell out of me when I was 5 or so and saw it on television. I never forgot it.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/8 "2011-08-12T07:26:35Z")
In the Seventies when I was a kid it seemed as if there were a _lot_ of scary movie trailers on TV that would give me nightmares. They might look silly if I went back and looked for them now, but back then . . .
I especially hated trailers for insect and arachnid-centered scary movies. “Kingdom of the Spiders” is one title that I remember. The most vivid scene, though, was in a trailer for some movie about flesh-eating cockroaches.
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### Author:  [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/9 "2011-08-12T08:07:56Z")
> [@Koxinga](#):
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> In the Seventies when I was a kid it seemed as if there were a _lot_ of scary movie trailers on TV that would give me nightmares. They might look silly if I went back and looked for them now, but back then . . .
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> I especially hated trailers for insect and arachnid-centered scary movies. “Kingdom of the Spiders” is one title that I remember. The most vivid scene, though, was in a trailer for some movie about flesh-eating cockroaches.
Was is [Bug](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072750/)? Pretty good movie for its time.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/10 "2011-08-12T09:40:56Z")
> [@SunSandSuffering](#):
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> Was is [Bug](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072750/)? Pretty good movie for its time.
It looks like it [might](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OnDYxdilk) be it. I just remember one scene in particular, where the cockroaches were eating human meat (I thought), and yup, that’s in there.
Bleargh.
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### Author:  [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/11 "2011-08-12T10:10:50Z")
[Mrs. Doubtfire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3bgipCebuI).
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/12 "2011-08-12T13:18:23Z")
I always thought the trailer for [Ju-on](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8R1dODSbzU) was pretty creepy.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/13 "2011-08-12T13:52:03Z")
The first time I saw the trailer for _The Others_ it creeped me out (and my friend as well, who is harder to creep out.)
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/14 "2011-08-12T14:05:51Z")
> [@Pitchmeister](#):
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> [Mrs. Doubtfire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3bgipCebuI).
I was just wondering of spoofs were allowed. The original [Mary Poppins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic) spoof always creeped me out. Specifically the part with the two kids running around the back of the building.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/15 "2011-08-12T18:48:30Z")
It shows almost nothing, but the first teaser for [**The Blair Witch Project**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWO3XP4zavk) was pretty dang effective.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-trailers/592393/16 "2011-08-13T04:37:47Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#):
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> The trailer for [White Noise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHHr5_VX7I) was a hell of a lot scarier than the actual movie.
Aww. I actually kind of liked the movie. It _was_ a lot less “scientifically” based than the trailer mislead you to believe, though.
Has anyone else had the misfortune of watching [Dark Floors](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f37q8ICIPaw)? I’m still not entirely sure what “eurovision” is, but I certainly didn’t realize from the trailer that they were going to be menaced by a European equivalent of [Slipknot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1zCN0YhW1s).