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31. Corruption (1968)
By IFC
on 06/25/2009
For pure B-movie hysteria, few trailers match that of "Corruption," a 1968 thriller starring Peter Cushing as a surgeon in swinging London who, in order to put his scarred girlfriend back together again, hunts and kills women so he can steal their pituitary glands. A crazy premise like that deserves a crazy trailer like this, which splices together scenes of women screaming, running and being attacked in close-up by Cushing (looking like he’s lost his mind) with outrageously feverish speed. “No woman will dare go home along after seeing CORRUPTION!” it guarantees. One can almost buy such a ridiculous tagline, what with the manic whirlwind of lunatic eyes and thrusting bodies on display here, not to mention the in-pieces baby dolls lying on a whore’s bed, which any horror aficionado knows is a clear marker of a scary movie’s excellence. It’s the deep-voiced narration (“Run. Run. RUN!”) and extreme text graphics, however, that push this trailer into the realm of hilarious greatness, with the latter used to such excessive extent that, at one point, the screen actually becomes engulfed by the word “Therefore.” (Edgar Wright offers his own uproarious commentary on this promo at Trailers From Hell.) --Nick Schager
I guess you guys haven't seen the trailer for The Hughes Bros.'s Dead Presidents, huh? What about Forest Gump? I think those are the 2 greatest of all time. Gump is better than the movie. And Dead Prez is the best ever.
Oh... what about the SW Ep 1 teaser? Maybe you should call this the best film trailers on YouTube! LOL. Dead Prez is probably too hard for you to locate.
I think The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and 300 should be included!
Clerks? No love for the Clerks trailer? Sigh.
Honorable mention for the Grindhouse fake trailers? "Don't" was brilliant.
Great list, by the way. Thanks for including 'Man Who Wasn't There'
Seriously? We have to click 50 times just to get the damn list? No thanks.
Like clicking 50 times is soooo hard, right? But you guys forgot about There Will Be Blood!!
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
GREAT article and flawless pick for #1. I actually did a lil piece on that trailer at our own movie blog, so I'm elated to see as your top pick. Yay trailers!