Category Archives: Readings

Critical/Analytical considerations of trailers

THE MASTER TRAILER: Selling a tortured bromance and sidestepping the Scientology controversy

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Frederick Greene

I’ve been itching to see the film since I first learned of the production and its promotion (via a 3-4 minute tease) at Cannes. I admire Paul Thomas Anderson‘s work and am fascinated by Scientology (which, although I have no … Continue reading →

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POULTRYGEIST UNCENSORED TRAILER: Code Brown, or Don’t Question Troma’s Commitment to Marketing its Films

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Frederick Greene

A co-worker showed me this preview for “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead,” which features an orgy of violence perpetrated by the eponymous villains against the unwitting but presumably deserving employees of a Chicken Restaurant unhappily located on a desecrated … Continue reading →

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BRIDESMAIDS TRAILER: Uber Chick-Flick Positioned for the Apatow Dude Demographic

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Frederick Greene

I asked our trailer editor at SizzlePitch to name a trailer that impressed him. He mentioned that for Bridesmaids, a film he hadn’t intended to see, until he watched the preview. In his recollection, it contained all the best gross-out … Continue reading →

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