A horror film trailer is arguably the best type of trailer you can watch(I’m biased, I know). They usually have great music and are able to get your heart racing in just two and a half minutes. Before it was possible to just watch trailers on YouTube, I was a real stickler for getting to the theater super early so I could look at posters and then catch all of the trailers before the movie started (mostly in the hopes of catching the latest horror movie trailer). It’s pretty difficult for a horror trailer to be outright bad, though it is possible. This year saw a few trailers get released that were less than stellar. With that being said, here are (in no particular order) 10 of the worst trailers for horror films released this year!*
*Keep in mind that this is a judgment on the trailer only. The quality of the movie has nothing to do with the trailers included on this list. All trailers up for this list were for films actually released in 2015. If it was a trailer for a film coming out in 2016, it was not taken into consideration.
***SPOILER WARNING: If a trailer shows a major spoiler (or the final shot) of a film, I point it out. This may not constitute as a spoiler but I figured I’d let you all know.***
The Atticus Institute
Oh look, another documentary-style possession film that’s based on a true story. We’ve been inundated with plenty of these types of films over the past few years, and it’s clear that they have stopped trying. With the trailer for The Atticus Institute, it’s clear that even the marketing department has stopped trying. Nothing in this trailer has any sense of originality or excitement. It basically looks like you’re just going to be watching a possessed woman sitting in a chair for 83 minutes.
