{"id":5416,"date":"2014-07-28T03:19:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T07:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2014-07-28T13:55:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:55:14","slug":"the-worst-horror-trailer-and-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/the-worst-horror-trailer-and-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Horror Trailer And Poster Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5419\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck1.jpg\" alt=\"stuck1\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck1.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001CITQZY?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B001CITQZY&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Stuck<\/a> is one of the best horror movies of the last decade, and one of the only ones to ever make me cringe. It\u2019s not for the faint of heart\u2014and I mean that on a things-happening-to-the-human-body level as well as a human-beings-being-awful-to-each-other level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s based on the (unfortunately) true story of a woman named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chante_Jawan_Mallard\" target=\"_blank\">Chante Jawan Mallard<\/a> who, while driving home under the influence, hit a homeless man with her car. She then continued home with the man stuck, still alive, in the front windshield of her car, and intentionally left him to die in her garage. She is currently serving a 50-year sentence in a Texas prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s a horrific story, and fittingly, the film does not play the scenario for laughs. Unfortunately, the trailer does just that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3VT9y49NbU?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019ve never seen a more deliberately misleading trailer in my life. At first, I had no idea it was even real\u2014it seemed like one of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0\" target=\"_blank\">parody trailers that switch a film\u2019s genre<\/a>. Sadly, this was the official trailer used to promote the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Whoever cut this trailer distilled the film\u00a0to its momentary instances of levity, and also found humor in parts of the film that no one in their right mind could possibly find funny. It\u2019s sadistic. And the poster is just as awful:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5421\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck2.jpg\" alt=\"stuck2\" width=\"692\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck2.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck2-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck2-691x1024.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eventually, when the film reached home video, they somewhat got the tone right for the cover, clearly realizing they\u2019d made a mistake:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001CITQZY?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B001CITQZY&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5420\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck3.jpg\" alt=\"stuck3\" width=\"403\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck3.jpg 403w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck3-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However gut-wrenching this movie is, I find it even more gut-wrenching to watch the trailer and look at the poster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s worth noting that the way Chante was caught was that, four months after the murder, she was bragging and laughing about it at a party. To her, it was all just a joke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To the marketing department and studio, it apparently is too. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5419\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck1.jpg\" alt=\"stuck1\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck1.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stuck1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001CITQZY?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B001CITQZY&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=smufil-20\" target=\"_blank\">Stuck<\/a> is one of the best horror movies of the last decade, and one of the only ones to ever make me cringe. It\u2019s not for the faint of heart\u2014and I mean that on a things-happening-to-the-human-body level as well as a human-beings-being-awful-to-each-other level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s based on the (unfortunately) true story of a woman named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chante_Jawan_Mallard\" target=\"_blank\">Chante Jawan Mallard<\/a> who, while driving home under the influence, hit a homeless man with her car. She then continued home with the man stuck, still alive, in the front windshield of her car, and intentionally left him to die in her garage. She is currently serving a 50-year sentence in a Texas prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s a horrific story, and fittingly, the film does not play the scenario for laughs. Unfortunately, the trailer does just that:<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-codysessays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}