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REDRUM! REDRUM! So cute!

shining trailerThis has been floating around the Internets for a couple of weeks now, but it’s too good not to share here, if just for archival purposes.

Basically, someone took scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING – generally considered one of the greatest horror films of all time – and recut it into a trailer for a feel-good family dramedy. And it’s just about the most brilliant piece of satire I’ve seen all year, with the music cue choice of Peter Gabriel sticking out as a particular stroke o’ genius. If only they could’ve worked in the blowjob-by-bear.

See it here.

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2 Responses to “REDRUM! REDRUM! So cute!”

  1. » Hitch Magazine » A Christmas Gory Says:
    December 9th, 2005 at 9:28 am

    [...] You know that recent, revisionist SHINING trailer that turned a horror classic into a feel-good family film? Now the opposite has happened, turning a feel-good family classic into a horror film. [...]

  2. » Hitch Magazine » SLEEPLESS goes psycho Says:
    February 1st, 2006 at 1:48 pm

    [...] I don’t know that anyone will ever be able to top the brilliance of turning THE SHINING into a feel-good comedy, but people keep trying anyway. The latest wonders what if the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romcom SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE were a horror film? It starts out strong and is entertaining enough, but lacks a payoff to make it seem truly scary (and thus, as a parody, truly clever). That’s when they should’ve thrown the Rosie O’Donnell in. [...]

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