10 Scary Movie Trailers With Too Many Spoilers In Them

Smile's creepy premise was shown extensively in the trailer, and one of the most significant jump scares, which is still scary in broad daylight, ends the trailer. It's the car scene, in case you were wondering. You have to wonder if showing so many of the movie's scares beforehand affects the audience's reactions in the theater to what could have been a surprise. The film's premise is based on a smile becoming something so intense that it is scary, so it was perhaps too much of a good thing.

What Lies Beneath is a trailer that gives away nearly every beat in the story and the ending. It pretty much explains the conflict, and while there is some misdirection about who is responsible, it shows how the villain is defeated. I agree with everyone who said the trailer gives away too much because they are correct. It's a bit of a shame because the movie seems like a good ghost story, but always remember that if the story is that good, it will still be good, even if you know what will happen ahead of time.

Quarantine is the American remake of Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's [•REC], and the trailer does divulge a lot of information. If, by some chance, viewers weren't already familiar with [•REC], the trailer gives anyone who watches it most of the details of what is going to happen. The trailer also ends with the film's actual ending and discloses what happens to the main character. Literally, it shows the ending without any attempt at misdirection. Read more about Bad Things Director On Making A Horror Movie With Molly Ringwald.

Carrie's trailer was one in which the narrator announces almost every plot point, where you see the most significant deaths and know precisely what happens at the prom. It's less of a trailer and more of a detailed film synopsis. The only thing that isn't revealed is the jump scare at the end. It is an example of a trailer that gives almost everything in the film away. Brian De Palma's classic horror film is one that you can watch over and over again, and it's not 1976, so you are unlikely to see the trailer anywhere, so I think you are pretty safe.

The trailer for The Last House on the Left (2009) doesn't leave anything to the imagination. Of course, any film called The Last House on the Left will probably be light on subtlety, but the trailer traces all of the story's beats and gives away the final murder of the most hideous character. While it's not original, it was a different idea from the first film and pretty cool looking from the revenge standpoint. The temptation to show the best scenes in the movie to entice people to see it must be powerful, and I can understand it.

This film is another remake, and while it employs the same tactic as the original's trailer, the babysitter taking frightening phone calls and trying to get help, it goes further. The first film's trailer gave away the location as the hook for the audience and showed the face of a man you assume is the killer. However, the remake's trailer is two minutes long and offers much more, including what happens to the kids, her hiding underwater, and many other scenes. The trailer for the original, which was considered a great trailer, in contrast, is only slightly over a minute long.

Dream House has another extended trailer, about two minutes and thirty-two seconds, and gives away the central plot point midway through the trailer. This huge reveal instantly deflated what could have been quite a spooky mystery. That's how the story is leaning, but to say it outright and not let the audience discover it takes a lot away from the film. Sometimes, the risk of not explaining things to the audience is a risk that is worth taking.

Soylent Green is one of the seventies' grimmest major studio horror films, set in a dystopian New York in 2022. The trailer is very long for the period, three minutes and twenty-six seconds. Perhaps they thought they had to explain the science fiction concepts to the audience. I don't know, but that would be my guess. Much is made of the question, repeated by the voiceover narration and on-screen graphics more than once. The question is: "What is Soylent Green?" You get an answer in the trailer. Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) scopes out the Soylent Green factory, and the answer is plain. It is nothing anyone says, but a conveyor belt of bodies gives it away. Read more on this Fangoria Exclusive: Grimmfest Unveils Fantastic Feature Film Lineup.

I could try and dress it up, but the trailer for The Invitation (2022) is about two minutes and thirty-nine seconds long, containing nearly everything in the movie. Naturally, a trailer is meant to introduce the audience to the film, but just about every major twist or plot point is in the trailer. It doesn't cover the ending, but it does show how the main character, Evelyn "Evie" Jackson (Nathalie Emmanuel), turns the tables on the vampires in her family's country home. There's still more, but you know what direction the film is going in for the finale.

Suspiria is, without a doubt, a classic horror film. The original film's trailer spills some of the beans, but not everything. However, it does ruin one of the major and most horrifying surprises at the end. It won't mean all that much before you watch the film, but once you start watching it, you will see the characters involved in context, and that's a bummer. The trailer does begin with an unconnected scary bit that does work well, but so much of the trailer shows parts of the ending and one of the first big murder setpieces. The good news is that even divulging these plot points cannot ruin the film. Read more: An Exclusive Excerpt From Queer Graphic Horror Novel Let Me Out.