12 Worst Marketed Movies Of 2018

By Jack Pooley /

1. The Little Stranger

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Lenny Abrahamson's atmospheric slow-burn gothic drama was perhaps the most obscenely mis-marketed film of 2018.

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Because Sarah Waters' novel is such a beguiling mish-mash of genres - romance, psychological drama and mystery thriller - the studio clearly didn't have a clue how to market it, and naturally went the most cynical, lazy route possible.

The below trailer splices together sequences to imply a far more horror-centric film than is reality. The Little Stranger certainly has creepy moments, but it's more an exercise in sustained unease than the broader period horror film this trailer suggests.

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It predictably bombed at the box office regardless and has already been long-forgotten by mainstream audiences, if they even paid any attention to it in the first place.

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Which 2018 movies were done the worst injustice by their marketing? Shout them out in the comments!