7 Trailers That Blatantly Lied To You In 2017

7. The Beguiled

After watching the second trailer for Sofia Coppola's adaptation of The Beguiled, you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a Misery ripoff set against period backdrop.

Less than a minute in and the footage is already serving up jump-scare noises to trick viewers into thinking they're being sold horror, and many of the scenes which follow were framed to present Kirsten Dunst and the rest of her all-female household as evil-doers with malevolent intentions towards Colin Farrell's John McBurney.

The worst offender comes towards the end of the trailer when Farrell, having awoken from an operation, bleats out "What have you done to me you vengeful b****s?" What they've actually done is performed life-saving surgery on him.

On no level is The Beguiled even remotely compatible to Misery. If anything, it's the opposite of the Stephen King adaptation. This is a period drama in which the residents of a girls school nurse an American Civil War corporal back to health, only for him to become a little clingy and do everything in his power to remain in their company.

Admittedly, all hell breaks loose when Farrell's character sleeps with one of the students, but he's very much the one in the wrong throughout.