8 More Movie Trailers That Blatantly Lied To You

8. Hereditary

What The Trailer Promised:

A horror movie revolving around a recently deceased, overbearing mother and her extremely creepy granddaughter. The trailer drops a lot of hints that the grandmother ‘isn’t gone’ and has some weird, obsessive ghostly relationship with the creepy daughter.

What We Got:

The response to Hereditary was mixed, with about 50% delighting in the curveball the movie threw, and 50% frustrated that the film they had paid good money to see was significantly different to what was advertised. The big difference was the kid, who we’d been led to believe would be the creepy centre-piece of the film, suffered a decapitation by telephone pole in the first third of the movie.

Also, the whole thing turned out to be a great deal more cult-based, demon worshipping horror than the haunting, ghostly kind of thing the trailer seemed to be getting at. Plus a lot more beheadings than anticipated. It’s still great mind you, but pretty much an entirely different focus to what audiences were promised.