10 Best Movie Secrets SHAMEFULLY Given Away By The Trailers
6. It's A Secret Vampire Film - From Dusk Till Dawn
Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn executes a frankly ingenious mid-film bait-and-switch, transforming from a crime thriller into a horror film when the central characters end up facing off against a horde of vampires.
From Dusk Till Dawn is a film that earned a cult following from home video and years of airing on TV, where people often saw it without having first seen the trailer. For anyone who watched it on a whim, that mid-film turn is totally unexpected and yet absolutely brilliant.
Sadly anyone who actually went to see the movie in cinemas in 1996 likely knew exactly what was coming, because the trailers freely spoiled that the film switches genres half-way through.
While there's a fair argument to be made that trailers shouldn't mislead audiences about the content of a film, is there a single living soul who felt short-changed that From Dusk Till Dawn wasn't just a straight-up thriller?
Anyone who saw it for the first time without knowing it was a secret vampire movie likely still remembers that wonderfully bizarre experience, while the same can't quite be said for those who went in knowing precisely what they were getting.