10 Craziest Things That Have Been Made Into Movies

5. A Fake Trailer

The Grindhouse project was Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's homage to double features, featuring two incredibly exploitive outings from the directors (Planet Terror and Death Proof). Of course, traditionally these sort of B-Movies tended to be pretty awful and predictably this throw-back didn't really connect with mainstream audiences. The box office returns were measly and outside of America the films were released separately, where their purposeful shlockiness worked even less. The legacy of Grindhouse goes beyond two questionable entries into the directors' canon however. In between the films were a selection of trailers for totally ridiculous films, masterminded by the likes of Edgar Wright and Eli Roth. Rodriguez himself made a teaser for a film Machete, inspired itself on a treatment he'd written much earlier in his career, which proved so popular he made it into a full-length film a few years later. The film was moderately successful, but a sequel last year, Machete Kills, totally bombed, succumbing to the excess that often weighs down the exploitation genre. It did, however, come with another fake trailer, this time for Machete Kills Again... In Space! If that does get made, fingers crossed it actually lives up to its potential.