10 Movie Posters That Spoiled EVERYTHING

Joel Schumacher's Phone Booth is a criminally underappreciated little thriller in which Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) finds himself held hostage in a New York City phone booth by an unhinged sniper.

Now to be completely fair, if you're a fan of the TV show 24 you're probably going to figure out very early on that the sniper on the other end of the phone is voiced by Kiefer Sutherland.

But if you weren't familiar with Sutherland's dulcet tones, the poster damn-sure clarified what the movie's villain looked like, showing a sliver of Sutherland's bespectacled face staring intensely into the distance.

This wouldn't be a problem if not for the fact that the movie intentionally conceals the sniper's identity until the very end of the film, and even attempts to mislead viewers as to who he is.

In a final failed fake-out, we're led to believe that the caller is actually a disgruntled pizza delivery guy who encountered Stu earlier in the movie, but anyone who's seen the poster with Sutherland's face on - or better yet, knows his voice - will be acutely aware they're being messed with.

And so of course, minutes later Sutherland finally makes a brief on-screen appearance, exactly as pictured in this poster. Evidently Fox couldn't resist the urge to feature their 24 star in the film's marketing, as infuriatingly spoilerific as it was.