10 Movies That Changed Hugely From The Trailers

8. Slender Man

Last summer's Slender Man was hardly anticipated by a great many moviegoers, but even so, it's puzzling just how little the released movie resembles what the original trailer promised.

The first trailer featured several prominent character deaths, including a teenage boy jumping from a roof and a girl stabbing herself in the face with a scalpel, neither of which made the final cut.

It later emerged that the producers became embattled with Sony over the edit of the movie, with the studio fearing a backlash given the film's proximity to the infamous Slender Man stabbing and trial (which was concluded mere months before the movie was due to release).

As such, most of the grisly death scenes featured in the trailers were cut, resulting in these characters awkwardly disappearing from the movie without much explanation.

That's not all, though - the memorable trailer visage of a bloodied, traumatised young woman being intercepted by the police in a field also didn't appear in the film, and seemed to be part of a wider hinted-at subplot about a previous Slender Man victim.

Granted, nobody really cared about this movie enough to get up in arms about the misrepresentative marketing, but still, the end result is a far, far cry from the film audiences were initially sold.