15 Movie Titles That Blatantly Lied To You

2. Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)

What It Suggests

That the film would be film would be following an assault on the 13th precinct.

The Truth

The assult of the title does happen - and it's great - but it doesn't happen on Precinct 13 at all. The actual location of the movie's central action is Precinct 9, Division 13, which would have made for a far more unwieldy title.

Apparently, the film's distributor thought that using the number 13 was too cool an opportunity to pass up, even if it made no sense, and they chose the more ominous title believing it sounded better. To be fair, they weren't entirely wrong.