20 Most Horribly Misleading Movie Titles

5. Dead Presidents

What It Sounds Like: The suggestion and the reality of this movie are both equally tragic. If you take the title literally, it conjures an image of a bunch of Presidents in their graves. Do they return from the dead in disgust at the current state of the world? Do they come back as zombies out to eat the brains of the opposition? Well, neither.

What It Actually Is: Based on the novel by Bloods: An Oral History Of The Vietnam War By Black Veterans, the movie fictionalises the characters but the story is the same. A young man, Anthony Curtis, signs up for multiple tours of duty. After experiencing the atrocity of conflict, he tries to adjust to a normal life back in New York and subsequently turns to a life of crime.

What It Should Have Been Called: Kings Of New York

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