10 weirdest movie trailers of all time: an odyssey from Ed Wood to Kevin Smith

A great movie trailer will entice audiences to set aside time to see an upcoming movie. However, some of the trailers are so bizarre that it's hard to know whether the film should be avoided or considered a triumph of madness.

For your viewing pleasure, here are our picks of the 10 weirdest movie trailers of all time. If you haven't seen any of these movies, ask yourself if you would go out of your way to see these movies based solely on their trailers.

"Glen or Glenda" (1953): "It's fantastic! It's amazing! It's true!" claimed the trailer for this no-budget jumble by notorious Ed Wood, which grafted the headlines surrounding then-current headlines around Christine Jorgensen's gender reassignment surgery into an incoherent narrative about an anxious transvestite ( played by Wood). While the trailer mentions Bela Lugosi as the film's star, the former Dracula is nowhere to be found in this breathless mess of a trailer.

"Conquest of Space" (1955): Billed as "the greatest true story of our century!", this George Pal sci-fi adventure is notable for serving some of the effects crummy specials for a space odyssey. But you haven't lived until you've seen astronauts' faces sag as they start traveling at 14,000 miles per hour.

"The Horror Of Party Beach" (1964): This movie has it all: a band playing "six rock hits", a gang of bikers ready to scold, pretty ladies throwing a party pajamas and "ghoulish atomic beasts that live on human blood." It's hard to say which is more terrifying, the monsters in rubber suits with ping pong eyes, the visibly muscleless bikers or the older girls of those "six rocking tubes".

"Black Belt Jones" (1974): In the early 1970s, blaxploitation and martial arts were two of the most popular film genres. This film combines genres with some of the weirdest action sequences ever captured on film, including a kung fu fight in a soap-suds-filled train depot. (Don't ask, just enjoy.)

"The Black Cauldron" (1985): The Walt Disney Co. DIS lost so much money on this animated feature that it endangered the fortunes of the film companies. animation of the studio. The trailer was one of the main reasons audiences stayed away, with its odd mix of cut-price Tolkein and cute Disney flourishes that gave the movie a weird split personality. p>

"Tom and Jerry: The Movie" (1992): Shorts' quick knockabout Tom and Jerry was dropped for this tacky feature that finds the cat and mouse duo helping a young girl get escapes from a violent tutor. This trailer seemed to emphasize the worst aspects of the film, including cheap animation, inappropriate voice acting for the main characters, lackluster musical numbers, and a surplus of uninteresting supporting characters.

"2016" (2010): Perhaps the most infamous movie to come out of Ghana is this high-octane sci-fi escape involving an alien invasion of West Africa. the West. The film became a viral video sensation when it was uploaded to YouTube in 2011, albeit for all the wrong reasons. (No spoilers, see for yourself.)

"Venom" (2018): Technically, there's absolutely nothing wrong with this trailer for the SONY action movie from Sony Pictures. However, there is a small problem - the main character cannot be found in the film. Based on this trailer, it would have made more sense to call the movie "Eddie Brock".

"Cats" (2019): This trailer would have scared many young children who saw it on the big screen, but it also generated waves of unintended laughter from adults who were expecting something very different from this. YouTube user Taleef Tamsal probably said it best: this is a prime example of "just because you can doesn't mean you should".

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