TOP 1 / BOTTOM 1

Top 1:

Jack: Rift - This month doesn’t look particularly strong, so I guess I’m banking on the setting of this movie to carry it through? I really hope this is great, and it has the potential to be, but there’s just nothing this month that has me crazy excited, you know?

Jake: I Remember You - My reasoning here is basically the same as Jack's. Which is to say, let's just bank on the stunningly beautiful and creepily barren Icelandic setting deliver some chills this month. I'm betting this will be passable at bare minimum, but if the spooky kid/ghost story that it appears to have going on is handled correctly, it could be great.

Mark: Mayhem - Jake had it pegged. This is Belko where you’re rooting for everyone to die. That sounds great. TBE’s biggest issue was that it was a building full of (mostly) likeable people and you didn’t know who to root for. I don’t foresee this one having the same problem. I had Belko as my top 1 back when it came out and this one seems to have improved on the formula.

Bottom 1:

Jack: Cute Little Buggers - Maybe I’m wrong and maybe the fun will carry through this thing like a mutant alien bunny you just sliced in twain. But I really don’t think I’m wrong, and may just wholly unwatchable.

Jake: Angelica - I'm potting this one here for sheer boredom factor. Of all the trailers I watched, this was the one I had the most viscerally negative reaction towards. This feels like it will be a forgettable movie in a totally over-saturated corner of the horror market. Let's try something different, please.

Mark: The Elf - This is actually meant as a congratulatory note to Uncork’d. For those of you who aren’t consistent readers (Welcome!) I have had a long standing rule that movies that are below a certain threshold in quality are not worthwhile to talk about or even consider as a bottom 1. I have referred to this as my “Uncork’d Rule” due to the general level of quality associated with their productions, but I’ll tell you what between this and Cold Moon last month they’ve actually got a pretty good streak of watchable-enough trailers going. Kudos to you, Uncork’d. I award you last place. Stop injecting long expositional rants into your trailers and you might force your way out of the bottom quartile.