Besides the BTTF teaser, the following two are the other most epic teasers of all time:

It made me want to see it but I never got around to it. I see it's on HBO Max. Maybe I'll finally watch it.

It’s worth a watch.

Mabuse posted above that it’s a very good movie. I don’t think it quite lived up to the wonderful trailer though. I might be in the minority though.

Still my favorite teaser:

^ Agreed! That’s one of the first trailers I actually remembered seeing in the theater from childhood. Before that, I don’t think I even paid attention to trailers.

And as a bonus, it shows exactly jack squat from the actual movie!

I almost forgot about this classic teaser trailer. As all good teasers do, this simply hooks us without giving away the goods:
And here is a loving homage to it as the teaser to the sequel:

This one and the one that came out around that Christmas...

A lot of my favorite trailers have been posted already (Star Trek VI and Godzilla: King of the Monsters among them) but nothing continues to terrify me like the trailer for MAGIC. It terrified me as a kid in the 70s. It still terrifies me when I had to click to copy the link. I can't even



Ready Player One. When Tom Sawyer kicks in, the trailer goes from an interesting looking Spielberg film to something I need to see opening day.



Watchmen. I love the two main Watchmen trailers. They're works of art.





And then there's the trailer for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Fun stuff.

It is a good trailer but it is among my least favorite movies ever. God I hate this movie

Wow our tastes in movies are like polar opposites. I thought it was the worst, and also most pretentious Tarantino movie ever, and I thought Logan was just sort of dull. I would never watch either again. Neither is even in the "good" category and the QT movie wouldn't even make it to bad and would be panned to death if it was by some other director.

Lots of good ones in here.

I'll add:

Possibly my favorite ever is the teaser for Strange Days:

I also really like this trailer for Special that plays over the entirety of the song Popcorn by Hot Butter. It's rare for a trailer to play a song in its entirety, instead of snippets or edited in some way.

Also, this trailer for A Serious Man, with its rhythmic repetition of sounds and clips.

I think that preview for Serious Man is one of the best I’ve ever seen.


One of my favorite previews, remember when they were called previews was for the M Night movie The Lady in the Water.

The trailer was haunting
Wonderfully edited
Was mysterious
Literally teased what I thought was going to be a beautiful fairy tail


Almost makes me sad that such a nicely produced preview only lead to such a dopey silly movie.

I'm pretty sure they were originally called trailers, since the first ones were shown at the end of movies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_(promotion)

The first Siskel and Ebert show was called Sneak Previews, so maybe that's where using "previews" came into use:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneak_Previews

There's an interesting overlap between the best trailers, and trailers better than the movie they're promoting. Also, M Night Shyamalan had some interesting rules for trailers, one main one being that footage from the last 3rd of a film couldn't appear in the trailer.

I watched a Youtube video recently about one person's love/hate relationship with trailers, especially how some give away too much.

They may have originally been called trailers.
As a kid that started going to movies in the early 70’s we always said previews. I never heard anyone say Trailer until I got onto message boards some 20+ years ago.


Also people used to say I saw that At the Movies or we went to the movies. Now people are saying “At Theaters”
“We saw Star Wars at theaters”
I hear it on podcasts all the time and here in the movie section.

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You might've said "previews" as a kid in the 70s, but that could've been regional or time-limited.

One possible explanation for how "preview" started getting used is the green/red "band" rating cards for movie trailers the MPAA uses. For as long as I can remember, the language on those cards have been "The following preview has been approved for...."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion...rical_trailers

According to this site, the ratings cards started in 1967, but it wasn't until 1976 that the word "preview" started being used in them:
https://company-bumpers.fandom.com/w...ion_(Trailers)

I found a copy of the trailer for Albert Brook's Real Life (1979) that includes the blue card:

I also found an image purportedly from the trailer for the 1974 film Deranged.



However, I think "trailer" never fully fell out of use. This film review from 1978 mentions a spoof film featuring a fake trailer:
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/22/a...-flimflam.html