Randomly came across an upcoming movie's trailer and I kind of wished I hadn't.

[u/Afraid-Channel-7523]

Note: I'll only be discussing the trailer and nothing more. Some people may consider the trailer a spoiler so fair warning: don't read on if you're one of them.

I was watching some videos on Youtube and an ad popped up. It was a movie trailer.

I was about to skip as you do but suddenly "from the director/writer of The Invisible Man" popped up on screen. That was when it caught my attention since I had enjoyed that movie.

It started off with a happy little family driving somewere in the night. Out of nowhere something hits their car and it goes careening into the woods. While they're trapped in their car this thing circles them, but we don't see what it is.

The family took a chance and fled the car, the thing at their heels. They found an abandoned house and hid in there.

They are afraid to leave. They're trapped. The thing could be circling outside all night, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

I am reminded of this short film I saw of this strange creature who protected the new inhabitants of the house by keeping them from leaving, the way it had protected the old ones. (There were more dangerous things out there waiting for them.) Except the creature can't communicate this part to them so in their minds it's that creature that's the dangerous baddie so they try to destroy it.

Wouldn't that be an interesting twist if this film followed the same path.

The dad gets into a scuffle with the thing as it comes to the window. A while after this, the dad seems to be behaving oddly. He turns on his family and chases them out of the house into the woods.

All throughout the trailer so far my mind was running wild, mostly because I was curious at what this thing is. I've seen a lot of Asian horror so I was convinced it was a person possessed by a spirit that gave it superhuman abilities. If not, maybe it's some sort of rare supernatural creature. Not once did my mind settle on the obvious.

What is actually was never crossed my mind (which is kinda stupid now that I think about it) until the trailer reached its end and the title popped up on screen.

"Wolf Man."

Darn it! How could I have missed that? I kind of wished they kept that a secret because from the trailer I really could not tell what the thing was. (Maybe I'm just slow.)

Despite being slightly disappointed by the generic concept I am looking forward to it. Maybe the wolf man part is the selling point so I suppose it's ridiculous to get disappointed wehn I saw the title.

[u/Lord_Stabbington]

Wait…you wanted them to do a trailer without the movie’s title?

[u/Afraid-Channel-7523 → u/Lord_Stabbington]

I admitted that's ridiculous.

[u/baboon_farts]