I hadn't thought of this till I read Leo's post, but the original trailers for "The ReAnimator" had a very similar spin to them. The announcer would say things like, "If you have heart problems, dizziness," etc. etc, "then DON'T SEE THE REANIMATOR!!" Ed Leo Enticknap wrote: > The nearest I can do to a "don't see this film" is a trailer for a 1970s > martial arts film, "Hap Ki Do" (goodness knows where it came from, but I have > it in my projection box as a four-track mag test film). It is about a variant > of kung-fu practised by women - it opens with a stentorian commentary: "DO NOT > let your girlfriend see THIS film. In case you're with her now, we're only > going to show a few VERY MILD scenes from this picture". We then see some > pretty agressive females chopping up bricks and telephone directories with > their bare hands, kicking in walls and various other destructive pastimes. The > trailer finishes with an intertitle: "WARNING: DO NOT LET YOUR GIRLFRIEND SEE > THIS FILM. THE PRODUCERS ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF > IGNORING THIS ADVICE." > > L. > __________________________________ > Leo Enticknap > Postgraduate Common Room > (newly renamed) School of English > University of Exeter > Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive > Exeter > Devon EX4 4QH > United Kingdom > email: [log in to unmask] > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite