These posts celebrate the movie trailers, movie posters, commercials, print ads, and other promotional material that stand as their own works of art.

A characteristically dandy essay in today’s edition of The Reveal reminded me that one of my favorite Wes Craven films had a pretty fabulous fake-out teaser trailer. A later trailer gave more of the plot away. I prefer the sleight of hand found in this one.

Other entries in this series can be found by clicking on the “Art of the Sell” tag.