20 Recut Movie Trailers You Have To See

I feel like the idea of John Candy's Uncle Buck as a psychotic murderer was already explored in a 1990 issue of MAD. But, given that we're talking about MAD, I doubt it featured the subtlety and flawless execution of this trailer, which is possibly the most believable on the list.

Many movie buffs have lamented that David Lynch, George Lucas's original choice, never got a chance to direct the finale of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi. I've always wondered what a little impressionistic weirdness would've done to Luke and company, but now what I really want to see is David Lynch's Dirty Dancing. Unsettling mystery oozes from the ponderous editing and oddly placed musical cues. And, of course, the mandatory backwards talking.

For men born between 1980 and 1986, this trailer represents a hybrid of the most common posters the walls of their childhood bedrooms and their freshman year dorms. The turtles wear specific colors, they're violent, and Steeler's Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle" makes anything seem cool as hell. This really works. Or maybe I just think that because I was born in 1984.

Quick, what answers both of the following questions: What's the only thing more addictive than Willy Wonka's candy? And, what were the people who made Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on? The answer is drugs. Sweet, sweet, psychoactive drugs. So this trailer pumps the original to another level by making Gene Wilder's eccentric candyman a happy-go-lucky drug kingpin.

Take away the psychosis, and basically everything else in the movie, and Taxi Driver is just a story about a guy in love. This version of the movie may not have inspired John Hinkley, but it just might've inspired the assassination… of loneliness.

This trailer, which turns Dumb and Dumber's Lloyd Christmas into a dangerous stalker, shows that black and white can make stuff scarier, and that there's really no difference between Jim Carrey's serious acting and his comedy acting. Well, I guess the fact that people though The Cable Guy was a comedy already proved that. Maybe they should've made it in black and white.

What makes Ghostbusters so great? The fact that it's funny as hell, but it still looks awesome as a serious action movie. At least with a little help from "Mind Heist", the BUUHHH-laden soundtrack to the trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception. Enjoy the trailer, and start getting ready to pretend that the upcoming Ghostbusters III doesn't exist.

You'd think it wouldn't be too hard to make Home Alone into a horror movie, seeing as how it's about a couple of dangerous criminals invading the home of an abandoned nine-year-old. But this trailer takes the long way around, using Kevin's anger at his family as the motivation for a killing spree. If you want to watch this movie, it sort of actually exists.

Once again, as with Sleepless in Seattle, we see a solid execution of the romantic-comedy-with-Meg-Ryan-is-about-a-stalker genre. This time, though, America's one-time sweetheart is the stalkee, with Billy Crystal playing the secretly dangerous pursuer. Crystal isn't quite as believable as a crazy person as Ryan, but a well-timed shot of a filled stadium makes everything look super dramatic.

Take footage from early Matt Damon and make it thematically similar to mid-period Matt Damon? Check. Make Robin Williams look like a dangerous person, which we all know he really is? Check. Flawless choices of out-of-context dialogue to create an alternate plot? Check. Perfect minor adjustment to the title? Check and mate.