Fair warning: if you’re at work, perhaps it’s best to save this trailer until your boss is at lunch.  And you may not want to be eating lunch yourself when you watch it.  The trailer for Maniac finds Elijah Wood starring in a remake of the classic 1980 slasher film of the same name, starring Joe Spinell (you know, the guy contractually obligated to be in every New Hollywood film ever) and directed by B-movie king William Lustig.  And the trailer for the remake, well, let’s say it leaves little to the imagination.

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Featuring as it does a charming performance by Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a series of humorous culture clashes between British royalty and American customs, a Rushmore reunion (Olivia Williams co-stars with Murray as Eleanor Roosevelt), and a sharp look back at FDR’s philandering as well as his hosting of the King and Queen of England in New York for a week just prior to World War II, the trailer for Hyde Park on Hudson is a winner.   Check it out below.

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We watch a lot of movie trailers here at ScreenCrave, and, as we inch closer to summer with its ever-increasing torrent of new films, we’re seeing more and more previews with each passing day. As we do so, we can’t help but notice some similarities, repetitions, and clichés among them. Here at Trailer Park, we’ll be offering a rundown of those clichés, where they come from, and which trailers share them. This week, we’ll be breaking down: The Thriller Movie Trailer.

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It’s the summer movie season of 2012.  What does that mean?  Well, it means that you’ll essentially be seeing at least 20 minutes of every major movie weeks before they are released, thanks to lengthy clips, spoiler-heavy trailers, and online features released seemingly every hour onto the internet.  Today’s newest example?  A four-minute The Amazing Spider-Man trailer, which features a full (and admittedly pretty cool) bridge battle/ rescue, some heavy Lizard fighting, and a lot of glimpses into Peter Parker’s mysterious past.   Check it out after the jump.

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Jay Roach has had something of a dichotomous career as a filmmaker—early on, the director made a name for himself directing such comedies as the Austin Powers franchise, as well as the first two films in the Meet the Parents series, before course-correcting and becoming HBO’s main man when it comes to political films about presidential elections (2008’s Recount, this year’s Game Change).  So, it makes a kind of sense that Roach would eventually combine his two styles, as The Campaign features Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis humorously battling it out over a North Carolina Congressional seat.

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Remember when William Friedkin made interesting, visceral, and coolly brilliant films that both tapped into and helped direct the cultural zeitgeist?  Films like The Boys in the Band, The French Connection and The Exorcist?  After experiencing a 20 year nadir with films like Jade and The Hunted, Friedkin returned in 2007 with the small, off-kilter Bug.  And though Bug worked well, it’s the trailer for Killer Joe, his newest film, that seems to be announcing Friedkin’s true return to form.

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They’re baaaaaack—no, not The Expendables, that group of Canon Films fodder from the 1980s and 1990s, here to resuscitate the adenoidal action films of the 80s—rather, the trailer for the trailer has returned.  After seeing annoying trailers for trailer for films like the Total Recall reboot as well as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, we must now suffer through a trailer for the trailer for The Expendables 2, which features a brutally rippled Terry Crews screaming at the audience while things in the background go boom-boom.

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Remember those halcyon days, before the megabuzz about The Avengers, or the slew of trailers for Prometheus, when The Dark Knight Rises was the only film of summer 2012 that mattered?  Well, things of have become a little more complicated since then, but not anymore—the third and final trailer for The Dark Knight Rises is officially the most dramatic, jaw-dropping spectacle we’ve seen this year.  Let your goosebumps begin in 3…2…1…

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Word recently broke that screenings of The Avengers would contain a new, possibly Catwoman-heavy final trailer for the upcoming (and massively, massively anticipated) The Dark Knight Rises, the final film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy.  Well, it turns out you might not have to wait for hours in line at a Thursday night screening of The Avengers to see the new trailer—you can work with other fans to unlock it online.

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