I am writing to inquire about the existence of a red band trailer for the 2000 film "Scary Movie." In the United States, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) assigns green or red bands to movie trailers based on their content. Green band trailers can be shown anywhere, while red band trailers are restricted to R or NC-17-rated features due to their more explicit content.
I distinctly recall seeing a red band trailer for "Scary Movie" that featured a notable bathroom scene. However, despite my efforts, I have been unable to locate this trailer online. Given its red band status, it is likely not widely available online and may require significant effort to find.
I would appreciate any information or insights you may have regarding the existence and potential whereabouts of this red band trailer. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sometimes, 35mm trailer prints show up on eBay. Maybe someone is selling it?
That's true, but for me, it's far too inconvenient. I have no way of playing back a 35mm film trailer or a way to scan or digitize one. I don't even know if this trailer is up on eBay to begin with, and it would be too costly for me if someone already had this digitized and just uploaded it. I'm not finding it that easy, but I doubt it would be easy to find just because of it being a red band trailer. In fact, now that I think about it, a lot of red band trailers are lost just because the only way you could show them was theatrically during an R or NC-17 rated feature. So unless you have a lot of people who were pirating movies using cam rips and left the previews in or just people with a lot of film trailers, it's probably not resurfacing.
I actually did go on eBay and looked it up, and it turns out someone is actually selling a 35mm flat film print of the trailer. However, it's too expensive for me to want to buy it, and me buying it wouldn't do anything. I have no way of scanning or digitizing a film trailer. If anyone does want to buy and scan it, go ahead and do it. But for me, unless this just shows up online on some trailer website that I missed, I'm not going to bother nor spend a significant amount of money just for one scene I remember in the trailer that has still stuck with me.
If anybody buys it ($29 at the time of posting) then Kineko Video could scan it for like, around 50 bucks probably. I got a trailer scanned from them.
That's actually cheaper than the one I found. The one I found was $60, but even then, it's not worth that price. Plus, I'd have to pay someone to scan it just to confirm if a scene in it existed that took place in a bathroom stall. I think that scene actually made it into the movie itself and not just the trailer, but it would be nice to see the trailer. It's just not worth actually putting that money into it.
If anybody buys it ($29 at the time of posting) then Kineko Video could scan it for like, around 50 bucks probably. I got a trailer scanned from them.
That's actually cheaper than the one I found. The one I found was $60, but even then, it's not worth that price. Plus, I'd have to pay someone to scan it just to confirm if a scene in it existed that took place in a bathroom stall. I think that scene actually made it into the movie itself and not just the trailer, but it would be nice to see the trailer. It's just not worth actually putting that money into it.
You could try asking around on the OriginalTrilogy forums. They often group fund scans of reels.
That's actually cheaper than the one I found. The one I found was $60, but even then, it's not worth that price. Plus, I'd have to pay someone to scan it just to confirm if a scene in it existed that took place in a bathroom stall. I think that scene actually made it into the movie itself and not just the trailer, but it would be nice to see the trailer. It's just not worth actually putting that money into it.
You could try asking around on the OriginalTrilogy forums. They often group fund scans of reels.
I just looked that up, and that appears to be a forum for Star Wars. I don't see how that would help. They probably do help with scanning reels, but it probably wouldn't interest them to scan a reel like this. Plus, if this trailer doesn't exist online and needs to be scanned and uploaded, I'm writing this search off as a lost cause because I'm not paying for any of that. I was mainly curious if this was already somewhere online, and I just wasn't looking deeply enough for it.
You could try asking around on the OriginalTrilogy forums. They often group fund scans of reels.
I just looked that up, and that appears to be a forum for Star Wars. I don't see how that would help. They probably do help with scanning reels, but it probably wouldn't interest them to scan a reel like this. Plus, if this trailer doesn't exist online and needs to be scanned and uploaded, I'm writing this search off as a lost cause because I'm not paying for any of that. I was mainly curious if this was already somewhere online, and I just wasn't looking deeply enough for it.
If you scroll down further you’ll find a couple sections for projects not related to Star Wars. Like I said they help group fund these things, it doesn’t rely solely upon you.
Were Red Band trailers even a thing in 2000? I don’t seem to recall them being a thing until the late 2000’s.
From what I remember from going to the movies, red band trailers have been around since the mid-90s, I would say. However, not many of them were made. I do remember that they took off a lot in the 00s, mainly because of the number of R-rated comedies we got, primarily from Judd Apatow (movies like Knocked Up, Superbad, Pineapple Express, 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall). All of those movies had red band trailers, but I think they always existed; they just never got made because it was cheaper to make one trailer that would cover the entire audience, and the red band trailer would only be shown with other R-rated or NC-17 films.
I believe I can close/write off this thread now because I did notice that someone purchased that eBay listing, so it's possible that it could be scanned and eventually end up online.
I believe I can close/write off this thread now because I did notice that someone purchased that eBay listing, so it's possible that it could be scanned and eventually end up online.