Finally, someone had an interesting idea of how to market a movie.

The upcoming Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Films release of SLiTHER, a comedy-horror-scifi low-budge monster movie by James "Scooby-Doo" Gunn, offers a contest to "Slug It Out" and edit your own trailer to win $25K.

The movie's site provides you with about 230MB worth of movie clips, dialogue snippets, music scores, sound effects and fonts to create your very own TV spot trailer for SLiTHER. You'll find the selection of clips is a bit limiting but with some creative effort, you should be able to create a half-decent trailer. Of course, half-decent won't win, but at least you had fun. Be sure to read the contest rules closely so you don't disqualify yourself.

Now for the downside. You only have until this Thursday, March 9 at 11:59:59 pm PT to get your entry in.

I'll post my version of the trailer as soon as I discover it's kosher to do that. Have fun and Good Luck!

Marketing | Movies | SLiTHER

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