Take a Closer Look: This Trailer Has No Credits

On August 26th, a movie called Virgin Territory will arrive on DVD. We recently showed you the trailer because we found it surprising that a movie with Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton, and Tim Roth would go straight to DVD without anyone knowing the damn thing had even been made. It turns out, we buried the lead. Our readers were quick to notice things I didn't pay attention to when watching the trailer. For example, someone believes they heard Tim Roth re-named Tim Ross, which you might think is a one-off mistake. Ross is a common name; could've happened to anybody, even Big Voice Guy. I mean, after all, the on screen credit does say Roth. But then I became convinced of the sloppiness of this trailer when another reader commented, "The credits read 'Written & Directed by The Director Himself.' Now I REALLY want to see it!" So naturally, I had to investigate this more carefully. Yes, indeed, at the 1:31 mark of the Virgin Territory trailer, Mr. Voiceover says, "Hayden Christensen...Mischa Barton...and Tim Ross." Embarrassing. But that's nothing compared to the credits that pop up at the end of the trailer. We've blown them up a little bit so if you squint, you can see what we're talking about: As one of our readers astutely suggested, they're using some template here and never went back to put any of the actual credits in. That's why Something Else Films in association with This and That Productions present Something Else, Else Something, Another Person, and And Another One Still in a movie that has no name, apparently. We can see that The Music Person composed and conducted the music, and The Producer produced. And, as mentioned earlier, The Director Himself wrote and directed this anonymous film, and we shouldn't be surprised; he's very good. There are actual credits to this film; you just won't see them here. In fact, the only specific attribution on this list of credits is the website, which is for the terrible zebra/horse racing flick Racing Stripes. So was this an oversight or does the company who made this trailer not care? Or is there a third option, one in which the people who made the trailer didn't think anyone would watch this anyway and purposely went about making Virgin Territory look unprofessional? In a weird way, I kind of hope it's Option C, although I wouldn't want anyone doing that to my movie, even if it could only get a DVD release.

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