Via Boing Boing comes something particularly hilarious.

Someone had the bright idea to create a movie trailer for the film The Shining, editing the trailer so as to make it look like a romantic comedy. If you had never seen The Shining, then after watching this trailer, you'd be convinced that it was a film like My Girl or even Jack Nicholson's own As Good as It Gets. What's priceless is the choice of background music for this trailer. It's completely inappropriate.

The New York Times even wrote an article about it:

A few weeks back, he said, he entered a contest for editors’ assistants sponsored by the New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors. The challenge? Take any movie and cut a new trailer for it — but in an entirely different genre. Only the sound and dialogue could be modified, not the visuals, he said.

Mr. Ryang chose “The Shining,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. In his hands, it became a saccharine comedy — about a writer struggling to find his muse and a boy lonely for a father. Gilding the lily, he even set it against “Solsbury Hill,” the way-too-overused Peter Gabriel song heard in comedies billed as life-changing experiences, like last year’s “In Good Company.”