The New York chapter of AICE — The Association of Independent Creative Editors — just held their annual “Trailer Park” competition. The contest asks entrants to choose from a list of nine movies and edit a :90 second trailer which promotes the film as a picture from a completely different genre.

Last year’s winner, Robert Ryang’s Shining, re-imagined Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” as a heartwarming family flick.

This year’s grand-prize winner is Scott Rankin of Northern Lights Post, whose superb editing transformed the 1988 Tom-Cruise vehicle Cocktail into a Bollywood musical.

It’s called CAAKTHĀL:

More details are available on the AICE site. I’d like to thank AICE for making the video available to me.

Also check out the new blog The Trailer Mash, which was created solely to track these kinds of mashed trailers.

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