That depends on your sense of perspective. Because with some highly judicious digital editing, the addition of a jolly voiceover and a suitably breezy backing track, Kubrick’s scare-fest has been reinterpreted as a rom-com feel good movie about a writer struggling for his muse, and a boy lonely for a father.

It’s one of many movie mashups rendered in trailer form and now being screened on todays site. Visit the site for an alternative view of your favourite Hollywood moments. Scary Mary portrays Mary Poppins as an evil protagonist with supernatural powers and the pretend sequel to Titanic ties together elements from 23 movies and sees DiCaprio’s character Jack Dawson brought back to the surface and thawed out for further adventures.

And, the good news is movie mashups can be interactive. All you need is a decent spec laptop or pc, some basic video editing software and you too could be creating your own genre swapping mini epics – and here’s one for starters. Imagine the cast of Father Ted in one of cinema’s most iconic scenes..a burning beach, choppers circling overhead and a stripped to the waist Father Jack utters those immortal lines I love the smell of....DRINK FECK ARSE in the morning

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