Trailer for Bruce McDonald’s Hard Core Logo starts easy enough. You get a minute of faux-Rattle and Hum band life in slow motion, with the obligatory dreamy/moody voiceovers. Then you get to that ’90s staple, the fasterfasterfaster montage of random shots. And then, well, you die.

Final title card notwithstanding, it looks like it tries to disguise the film’s mockumentary nature (whose own volatile, in-your-face approach becomes very aggressive past the 50-minute mark). But it might just be a sendup of the rock documentary as a genre.

Still, the online love surrounding HCL made it essential viewing for many - and it’s been hard to find for a looooong time, thanks to Quentin Tarantino acting like Daddy Champion Of the Film and then never bothering to give it a proper release. God bless Amazon.ca.

Random wisdom from YouTube commentators: “i forgot about this movie!”

“Let’s face reality. We’re all businessmen here. And businesswomen. Hi, gals.”

This fabulous teaser trailer for This Is Spinal Tap was - one guesses - intended only for theaters, but it sneakily manages to defuse any sort of expectation towards the film in question.

Director Rob Reiner, “famous television star”, only mentions Tap in passing, but goes all out - swearing, begging, boasting, cursing studio executives and, finally, caving in to their request (“you gotta show something”).

Chaos ensues.

Possibly the funniest teaser ever made, it speaks volumes about the Tap experience, and the cultish appeal it would retain even 20+ years down the road.

For a look at the actual trailer, go no further.