Forget stunning visuals: all you really need to make a very intense trailer is ominous music, shell casing sound effects and some dialogue about house painting.
That may not sound all too intriguing on paper, but the teaser for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman — which is based on Charles Brandt’s novel I Heard You Paint Houses — makes it work.
The cast list — which includes gangster favourites Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel — almost certainly helps too.
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ teaser is incredibly intense yet shows painfully little
