Don’t Read This!!! Movies with ‘Don’t’ in their title or tagline

  

Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven’s seminal post-ironic slasher Scream (1996) was advertised with the suitably self-aware slogans: ‘Don’t answer the phone. Don’t open the door. Don’t try to escape.’

1999 took us on a cinematic trip to Lovers Lane, known as I’m Still Waiting for You in the UK, and its tagline ‘Don’t get hooked.’

Of course, the ultimate acknowledgement of this genre fixture title was Edgar (Shaun of the Dead) Wright’s comic trailer for a non-existent movie titled Don’t, as seen in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse (2007):

Don’t Look in the Cellar arrived in 2008 with a ‘smiley’ killer murdering teens in an abandoned asylum…

Don’t Look Up (2009) was based on a story by Hideo Nakata (the creator of The Ring) and directed by Fruit Chan. Whilst filming in Transylvania, a crew unearths celluloid images of a woman’s murder and unleashes the wrath of evil spirits. Don’t Look Up is a mish-mash of themes and international accents but is easy on the brain at least.

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