Best movie ad tag line ever?

"Space is a lonely town."

- The American Astronaut

I'm using a non-standard browser (Opera), but this one didn't seem to register my vote of "Other." All I see is 2 total votes, with Alien and Jaws each showing 50%. Also, the formatting is a little odd. Of the three, I liked the one used for the Scorsese poll best.

"They're Here"- Poltergeist (1982)

One of the few taglines I remember. Still creeps me out as bit.

I love all things Scorcese, so that was my favorite poll.

Classics, all. Still, I find it hard to beat the tagline for the 1980's backwoods slasher flick The Prey. "It's not human, and it's got an axe!"

"Does for rock and roll what 'The Sound of Music' did for hills."

This Is Spinal Tap

Symphonies (or Rock Operas?) must be composed to the magnificence of that tag-line.

He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. For a while they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people.

- Badlands

Sorry, I forgot to say which poll I liked the best. I prefer the type used for the Scorsese poll.

PS. "You'll believe that a man can fly." - Superman

Another classic.

"When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth." (Dawn of the Dead)

"M*A*S*H gives a D*A*M*N."

"Exterminate all rational thought." (Naked Lunch)

"It's got guts!" (Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia)

And how could anyone forget:

"This is not a sequel! There has never been anything like it!" (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls)

B movies have the best taglines. Two favorites:

"Don't disturb Evelyn . . . She already is!"
- Mountain Motel Massacre

"This woman has just cut, chopped, broken and burned five men beyond recognition... but no jury in America would ever convict her!"
- I Spit On Your Grave

Okay, I picked "Poultry in Motion" from those listed, but a quick peek through this great archive jogged my memory for the ones I'd really pick:

"She was marked with the curse of those who slink and court and kill by night!" (Cat People, 1942)

"Sister, sister, oh so fair,
why is there blood all over your hair?" (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962)

"This is the weekend they didn't play golf." (Deliverance, 1972)

"The damnedest thing you ever saw!" (Nashville, 1975)

"Pathetic Earthlings... Who can save you now?!" (Flash Gordon, 1981)

"Back when you had to beat it before you could eat it!" (Caveman, 1982)

Can't believe I forgot Susperia:
"The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92."

"Just when you thought you were saved..." ("life of Brian" - as a response to the Jaws 2 tagline)

"The film that is so funny it was banned in Norway." ("Life of Brian" as well)

"Makes Ben Hur look like an Epic" ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail")

"Who will survive and what will be left of them?" (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

"the coast is toast."
volcano

I voted for the Bonnie and Clyde one, though I do enjoy others, such as:

"An Adventure 65 Million Years In The Making"
-Jurassic Park

"A detective story"
-Brick

As for software, I actually think this latest one is the best of the three. It's clean, not bulky, works great, and is pleasing aesthetically (except those percentages are darn small).

"Rated X by an all white jury" for Sweet Sweetback.

"Mischief. Mayhem. Soap."

-Fight Club

"The coast is toast."

Volcano

"Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven." - A Clockwork Orange

"Remember, there is no spoon." - The Matrix

"If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones" -- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

"In his own way, he is, perhaps the most dangerous man who has ever lived!" -- A Fistful of Dollars

"The next scream you hear may be your own!" -- The Birds (and perhaps other Hitchcock movies)

"The comedy that glows in the dark!" --Skindeep

"Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders... and another one on his desk."

Re-Animator (1985)

Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.

"For three men the Civil War wasn't Hell. It was practice!" -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

I'm in favor of the Martin Scorcese format for the polls. I find the fact that the comedy poll makes sounds whenever you scroll over it annoying. In the recent poll, I voted for Poultry in Motion. It’s Silly but it’s also elegant in its simplicity.

I thought The Descent was summed up nicely by its tagline: "Scream your last breath" As far as classic films, I love the irony of this Psycho tagline: "Check in. Relax. Take a shower." I found it at http://www.filmsite.org/taglines.html . My feelings for Star Wars have grown more and more mixed with time (especially since those dreadful prequels) but I love the way the tagline from the original film peeks your interest without giving anything away. I don't know any tagline more evocative or more memorable than “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...”

"The only thing more frightening than the last twelve minutes of Suspiria are the first ninety two."

Suspiria

Dennis: These were just the first ones that popped into my head (guess that's what makes them "memorable"). But I wish I'd known about that link you posted beforehand!

"It's terrific!" - Citizen Kane

I love it's simplicity, and the fact that it doesn't quite seem strong enough for the "greatest movie of all time". Also, it's a reminder of old style tag lines, before they got so punny and clever.

I chose the Chicken Run tagline above but there really are some great ones in these comments. I love the ones for Sweetback and Suspiria.

From the David Arquette dog-cop movie See Spot Run:

"The smart one isn't wearing any pants."

"Gable's back, and Garson's got him!"

Adventure (1945)

The classic Death Race 2000 takes this honour:

In The Year 2000, Hit And Run Driving Is No Longer A Felony. It's The National Sport!

Just a few of my faves:

"Trapped in time, Surrounded by evil. Low on gas."
-Army of Darkness

"Have the adventure of your life keeping up with the Joneses."
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

"He's in Town with a few days to kill."
-Predator 2

"Hell on heels."
-Devil Wears Prada

"Not every gift is a blessing."
-The Sixth Sense

"Weird is relative."
-The Addams Family

"The family just got a little stranger."
-Addams Family Values

"A story about the near death of a salesman."
-Cadillac Man

"Sooner or later a man who wears two faces forgets which one is real."
-Primal Fear

"Back together for the first time, again."
-A Mighty Wind

Uh.Oh.

-South Park, Bigger, Longer and Uncut

The link to the tag-line archive Denis has posted does not work for me. It's not a Hyperlink on my browser, and just an underlined sentence. Can someone please type out the address for me? Ta.

JE: Hi Ali, it's this one:

http://www.filmsite.org/taglines.html

AG posted it too. Enjoy. I really like the one from the 1946 "The Postman Always Rings Twice," too: "Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!"

Well, my "Other" vote was split between Re-Animator and Naked Lunch, but just to contribute something new, the tagline for Domino always made me laugh out loud:

"I Am a Bounty Hunter"

"Family isn't a word. It's a sentence."

--The Royal Tenenbaums

"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire."

-The Lost Boys

I like the Army of Darkness tag as mentioned by Damien but equally as good was the one used by Dark Horse for their comic adaptation:
"One man. One million Evil Dead. The odds are just about eve."

Also:

"Her life was in his hands now her toe is in the mail."

"The night HE came home."

"You don't assign him to murder cases. You just turn him loose."

MY favorite ever is from Shakes the Clown: "The Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies"

"A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere."

-Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

How has no one mentioned the exceedingly forgotten late-'80s thriller 'Dr. Giggles'?

"The doctor is out ... of his mind."

A Fish Called Wanda

"A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood."

I know it's a terrible, terrible movie, but my favorite has always been the tagline for Ghoulies (which, if you don't know, is about gremlins attacking people from their toilets):

"They'll get you in the end."

"Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all over again. This is not that movie."
- The War of the Roses

I love this one. Has any other movie trailer so obviously referred to its competition?

"If you see one movie this summer, see Star Wars! But if you see two movies this summer, see Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me."

I'll throw my voice into the chorus singing the praises of B-movie taglines. My favorite tagline is from the trailer to the giallo film Torso: "Producer Carlo Ponti, who brought you Doctor Zhivago, now brings you... TORSO!" Such shamelessness, such hubris! In its own little way, that tagline is just about perfect.

Also, I've always had a fondness for the brutish simplicity of the infamous tagline for Friday the 13th: "Come. Watch them die." And the possibly apocryphal story about the unused tagline for Cockfighter ("He came into town with his cock in his hand, and what he did with it was illegal in forty-nine states.") never ever stops being funny.

A few of my favourites:

Five Easy Pieces
He rode the fast lane on the road to nowhere

Parenthood
It could happen to you

Shortbus
You've got to get on to get off

Showgirls
Leave your inhibitions at the door

Take The Money And Run
WANTED. For Assault, Armed Robbery and Committing a Lewd and Immoral Dance with a Chocolate Pudding.

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Baked on a true story

It's not punny or even clever, but the one that made the biggest impression on my young psyche from walking by it a hundred times at the video store was the tagline on the VHS cover for Robocop:

Part Man.
Part Machine.
All Cop.

It sounded like the coolest movie ever.

I have many favorite tag lines, but two always stood out to me for some reason:

Coogan's Bluff (1968): "Clint Eastwood gives New York 24 hours to get out of town."

The Haunting (1963):
"SCREAM...no one will hear you! RUN...and the silent foosteps will follow, for in Hill House the dead are restless!"

Slaughter

"Men call him Slaughter... Women call him all the time."

GI Bro

"If you're a Kraut, he'll take you out."

"COFFY... She'll CREAM you!"

"They're back from the dead... and ready to party!"(return of the living dead)

"Man is the warmest place to hide." (carpenter's THING)

*sentimental favorite:
"Boy, can we use him now!"
(Bruce Lee's posthumously released Return of the Dragon... and did they ever!)

For the new UNDERDOG film:

"One Nation, Under Dog."

"They told Dr. Jekyll to take his amazing scientific discovery and shove it up his nose.
"And so he did."
BONUS tagline: "It's a real toot!"

Jekyll and Hyde...Together Again (1982)
Classic bad early-80s cocaine 'humor'!