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Remember “Sleepless in Seattle,” the quintessential chick flick from 1993?

The Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan headliner has been revived online – sort of. Demis Lyall-Wilson of tomatopatch.com has re-cut the gushy film’s trailer 180 degrees to resemble a dark thriller akin to “Fatal Attraction.”

Ryan, the always lovable romantic comedy queen, now appears as a glossy-eyed psychopath who’s got her sights on Sam Baldwin (Hanks) and his son, Jonah.

“What if this man is my destiny, and I never meet him?” Ryan’s character, Annie Reed, says over a montage of rapid-fire cutaways. Once a heart-wrenching quote from the original “Sleepless,” the one-liner carries a tone that is at once ominous and humorous.

Lyall-Wilson’s re-cut trailer illustrates how easily anyone can distort video when user-friendly film editing tools are so accessible today. Indeed, Lyall-Wilson’s skewed version of “Sleepless in Seattle” is just one among many in a wide array of altered trailers, ranging from re-edits of “American Psycho” to “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

Next time that movie of choice doesn’t meet your expectations, you now know what to do: Scramble the parts, and transform it into something it was never intended to be. You might make movie magic.

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