The trailer and Comic-Con poster have gone online for Charles de Lauzirika‘s psychological noir Crave.  The film stars Josh Lawson as a crime scene photographer who begins to fall deeper into his dark fantasies about becoming a vigilante who can save the world from evil.  Judging by the trailer, I like the contrast between Lawson’s gentle, everyman look (he comes off as a guy you could chill out with at a party), and the violent, aggressive character he’s portraying.

Crave will have a panel in Hall H tomorrow, July 11th with de Lauzirika and Lawson presenting the trailer along with an exclusive 7-minute clip from the movie.  Attendees will also be getting the limited edition Comic-Con poster while supplies last.  Hit the jump to check out the trailer and poster.  The film also stars Emma Lung, Edward Furlong, and Ron Perlman.  Crave will world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal on July 24.  Click here for all of our Comic-Con coverage.

CGI was part of the conversation before, it ad appeared in Tron, Young Sherlock Holmes, and Last Crusade, and – of course – The Abyss, but with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, there was a huge paradigm shift. There was just too much that could be done with computers that couldn’t be denied.

Of course, this changed the way movies were made. But what is interesting in retrospect is how they were flying by the seat of their pants. Whereas today driving on a bus is CGI’d, then many of the effects involved Robert Patrick being painted in silver, and immense practical models that handled much of the heavy lifting. As innovative and thrilling as the effects are, director James Cameron had no illusions that he was making anything but a gigantic B movie writ large. And such is why the film still plays like gangbusters today.