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* And everything ever made by [[Spark Plug Entertainment]].
* Because of the problems between South Korea and Japan, anime was not available to Koreans. Because of this, in the 80's, the South Korean animation industry produced many films that were ripped off from ''[[Mazinger Z|Mazinger]]'' and ''[[Getter Robo]]'', ''[[Transformers]]'' toys, and even films like ''[[Tron]]''. Later, a fella by the name of Joseph Lai and his company, IFD,<ref>the same folks who brought us the [[Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies]] and, in turn, [[The Cinema Snob|Pierre Kirby]]</ref> bought up the rights to these films, and edited bits and pieces of them together into [[Cut and Paste Translation|new, incomprehensible forms]], with titles like ''[[Space Thunder Kids]]'' and ''[[Protectors Of Universe]]'' and horrible English dubbing. A website called Teleport City does a remarkable coverage of these Joseph Lai chop-jobs.
* And from Thailand, videos released by [
* ''[[Titanic: The Legend Goes On]]'' and ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]'', both based off [[Titanic|some sinking boat movie]].
** One of those had [[In Name Only|some Mexican mice and a rapping dog]]. And the other had a giant talking octopus that saved everybody and magical moon-tears that allow people to talk to dolphins.
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** Their DVD covers have quotes from uncredited sources, which is illegal.
* Following [[The Asylum]]'s footsteps is [[Tom Cat]] Films LLC which includes a major numbers of mockbusters amongst few others that makes [[The Asylum]] look like 20thCenturyFox by comparison, this includes...
** ''Metal Man'', aka ''Iron Hero'', which is a mockbuster of the first ''[[Iron Man]]'' film but features bad characterization, dodgy special effects and suits and even Reggie Bannister of ''Phantasm'' fame who is not only the creator of the Metal Man suit but comes off as an asshole and dickish mentor to the hero of the movie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131013163025/http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/bad-movie-beatdown-presents-metal-man-aka-iron-hero-6139427 See Film Brain and Obscurus Lupa tear this movie apart].
** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywaR-Lq_ayk The Amazing Bulk]'', notable for having mundane settings such as alleyways and house interiors represented as cheap greenscreen/CGI
** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-hOZLGFSQ Aliens vs Avatars]'', aka ''Aliens vs Aliens''
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* ''The [[Terminator]]s'' (Again, note the plural).
** Back in 1990, there was ''Terminator II''. Which was actually released before the official sequel. Humorously enough, ''Terminator II'' is actually a remake of ''[[Aliens]]''.
** Bruno Mattei, the director of the aforementioned Mockbuster, also directed ''Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws''. For an extensive look into Mattei's films, check out ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131006054818/http://thecinemasnob.com/categories/263/the-bruno-mattei-show.aspx The Bruno Mattei Show]'', in which [[The Cinema Snob|Brad Jones]] discusses the man's filmography with [[Dark Maze Studios|Ed Glaser]], [[The Spoony Experiment|Noah Antwiler]] and other friends. It's quite insightful into how a mockbuster comes to be. For that matter, Bruno's career consisted almost entirely of Nazisploitation and Mockbusters, though these were never mutually exclusive. It's almost too bad he's dead - his ripoff of ''[[Inglorious Basterds]]'' would be... something.
** Later in 2010, Eric Parkinson, who used to be president of Hemdale (which also made the first ''Terminator'' movie), tried to make a cheap CGI animated spin-off of the franchise called ''Terminator 3000'', but production on that movie is being halted due to a cease-and-detest letter he received from Pacificor, the recent owner of the ''Terminator'' franchise rights. However, Eric [[Word of God|has spoken]] that he kept the animation rights to the franchise under Hemdale when he sold the live-action sequel rights to Carolco in 1990, and that he took those rights with him when Hemdale closed down.
* ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' (the title is public domain now)
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* ''[[The Exterminator 2]]'' and ''The Executioner Part 2''—no ''Executioner Part 1''.
* Almost everything released by Video Asia, the masters of [[In Name Only|In Name Only Sequels]]. One of the worst offenders, they don't even make their own mockbusters: they just re-release old foreign movies with different titles.
** Late 80s ''Hells' Heroes'' was changed to ''Inglorious Bastards 2: Hell Heroes''. [[The Cinema Snob]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131009045827/http://thecinemasnob.com/2009/08/28/inglorious-bastards-2-hells-heroes.aspx reviewed it.]
* ''Mac and Me'', a 1988 movie that badly rips-off [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.]], and is basically [[Product Placement|an 80 minute-long commercial for McDonald's, Coke, and some other stuff.]]
* [[The Man Who Saves the World]] and many other Turkish rip-offs of then popular movies.
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