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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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* Italians also made the [[Star Wars]] ripoff ''[[Starcrash]]''. Which somehow had [[John Barry]]'s music, and starred Christopher Plummer - and [[David Hasselhoff]]!
** ''Starcrash'' may be more (in)famous, but ''The Humanoid'' beats it for sheer plagiarism. Whenever possible, props and costumes (and even entire ''scenes'') are copied wholesale from ''A New Hope'', to the point that ''Starcrash'' seems completely original in comparison.
* A number of [[Bruno Mattei's films]]. The best known are:
** ''Terminator II'', as stated above (It's actually more of an ''Aliens'' ripoff.)
** ''[[Predator|
** ''[[Jaws]] 5 ( Fourteen More to Go)'', ripping it off almost word for word
** ''Hell Of The Living Dead'', not content with trying to shoe horn this movie into Romero lore, Bruno Mattei lifted most of the soundtrack from ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' to score this.
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