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* ''Battle of Los Angeles'' - obviously referencing ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]''.
** This one was even on [[Syfy]], thus fully cementing it within the same realm as the other examples of this trope.
* [[The Asylum]] is a company that only makes mockbusters and bad "Christian" movies, and are quite cynical about it. in fact, there's a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130822162213/http://www.theasylum.cc/blog/2009/06/were-moving/ news article] in their website that states (and these are the ''actual words they use'') "We've decided to use some of the billions of dollars we've made ripping people off..." The majority of the examples on this page are Asylum productions.
** Even better, from a blog entry advertising a sale on their films: "You'd have to illegally download to get a better deal than that... but then you'd just be stooping to our level..."
** Their DVD covers have quotes from uncredited sources, which is illegal.
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** ''[[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.
* And now - ''[[Titanic]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20150707034102/http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=174 2]! That's not a sequel to ''Titanic'', though, but a ''new'' film about a ''totally different'' ship called the ''[[Tempting Fate|Titanic 2]]''!
* [[High School Musical|High School Musical: Sunday School]], which is also a blatant rip-off of Sunday School Musical.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' ([[wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes (Asylum film)|Asylum, again]]), which can use the name since he's a [[Public Domain Character]]. [[Hey, It's That Guy!|With]] Gareth David-Lloyd who played Ianto in ''[[Torchwood]]'' as Dr. Watson. [[Cool vs. Awesome|Holmes investigates a case with tentacle monsters, androids, dinosaurs, and robot dragons setting fire to Parliament.]] Attempts [[Rule of Cool]] to the twenty-third power.
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