The Mockbuster: Difference between revisions

See also [[Parallel Porn Titles|Alternative Adult Film Names]] (when this is applied to porn), [[Shoddy Knockoff Product]] (when this is applied to commercial products), [[Serial Numbers Filed Off|In Everything But Name]], and [[In Name Only|In Name Only Sequels]] (when old foreign movies have their titles for the re-release changed in order for them to cash-in from current blockbusters).

UK [[Made for TV Movie|Created For Television Film]] channel Movies 24 ran a [[Mockbuster]] season, deliberately confusing the derivatives with the originals and calling out the trope by name. It includes [[Terminator|The Terminators]], [[Alien vs. Predator|Aliens Versus Hunters]], [[Transformers (film)|Transmorphers Fall Of Man]] and [[Snakes on a Plane|Snakes On A Train]].

* ''[[Alien vs. Predator|AVH: Alien Vs. Hunter]]'', which despite it's source pulls out a surprising twist ending {{spoiler|the hunter aliens are humans...from another planet}}

* ''[[I Am Legend|I Am Omega]]'', which even also bills itself as an adaptation of the book ''[[I Am Legend]]''. Their choice of "Omega" is interesting because "The Omega Man" was the title of a previous film adaptation of "[[I Am Legend]]."

* ''[[Snakes on a Plane|Snakes On A Train]]''

** Incidentally, that one ''did'' provoke a lawsuit.

** Bruno Mattei, the director of the aforementioned Mockbuster, also directed ''Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws''. For an extensive look into Mattei's films, check out ''[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'' actually got two mockbusters to go with the Spielberg film. One of which apparently actually follows the book and sets the invasion in [[Victorian Britain]].

* ''[[Twister|Tornado!]]''

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