Mockbusters. Keep your eyes open.

Yeah I feel really bad for the elderly who have no idea half the time and ignore small details unintentionally because their mind is basically dying.

Cant protect dummies from doing dumb things.

its the nature of the beast. besides which grannie was being lazy. Grannies are supposed to knit slippers that all your toes poke thru and mittens that are beyond useless in a snowball fight.

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Lmao, what decade were you born in? This century has slim to no grandmas like that. at least mine doesnt. haha

The latest Mockbuster I've seen listed is Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (straight to video), not to be confused with the upcoming film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the book of which I've read and is meant to be a comic/action/historical mashup, as opposed to the former film, which is an obvious attempt to cash in on the theatrical film. Expect more.

EDIT: Okay, just did a check and sure enough, Asylum is responsible for AL vs.Z, which is shocking I tells ya!

EDIT #2: Didn't want to double-post, so here's another edit. I'm sure you've heard about the recent History Channel mini-series blockbuster, Hatfields and McCoys, which was one of the biggest cable ratings smashes in history (no pun intended). Now, due out on video this Tuesday (June 5th) comes Bad Blood: The Hatfields and McCoys, directed by none other than schlockmeister Fred Olen Ray. And the hits keep coming!

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Flitting through the channels and there's one of Asylum's movies on called Martian Land.
Ripping off The Martian I guess, though this one has little in common with the Scott/Damon movie.

This movie though, is astoundingly bad.
Not just the acting... I'm on about the design.
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They've copied the Iron Man HUD, with the actor's face close-up, with CGI readouts in front of the face.

The sets remind me of Space Mutiny... basically using a factory as a Mars base.
From what I can see, the factory was actually in the middle of a working day, and all the machinery and stuff was going while they were filming, as most of the shots are short and cropped.
Probably to cut out any footage of the people who were working in the factory that day.

And... get this...
- Welding masks with the screen removed and replaced with clingfilm. Instant space helmets Addition on this one... the welding masks, haven't just been decorated to look like space helmets... they've been wrapped with electrical tape as striping instead of being painted.

- Wetsuits for space suits... no joke, you can occasionally see the wetsuit company logo on the chest. I think it's either O'Neill or Blueseventy, hard to tell though as the production team have obviously tried to sandpaper the logo off the suit

- Motocross chest-plate armour over the top of the wetsuits.

- Golfing gloves and wetsuit gloves.

- Spaceship seats are racing seats from a Ford Escort.

- Spaceship cockpit, is plastic pallets on their sides for walls.

- And the oxygen tanks the astronauts use... are those small metal drinks bottles... with black/yellow Hazard tape wrapped around them... and they're kinda "stuck" to the back of the Motocross armour using sticky-backed cellotape.

You have to see this movie to believe it

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I think marketing these mockbusters as closely as possible to the big budget films is wrong as like others have said, people can be confused and make mistakes.
I know Asylum make a lot of these types of movies. I have seen their version of I am Legend which was called I am Omega, mainly because it had Mark Dacascos in it. But me and my wife did really enjoy their TV series Z-Nation, a zombie apocalypse comedy drama.

I tried that Z Nation.

Episode 1 was ok. Episode 2 was garbage. Episode 3 was worse, so I quit.

Same channel on TV is now showing Independents' Day.


Seems they're using the same plastic pallets for space ship scenery.
And the external shots of the Mothership, is seemingly a basketball with cup coasters glued to it and spray painted black.

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