{"id":8123,"date":"2010-04-14T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=8123"},"modified":"2014-04-03T17:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T21:32:38","slug":"the-asylum-imitation-is-their-sincerest-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=8123","title":{"rendered":"The Asylum: Imitation Is Their Sincerest Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 539px; height: 259px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9000\" title=\"Day The Earth Stopped\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Day-The-Earth-Stopped4-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Day The Earth Stopped\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Day-The-Earth-Stopped4-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Day-The-Earth-Stopped4-70x100.jpg 70w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Day-The-Earth-Stopped4-100x142.jpg 100w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Day-The-Earth-Stopped4.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9002\" title=\"Snakes On A Train\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Snakes-On-A-Train5-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Snakes On A Train\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Snakes-On-A-Train5-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Snakes-On-A-Train5.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9003\" title=\"Transmorphers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Transmorphers3-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Transmorphers\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Transmorphers3-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Transmorphers3-70x100.jpg 70w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Transmorphers3-100x142.jpg 100w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Transmorphers3.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Great minds think alike,\u00a0the saying goes. Well, replace\u00a0the word &#8220;great&#8221; with &#8220;Hollywood&#8221; and, not surprisingly,\u00a0it still applies. It also explains why every so often the studios come out with similarly-themed movies within a few months or so of each other: 1997 gave us the parallel lava stories <a title=\"Dante\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D11554&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dante&#8217;s Peak<\/a> and <a title=\"Volcano\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D13379&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Volcano<\/a>, while the following year featured dueling\u00a0insect cartoons <a title=\"Antz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D13708&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Antz<\/a> and <a title=\"A Bug\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D37947&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Bug&#8217;s Life<\/a>\u00a0along with twin asteroid actioners <a title=\"Armageddon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D13258&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Armageddon<\/a> and <a title=\"Deep Impact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D61729&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deep Impact<\/a>. Beyond these apparent acts of coincidental scripting, of course, are the copycat pictures that try to ride the coattails of a\u00a0hit film (From horrormeister William Castle&#8217;s 1961 pseudo-Psycho shocker Homicidal\u00a0and the 1977 Jaws rip-off Orca from Dino De Laurentiis to the various\u00a0failed attempts\u00a0at creating a\u00a0Harry Potter-like fantasy series in the past decade, for example). In the world of home video, one company has taken these various practices to new levels of&#8230;if not originality, let us say focused creativity&#8230;and in the process\u00a0raised the bar for\u00a0the industry in the field of\u00a0the &#8220;high-concept&#8221; (able to be summed up in one quick sentence) movie.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Founded in 1997 and focusing mainly on making\/distributing horror and sci-fi films for the direct-to-video (this was way back in the days of\u00a0VHS, kids) market, the California-based studio known as the Asylum has become famous&#8211;some might say infamous&#8211;for the roster of &#8220;mockbusters&#8221; it&#8217;s released in the last several years. Stacie\u00a0Ponder, author of the marvelous Final Girl <a href=\"http:\/\/finalgirl.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blog<\/a>, once referred to them as &#8220;the Designer Imposter Fragrances of the movie world.&#8221; In a 2007 New York Times article, Asylum co-founder David Michael Latt talked about how he and his partners discovered their formula for home cinema success by sheer chance two years earlier,\u00a0when their own modern-dress adaptation\u00a0of H.G. Wells&#8217;\u00a0 <a title=\"The War of the Worlds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D77386&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The War of the Worlds<\/a>, starring C. Thomas Howell, became a hit in video stores at the same time the big-budget Steven Spielberg version was playing in theaters.\u00a0Latt and company would even go Spielberg one better and come up with a sequel, <a title=\"War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D54188&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave<\/a>, in 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That got the ball rolling, and&#8211;in the spirit of such B-film pioneers as Roger Corman and Samuel Z. Arkoff&#8211;the Asylum gang have continued to create films with eye-catching artwork that will remind\u00a0would-be viewers of more mainstream Hollywood product, even if it probably\u00a0won&#8217;t fool anyone into thinking they&#8217;ve about to watch the better-known movie. If you&#8217;ve already seen Naomi Watts juggling to amuse King Kong enough times (and really, who hasn&#8217;t?),\u00a0why not try <a title=\"King of the Lost World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D78604&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">King of the Lost World<\/a>\u00a0with Bruce Boxleitner, which managed to work a giant simian into Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s story of\u00a0prehistoric beasts in the Amazon jungle? If you think Samuel L. Jackson has his hands full battling snakes on a plane, come back to earth and marvel as a Mayan curse forces a woman to unleash <a title=\"Snakes on a Train\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D96133&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Snakes on a Train<\/a>! And why go back in time to a mere 10,000 B.C. when you can travel all the way back to <a title=\"100 Million B.C\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D50125&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">100 Million B.C<\/a>.&#8211;and get Christopher Atkins, Greg Evigan,\u00a0Michael Gross and a tyrannosaurus rex to boot?<\/p>\n<p>Want more? Howell returns from fighting Martians to save the planet when aliens place giant robots in world captials and prepare to pass judgement on humanity in <a title=\"The Day the Earth Stopped\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D80239&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Day the Earth Stopped<\/a>. That&#8217;s &#8220;stopped,&#8221; mind you, not &#8220;stood still.&#8221; Meanwhile,\u00a0the last surviving human on a post-apocalyptic Earth\u00a0battles monstrous mutations in&#8230;no, not I Am Legend with Will Smith, but\u00a0<a title=\"I Am Omega\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D93829&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I Am Omega<\/a>\u00a0with Marc Dacascos, which works a salute to\u00a0Charlton Heston&#8217;s earlier The Omega Man in its title. The Transformers and\u00a0Terminator franchises got tossed into the company&#8217;s pop culture blender, and the results were the mechanized sci-fi spectacles <a title=\"Transmorpher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D55077&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Transmorphers<\/a> and <a title=\"Transmorphers: Fall of Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D25921&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Transmorphers: Fall of Man<\/a>, not to mention the similar but unconnected <a title=\"The Terminators\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D25564&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Terminators<\/a>. And what happens when the world&#8217;s most famous (and public domain) detective takes on a metal-armored foe and dinosaurs in the heart of Victorian London? You get <a title=\"Sherlock Holmes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D80967&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sherlock Holmes<\/a>,\u00a0Asylum style, with Ben Snyder in lieu of Robert Downey, Jr. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8979\" title=\"mega-shark2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mega-shark21-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"mega-shark2\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mega-shark21-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mega-shark21-70x100.jpg 70w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mega-shark21-100x142.jpg 100w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mega-shark21.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/>As intriguing as these &#8220;tie-in&#8221; titles may be, the good folk at Asylum have also managed to excel with some slightly more original tales, the apotheosis of which was 2009&#8217;s <a title=\"Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D90172&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0In my review of MSVGO last summer I gave the filmmakers kudos for&#8230;well, just making a film with the title Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus, as well as for the classic scenes where the shark jumps out of the water to take a bite out of the Golden Gate Bridge and munches on a passenger jet (in mid-air!). And what can you say about a movie whose\u00a0cast includes\u00a0&#8217;80s pop singer Deborah Gibson as a marine researcher and &#8217;90s TV icon Lorenzo Lamas as a gruff-talking government agent? Well, here, go look at my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/staff-notes\/mega-shark-versus-giant-octopus-does-it-live-up-to-its-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a>\u00a0and see what I said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8980\" title=\"Megapiranha\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Megapiranha-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Megapiranha\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Megapiranha-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Megapiranha-70x100.jpg 70w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Megapiranha-100x142.jpg 100w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Megapiranha.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/>Never one to rest on their laurels, the studio comes back this month with&#8211;wait for it&#8211;<a title=\"Megapiranha\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D05622&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Megapiranha<\/a>!\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s right, this time the piscatorial terror comes from South America, as massive mutated\u00a0pirnaha bite, chew and chomp their way from South America up to the Florida Keys. Gibson&#8217;s scientist\u00a0must be on assignment this time out, because the studio went and found the next most logical person to fill her shoes: fellow mall chanteuse Tiffany. As for the role of the government official, that now goes to another TV Land favorite, eldest Brady Bunch son Barry Williams. Sadly, though, I have\u00a0to report that the scale of the Megapiranha to battleship on this box cover is (surprise!) a tad inaccurate. Truth be told, it takes several of the feisty fish to bring down a Navy ship&#8230;and a submarine&#8230;and helicopters, but with an Asylum movie, scale or even believability are not factors that one should\u00a0allow to get in the way of one&#8217;s cheesy movie enjoyment. And this time, the filmmakers managed to get their project out well in advance of its theatrical counterpart, this summer&#8217;s Piranha 3D.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and Mary Pickford teamed up to form United Artists in\u00a01919, a Hollywood executive was quoted as saying, &#8220;The inmates are taking over the asylum&#8221;. The people behind this Asylum may not be\u00a0inmates,\u00a0but they are crazy like a fox when it comes to carving out their own unique, low-budget, and strangely entertaining niche in the\u00a0motion picture landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Great minds think alike,\u00a0the saying goes. Well, replace\u00a0the word &#8220;great&#8221; with &#8220;Hollywood&#8221; and, not surprisingly,\u00a0it still applies. 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