Something I've always found kind of fascinating is how so many of the old grindhouse flicks had different titles depending on where they were released in, what cut of the film was used, and who the distributor was at the time.
In particular, it's interesting when it comes to foreign releases of American movies where they'd change the title in Europe and then release their own unofficial sequels to it.
The original 1978 Dawn of the Dead and the first Evil Dead are probably the most famous examples, being released in Italy as Zombi and La Casa, and then getting their own spin-off series.
Zombi 2 ended up as an icon of the "Golden Age" zombie flicks of the 70's and 80's and that got a bunch of sequels both official and unofficial. Some of the later movies billed as part of the Zombi series didn't even have zombies!
The "La Casa" series fared slightly better before derailing, since La Casa 2 is just the Italian dub of Evil Dead II but then La Casa 3 is a recut of a cheapo movie called Ghosthouse dubbed into Italian and then there's like four more films after that that are entirely unrelated to either the Evil Dead series or Ghosthouse that were directed by Joe D'Amato and released outside of Italy with different titles while the last movie in the series is a recut of a Lance Henriksen movie called Horror Show.
This is probably going to sound autistic and retarded, but I'm curious if anyone's ever considered doing a series of low-budget B-movies that are billed as fake unofficial foreign sequels to an unrelated movie. It'd probably be a good source for parody edits or gag dubs
The easiest and cheapest way to do that would be to take a movie in the public domain such as Night of the Living Dead or The House on Haunted Hill, do a remixed edit of it (even if it's just something as lame as altering the music and adding some cheapo video effects or colorization in a few places) and sell it under a fake title on Amazon
Any money gained from selling these recuts can be added into the budget for a "sequel" is that series that's an actual movie that's entirely new.
You could probably expect the guys at The Asylum to be involved with something like that, given that they single-handedly revived the live-action mockbuster.
In particular, it's interesting when it comes to foreign releases of American movies where they'd change the title in Europe and then release their own unofficial sequels to it.
The original 1978 Dawn of the Dead and the first Evil Dead are probably the most famous examples, being released in Italy as Zombi and La Casa, and then getting their own spin-off series.
Zombi 2 ended up as an icon of the "Golden Age" zombie flicks of the 70's and 80's and that got a bunch of sequels both official and unofficial. Some of the later movies billed as part of the Zombi series didn't even have zombies!
The "La Casa" series fared slightly better before derailing, since La Casa 2 is just the Italian dub of Evil Dead II but then La Casa 3 is a recut of a cheapo movie called Ghosthouse dubbed into Italian and then there's like four more films after that that are entirely unrelated to either the Evil Dead series or Ghosthouse that were directed by Joe D'Amato and released outside of Italy with different titles while the last movie in the series is a recut of a Lance Henriksen movie called Horror Show.
This is probably going to sound autistic and retarded, but I'm curious if anyone's ever considered doing a series of low-budget B-movies that are billed as fake unofficial foreign sequels to an unrelated movie. It'd probably be a good source for parody edits or gag dubs
The easiest and cheapest way to do that would be to take a movie in the public domain such as Night of the Living Dead or The House on Haunted Hill, do a remixed edit of it (even if it's just something as lame as altering the music and adding some cheapo video effects or colorization in a few places) and sell it under a fake title on Amazon
Any money gained from selling these recuts can be added into the budget for a "sequel" is that series that's an actual movie that's entirely new.
You could probably expect the guys at The Asylum to be involved with something like that, given that they single-handedly revived the live-action mockbuster.
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