The episode of The Test of Time covering Motel Hell was Written by Andrew Hatfield, Narrated by Niki Minter, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by John Fallon and Tyler Nichols, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
Copycat movies have been a thing forever. You can look at the broader scope and consider that most slasher movies became copycat in one way or another. A supernatural killer, excessive gore and nudity, and even the high body counts. That style of horror movies could become a dime a dozen. Twin films are similar, but they are made at roughly the same time and actually trying to release first to beat the other to market so as to not be seen as an attempted clone of the other studios idea. Boiling it down even further, some copycats go beyond just the themes and even try to take direct elements from the previous movie that made money.
Copycat movies have been a thing forever. You can look at the broader scope and consider that most slasher movies became copycat in one way or another. A supernatural killer, excessive gore and nudity, and even the high body counts. That style of horror movies could become a dime a dozen. Twin films are similar, but they are made at roughly the same time and actually trying to release first to beat the other to market so as to not be seen as an attempted clone of the other studios idea. Boiling it down even further, some copycats go beyond just the themes and even try to take direct elements from the previous movie that made money.
- 9/28/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
By Fred Blosser
I saw many, many Italian-made sword-and-toga movies as a kid in the early 1960s at the Kayton, my neighborhood movie house, where they usually played on mismatched double-bills with B-Westerns, British “Carry On” comedies, low-budget noir dramas, and fourth-run Elvis movies. Many of these Italian epics were simplistic and formulaic, as if the producers figured that people had come to see spectacle, sex, and sword-fights, and never mind anything else. Regardless, more ambitious productions occasionally surfaced with slightly more dramatic substance and marginally higher production values. One such entry was “The Colossus of Rhodes” (1961), Sergio Leone’s first acknowledged directorial credit preceding his breakthrough success with “A Fistful of Dollars” in 1964. The Warner Archive Collection has released the 1961 movie on Blu-ray with audio commentary by Sir Christopher Frayling, Leone’s biographer and longtime critical champion.
The script co-written by Leone has plenty of plot -- almost too much,...
I saw many, many Italian-made sword-and-toga movies as a kid in the early 1960s at the Kayton, my neighborhood movie house, where they usually played on mismatched double-bills with B-Westerns, British “Carry On” comedies, low-budget noir dramas, and fourth-run Elvis movies. Many of these Italian epics were simplistic and formulaic, as if the producers figured that people had come to see spectacle, sex, and sword-fights, and never mind anything else. Regardless, more ambitious productions occasionally surfaced with slightly more dramatic substance and marginally higher production values. One such entry was “The Colossus of Rhodes” (1961), Sergio Leone’s first acknowledged directorial credit preceding his breakthrough success with “A Fistful of Dollars” in 1964. The Warner Archive Collection has released the 1961 movie on Blu-ray with audio commentary by Sir Christopher Frayling, Leone’s biographer and longtime critical champion.
The script co-written by Leone has plenty of plot -- almost too much,...
- 5/7/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Review by Sam Moffitt
Bad movies have been a cult all their own at least since the publication of the Medved Brother’s book The 50 Worst Movies of All Time. Although my bet is that it started with the publication of Joe Dante’s article the 50 Worst Horror Movies of All Time (Or was it 25?) in Famous Monsters of Filmland in the 1960′s I had that issue and had seen some of those movies. I assumed Joe Dante was a grown man and found out years later he was about the same age as me when he submitted that article to Forry Ackerman. I loved reading Famous Monsters and Monster World but it never occurred to me to write an article and submit it as Joe Dante did (and Stephen King as Forry later told in interviews, although he made it a point not to publish fiction).
After the Medved...
Bad movies have been a cult all their own at least since the publication of the Medved Brother’s book The 50 Worst Movies of All Time. Although my bet is that it started with the publication of Joe Dante’s article the 50 Worst Horror Movies of All Time (Or was it 25?) in Famous Monsters of Filmland in the 1960′s I had that issue and had seen some of those movies. I assumed Joe Dante was a grown man and found out years later he was about the same age as me when he submitted that article to Forry Ackerman. I loved reading Famous Monsters and Monster World but it never occurred to me to write an article and submit it as Joe Dante did (and Stephen King as Forry later told in interviews, although he made it a point not to publish fiction).
After the Medved...
- 12/31/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Lionsgate
“The Lincoln Lawyer” is the new historical courtroom drama about the famous 1852 trial in which Abraham Lincoln was defended by a former slave-turned-litigator in a case involving… no, not really.
Seems the “Lincoln” in “The Lincoln Lawyer” refers to a car, and in said car is everyone’s favorite naked bongo player, Matthew McConaughey. The Texan is going back to his roots practicing law like he did early in his career with “A Time to Kill” and “Amistad,” although this time his character appears to be a little less idealistic.
McConaughey plays Mickey Haller, a slick La attorney who operates out of a Lincoln Town Car, defending pretty trashy clientele including drug dealers and gangsters. His license plate even says “Ntguilty”… classy. Haller accepts an unusually high-profile client, a Beverley Hills playboy (Ryan Phillipe) who *Gasp* might not be as innocent as he seems.
Based on the popular beach read by Michael Connelly,...
“The Lincoln Lawyer” is the new historical courtroom drama about the famous 1852 trial in which Abraham Lincoln was defended by a former slave-turned-litigator in a case involving… no, not really.
Seems the “Lincoln” in “The Lincoln Lawyer” refers to a car, and in said car is everyone’s favorite naked bongo player, Matthew McConaughey. The Texan is going back to his roots practicing law like he did early in his career with “A Time to Kill” and “Amistad,” although this time his character appears to be a little less idealistic.
McConaughey plays Mickey Haller, a slick La attorney who operates out of a Lincoln Town Car, defending pretty trashy clientele including drug dealers and gangsters. His license plate even says “Ntguilty”… classy. Haller accepts an unusually high-profile client, a Beverley Hills playboy (Ryan Phillipe) who *Gasp* might not be as innocent as he seems.
Based on the popular beach read by Michael Connelly,...
- 11/20/2010
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
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