Citizen Kano

This shit should be illegal. The Asylum is a company that has a business model that expects their customers to mistakenly buy their products. The Asylum is a film production and distribution company that produces "mockblusters". They learn of a movie with a significant amount of buzz and they produce a thinly veiled, low budgeted, and very similar tilted replica of the film. They write, film, distribute, and release their film in under two months, often releasing it a few days prior to the movie they are counterfeiting. These movies aren't parodies poking fun at their inspiration, they are complete rip-offs that are mostly seen because people do a search on Netflix and put the wrong movie in their queue. Sounds crazy right? It's not that crazy as it's been working for them for the better part of the decade. They typically turn a profit within the first three months of their film's release. I bet you're thinking "These movies can't be too similar to the films they are poorly replicating, right? Wrong.

Transmorphers (2007)
Note that the first sentence in their plot summary below isn't even a sentence.

Summary:
About a race of alien robots that have conquered Earth and forced humanity underground. After 400 years, a small group of humans develop a plan to defeat the mechanical invaders in the ultimate battle between man and machine

Don't run out and add this bad boy to your Netflix queue until you see the rest of their dumbfounding catalog.






I'm not even going to waste my time copying the plot summary.














Just throw a "s" on the end and they will never know.

Plot Summary:
A small band of resistance fighters battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet.










Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008 video)


No, I'm not making these up.
















Plot Summary:
An anthropologist must unlock the code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci in order to find the greatest treasure ever, one that could change Christianity forever.




This one is my favorite:

Three of the first four Netflix reviews of it are people complaining that they were sent the wrong movie.






















If you have been clamoring for a new project from William Katt (The Greatest American Hero) since about 83', you can check him out in this.













Asylum claims they produce these movies as tie-ins that capitalize on a specific genre that they believe will interest people. They say the end game is to make some profitable movies such as these so they are able to finance some of their important, original material, such as:







Who doesn't want to see prolific thespians Debbie Gibson and Lorenzo Llamas hone their craft in a movie about a Mega Shark fighting a giant octopus?













There are a bunch more of these already out there, and even more in production including "Titanic 2". I'm not sure how you make a sequel to Titanic, but they found a way. Double check the next time you add a movie to your queue or pick one off of a shelf, you may be getting duped into supporting this operation. If Asylum continues to profit from these it won't be long until they start making shitty sequels to their shitty movies.


























Too late.