Ben Hur The movie In the Name of Ben-Hur has been described by some as a “mockbuster”. It is a cheap production released on DVD and aimed at the market created by a similar and more popular film that was on theaters at the time. Such movies are made by The Asylum, the production company […]
Titanic II Why should I sit back and enjoy the love story between Leo and Kate when there is somebody like Shane van Dyke who can transform himself from a nerd to the captain of a ram wham boom ship? Titanic 2 was the first film for me ever based on the popular Titanic’s sinking.
Megafault The Asylum studios is the only place to see where a devastating destruction of earth’s crust can occur in numerous graphics-intensive hi budget settings but all at quite economical budgets. In Megafault, Brittany Murphy plays Amy Lane, a seismologist with unparalleled expertise, who single-handedly prevents a disaster that could destroy the planet. Due to
Age Of Ice The trailer certainly does not tell the whole story. It was the age of the catastrophe movie genre infecting mass consciousness in the seventies, without a doubt. However, ever since the mid-aughts and well into the next decade and the 2020s, it has been meandering to become a subculture mostly associated with
Mega Piranha Everything Mega Piranha does is big butt and lots of blood so it’s not a surprise that the movie opens up with cheesy CGI piranhas out for blood and a half naked woman on the Orinoco River after the credits of the movie. But the piranha of these opening scenes are not Mega
Storm at 500 MPH If one experiment aiming to find an alternative form of natural fuel does not go according to plan, it is accompanied by the appearance of many giant hurricanes over North America. A scientist who was in charge of designing this power station but has distanced himself from this project has to
100° Below Zero 100 Degrees Below Zero is yet another Asylum Studios film (more or less the New World Pictures of today, but not as radical). This is a studio that takes you to the movies for a blockbuster, remakes it, uses a fraction of the resources, and scatters it everywhere for the trash. 100
I Am Omega I Am Omega (2007) is an action / drama movie focusing on the zombie apocalypse genre produced by The Asylum and released directly to DVD. This can also be seen as an unoffical retelling of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend (1954). Griff Furst, director of Lake Placid 3 (2010) and Wolvesbayne
Geo-Disaster Right from the opening scenes, Geo Disaster starts with the science part, where black material appears to be going straight through Earth- in through one side and out the other. As if to say, the world has decided to go haywire and is now destabilizing itself by filling the gap with lava and various
The Land That Time Forgot The Land that Time Forgot seems to be one of those films that entirely missed the target audience. I personally remember watching it with my dad who took me out to watch it in our local single screen as a 9 year old boy. Ever since then Doug McClure became
