Ever wonder about those cheesy syfy movies? Well, know more!

[JayJaySut]

http://www.psmag.com/culture/escapes-fr ... lum-60701/

Sharknado. “It’s exactly what you think it is—a tornado full of sharks,” Ward explains. “That movie cannot be bad.”

[JayJaySut]

Dangit I wrote KNOW more!

[Nemoide]

Ugh, The Asylum. These guys make movies with amusing sounding names but the final product is almost always a joyless unwatchable pile of cinematic vomit. I like cheesy movies and low-budget weirdness, but The Asylum is just painful for me.

Maybe they've improved in recent years, but I don't want to waste my time trying to find out.

[indecks]

I firmly believe that the Asylum makes movies for a single purpose/situation. And that situation is "the mom whos buying the movie for her kid/husband and doesn't take the extra minute to read the box."

Example: TransMORPHers. Clearly a knockoff of Transformers. (same with Transmorphers 2 Fall of Man)

Mom goes into video store and little Billy said he wanted the Transformers movie on DVD. She goes in and sees Transmorphers, for $5. "Oh, thats the one that Billy wants."

Boom. Mission accomplished.

Though I think the extreme lack of creativity in knock-off-names on their part is somewhat creative/funny.

"The Day the Earth Stopped"
"Alien versus Hunter"

lol, gotta hand it to them. They know they're shitpeddlers, and they don't care.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I am sure retrodude will disagree, but I recall reading that the "Transmorpher" movies were actually better than their big budget counterparts. The same goes for "The Day the Earth Stopped" and the big-budget remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still". (The Asylum's films apparently fare less well in a fair fight; "Paranormal Entity" is supposedly inferior to "Paranormal Activity" by a wide margin.)

That said, I read that a lot of people really enjoyed "Sharknado", and I may try to see it at some point when I have had entirely too much to drink.

EDIT: Here is a fun article:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/dvde ... ntity.html

DOUBLE EDIT:

Also, this may be the best correction of all time...

"Correction, May 10, 2010: This article originally stated that the Asylum cleared a $5 million profit in 2009. The article also originally contained a joke that was similar to one in a Wired article about Asylum that was published in December 2009. The Slate article described $5 million as "roughly equal to Liam Neeson's hair-extension budget for Clash of the Titans but pretty impressive given the company's fringe position in the industry." The Wired article stated that $5 million "would barely cover Michael Bay's volumizer per diem but enough to make Asylum a reliably healthy business." ( Return to the corrected sentence.)"

[AppleQueso]

My favorite mockbuster from The Asylum is probably TERMINATORS

(note: I've never watched any of them)

[indecks]

Asylum movies are GREAT bad movie night fodder. I haven't seen Almighty Thor (or maybe its just Mighty Thor) but I remember the trailer featuring Thor running with an Uzi.

I thought to myself - I'm watching that movie at some point.

[jfrost]

I'm always up for enhancing knowledge and grabbing new thing.