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Name some movies that ripoff other movies.

The Kickboxer (1989)
Kickboxer totally rips from Bloodsport & even has the lead actor.

The Last Broadcast (1998)
Blairwitch Project stole almost step by step of The Last Broadcast  :hatred: What really sucks Blairwith made a whole lotta green, but Last Broadcast...Z-E-R-O!

EXORCISMO
THE ANTICHRIST
THE EERIE MIDNIGHT HORROR SHOW
All Ripoffs Of The Exorcist


THE WOODS
A Huge Ripoff Of SUSPIRIA


SNAKES ON A PLANE
A Ripoff Of TURANTULA

TINKERBELL
A Ripoff Of FERN GULLY

THE BURNING
A Ripoff Of FRIDAY THE 13TH

CYBORG
A Ripoff Of THE TERMINATOR

........The List Continues

How about Dementia 13? Ripoff of Psycho - was made to specifically cash in on it, and it has a very familiar plot point with its seemingly main character.

MADMAN
A ripoff of The Burning

Mac and Me is a rip off of E.T.
Nukie is a rip off of Mac and Me.
Nuke 2 is a rip off of Nukie.
 :teddyr:  :twirl:

Halloween- a rip off of Black Christmas
Little Shop of Horrors'86- Rips of the 61 version
The Pumaman- rips of Superman (hmmmmm)

Therefore that makes Friday the 13th a ripoff of Halloween.

btw - no biggie but little shop of horrors is '60 not '61

The X-Files season one episode "Ice" rips-off John Carpenter's The Thing
The last episode of the first season of Psi Factor rip-off the above mentioned episode more than the movie

.More EXORCIST ripoffs-
ABBY
BEYOND THE DOOR
HELP ME-I'M POSSESSED
 
.KING KONG rip offs-
KONGA
The MIGHTY GORGA
A*P*E*

.CLAWS rips of GRIZZLY

.I DONT WANT TO BE BORN rips of IT'S ALIVE

.The MONSTER FROM PIEDRAS BLANCAS rips off CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
.The asian TIME OF THE APES is a very bad rip off of PLANET OF THE APES---

Insanley BAD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOWp4pWCjow

Maybe this doesn't count as a rip-off as both were made by the same guy but Jamie Uys' The Gods Must Be Crazy is a rip-off / remake of his first film Daar Doer In Die Bosveld [Far Away In The Bushveld, 1951]  :twirl:

Night Visitor (1989) and Never Cry Werewolf (2008) both rip off Fright Night (1985), as in same plot and set up, same characters (with different names of course) and even same scenes.

Population 436 (2006) (good movie btw) rips off The Wicker Man (1973).

Paranormal Activity (2007) rips off The Blair Witch Project (1999).

The Orphanage (2007) rips off The Others (2001).

and The Omen.

it's such a bad film  :thumbdown:

The train-station scene from The Untouchables is supposedly a rip-off of the 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin. I've never seen the film, but a friend of mine who was a film student told me that if you watch the scene from Battleship Potemkin it is pretty obvious. I personally don't care too much, I think the scene in The Untouchables was well done and I've always liked the film overall. However, this would be one of those things where, if De Palma did rip it off, how many filmgoers would know of a silent film from 1925 anyway? Hollywood has done this many times: utilize the ignorance of the typical American moviegoer by exploiting the work of brilliant but obscure filmmakers from the past.

Anaconda (and any other film featuring a real life water monster) is a rip off of JAWS

More PSYCHO knock-offs:

HOMICIDAL
THE PSYCHOPATH

TERMINATOR is borrowed a bit from Demon With A Glass Hand and Soldier, The Outer Limits episodes written by Harlan Ellison

DARK CITY also seems to have borrowed from The Outer Limits episode A Feasibility Study

Thats a good one.

...More on The F13 Series:

Friday The 13th Part 2 rips from The Town That Deaded Sundown

(http://Friday The 13th Part 2)
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The Town That Dread Sundown
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Friday The 13th Part 3 rips from Bay Of Blood

The Island is a rip off of Parts: The Clonus Horror

Casablanca rip-offs: Caboblanco and Barb Wire

Your friend is 100% correct ~ I once screened Potemkin to students who hadn't seen it before and one guy in the Q&A afterwards asked me why this Russian film ripped Brian DePalma's The Untouchables off.  :teddyr:

Wow. Really? Did the student not know that silent films pre-dated films with sound? Or do you think he believed someone made a silent film after The Untouchables? I hope he wasn't a film student.

Funny story, Trev.

But what's the difference between tribute and a ripoff?  I'm sure DePalma defends scenes "quoting" Eisenstein and Hitchcock as a tribute, and I don't think he ever pretended they were his ideas originally.  Also, he didn't really gain any commercial advantage from these "tributes", and I think that attempt to ride on the popularity of someone elses ideas is the key feature of a "ripoff."

I'm a bit on the fence on this one, Rev. There is a part of me that suspect that De Palma was deeply tributary, but also used it to his advantage. My main consideration is the obsurity of Battleship Potemkin. Sure, your average film student would get it, but the average theatre-goer? I doubt it. Additionally, De Palma's train station sequence was very well done, IMHO, and it often a go-to point when someone is praising The Untouchables. Now, is it as bad as City of Angels, where Hollywood was blatantly ripping off Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, counting on the virtual certainty that little to none of it's key demographic would have seen it? Well, no, but I have a hard time believing that De Palma wasn't at least thinking about it.

Anyway, I've alwasy enjoyed The Untouchables. Not a terrific film, but a decent balance of mainstream dialogue "money lines" and stylish filmmaking.

I'm currently watching Warriors of the Wasteland (as in, I haven't worked up the stamina to make it through to the end yet).  It's definitely a Road Warrior ripoff.

I always thought the X-wings vs. Death Star battle at the end of Star Wars was a direct ripoff of Midway. 

Let's see:

DNA rips off Predator.
R.O.T.O.R. rips off Robocop.
Komodo vs. Cobra rips off Curse of the Komodo (actually uses a page of its script).

Now I'm starting to think of Project Viper, which uses footage from Species, and Sorority House Massacre 2, which uses flashback scenes taken from the Slumber Party Massacre. 

Looking at some of Jim Wynorski's recent movies:   
House on Hooter Hill
The Breastford Wives
The Da Vinci Coed

Just guessing, but they sound like they might be inspired by other movies  :teddyr:

Just about all Asylum films rips off something popular.  Snakes on a Train for example.

Ice Spiders rips off Eight Legged Freaks.

Tremors might be ripping of Dune or Blood Beach.

Grizzly rips off Jaws.

Psycho 2-4 rips off Hitchcock!
The Hearse rips off The Car
2 Fast 2 Furious rips off The Fast and the Furious
The Wraith Rips off Nail gun Massacre

Piranhas rips-off Jaws

Dressed to Kill. Complete ripoff of/homage to Psycho.

DePalma has something of an obcession with that film. You see a lot of little shout-outs to it in his stuff.

I watched "Project Shadowchaser 3000" the other night, which rips off of both "Aliens" and "The Thing."  Instead of a cat there is a little dog, and the whole bit with a shapechanging creature (well, android) plays off of "The Thing."  The scene with the dead frozen guy at the radio in "The Thing"  is there.  Ditto with a reactor that is going to blow, and a last desperate fight at the escape pod (more like the original "Alien" in that regard).

There are also some nods to "The Terminator," and even to "Leviathan," but the influence is not nearly as strong as the other two films.

A film that shamelessly rips off of "The Thing" is "Unknown Origin."  It even copies some scenes and dialog exactly.  A review, which includes a sound clip of some copied dialog:

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/unkorigin/

Xtro 2 rips off Alien

The Giant Behemoth and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms rip off Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Gappa: The Triphibious Monster rips off Gorgo (Gorgo sort of rips off Mothra)

Snowbeast rips off Jaws (same plot, but with a yeti in place of the shark and a snowy mountain resort in place of the ocean)

Parts of Autopsy rip off Suspiria

Bloody New Year rips off The Shining and The Evil Dead

Night of the Zombies rips off Dawn of the Dead

Reservoir Dogs rips off Q, The Winged Serpent (just remove the monster)

Manhattan Baby rips off The Exorcist

Avatar rips off of Dances with Wolves and Princess Mononoke (and probably a few other movies)

Dolly Dearest rips off of Child's Play

Tiki rips off of a segment from Trilogy of Terror

Humongous rips off of Anthropophagus

Beast From 20,000 Fathoms predates Gojira.

Good to know.  I always thought Gojira came first. 

Not a film but Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen definitely owes something to The Outer Limits episode entitled "The Architects of Fear".

not sure if mentioned, but:
Teen-aged Cavemen remake rips off teen-aged Cavemen (go figure :teddyr: )
A*P*E rips off King Kong

Erm...
How ?  :question:


I love both films but other than ghosts, they're totally different stories.

Anyway, I want to say Daybreakers has lots of ideas from Richard Matheson's I Am Legend. However, as none of the I Am Legend films do the book justice, I'm more than happy with Daybreakers taking the ideas and actually doing something intresting with them.

Solo rips off Robocop and Terminator.

I Was Watching The Movie PIECES The Other Day And Realized That The Movie MAY Kind Of Rips It Off A Little Bit