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Films that ripoff other films

Started by Nightowl, February 04, 2010, 07:22:59 PM

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Nightowl

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!

metalmonster

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

nilbog

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.
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Nightowl


SPazzo

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:

Leah

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

yeah no.

nilbog

Quote from: Bull on February 04, 2010, 11:10:22 PM
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
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vukxfiles

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

RCMerchant

.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!

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Trevor

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:
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hellbilly

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).



zombie no.one

Quote from: RCMerchant on February 05, 2010, 07:00:45 AM


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

and The Omen.

it's such a bad film  :thumbdown:

Flick James

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.
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Mr. DS

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

#14
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
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