Up coming SciFi originals

trekgeezer · August 06, 2007, 02:45:13 PM

Aug. 11 Stir of Echoes: Homecoming, Rob Lowe, evidently slumming it, stars as an Iraq war veteran haunted by visions of the dead.

Aug. 18 Solar Attack Lou Gossett saves the world from solar flares run amok. Actually looks like Mark Dacascos is the real star with Lou playing the President.

Aug. 25 MegaSnake Oh no, another giant snake movie. Michael Shanks (aka Dr. Daniel Jackson from the recently canceled SG-1) must have a house payment due.

Sept. 15 Highlander: The Source Hey, if there's only one why do they keep coming back! Duncan McLeod, Methos, and some girl go searching for the source of their immortality and p**s off something called the Guardian.

This was supposed to be a theatrical release, but evidently they couldn't edit it into something a distributor would touch. Can't be good news when SciFi is premiering your movie.

CheezeFlixz · August 06, 2007, 03:20:16 PM

QuoteAug. 25 MegaSnake Oh no, another giant snake movie. Michael Shanks (aka Dr. Daniel Jackson from the recently canceled SG-1) must have a house payment due.

Michael Shanks must have a big house, he was in a another Sci-Fi original Swarmed (2005) it was your typical Sci Fi winner too. It was on about a 2 or 3 weeks ago ... it you missed it, you really didn't miss anything.

Flangepart · August 06, 2007, 05:18:36 PM

I can't be the only one finds the words "Sci-F- Channel" and "Original" oxymoronic,can i?

SCI-FI CHANNEL : Where bad films get a new lease on liveing death.

Shadow · August 06, 2007, 05:25:25 PM

How about: "When hell is full, bad movies go to the Scifi channel?"

soylentgreen · August 06, 2007, 06:36:36 PM

Quote from: trekgeezer on August 06, 2007, 02:45:13 PM
Aug. 25 MegaSnake Oh no, another giant snake movie. Michael Shanks (aka Dr. Daniel Jackson from the recently canceled SG-1) must have a house payment due.

I haven't been able to get a straight answer anywhere, but I read around in some forum that MEGASNAKE is the film that was to star FeedBack...last years Who Wants To Be A Superhero winner.

It strikes me a little unlikely, but I can't get much info on this latest lizard offering from Sci-Fi.

akiratubo · August 06, 2007, 07:35:38 PM

Quote from: soylentgreenMEGASNAKE ... latest lizard offering

Snakes aren't lizards.

HappyGilmore · August 06, 2007, 10:14:41 PM

No offense to Rob Lowe, but do we really need a sequel to Stir of Echoes?

I mean, the first was was decent enough, but I saw the commercial for this and was just like, "Why? Why are they doing this?"

Torgo · August 06, 2007, 10:22:22 PM

The majority of Sci Fi channel original movies are just bad and not enjoyable at all in the whole go bad it's good type thing.

CheezeFlixz · August 06, 2007, 11:10:41 PM

I think I'd rather see what a few regular ol' people with a camera and a vision could come up with than some of the crap Sci Fi produces, I agree that their stuff doesn't even fall in to the so bad it's good column.

HappyGilmore · August 06, 2007, 11:20:43 PM

I've seen some of the Sci-Fi movies recently, but I don't think they're "Sci-Fi Channel" movies. Some were Boo, SabreTooth, Mortuary, and Beast of Bray Road.

Granted, all were pretty terrible. But I liked watching them. Had my own MST3K type of commentary going on them.

Joe the Destroyer · August 06, 2007, 11:25:28 PM

I've noticed the Sci-Fi channel has this attitude of "if all else fails, make a sequel to a random movie."

I mean, seriously... Pumpkinhead 3 and 4? Stir of Echoes 2?

What next? Return of Rawhead Rex? Dead and Buried 2? No, wait, lemme guess. Either Blood Freak's Revenge or More Pieces, and then a sequel to that called Even More Pieces.

AnubisVonMojo · August 07, 2007, 02:03:12 AM

Quote from: Joe the Destroyer on August 06, 2007, 11:25:28 PM
I've noticed the Sci-Fi channel has this attitude of "if all else fails, make a sequel to a random movie."

I mean, seriously... Pumpkinhead 3 and 4? Stir of Echoes 2?

What next? Return of Rawhead Rex? Dead and Buried 2? No, wait, lemme guess. Either Blood Freak's Revenge or More Pieces, and then a sequel to that called Even More Pieces.

Damn it Joe, if anybody from the Sci-Fi offices are trolling this forum, you may have just condemned us all!

heh heh

HappyGilmore · August 07, 2007, 12:02:49 PM

I'm waiting for them to pop out The Dentist 3.

Cause we all need that.

Or Night of the Demons 4.

Raffine · August 07, 2007, 01:04:30 PM

Anybody else catch the recent SANDS OF OBLIVION?

Yeesh!

RapscallionJones · August 07, 2007, 02:21:24 PM

Quote from: HappyGilmore on August 06, 2007, 11:20:43 PM
I've seen some of the Sci-Fi movies recently, but I don't think they're "Sci-Fi Channel" movies. Some were Boo, SabreTooth, Mortuary, and Beast of Bray Road.

Granted, all were pretty terrible. But I liked watching them. Had my own MST3K type of commentary going on them.

Wasn't Mortuary directed by Tobe Hooper?

I know for a fact that Beast of Bray Road was an Asylum picture. Sci Fi, when they're not running giant animal/killer weather movies have signed some kind of infernal pact with those guys to broadcast their trash. God help us all if they ever decide to air Transmorphers.