Title: Alyas Batman en Robin
Year: 1993
Genre(s): Foreign Rip-off
Country: Philippines
Language: Filipino (No Subs)
Approx. Running Time: 110 Min
Directed By: Tony Y. Reyes
Audio/Picture Quality: B

Alyas Batman en Robin is an unauthorized Filipino Batman comedy film produced by Regal Films spoofing the 1960s Batman televison series. It stars comedian Joey de Leon as Batman and his son Keempee as Robin. Several villains are also featured such as the Joker and the Penguin (here "Chu-pa-eng-gwin"), portrayed respectively by the late comedians Rene Requiestas and Panchito. Oh, and did we mention that its a musical?

Title: Badi AKA Turkish E.T.

This is a cheap, creepy, sometimes hilarious rip-off of "E.T.", done Turkish-style. The story concerns a three-foot alien who gets stranded on Earth and befriends a young boy. The plot is completely derivative of Spielberg's yarn, and the special effects have to be seen to be believed. The alien character, named "Badi", is made up of a midget inside an extremely disturbing rubber mask. A far cry from the cute E.T. that we all know and love. Please note that there are NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES but it makes it that much more funny!

Title: Brazilian Wizard Of Oz
Year: 1985
Genre(s): Foreign Rip-off
Country: Brazil
Language: Portuguese (No Subs)
Approx. Running Time: 93 Min
Directed By: Victor Lustosa
Audio/Picture Quality: B

Hhhmm, what to say? Well the movie opens up with a house sprouting legs and then running away, a couple of dudes jump into it and the house runs to the land of Oz! Failing to obtain any vultures to eat, being the only potential food in the severe drought of Northeastern Brazil, Didi and his friends, Soró and Tatu, put their hut on a wagon pulled by their burro, Salvation, and head for the town of Oróz, believing they can find water there. On the way, they find a Scarecrow, whom Didi calls Clowbrush (clown+brush), besieged by vultures reminiscent of the crows in The Wiz. They kill and eat the vultures and take the brainless Scarecrow with them, hoping a doctor at Oróz will put them in. They next stumble upon a warehouse, finding a man in a metal vat of rum, which is his blood, yet he desires a heart. In the town of Oróz, Sheriff Lion works for Colonel Ferreira, who owns a pond using gigantic frogs to keep people from obtaining water without paying. Lion's girlfriend, Aninha the schoolmaster, thinks he is a coward for not standing up to the Colonel. The Tramps, with Vat and Clowbrush, arrive and promptly rob a bakery. Sheriff Lion puts Soró and Tatu in jail, while to redeem himself, he is ordered to supervise Didi, Vat, and Clowbrush in a search for water, which is their punishment. After disguising themselves as Ferreira's guards, they are nonetheless discovered, so they flee to a desert, where a saint points them to the Wizard of Oróz, who fiendishly supports their mission... The film, while a spoof of a famous story, was also intended to make people aware of the conditions in the Northeast, which Aragăo said he could not show in any greater detail, lest the film be terrified by the reality of the plight in that area.

Title: Darna
Year: 1991
Genre(s): Foreign Rip-off
Country: Philippines
Language: Filipino (No Subs)
Approx. Running Time: 103 Min.
Directed By: Joel Lamangan
Audio/Picture Quality: B

The story of Darna begins, with a young village girl named Narda and the small white stone she discovered that would change her life. The stone comes from planet Marte the home planet of the Adranikas and Anomalikas. The queen of Anomalika, Braguda, wanted to take the stone from the queen of Adranika, Adran. Because of this the stone finds its way to planet Earth and to the hands of Narda. When Narda swallows and shouts Darna, she becomes a mighty warrior ready to defend Earth from evil forces. Commonly reffered to as the Filipino Wonder Woman

Title: Khooni Murda AKA Hindi Nightmare On Elm Street
Year: 1989
Genre(s): Horror, Forgiven Sip-off
Country: India 
Language: Hindi (No Subs)
Approx. Running Time: 127 Min.
Directed By: Mohan Bhakri
Audio/Picture Quality: C

Low budget Indian version of Nightmare on Elm Street. Ranjit an obsessive lover (and killer) relentlessly pursues Rekha till he is burnt alive in a scuffle with Rekha's friends. But that's not the end of him, as his corpse comes back to take revenge. It also has multiple song and dance numbers. Features almost shot for shot remakes of key scenes from the first Nightmare on Elm Street film!

Title: Magdalena: Possessed By The Devil
Year: 1974
Genre(s):  Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Directed By: Walter Boos
Audio/Picture Quality: B

German remake/Rip-off of the exorcist! Magdalena (Dagmar Hedrich) is an orphan at a girls' school who gets possessed by a demonic supernatural force. She goes into convulsions and makes furniture fly around the room before she gets some help from an exorcised.

Title: Planet Wars AKA Brazilian Star Wars
Year: 1977
Genre(s): Foreign Rip-off
Country: Brazil
Language: No English
Approx. Running Time: 86 Min.
Directed By: Jun Fukuda
Audio/Picture Quality: B

Made in less than a month, this Star Wars rip off was released in Brazil a full 5 months before the original Star Wars hit Brazilian theaters, causing it to be a South American smash hit! Starring the Brazilian 3 Stooges, The Tramps; the film features just about every Star Wars character you can think of; as well as some of the most embarrassingly bad sets, special effects and disco dance numbers you will ever find in a movie. The majority of the movie feels like a throw away Sid & Marty Krofft show; complete with shot on video effects, amazingly retarded monster masks, and astoundingly stupefying musical numbers! A true must see bad movie rarity, and it’s actually much more fun to watch than any of the Star Wars movies. There aren't any subtitles but the "movie" barely has any dialogue anyway.

Title: Seytan AKA Tukrish Exorcist
Year: 1974
Genre(s): Horror, Turkish Insanity
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish W/ English Subtitles
Approx. Running Time: 101 Min.
Directed By: Metin Erksan
Audio/Picture Quality: B

"Seytan" is a shameless Turkish remake of William Friedkin's "The Exorcist" that copies it scene after scene. It uses the same exact set-up as "The Exorcist"-a young girl, living with her well-to-do mother, becomes possessed by Satan after tooling around on a Ouija board. Of course there's the head spinning, the mustard spitting, the message written across her abdomen and even the scene where she comes downstairs to pee herself to the dismay of her mother and her guests.Some of the shots are even exactly the same and the house they use as the setting for most of the film looks pretty much like the one in Friedkin's "The Exorcist". This film is simply hilarious, so grab some beer and give this amusing piece of trash a look

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Title: Süpermen dönüyor AKA Turkish Superman
Year: 1979
Genre(s): Foreign Rip-off
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish (No Subs)
Approx. Running Time: 86 Min.
Directed By: Kunt Tulgar
Audio/Picture Quality: B

After a mysterious prologue in a Christmas tree ornaments-filled "starscape", Turkish Clark Kent is told by his parents that he is an Alien from space and that he must leave to accomplish his destiny. They give him a green gem which he takes into a nearby cave. There, Jor-El, minus half of his front teeth, appears and reveals to Clark that he is Superman...

 

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Title: Three Dev Adam
Year: 1973
Genre(s): Action, Turkish Insanity
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish
Approx. Running Time: 81 Min
Directed By: T. Fikret Uçak
Audio/Picture Quality: C-

Turkish cinema, gotta love it. Where else in the world can you get copyright infringement films that make you smile from ear to ear? In this film Marvel Comics hero Spiderman becomes a bad guy trying to take over the world. He is battled by Captain America (in possibly the best suit every put on screen) and Santo, the Mexican wrestler and movie star. The action is great as is some of nastiness that Spidey inflicts on his victims (The opening boat propeller to the face is a nice touch). Priceless statues are being stolen all over Istanbuhl(?). Looks like the work of that infamous, murdering Spiderman. The police call in special outside help in Captain America from the United States and the legendary Mexican wrestler Santo. It's anyone's guess why Spidey's turned to a life of crime, what the significance of all the stolen art is, or if those are his bangs or his eyebrows sticking out of the holes in his mask. He's also traded-in his web-shooters for a slick little switch-blade, and can quickly clone himself if he's killed. Captain America is missing his trusty shield and Santo's wrestling skills resemble Flintstone judo. In fact, nothing seems to make sense at all in this live-action cartoon that makes Tim Burton's 'Batman' look as tame as the 60's TV series. Dozens of people are killed needlessly, sudden jump-cuts take you to sleazy strip clubs, and there's a love scene that's interrupted by the Mr. Rogers' puppets. Even worse, it's all in Turkish. No version in English or English subtitles is available. I'm not painting a pretty pictures here, I know. But I can say it is, without a doubt , one of the BIGGEST film oddities the world over

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Title: Turkish Star Trek AKA Turist Omer Uzay Yolunda
Year: 1973
Genre(s): Turkish Insanity, Action, Sci-fi
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish
Directed By: Hulki Saner
Audio/Picture Quality: C+

More Turkish Shenanigans. Actually early Turkish film, from when ripping off American films had not been perfected. Yet this wholesale rip off of Star Trek not only has the honor of being the first Star Trek movie ever made, but features ripped off opening credits, ripped off music, ripped off sound effects. The Director went to the trouble of creating sets that look good enough you know what they are supposed to be despite the fact they probably cost eight cents on a six cents budget. If you've ever wondered what would happen if an obnoxious dirty greasy Turkish guy was transported into the middle of the Star Trek episode The Man Trap then this is the movie for you. This movie is a masterpiece among Turkish movies in the sense that it may be the first example of making fun of another movie or TV show.

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Title: Turkish Star Wars AKA Dünyayi kurtaran adam
Year: 1982
Genre(s): Turkish Insanity, Action, Sci-fi
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish W/ English Subtitles
Approx. Running Time: 90 Min.
Directed By: Çetin Inanç
Audio/Picture Quality: C+

To say that "Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam" is the greatest movie of all time, is to imply that other movies can reach the sheer genius of this film. You probably understand all the surface quirks of the film. It is a Turkish film. It is a sci-fi movie that is filmed on a budget which is so low, that one may consider the term shoe-string budget an insult to the tangible value of shoe-strings. In order to duplicate the visual quality offered in American cinema, the director (Celtin Inanc) literally uses (read: steals) film footage from Star Wars and runs it during the film. Unfortunately, sometimes this effect is mildly confusing (the movie begins with the tie fighter sequence but you cannot really tell if the heroes are supposed to be piloting the X-wing fighters OR the tie fighters) to frighteningly moronic (during the final battle, the visuals of the tie fighter sequence flash, almost subliminally across the screen with no rational reason for its use) You should also keep an open ear of the great bootlegged music (only 17 years before the invention of the MP3) that makes up the films brilliant soundtrack. Music from Star Wars, Flash Gordon, and Indiana Jones are used in this film. The highlights of the movie include the final battle that looks like a "Power Rangers" outtakes reel and fantastic martial arts training sequences that make the lead actors look like a couple of out of shape, drunk children. Includes English subtitles

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Title: Turkish Star Wars 2
Year: 2006
Genre(s): Turkish Insanity, Action, Sci-fi
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish W/ English Subtitles
Approx. Running Time: 110 Min.
Directed By: Kartal Tibet
Audio/Picture Quality: A

Every major cult film fan has watched "Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam" (Man who saves the world) aka Turkish Star Wars. Quarter a century after that was released, we get a sequel -"Dunyayi Kurtaran Adamin oglu" (Son of the man who saves the world). While the original was meant to be a serious science fiction adventure, this one attempts to be a parody of the old film and various other science fiction films in the vein of G.O.R.A. Needless to say, the result is cinematic sewage. Includes English Subtitles

 

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