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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: re: Totally Bad Movies
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 05:59:29 EST
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> From:	mtgzz!leeper	(Mark Leeper)
 
> Why, I am surprise at you, Jerry.  There is a lot more you should be
> saying here that you are not.  The other pair of equally bad films that
> were remade into equally worse were INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN remade
> as THE EYE CREATURES and THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED remade as IN THE YEAR
> 2889.  The four first versions were made by American International
> Pictures (AIP).  They are the people who made a lot of cheap horror
> (they started showing some quality with their series of Poe films) and
> beach blanket films in the 50's and 60's.  They are still around but
> have been absorbed by Filmways.  Roger Corman was their best known 
> producer.  In the 60's they started producing films on the super-cheap
> to be shown on TV.  The branch of AIP that made them was called
> Azalia.  On way to save money was to not write a new script, just
> having someone spend an evening making changes to an existing script.
> Hence, the term remake REALLY applies here more than just about any
> other films ever.  Actually, of the originals only SHE CREATURE was
> really a bad film.  Every one of the remakes was a -4 film.

Gee, do I dare confess that though I have seen THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (but
not since I was a wee lad), I have yet to see the remake? On the other hand,
I really should have remembered SAUCER MEN/EYE CREATURES. I hearby hang my
head in shame.

I shouldn't feel *too* guilty, though, since filmography is only my hobby,
and not my business. :-)

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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