Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: re: re: Totally Bad Movies Message-ID: <1194@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 05:59:29 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1194 Posted: Fri Nov 1 05:59:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:12:24 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 33 > 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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA