A few months ago I started a "Foreign Rip-Off" movie night with several of my friends. Every couple of weeks we get together and, with copious amounts of snacks, watch a foreign rip-off of [usually] an American film. Movies we've done so far:

Sangharsh (aka Indian Silence of the Lambs)
Dünyayi kurtaran adam (aka Turkish Star Wars)
Dünyayi kurtaran adam oglu (aka Turkish Star Wars 2)
Future Cops (Chinese Street Fighter II knock-off)
Fight Club: Members Only (aka Indian Fight Club)

Next up is Brazilian Star Wars and after that, Ator (Italian Conan: The Barbarian).

My question is: can you name some other good prospects and/or favorites? I'm sure Indian Superman will be on the list before long.

Yeah, Turkish Star Trek should definitely go on the list. It might have come earlier, but I wanted to take a nice long break from Turkish flicks. That stuff hurts your brain.

Another one I already own just occurred to me: Time of the Apes (aka Japanese Planet of the Apes).

I hope you'll forgive the bump, but I thought this might be of interest to connoisseurs of awful movies here on the forums. Below the list of foreign rip-offs we've watched to date. Some of these are pretty awesome:

Sangharsh (aka Indian Silence of the Lambs)
Dünyayi kurtaran adam (aka Turkish Star Wars)
Dünyayi kurtaran adam oglu (aka Turkish Star Wars 2)
Future Cops (Chinese Street Fighter II knock-off)
Fight Club: Members Only (aka Indian Fight Club)
Os Trapalhões na Guerra dos Planetas (Brazilian Star Wars)
Ator: The Fighting Eagle (Italian Conan: The Barbarian)
Time of the Apes (Japanese Planet of the Apes)
From Beijing With Love (Chinese James Bond - technically a spoof by Stephen Chow)
King Kong Escapes (Japanese King Kong)

and tomorrow will feature...


Italian Terminator 2!

EDIT: What also makes Foreign Rip-Off Movie Nights so enjoyable is our "B" features. It's usually a movie or movie series, still technically foreign, but not necessarily abiding by the "rip-off" rules. Among the flicks we've watched for these have been Ninja Death I-III (pure awesome), Ator II-IV (additionally awesome), and Yonggary, an English-language remake of 1967 Korean movie of the same name (which was in itself a rip-off of Godzilla), directed by D-War helmer Hyung-rae Shim.

And tomorrow... (NSFW):

Ninja: The Protector

Oh snap!!

Included on the Terminator 2 DVD was a trailer for a movie called Robowar, a blatant rip-off of Predator. But here's the best part:

It stars Reb "Big McLargeHuge" Brown!!

Here's the trailer:



I laugh every time he yells.

I've seen that Korkusuz clip before and wanted to track down a DVD for movie night, but I haven't been able to find a single copy of it, subtitled or otherwise.

But man, gotta love that bazooka.

Just watched this flick for Foreign Rip-Off Movie Night last Saturday. It broke my mind.

Two nights ago we watched perhaps the ultimate foreign rip-off movie. A movie so inexplicable and obscure that I may be the only person in America with a copy of it:

Nigerian Titanic.

It steals footage from James Cameron's Titanic (a la Turkish Star Wars) and inserts it into this shot-on-video version made for Nigerian audiences. Incredible. I got my copy from a professor of African Studies in Europe.