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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: re: Totally Bad Movies
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 11:55:53 EDT
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>>        IT CONQUERED THE WORLD  (it didn't really; also may have the  
>>                                distinction of being the worst movie
>>                                ever *remade* into an even worse movie; I
>>                                think the remake was called ZONTAR, THE
>>                                THING FROM VENUS.)
>
>Agreed. The only runner up for that distinction is THE SHE CREATURE, which
>was remade as the even worse CREATURE OF DESTRUCTION.
> 

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.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper