Borrowing Blockbusters: The Best, Worst and Weirdest Aliens Knock Offs

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The final part of my series looking at imitations of the Alien franchise focuses in on James Cameron's sequel.
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00:00 Intro & Openers
05:18 Italy
11:06 Sequels: The Return
22:34 The Mother Movie
30:00 Space Marines
35:30 Oh the Horror!
40:22 Oh the Animated Horror!
43:40 The Rest of the Franchise
46:31 Outro

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@Llyander 8 ай бұрын

Fishburne's perfectly delivered "We're leaving" is one of the greatest lines ever spoken in a movie.

@cornjobb 8 ай бұрын

it's certainly a line spoken in a film.

@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat 8 ай бұрын

_"This place is a tomb"_

@pickmeasinner 7 ай бұрын

Seems a fairly low bar!

@PaulAngileri 4 ай бұрын

That line was great. Almost broke the 4th wall reading the audience’s mind about his situation.

@DeathBYDesign666 26 күн бұрын

Not that you're wrong but it is so easy a line to deliver if you think about it. I think just about everyone has had that moment where they just had to escape the current situation pronto. It's not hard to imagine, that's all I'm saying.

@flywheelshyster6549 8 ай бұрын

Truly one of the best series on all of KZfaq. Always grows my list of b movie classics to watch!

@tomhoward4905 8 ай бұрын

Excellent channel, so glad I found it

@t0xcn253 8 ай бұрын

That's not all it grows.... haha sorry

@MungoThorne 8 ай бұрын

Same, found so many cool movies off this channel.

@kylerswamp1075 8 ай бұрын

For real!

@benderbendingrodriguez420 4 ай бұрын

It's like a highlight of all the movies you'd see on RedLetterMedia's Best Of The Worst series

@michaelgodin938 8 ай бұрын

As others are saying, these videos are incredible and I can't imagine the amount of effort that goes into making them. The history, insight, vast knowledge and humour mesh together so perfectly to make the best channel for this subject matter - or any subject matter. So many videos will only skim the surface or make easy jokes when looking at these B-movies, but the fact that you are so passionate, attentive and able to identify the qualities of these movies makes these videos the de facto reference.

@TheBadMovieBible 8 ай бұрын

That's a lovely comment, and much appreciated. Thanks.

@huntinglightning3507 8 ай бұрын

@TheBadMovieBible I always find it fascinating to learn about cinema and you provide insight into more history than any documentary or course in school. By the way, can you do a video about "Home Alone" Knock-offs for your next video? Your knowledge is invaluable. Keep up the good work.

@robwalsh9843 8 ай бұрын

Fun fact: The infamous sewer monster movie C.H.U.D. has a scene strikingly similar to the hive scene in Aliens where a group a swat officers armed with flamethrowers enter the sewers while being monitored on camera. C.H.U.D. came out before Aliens and I wonder if Cameron saw it.

@MisterMelange 8 ай бұрын

Well if you're gonna go that route, "The Vidicator" also was released by 20th Century Fox in 1986, with special effects by Stan Winston, and also has a team of soldiers entering into the sewers to hunt a monster.

@jasonking3182 8 ай бұрын

I think 1954 Them! Is probably the original of army men with flamethrowers vs monster eggs

@williamselley4519 8 ай бұрын

These videos are absolutely brilliant, there’s nothing else quite like this on KZfaq.

@johns8369 8 ай бұрын

I never tire of watching the David Attenborough of Bad Movies. Thank you good sir!

@Cam-pe3nd 8 ай бұрын

My favorite retrospective series on KZfaq. The right mix of interesting theme, obscurity, plot summary and personal observation.

@zoekm 8 ай бұрын

How this channel isn't blowing up, I will never understand.

@casanovafunkenstein5090 8 ай бұрын

I have immense respect for the way the guy who made the Xtro series regards those films. He's a legitimately talented film maker but he's not precious about his work at all. I envy his completely blasé attitude to his own art.

@TheBeird 8 ай бұрын

Great video. Nice shout outs to Event Horizon and Deep Rising, especially to Treat Williams. Great actor. Last thing I saw him in was We Own This City. Small role but impactful.

@Gmthekiller 8 ай бұрын

You're like Encyclopaedia of b movies and no film industry is spared from your investigative prowess. Always a pleasure and privilege to watch your videos❤

@dysomnia 8 ай бұрын

Cameron Mitchell cutaways need to be the new default standard for censoring anything anywhere.

@jasonking3182 8 ай бұрын

I always thought 1954 Them! was a huge influence on Aliens. You had army men fighting giant bugs in there nest with flamethrowers. You also had a proto Newt in the orphan girl who survived the monster attack and gives the movie its name.

@tavarespalooza1323 6 ай бұрын

There's even the wrecked room with dinner still on the table, like the coffee and donuts left behind in Aliens. Clearly a big influence.

@treborkroy5280 4 ай бұрын

Aliens was Cameron just putting what he read in starship troopers onto the screen.

@KGH3000 8 ай бұрын

"I wonder why parodies and endorsements of fascism tend to look the same." Absolute gold

@drdarkeny 8 ай бұрын

Because why use Fascism if not for the cool uniforms and weapons...? 🤣

@3baxcb 5 ай бұрын

@@drdarkeny The one thing that I think stood out in Starship Troopers is how all the militant and testosterone-fueled invasion of the bug home planet Klendathu gets repulsed almost as soon as it begins. I do agree with the video regarding the director's intent and that if the parody was picked up, it might have been better received at the time of the release.

@treborkroy5280 4 ай бұрын

@@3baxcb"testosterone filled" it was men and women literally right there for you to see, women. And fascism isn't fashion. If the director wanted the movie to satire fascism he should have put fascism in the film instead of simply putting uniforms that were worn by fascists and propaganda remakes that look no different than a commercial for any American product. The movie simply isn't fascistic outside the veneer of imagery associated with known fascists. That's it.

@MrJohndoakes 8 ай бұрын

6:36 The fun thing about "Shocking Dark"/"Terminator 2" is that Bruno Mattei broke with Italian tradition and actually had a sound crew on set, so it wasn't shot wild track and dubbed later.

@MrJohndoakes 8 ай бұрын

Claudio Fragasso did the same thing when shooting "Troll 2" because his cast was mostly American and he didn't want to drag them back to dubbing booths in Italy.

@3baxcb 5 ай бұрын

A special feature on the recent Blu-ray release goes into a bit of detail about the shooting locations.

@S_raB Ай бұрын

"Ends on a nuclear apocalypse. Can't find where he stole it from, so I assume he really staged it." That delivery! Lmao!!! Miss those old days of practical effects & genuine irony.

@Hellseeker1 4 ай бұрын

Dead Space is basically Aliens and The Thing had a baby. Love it!

@Emulous79 8 ай бұрын

Great job editing all this footage together. Must have taken ages.

@GANGBUSTERSCOMEDY 8 ай бұрын

The channel always delivers. Every video is made with such love and is so dense with information and recommendations and wonderfully bone dry humour. Consistently outstanding!

@mckinleyostvig7135 8 ай бұрын

Your writing is so unbelievably good for these videos. I'm only a minute in and it's so good already.

@BretHiggins 8 ай бұрын

Deep Rising definitely deserves more love and attention, it's such a fun movie and it knows exactly what it is. Shame we didn't get to see Spiders 2 in the list, but if it had been included it'd probably be the only film in the list!

@3baxcb 5 ай бұрын

The video clip used made it obvious that there wasn't going to be a big standoff like in Aliens but more like the standard monster movie where fleeing in terror is the better option.

@U.F.O_0908 8 ай бұрын

This anthology has fueled many a search for obscure gems. Your efforts are MUCH appreciated! In my opinion, this is the best researched and most entertaining series that goes way beyond the rabbit hole.

@DrWhom 8 ай бұрын

it comes back out of a rabbit hole... in China!

@Gmthekiller 8 ай бұрын

Even if I don't seek these movies, at least I know the iceberg of b movies goes way beyond my imagination

@jamesdominguez7685 8 ай бұрын

Deep Rising is unironically one of my all-time favourite films. It's extremely clever while doing an excellent job of pretending to be extremely stupid, and it's one of my my-quoted films. I can't see anyone eating peanuts without asking, "What's that? A peanut?" [pause] "DAMN IT." If it's a knock-off/homage to anything, it's a mix of Cold War era giant mutant monster movies and Ray Harryhausen humans-vs-stop-motion-creatures classics. As I recall, Sommers actually called out Harryhausen as an inspiration, as have most of the other huge genre filmmakers of the 80s-00s like Peter Jackson and James Cameron.

@lopaka76 8 ай бұрын

How you have not had a mental breakdown from watching so many bad movies, is amazing.

@djnax0r 3 ай бұрын

Let's not forget Ticks, the Citizen Kane of genetically modified bugs attack troubled teens movies. Also features Carlton Banks in a "tough guy" role, 90s cinema at its finest

@dangittens41 8 ай бұрын

This has fast become one of my favourite channels, thanks for this.

@Gmthekiller 8 ай бұрын

The level of research in this channel is unparalleled.

@chronoplague 8 ай бұрын

27:11 was not expecting a Clarissa Explains It All clip in here!

@Pdotta1 8 ай бұрын

I never forget that Treat Williams and Famke Janssen end up stranded on an island of monsters and we NEVER got to see that sequel. 😢

@i.m.evilhomer5084 8 ай бұрын

Not even a minute into the video & I'm already laughing! 😂 I love this YT channel!

@Gmthekiller 8 ай бұрын

Kinda feel bad that he hasn't gotten more subscribers. That's why I hate the likes of stuckman and Jeremy jahns. They take all the glory away from true movie lovers.

@Byrvurra 8 ай бұрын

"I didn't edit this" should be this channel's catchphrase. These are always a treat to watch, thanks for the effort you put into them.

@Cybjon 8 ай бұрын

One of the also-rans in 'Creepozoids' was Kim McKamy, who absolutely refused to do nudity. She'd then go on to be better known as Ashlyn Gere, one of the biggest porn stars of the 80s. She was one of the few unapologetic adult performers who would be able to maintain a mainstream career by simultaneously being a regular on 'Space: Above and Beyond' whilst still appearing in naughty movies.

@probablynotmyname8521 7 ай бұрын

That opening gag makes me giggle every time.

@inisipisTV 8 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Treat Williams. I remember him in "The Eagle has Landed" were he has to battle German N4zi Marines led by Micheal Caine off to kill Churchill.

@MrJohndoakes 8 ай бұрын

The Germans are Luftwaffe paratroopers disguised as Free Polish paratroopers with German paratroop officer Michael Caine as their "British" officer because he can speak English with a British accent. It made more sense in the novel.

@lordsofkobol7385 6 ай бұрын

Zombiesaurus is a very Aliens derived no budget fever dream I stumbled on in a charity shop very recently.

@Autopsy6 8 ай бұрын

I suspect that Erik Estrada's exasperation at Jan-Michael Vincent reading lines from the newspaper wasn't all acting!

@TT-md7mm 8 ай бұрын

Meant to post comment on an earlier video from this series to just say, Wow! I absolutely love your work and attention to detail in this series. Beyond excited with these frequent uploads you've been doing. Great work man!

@scottfw1193 8 ай бұрын

Never go full Newt 😊. Excellent episode

@stephen70edwards 8 ай бұрын

Your videos keep getting better and better as their subjects get worse

@Jabber-ig3iw 8 ай бұрын

Spectral is a guilty pleasure of mine, yes it’s completely unremarkable but there’s just something about it I like, I rewatch it way more often than I probably should.

@paracyntrix 5 ай бұрын

I actually enjoyed Spectral. Similar to The Darkest Hour.

@paracyntrix 5 ай бұрын

42:45 "…and especially THE BATTLE SCENES. THIS IS THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE MOVIE, AND IT AMOUNTS TO SONIC TORTURE. EVERY TIME IT STOPS, you pray it'll cut to people with faces that don't have machine guns. Well, they do. AND EVERYBODY IN THIS MOVIE HAS A MACHINE GUN, BUT THEY'RE NOT AL… they're not always firing them." Hilarious, man! 😂 I really did laugh out loud on that one!😂 Love it! The research, the production quality, the clips, the director/writer/production details, the cut-aways, and most of all, the jokes! Everything's awesome! Keep going! Want to see a lot more videos like this.❤

@flapjack6495 6 ай бұрын

this honestly feels like something id see on tv like amc or something either way more people should be wating this, its so great

@BreakfastAtNoon 8 ай бұрын

"See how the camera and the actor both move" bro, it's way to early for me to spit coffee out.

@timmorehouse1237 8 ай бұрын

Appreciate the clips of Cameron Mitchell.

@DGAMINGDE 8 ай бұрын

Massive thanks for all the work you put in your videos. They are both funny and interesting. I enjoy the mix of showing some of the most nonsensical takes on knock offs, but also giving context and also showing movies from all over the world not just America on Europe. Shows how all humans are the same in enjoying trying to get cheap bucks by copying popular movies. Also the lenght on the vids is truly incredible, must be at least a week of work into every new vid. Massive thanks for your work and you are completely undarrated.

@Savignylol 8 ай бұрын

That's it, I'm giving you my entire Patreon budget from now on.

@Headbehindthebubble 8 ай бұрын

'...bothering a North London family' - Thats gold!

@laurenk1766 8 ай бұрын

I love the cheesiness of Deep Rising! One of my rainy day favorites.

@Pdotta1 8 ай бұрын

“Eomer DREDD Butcher” to you and everyone else, buddy 😂😊

@coreycohencomedy 8 ай бұрын

Just came here to say I love your work. Please keep them coming!

@jonothanthrace1530 7 ай бұрын

That Xtro Exposed footage feels like the Behind-The-Scenes interviews from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. "He couldn't actually interact with, y'know, another actor. I've never seen that before, and I've never seen that since."

@tigerheart3824 8 ай бұрын

A fantastic trilogy, thank you Rob. Also thanks for the Treat Williams tribute at the end 💖

@jamesdominguez7685 8 ай бұрын

Every time he said "Tubular Corporation" I was waiting for Bill and Ted to shout "TUBULAR!"

@TheCaptainSlappy 8 ай бұрын

And yes...Laurence Fishburne in Event Horizon is the only smart space captain that ever existed. Other than Captain Dallas, but he screwed up and wanted to leave afterwards, not before. We saw how that turned out. "...sit tight, or run. It makes no difference, you're mine." -MaMa (Dredd)

@bob23301 8 ай бұрын

Come on YT, this is a vastly quality channel, so start pushing it.

@blackcatjimmy 8 ай бұрын

Love your work. Keep it up 👍

@TheBadMovieBible 8 ай бұрын

Very kind, thank you for the support.

@rickm8343 8 ай бұрын

At 9:13, to make matters even more geographically confusing, the building on the left, with the domed rooftops, is the Hong Kong Convention And Exhibition Centre, which is more than 1000km away from Manila.

@Mr.NiceUK 8 ай бұрын

2:04 we're starting strong with some impressive peanut smuggling 😅

@tarsis6123 8 ай бұрын

You deserve more subs. Not just from the quality of the work, not just from the massive work load it encompasses, but also for the incredible will it must take to watch all that tripe, then go through it again for clips. Bravo.

@coolhrv 8 ай бұрын

Great work! I also recall FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN having some ALIENS vibes.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 8 ай бұрын

Came here hoping someone else called it out... It wasn't subtle, and it had nothing to do with the source material despite being adapted by the developer themselves.

@Kevin_Kennelly 4 ай бұрын

"auxiliary Paul Riser" is proof that dry-British-humor is a thing of beauty.

@deejaytubbster8983 26 күн бұрын

I searched for decades for the title of the brazen Italian rip off (Shocking Dark), which I have seen in TV those days and really laughed my ass off! Thanks so much!

@paladin56 8 ай бұрын

Ha ha. That squashing noise is strait out of Hannah Barbara cartoons.

@djchrismac 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant and very entertaining, plus another "I didn't edit this!" too - it's becoming your catch phrase! 😄

@LoganHunter82 8 ай бұрын

The Rift is one of my guilty pleasure movies

@gorevoid691 8 ай бұрын

Also love how it’s called Zombies: THE BEGINNING even though it’s a sequel to another differently titled movie

@doomover9257 8 ай бұрын

another great video! recently purchased Bad Movie Bible due to my love of this channel, highly recommended to fellow fans. In depth info with interviews and ratings for each film, also Rob's excellent dry humor on every page. keep up the great work!

@Disinterested-jg6pw 8 ай бұрын

This channel is the best thing about youtube

@stevenwillard8436 8 ай бұрын

Your videos are truly some of the best stuff on KZfaq. Never stop.

@mikeosredkar8804 8 ай бұрын

I'm sorry it took so long for me to find your channel, but I am absolutely obsessed now that I have found it. I love amazingly bad movies, and whenever I hear "Italian" it takes me back to my first solo exploration into the madness. My first big one was "Zombi3" the half-Fulci bad zombie movie. I was so proud to find it on my own.

@loommoon2301 8 ай бұрын

I absolutely Love your work! You're interlectual frustration that is reflected in your relaxed sarcasm is of the highest caliber. May I suggest an "enter the dragon - knock off" for a potential future video

@chadwik4000 8 ай бұрын

I just re-watched aliens yesterday! What great timing! I love this channel

@leesherman5192 8 ай бұрын

28:54 Good old Biomechanoid of Svartos! When I was fourteen I used Legos to build a ripoff of it combined with a ripoff of the Xenomorph Queen. You could open up the head to reveal an Aquazone crystal.

@marienbad2 8 ай бұрын

Another brilliant video for this series. I love the dry humour as much as the actual editing and research!

@GermanLeftist Ай бұрын

Considering that you did show footage of Doctor Who in this video, it should be mentioned that the show did have an Alien like story with The Ark in Space, only that it aired almost five years before Alien came out. The serial was actually the second story of Tom Baker's tenure on the show and as such aired during his first season which ran from 1974-75. It's doubtful that Ridley Scott and his team were inspired by the show but it's a bit of interesting trivia considering that Scott was working in the BBC Effects Department back in the 60s and was originally assigned to on the second ever Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, only that he never actually did work on it.

@jamescappio7434 8 ай бұрын

The final scene of DEEP RISING *truly* sets it apart.

@freetard1759 8 ай бұрын

Once again.. Beautifully done.. Wittily edited and bravely undertaken... Keep up the great work

@UndeadAbomination 8 ай бұрын

I think the alien segment in Waxwork 2: Lost in Time is worth a honorable mention ;)

@nathanhodges7823 8 ай бұрын

This channel is full of pure awesomeness. Its just incredible how life force must have been expended making such gems.

@raskaskoneisto 8 ай бұрын

Such a deep dive. Massive respect! Thank you.

@BigBubbaloola Ай бұрын

Ancillary Bill Paxton and Auxiliary Paul Reiser are now my favourite things you've written!

@owensjl65 8 ай бұрын

Superbly researched and edited series. Very very entertaining

@lobachevscki 8 ай бұрын

I love this series and this channel so much.

@ivorybow 26 күн бұрын

Oh my gosh where has this channel been all my life? I just got the best watchlist. I am an inveterate bad movie lover, as long as they come by their badness honestly. I am going right to my movie channels now to find these tarnished gems.

@Gary_Hun 8 ай бұрын

39:42 - Now what is Rik Mayall doing in a sci-fi horror?.. 43:28 - Fine ass ventilation though, nice!

@Lumibear. 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic stuff, I was entertained throughout, thank you!

@silvermoose2631 8 ай бұрын

These videos are seriously excellent. Would love to see one for Blade Runner eventually 🙂

@pontiusporcius8430 8 ай бұрын

Sword and sorcery for me

@kamath234 8 ай бұрын

I so much look forward to your series, thanks, please keep it coming :)

@Moochtv 8 ай бұрын

Yey I've been looking forward to this video trilogy capper! Great work as per usual!

@jhors7777 8 ай бұрын

Love your entertaining and well researched channel, thank-you:)

@Alexalicious 8 ай бұрын

More movies for my collection~! Thank you for all these series, they're fantastic~!

@KraigFang 8 ай бұрын

Just stumbled across this vid/channel and it rocks! So keep rocking 🤟😝

@Caredroia 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Rob for another insightful/funny retrospective. Your Channel, like Stitched Together and Voxis Productions, deserves more plaudits and viewers!

@guillaumebabey4484 Ай бұрын

Bad Movie Bible's heavy use of censorship always kinda baffled me (but such is the KZfaq law apparently) but I admit using a completely unrelated sequence with Cameron Mitchell was a creative work-around!!