Just in time for the big budget I AM LEGEND, The Asylum rolls out I AM OMEGA. The only differences from their other carbon copy films are it has a semi-big star (Mark Dacascos) and it actually looks good! Well, entertaining with lots of zombies being blow'd up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvW9G7ex3xA

I like the Adirondack chair in the scene where Dascosos is practicing his martial arts. You'd think, though, that the zombie horde would wreck his Adirondack chair in an effort to break his will, but for some strange reason they don't. Unless Dascosos keeps replacing the Adirondack chair in the way Vincent Price kept having to replace his mirrors in THE LAST MAN ON EARTH. But you'd think Adirondack chairs are not so easy to come by in great quantity. Unless the movie is set in the Adirondacks, which I don't think it is.

Vasquez Rocks!!

I don't know why a good actor and good martial artist like Dacascos has to do flicks for The Asylum when he's worthy of much better treatment from Hollywood.

He probably makes more money as the star of an Asylum flick than he would third or fourth (or tenth) billed in a Hollywood action film starring some kid who couldn't fight breakout acne.

naw, all his real money comes from being "the chairman" on IRON CHEF...

Eh.

When they announced the project, I was sort of hoping that they'd skew it to appeal to the traditionalists who were frustrated that no one was interested in doing an adaptation of Matheson's book. Filmed with thinly-veiled fidelity, it'd make for a great on-the-cheap production.

But it looks like they're trying to out-Smith the Smith version... although I get the vibe that they might have cribbed more than a few setpieces from the discarded John Logan draft, which was a balls-to-the-wall actioner that evoked Predator more than "I Am Legend".

And what's the deal with all the latex? Seems like a damn fool thing for a low-budgeter to waste money on. It always looks silly (ie: From Dusk Till Dawn) when minimalism would work just fine.

I suppose it just bugs me when a zombie/vampire's face suddenly shifts into the latex version of a Georgia O'Keefe painting.

Stay home. Re-read novel. Re-read graphic novel. Say "Virge" a few times while pinching nose to approximate Price's tone. Buy Adirondack chair.

More Asylum brilliance:

Y'know... I'd so watch that if William Katt plays Ralph Hinkley again.

Well, it certainly looks better than I AM LEGEND!


We have "chequel" for a cheap sequel, but is there a word for these cheap knock offs/cash-ins? Chock Off?!?!

Sure it does.

I know Foywonder at Dread Central refers to them as "mockbusters" and I think that fits pretty good.

"Mockbuster" it is, then!!! :D

Has the feel of Ryuhei Kitamura's "Versus" IMHO... just using a city instead of a forest.

Just dragging this thread kicking and screaming back into the present as I notice that the new issue of Empire magazine has an article all about Asylum - and yes, the article is entitled Mockbusters!

Someone must be watching this movie, because Netflix has had it listed as Very Long Wait since the day it came out.