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-> ''I think Mockbusters are like store brands. Say you’ve got a cold and you walk into your local Walgreens for some medicine (and a pap smear). You see the Sudafed, and right next to it, in a box that looks remarkably similar to the national brand, the store’s own “Nasal Decongestant.” I don’t think most people buy the store brand because they think it’s really Sudafed in a different box. I think they buy it because they think it will be similar to Sudafed, only cheaper.\\
Just like our Mockbusters. They’re similar to big studio films, only cheaper.\\
And shittier.\\
If that’s possible.''
-->[[http://www.theasylum.cc/blog/2011/04/in-defense-of-mockbusters/ Paul Bales]], Partner/Administrator and Operations of TheAsylum
The Asylum is an American production company located in Burbank, California. They are best known for producing horror and science fiction [[TheMockbuster mockbuster]] films, often with a lot more graphic violence and sex than their Hollywood competition in order to make up for their low production values.
The company can turn around a movie in four months. This makes it able to produce films on short notice in order to capitalize on the marketing and surging interests generated by blockbuster films. In order to do this, the movies use no-name actors and cheap special effects. The company produces between ten and fifteen movies a year and has released over 300 films to date.
Founded in 1997 by former Village Roadshow executives, The Asylum started out as a run-of-the-mill, low-budget indie studio, specializing in horror films. Their first largely successful film was 2005's ''HGWells' War of the Worlds'', which was produced to coincide with Steven Spielberg's ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. This film's success, largely due to movie rental chains buying it in bulk in order to cash in on the Spielberg version, led The Asylum to its current business model. The company achieved Internet notoriety in 2009 with ''MegaSharkVersusGiantOctopus'', whose trailer went viral on Website/YouTube.
As the quote shows, they are also fully aware of their status, [[TheBarnum and cheerfully admit it.]]
Their website can be found [[http://www.theasylum.cc/index.php here]].
Definitely not to be confused with [[EmilieAutumn The Asylum Emporium]], TheAsylumForWaywardVictorianGirls or AsylumVisualEffects.
----
!!Films
* ''11/11/11''
* ''#1 Cheerleader Camp''
* ''100 Feet''
* ''100 Million Years BC''
* ''18 Year Old Virgin''
* ''2-Headed Shark Attack''
* ''200 MPH''
* ''2012: Doomsday''
* ''2012: Ice Age''
* ''2012: Supernova''
* ''30,000 Leagues under the Sea''
* ''6 Guns''
* ''666: The Beast''
* ''666: The Child''
* ''The 7 Adventures of Sinbad''
* ''8213: Gacy House''
* ''The 9/11 Commission Report''
* ''AbrahamLincolnVsZombies''
* ''AVH: Alien vs. Hunter''
* ''Airline Disaster''
* ''Alien Abduction''
* ''Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls''
* ''Film/AlmightyThor''
* ''American Warships'' ([[ScrewedByTheLawyers formerly]] ''American Battleship'')
* ''Anneliese: the Exorcist Tapes''
* ''The Apocalypse''
* ''Ballistica''
* ''Barely Legal''
* ''Battle of Los Angeles''
* ''Born Bad''
* ''Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse''
* ''Countdown: Jerusalem''
* ''The Da Vinci Treasure''
* ''The Day the Earth Stopped''
* ''Dead Line''
* ''DeathRacers''
* ''Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill''
* ''Dragon''
* ''Dragon Crusaders''
* ''Dragonquest''
* ''Evil''
* ''Evil Eyes''
* ''Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers''
* ''Expired''
* ''Freakshow''
* ''H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds''
* ''Halloween Night''
* ''Haunting of Winchester House''
* ''A Haunting in Salem''
* ''Hillside Cannibals''
* ''I Am Omega''
* ''Intermedio''
* ''Invasion of the Pod People''
* ''Jane White is Sick and Twisted''
* ''Journey to the Center of the Earth''
* ''Killers''
* ''Killers 2: The Beast''
* ''King of the Ants''
* ''King of the Lost World''
* ''The Land that Time Forgot''
* ''The Legend of Bloody Jack''
* ''Legion of the Dead''
* ''Mega Piranha''
* ''Mega Python vs. Gatoroid''
* ''Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus''
* ''Film/MegaSharkVsGiantOctopus''
* ''Megafault''
* ''Merlin and the War of the Dragons''
* ''Meteor Apocalypse''
* ''MILF''
* ''Moby Dick''
* ''Monster''
* ''Nazis at the Center of the Earth''
* ''Paranormal Entity''
* ''Pirates of Treasure Island''
* ''Princess and the Pony''
* ''Princess of Mars''
* ''Shapeshifter''
* ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes''
* ''Snakes on a Train''
* ''Sorority House Rules''
* ''The Source''/''The Surge''
* ''Street Racer''
* ''Sunday School Musical''
* ''The Terminators''
* ''Titanic II''
* ''{{Transmorphers}}''
** ''Transmorphers: Fall of Man'' - A prequel to the above.
* ''Universal Soldiers''
* ''War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave''
* ''Film/WhenAKillerCalls''
----
!!Commonly Associated Tropes
* ArtisticLicense: No need to get specific. We'd be here all day.
* CaptainErsatz
* CardCarryingVillain: If they have any villain status, they certainly aren't shy about it.
* CoolBoat: A particular shot of a battleship appears in several different films.
* CopycatCover
* DirectToVideo
* ExploitationFilm: Mockbusting aside, a lot of these films (''especially'' the horror rip-offs) are like modern day Grindhouse flicks.
* MarketBasedTitle: ''8213: Gacy House'' was renamed ''[[DolledUpInstallment Paranormal Entity 2]]'' in the UK, presumably because they feared British audiences wouldn't know who John Wayne Gacy was.
* TheMockbuster
* ProductionPosse
* PublicDomainCharacter: [[Creator/HRiderHaggard Allan Quatermain]], SherlockHolmes, {{Dracula}}
* PublicDomainStories: ''JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', ''WarOfTheWorlds'', ''MobyDick'', ''Princess of Mars''
----
-> ''I think Mockbusters are like store brands. Say you’ve got a cold and you walk into your local Walgreens for some medicine (and a pap smear). You see the Sudafed, and right next to it, in a box that looks remarkably similar to the national brand, the store’s own “Nasal Decongestant.” I don’t think most people buy the store brand because they think it’s really Sudafed in a different box. I think they buy it because they think it will be similar to Sudafed, only cheaper.\\
Just like our Mockbusters. They’re similar to big studio films, only cheaper.\\
And shittier.\\
If that’s possible.''
-->[[http://www.theasylum.cc/blog/2011/04/in-defense-of-mockbusters/ Paul Bales]], Partner/Administrator and Operations of TheAsylum
The Asylum is an American production company located in Burbank, California. They are best known for producing horror and science fiction [[TheMockbuster mockbuster]] films, often with a lot more graphic violence and sex than their Hollywood competition in order to make up for their low production values.
The company can turn around a movie in four months. This makes it able to produce films on short notice in order to capitalize on the marketing and surging interests generated by blockbuster films. In order to do this, the movies use no-name actors and cheap special effects. The company produces between ten and fifteen movies a year and has released over 300 films to date.
Founded in 1997 by former Village Roadshow executives, The Asylum started out as a run-of-the-mill, low-budget indie studio, specializing in horror films. Their first largely successful film was 2005's ''HGWells' War of the Worlds'', which was produced to coincide with Steven Spielberg's ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. This film's success, largely due to movie rental chains buying it in bulk in order to cash in on the Spielberg version, led The Asylum to its current business model. The company achieved Internet notoriety in 2009 with ''MegaSharkVersusGiantOctopus'', whose trailer went viral on Website/YouTube.
As the quote shows, they are also fully aware of their status, [[TheBarnum and cheerfully admit it.]]
Their website can be found [[http://www.theasylum.cc/index.php here]].
Definitely not to be confused with [[EmilieAutumn The Asylum Emporium]], TheAsylumForWaywardVictorianGirls or AsylumVisualEffects.
----
!!Films
* ''11/11/11''
* ''#1 Cheerleader Camp''
* ''100 Feet''
* ''100 Million Years BC''
* ''18 Year Old Virgin''
* ''2-Headed Shark Attack''
* ''200 MPH''
* ''2012: Doomsday''
* ''2012: Ice Age''
* ''2012: Supernova''
* ''30,000 Leagues under the Sea''
* ''6 Guns''
* ''666: The Beast''
* ''666: The Child''
* ''The 7 Adventures of Sinbad''
* ''8213: Gacy House''
* ''The 9/11 Commission Report''
* ''AbrahamLincolnVsZombies''
* ''AVH: Alien vs. Hunter''
* ''Airline Disaster''
* ''Alien Abduction''
* ''Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls''
* ''Film/AlmightyThor''
* ''American Warships'' ([[ScrewedByTheLawyers formerly]] ''American Battleship'')
* ''Anneliese: the Exorcist Tapes''
* ''The Apocalypse''
* ''Ballistica''
* ''Barely Legal''
* ''Battle of Los Angeles''
* ''Born Bad''
* ''Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse''
* ''Countdown: Jerusalem''
* ''The Da Vinci Treasure''
* ''The Day the Earth Stopped''
* ''Dead Line''
* ''DeathRacers''
* ''Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill''
* ''Dragon''
* ''Dragon Crusaders''
* ''Dragonquest''
* ''Evil''
* ''Evil Eyes''
* ''Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers''
* ''Expired''
* ''Freakshow''
* ''H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds''
* ''Halloween Night''
* ''Haunting of Winchester House''
* ''A Haunting in Salem''
* ''Hillside Cannibals''
* ''I Am Omega''
* ''Intermedio''
* ''Invasion of the Pod People''
* ''Jane White is Sick and Twisted''
* ''Journey to the Center of the Earth''
* ''Killers''
* ''Killers 2: The Beast''
* ''King of the Ants''
* ''King of the Lost World''
* ''The Land that Time Forgot''
* ''The Legend of Bloody Jack''
* ''Legion of the Dead''
* ''Mega Piranha''
* ''Mega Python vs. Gatoroid''
* ''Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus''
* ''Film/MegaSharkVsGiantOctopus''
* ''Megafault''
* ''Merlin and the War of the Dragons''
* ''Meteor Apocalypse''
* ''MILF''
* ''Moby Dick''
* ''Monster''
* ''Nazis at the Center of the Earth''
* ''Paranormal Entity''
* ''Pirates of Treasure Island''
* ''Princess and the Pony''
* ''Princess of Mars''
* ''Shapeshifter''
* ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes''
* ''Snakes on a Train''
* ''Sorority House Rules''
* ''The Source''/''The Surge''
* ''Street Racer''
* ''Sunday School Musical''
* ''The Terminators''
* ''Titanic II''
* ''{{Transmorphers}}''
** ''Transmorphers: Fall of Man'' - A prequel to the above.
* ''Universal Soldiers''
* ''War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave''
* ''Film/WhenAKillerCalls''
----
!!Commonly Associated Tropes
* ArtisticLicense: No need to get specific. We'd be here all day.
* CaptainErsatz
* CardCarryingVillain: If they have any villain status, they certainly aren't shy about it.
* CoolBoat: A particular shot of a battleship appears in several different films.
* CopycatCover
* DirectToVideo
* ExploitationFilm: Mockbusting aside, a lot of these films (''especially'' the horror rip-offs) are like modern day Grindhouse flicks.
* MarketBasedTitle: ''8213: Gacy House'' was renamed ''[[DolledUpInstallment Paranormal Entity 2]]'' in the UK, presumably because they feared British audiences wouldn't know who John Wayne Gacy was.
* TheMockbuster
* ProductionPosse
* PublicDomainCharacter: [[Creator/HRiderHaggard Allan Quatermain]], SherlockHolmes, {{Dracula}}
* PublicDomainStories: ''JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', ''WarOfTheWorlds'', ''MobyDick'', ''Princess of Mars''
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-> ''I think Mockbusters are like store brands. Say you’ve got a cold and you walk into your local Walgreens for some medicine (and a pap smear). You see the Sudafed, and right next to it, in a box that looks remarkably similar to the national brand, the store’s own “Nasal Decongestant.” I don’t think most people buy the store brand because they think it’s really Sudafed in a different box. I think they buy it because they think it will be similar to Sudafed, only cheaper.\\
Just like our Mockbusters. They’re similar to big studio films, only cheaper.\\
And shittier.\\
If that’s possible.''
-->[[http://www.theasylum.cc/blog/2011/04/in-defense-of-mockbusters/ Paul Bales]], Partner/Administrator and Operations of TheAsylum
The Asylum is an American production company located in Burbank, California. They are best known for producing horror and science fiction [[TheMockbuster mockbuster]] films, often with a lot more graphic violence and sex than their Hollywood competition in order to make up for their low production values.
The company can turn around a movie in four months. This makes it able to produce films on short notice in order to capitalize on the marketing and surging interests generated by blockbuster films. In order to do this, the movies use no-name actors and cheap special effects. The company produces between ten and fifteen movies a year and has released over 300 films to date.
Founded in 1997 by former Village Roadshow executives, The Asylum started out as a run-of-the-mill, low-budget indie studio, specializing in horror films. Their first largely successful film was 2005's ''HGWells' War of the Worlds'', which was produced to coincide with Steven Spielberg's ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. This film's success, largely due to movie rental chains buying it in bulk in order to cash in on the Spielberg version, led The Asylum to its current business model. The company achieved Internet notoriety in 2009 with ''MegaSharkVersusGiantOctopus'', whose trailer went viral on Website/YouTube.
As the quote shows, they are also fully aware of their status, [[TheBarnum and cheerfully admit it.]]
Their website can be found [[http://www.theasylum.cc/index.php here]].
Definitely not to be confused with [[EmilieAutumn The Asylum Emporium]], TheAsylumForWaywardVictorianGirls or AsylumVisualEffects.
----
!!Films
* ''11/11/11''
* ''#1 Cheerleader Camp''
* ''100 Feet''
* ''100 Million Years BC''
* ''18 Year Old Virgin''
* ''2-Headed Shark Attack''
* ''200 MPH''
* ''2012: Doomsday''
* ''2012: Ice Age''
* ''2012: Supernova''
* ''30,000 Leagues under the Sea''
* ''6 Guns''
* ''666: The Beast''
* ''666: The Child''
* ''The 7 Adventures of Sinbad''
* ''8213: Gacy House''
* ''The 9/11 Commission Report''
* ''AbrahamLincolnVsZombies''
* ''AVH: Alien vs. Hunter''
* ''Airline Disaster''
* ''Alien Abduction''
* ''Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls''
* ''Film/AlmightyThor''
* ''American Warships'' ([[ScrewedByTheLawyers formerly]] ''American Battleship'')
* ''Anneliese: the Exorcist Tapes''
* ''The Apocalypse''
* ''Ballistica''
* ''Barely Legal''
* ''Battle of Los Angeles''
* ''Born Bad''
* ''Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse''
* ''Countdown: Jerusalem''
* ''The Da Vinci Treasure''
* ''The Day the Earth Stopped''
* ''Dead Line''
* ''DeathRacers''
* ''Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill''
* ''Dragon''
* ''Dragon Crusaders''
* ''Dragonquest''
* ''Evil''
* ''Evil Eyes''
* ''Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers''
* ''Expired''
* ''Freakshow''
* ''H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds''
* ''Halloween Night''
* ''Haunting of Winchester House''
* ''A Haunting in Salem''
* ''Hillside Cannibals''
* ''I Am Omega''
* ''Intermedio''
* ''Invasion of the Pod People''
* ''Jane White is Sick and Twisted''
* ''Journey to the Center of the Earth''
* ''Killers''
* ''Killers 2: The Beast''
* ''King of the Ants''
* ''King of the Lost World''
* ''The Land that Time Forgot''
* ''The Legend of Bloody Jack''
* ''Legion of the Dead''
* ''Mega Piranha''
* ''Mega Python vs. Gatoroid''
* ''Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus''
* ''Film/MegaSharkVsGiantOctopus''
* ''Megafault''
* ''Merlin and the War of the Dragons''
* ''Meteor Apocalypse''
* ''MILF''
* ''Moby Dick''
* ''Monster''
* ''Nazis at the Center of the Earth''
* ''Paranormal Entity''
* ''Pirates of Treasure Island''
* ''Princess and the Pony''
* ''Princess of Mars''
* ''Shapeshifter''
* ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes''
* ''Snakes on a Train''
* ''Sorority House Rules''
* ''The Source''/''The Surge''
* ''Street Racer''
* ''Sunday School Musical''
* ''The Terminators''
* ''Titanic II''
* ''{{Transmorphers}}''
** ''Transmorphers: Fall of Man'' - A prequel to the above.
* ''Universal Soldiers''
* ''War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave''
* ''Film/WhenAKillerCalls''
----
!!Commonly Associated Tropes
* ArtisticLicense: No need to get specific. We'd be here all day.
* CaptainErsatz
* CardCarryingVillain: If they have any villain status, they certainly aren't shy about it.
* CoolBoat: A particular shot of a battleship appears in several different films.
* CopycatCover
* DirectToVideo
* ExploitationFilm: Mockbusting aside, a lot of these films (''especially'' the horror rip-offs) are like modern day Grindhouse flicks.
* MarketBasedTitle: ''8213: Gacy House'' was renamed ''[[DolledUpInstallment Paranormal Entity 2]]'' in the UK, presumably because they feared British audiences wouldn't know who John Wayne Gacy was.
* TheMockbuster
* ProductionPosse
* PublicDomainCharacter: [[Creator/HRiderHaggard Allan Quatermain]], SherlockHolmes, {{Dracula}}
* PublicDomainStories: ''JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', ''WarOfTheWorlds'', ''MobyDick'', ''Princess of Mars''
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** ''Transmorphers: Fall of Man'' - A prequel to the above.
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