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Mockbuster recalls a more innocent, human-driven era of knock-off films

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Mockbuster recalls a more innocent, human-driven era of knock-off films
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Bad art is everywhere, but the studio behind Sharknado has made an art out of making cheap movies fast. Like Roger Corman’s American International Pictures or Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma, The Asylum has found an audience hungry for scrappy, low-budget films, like riffs on public domain properties, disaster pictures like the Sharknado franchise, or Temu knock-offs of the latest tentpoles, affectionately known as mockbusters. Its recent slate includes “sounds like” titles like Fr

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