Cult Labs

Go Back   Cult Labs > Members' Club > Competition Corner > Competition Archive > Past Competitions - 2008

Closed Thread
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 18th August 2008, 11:42 PM
Sarah@Cult Labs's Avatar
Newsletter Moderator
Forum Moderator
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Liverpool
Blog Entries: 2
Exclamation WIN Who Saw Her Die!

As we already know, Who Saw Her Die is very very similar to the infamous Don't Look Now. Far from being a rip-off, WSHD was actually made before Nicholas Roeg's masterpiece.

"Where is this leading?" I hear you ask...

Well, we've got three copies of Who Saw Her Die to give away. All you have to do is tell us which other famous films are actually rip-offs of Italian favourites. Links can be serious or tenuous... In fact, the more far-fetched and crazy the better but you need to be able to explain yourself! It's no good just telling us that Steel Magnolias is actually ripped-off from Suspiria - you have to explain the connection... Which should make fun reading!

The competition closes at midnight on Friday 29th August 2008 and will be judged by your friendly neighbourhood Shameless mods!

Good luck!
__________________

Last edited by Sarah@Cult Labs; 18th August 2008 at 11:53 PM.
  #2  
Old 18th August 2008, 11:45 PM
The Reaper Man@Cult Labs's Avatar
Cult Don
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
Good Trader
Senior Moderator
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Glasgow
Default

The longest available version in the UK yet and digitally scrubbed up-you know you want one!
Let's see what you all come up with.....
  #3  
Old 18th August 2008, 11:52 PM
The Reaper Man@Cult Labs's Avatar
Cult Don
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
Good Trader
Senior Moderator
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Glasgow
Default

How can you resist?
Attached Thumbnails
WIN Who Saw Her Die!-sham014whosawherdiefrontsleeve.jpg   WIN Who Saw Her Die!-sham014whosawherdiereversesleeve.jpg  
  #4  
Old 19th August 2008, 08:40 AM
Sarah@Cult Labs's Avatar
Newsletter Moderator
Forum Moderator
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Liverpool
Blog Entries: 2
Default

What? No takers?!
__________________
  #5  
Old 19th August 2008, 09:24 AM
Zarith's Avatar
Cultist in Training
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Default

Well I guess these are pretty obvious but anyway...


Friday the 13th includes many scenes copied from Mario Bava's Reazione a Catena (the impaled couple, for example). The whole movie can be considered an unofficial remake.


Norman J. Warren saw Suspiria 1000 time before directing Terror. Just watch the trailer here : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=mLMuHjEV-RM
A shameless rip-off!


Many movies were (indirectly) inspired by Mario Bava's "the telephone" story in Tre Volti Della Paura/Black Sabbath. When a Stranger Calls by Fred Walton is probably the first.


Carpenter's Halloween is a direct homage to Dario Argento and Sergio Martino (especially Torso, The Bird with Crystal Plumage and Deep Red). The masked killer, the big knife, the music, the pace, the killer POV, etc...


Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill has a bit of L'Uomo Senza Memoria in it (Angie Dickinson is wounded the same way as Senta Berger, with exactly the same camera angle). Italian film makers were a huge influence on Brian De Palma...


Stanley Kubrick stealing ideas from Sergio Martino? Maybe... In one sequence of Your Vice is a Locked Room..., a writter, violent and schizophrenic, keeps typing the same sentence over and over. I saw something similar in Shining ;-)


Pascal Laugier's Saint Ange is a gore-less melodramatic variation on Lucio Fulci's The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery. The ending is 100% Fulci: Virginie Ledoyen, here eyes totally white, trapped in a "death zone"...


Eli Roth is a fan of Aldo Lado. We all know it. In Hostel II, he wanted to make a sequence similar to The Night Train Murder (isolated young girls in a train, victim of deranged junkies). But he failed completely! An ultra modern train that includes a night club full of teenagers is not scary, just silly.


Richard Marquand's The Legacy is, for me, a modern version of Mario Bava's Lisa e il Diavolo.


In one sequence of King Kong, Peter Jackson enters in Italian territory. When we discover the tribe on the Skull island, I felt I was in an Umberto Lenzi cannibal movie!


OK that's all for today...

Last edited by Zarith; 19th August 2008 at 11:37 AM.
  #6  
Old 19th August 2008, 10:20 AM
Nora's Avatar
Active Cultist
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Default

Night of the Living Dead is a blatent rip-off of Zombie Flesh Eaters.
Critics will doubtless point out that Night of the Living Dead came first. This, however, means nothing, as anyone who's read that Arthur c. Clarke novel (the one about how a race of red, horned, winged aliens who caused the destruction of humanity echo down through race memory into the past and inspire stories of devils) will know.
  #7  
Old 19th August 2008, 01:57 PM
iluvdvds@Cult Labs's Avatar
Competitions Moderator
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
Good Trader
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Norwich, UK
Blog Entries: 14
Default

Batman ripped of Ratman becuase there names sound the same. Duh!

__________________
  #8  
Old 19th August 2008, 06:14 PM
The Reaper Man@Cult Labs's Avatar
Cult Don
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
Good Trader
Senior Moderator
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Glasgow
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by iluvdvds View Post
Batman ripped of Ratman becuase there names sound the same. Duh!

****ing class!
  #9  
Old 19th August 2008, 07:12 PM
Sarah@Cult Labs's Avatar
Newsletter Moderator
Forum Moderator
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Liverpool
Blog Entries: 2
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by iluvdvds View Post
Batman ripped of Ratman becuase there names sound the same. Duh!

Not enough people use the word "duh"!
__________________
  #10  
Old 20th August 2008, 06:50 PM
The Reaper Man@Cult Labs's Avatar
Cult Don
Cult Labs Radio Contributor
Good Trader
Senior Moderator
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Glasgow
Default

Who else?
Closed Thread  

Like this? Share it using the links below!

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



Our goal is to keep Cult Labs friendly. If you feel discouraged from posting by certain members' behaviour then you can e-mail us in complete confidence.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
All forum posts are contributed by members of the site; Cult Labs cannot take responsibility for all content posted on the site. If you have an issue with content posted on the site please click the 'report post' button.
Copyright © 2014 Cult Laboratories Ltd. All rights reserved.