Movie Trailer: Temple of Skulls - The Asylum’s Indiana Jones Knock-Off

Posted on Friday, March 28th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta

Allan Quatermain and the Temple of the SkullsThe Asylum is best known for their cheap rip-off DVD movies, which includes such titles as: Transmorphers, Snakes on a Train, I Am Omega, Da Vinci Treasure, HG Wells’ War of the Worlds, AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, Monster (the Cloverfield rip) and Pirates of Treasure Island. AMC has termed the genre “Knockbusters”.

This April they have returned with an Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull knock-off titled Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls. Filmed on location in South Africa, Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls is actually a retelling of H. Rider Haggard’s novel King Solomon’s Mines, featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones. Watch the trailer for the film above, and as always, I want to hear your witty remarks in the comments below.

On a side note, Richard Chamberlain played Allan Quatermain in the horrible 1986 action/adventure comedy Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (Sharon Stone and James Earl Jones co-starred).

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  • b e n - a
    Ha, it's probably closer in look to the original serials that Lucas and Spielberg adored which influenced Indy. However, that does not change the fact that this Direct-To-Video title looks and by all accounts is a cinematic turd.
  • Eric
    DEAR GOD please STOP making me gouge my eyes! That was the worst acting, sound effects, and plot line (was there even one!?!) that I have EVER seen.

    Why haven't they been sued and shut down yet?
  • They are not technically breaking copy right, all the names they use are changed enough to not be illegal or out of copy right. Like it or no making bad movies is not a crime.
    Some people like them (or like to hate them) a rent them to laugh at them so they do have an audience (other than the idiots)
  • this is awesome!

    a renters dream
  • Ewan
    unwatchable.
  • Jimbo Stewart
    Couldn't even finish it. What the hell was going on? Did someone really direct this?

    Wow...
  • I'd rather buy the Asylum box set of wet shit... Than shake last drops after an epic piss on a Steve Brill movie poster.
  • Matt
    You've got to love Asylum's marketing philosophy...market to really stupid people who don't know any better.

    Sadly, the big rental chains, Blockbuster and Hollywood Video are just as culpable as they stock and rent these films to their customers...PT Barnum was right!
  • Tabor
    The saddest thing is how many people pick up these shite movies without realizing what they are, especially if they are released the same week as the real ones come out in theaters or on DVD.
  • The Asylum are the original Swede.
  • Dan the Man
    Hahaha good point. really good swede movies. Except it not. This is kindaaa really horrible. yeah.
  • starblazer101
    damn they even ripped off the theme song from "Dinosaurs" how sad


    cant the movie studios that made the original movies sue these guys for ripping off they're ideas seriously
  • Tabor
    They would have to prove that a person could reasonably believe the fakes to be the real thing.
  • GregoryV
    seriously, where the hell do they get funding for this?
  • Liz
    Bahahaha.

    How do these people justify what they do? Seriously? Every company has some kind of ridiculous corporate-speak to make everything sound good, but I just can't imagine what theirs must sound like.
  • MiscPoster
    Another interesting side note is that Sean Connery played Allen Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
  • InspectorNo
    With what I’ve seen and herd about the real Indy 4 this might turn out better or be on the same level as the real thing. Gorge Lucas has been talking like it’s going to be the episode 1 of Indian Jones. It’s like he made a deal with the devil to be talented and it expired.
  • JohnnyDay
    I personally think this movie looks amazing and original. Then again I am blind and mentally challenged so what do I know. But seriously if I made this movie (and was being serious) I'd probally have to kill myself. I don't think the question is how they get their funding because clearly there is not that much funding going on here but the real question is how can they think that making these movies is a good or even an ok idea. One word for Asylum STOP! Then again if they stopped what would we complain about. Tis life I suppose.

    -Johnny Day-
    First of many comments to come
  • kheas
    hey, Richard Chamberlain played Allan Quatermain in two movies one titled King Solomon’s Mines and the other was Lost City of Gold. Thank god he didn't opt in to show up in a third. then again, maybe he could have saved this disaster.
  • kheas
    then again, no one could have.
  • pat
    seriously... please don't post this garbage! It's just free advertising for them... they need to be forgotten about and go out of business.
  • jan
    This reminds me of the studio ed wood started at in tim burtons film... "see this poster? make a movie for it!"
  • bunnyboobs
    hmm... this or a spielberg directed indiana jones movie? tough choice!!!!
  • 40pres
    I guess this finally fills out the roster for "Knockbuster" day at the RedVic...
  • That's so wonderful.She is super pretty and large sexy .I saw her always dating some sexy play boys in millonaire dating site"W e a l t h y L o v i n g . c o m".Dose she really searched her true love now?Wether she has a new baby?
  • Manfred Powell
    Hah...that's great :-D
  • Bud Dickman
    This studio blows chimp
  • I've always preferred the term "Mockbuster" for Asylum's output. As somebody who grew up watching the outrageous output of studios like Cannon and Empire, nothing from Asylum is all that different from the stuff I rushed out to see every Friday night when this popcorn junk (and I use that term lovingly) actually played theaters. Frankly, I enjoyed SNAKES ON A TRAIN waaaayyy more than the overhyped borefest that inspired it and I'm almost positive I AM OMEGA was more fun than LAST FRESH PRINCE ON EARTH (reserving judgment, haven't seen the latter yet). But since I still think that the original RAIDERS is one of the ten most entertaining movies ever made I'm holding out hope this is a return to Spielberg's old days (when he wanted Klaus Kinski to play the Nazi torture dude) and not his horrific output of late (I'm looking at you WAR OF THE WORLDS!).
  • charles
    ahahahahahahahahahhahahaha
  • Ben
    I think it's great--American entrepreneurialism at work! Hilarious, I hope they keep making more!

    Sure the acting, cinematography, and CGI are terrible, but that’s not the point. If people want to rent or buy it, great, capitalism at work. Nobody’s forcing you to watch it. They’re not conning anyone—at least anyone that can read English. Our society is full of knockoff products—there’s a generic version of everything.

    More power to them!
  • prakash bista
    THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. THE MOVIE FULL OF CRAP BULLSHIT MOVIE
  • Andy
    Yes, it was very low budget, and yes, it's marketing was - well, typical Asylum - riding the coattails of someone else's high-budget film. It was certainly no Indiana Jones by a longshot - but let's give them credit for a few things: they actually shot in Africa at more or less the real locations depicted in the movie - their Zulu characters were played by Zulu actors, and their cinematography was quite decent. They re-told the King Solomon's Mines story cut down to the 5 actors they could afford to fy to Africa. They did quite a bit for very little money. I give them credit for that.
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