The 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).
March 28th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
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.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
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?
March 28th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
this is awesome!
a renters dream
March 28th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
unwatchable.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Couldn’t even finish it. What the hell was going on? Did someone really direct this?
Wow…
March 28th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
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.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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!
March 28th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
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.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
The Asylum are the original Swede.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Hahaha good point. really good swede movies. Except it not. This is kindaaa really horrible. yeah.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
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
March 28th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
They would have to prove that a person could reasonably believe the fakes to be the real thing.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
seriously, where the hell do they get funding for this?
March 28th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
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.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Another interesting side note is that Sean Connery played Allen Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
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.
March 29th, 2008 at 2:00 am
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
March 29th, 2008 at 6:26 am
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.
March 29th, 2008 at 6:27 am
then again, no one could have.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:16 am
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.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:53 am
This reminds me of the studio ed wood started at in tim burtons film… “see this poster? make a movie for it!”
March 29th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
hmm… this or a spielberg directed indiana jones movie? tough choice!!!!
March 30th, 2008 at 1:03 am
I guess this finally fills out the roster for “Knockbuster” day at the RedVic…
March 30th, 2008 at 4:06 am
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March 30th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Hah…that’s great :-D
March 30th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
This studio blows chimp
March 31st, 2008 at 4:06 am
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!).
March 31st, 2008 at 8:34 am
ahahahahahahahahahhahahaha
April 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am
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!