15 Strange ’80s Movie Rip-Offs You Didn’t Know Existed

There is a trend that still exists today involving popular movies, where a studio that lacks integrity creates a brutish copy of the source material, releases it quickly, and hopes to trick audiences into believing their film has something to do with popular media. The plan is to trick audiences with cover art, while the content doesn’t often matter. In the 80s it was even easier to get away with this, since before the internet, facts were far harder to check out. These films have become classics for underground movie lovers, but for general audiences, it is a brand new window into cheap filmmaking in a bygone era. The post 15 Strange ’80s Movie Rip-Offs You Didn’t Know Existed appeared first on Den of Geek.