For the past several years, the Sci-Fi channel (stupidly renamed "SyFy" in 2009) has devoted it's Saturday night lineup to a series of movies, many of which they produced themselves. A vast majority of these films are B-movies; low-budget movies with horrid acting, tacky computer effects, and nonsensical plots. They're the kinds of movies you'd see on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". A lot of these movies fall under the category "so bad, it's good".
Most of these movies seem to involve giant or mutated animals, or concepts which were stolen from better, more profitable movies. Movies they've aired in the past include "Ice Spiders", "SS Doomtrooper", and their magnum opus, "Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus". In one of this movie's most notorious scenes, the title shark leaps out of the water and snatches a jumbo jet from the sky. No, really, it needs to be seen to be believed.
A lot of these movies are produced by a studio called "The Asylum". They're infamous for making cheap knock-offs of popular blockbusters, including "Snakes On A Train" and "Transmorphers". Not surprisingly, 20th Century Fox has a pending lawsuit against them. Apparently, The Asylum's movie "The Day The Earth Stopped" was too similar to their movie, "The Day The Earth Stood Still".
Their newest film, which sounds like a rip-off of one of their own movies, airs this Saturday on SyFy. It's called "Mega Python Vs. Gatoroid". In this gem, a team of scientists create a giant alligator in order to defeat a giant python created by a crazed animal rights activist. Both creatures go berserk and wreak havoc upon the state of Florida.
Maybe it's better than it sounds.
You can watch a scene from the movie here.
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