Because they’ve got a good chance of getting their asses sued CLEAN OFF.
A bold pronunciation, I know, and the kind of bold pronunciation that you’ve come to expect from me and probably a good chunk of why you show up. So now it’s time for me to explain just why I’m making such a bold pronunciation.
Easy. See, Viewfinder Entertainment is putting out a film called Driller, straight to DVD, about a man kidnapped by aliens and transformed into a subhuman cybernetic killing machine that goes forth to jam a very large power drill into whatever he happens to stumble across according to the orders of the aliens who turned him into the enormous drill-mounted killing machine in the first place. On a side note I’m already worried about it because it features Eric Spudic, a man I’ve come to recognize as the canary in the bad movie coal mine. If Spudic’s involved it’s seldom a sign of a good movie to come.
Compare that–a step Viewfinder may well not have taken–to a Japanese film by the name of Meatball Machine, in which alien parasites from space (and a few under the sea) called Necroborgs that infect people and turn them into enormous killing machines that duel each other and kill whatever happens to be around for entertainment.
Now, the fun part comes when the dates are applied. Meatball Machine, so saith the IMDB, came out first in 2005. Driller was finished in 2006, premiered on the film festival circuit in late 2006…but not released on DVD until this year? Maybe Viewfinder already vetted Driller with its legal staffers to make sure that Meatball Machine wouldn’t come back to haunt them, hence the two-year lag. Maybe they’re prepared to scream “HOMAGE!”, that universal excuse of the shady deal.
Maybe they’re hoping no one will notice. A whole lot of horror movies come out every year, and many of them are ripoffs of something else.
Well, someone did, kids…I did. And that’s why the bold pronunciations.
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I’m the filmmaker of the film. Driller is nothing like meatball machine, if you saw the movie you would know that. What grounds do you have trashing a film you never saw?
Well, let’s start with reasonable inference. Your publicly available box art containing graphics of your “driller” killer contains several commonalities with Meatball Machine. Your equally publicly available synopsis contains plot elements similar to that of Meatball Machine. I detail them clearly in the post itself. Thus I can apply this wonderful literary device called COMPARISON AND CONTRAST to take those elements that I had–character design and plot elements–and apply them to those of Meatball Machine. I found several similarities. You’re welcome to disagree, but as to your final question, easy. I didn’t trash your movie. Frankly, I didn’t even trash those ELEMENTS of your movie which you made publicly available. I made a comparison to earlier work. I even said as much–I’m openly comparing your character design and plot elements to those of another work. Now…if you’d like…I’d be happy to REVIEW your work here. I am something of a well-known film critic. If it turns out I still can’t find those similarities, or even that it turns out your work is entertaining and fun and not at ALL derivative, well, I’ll be happy to publicly say so. Considering that I can’t find review of your work on Rotten Tomatoes, Bloody Disgusting, Horror-movies.ca or even a Google search for that matter, you may well appreciate the boost. If you want to spin the wheel, drop me a line. Assuming, of course, you actually come back to see my reply.