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We adore the animated adaptation of Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, so we almost passed out from charm overdose when we saw this real-life take on Phil Lord and Chris Miller‘s movie. It's simply superb. This short was submitted to the Virgin Radio Fake Film Festival. If you loved this 60-second take on Cloudy, vote at the Virgin website. Also check out the enjoyable one-minute Harry Potter. More »
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If someone forced you at gunpoint to condense the Harry Potter series into a minute, you could do way worse than this yell-happy rendition of the Boy Who Lived's foibles. This frenzied synopsis is currently in the running at the Virgin Radio Fake Film Festival, so vote if you enjoyed it. I appreciate how the filmmakers devoted way too many precious seconds on that gross Voldemort baby. Big ups to Avery. More »
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Remember when the Man of Steel died and came back in the 1990s? Well, this is the closest we're going to get to a live-action Death of Superman movie. And it's kind of amazing. More »
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Youtuber BabelColour has lovingly condensed almost five decades of Who history into this 10-minute supercut that catalogs "every Doctor Who adventure from 'An Unearthly Child' in 1963 right up to 'The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe' Christmas Special." The spliced quotes also interlock to create one of the stranger Eurhythmics remixes out there. More »
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Remember Bee-Deer, the nonsensical Arabic Doctor Who rip-off starring the brave Doctor Hooey? Well, the team behind that faux bootleg is back with Spacekisser, a scifi short in the spirit of such cinematic marvels as Homodi. Hooey has been promoted to Captain, and that's all I got. Enjoy. More »
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Check out the first 13 minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark recut with scenes from the sort of free-wheeling adventure flicks Steven Spielberg and George Lucas drew their inspiration from. These shots were taken from 30 separate films released from 1919 to 1973. More »
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When it comes to fan films, people love making movies A.) based on Valve properties; and B.) fairly nonsensical character mash-ups. This movie by Adrian Picardi and Northern Five Entertainment slaps these two flavors together. You can watch a making-of video here. More »
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We've seen fan films that are extremely grim takes on their source material and those that cast characters from entirely different franchises. Mark Cheng's G.I. Joe fan film Operation Red Retrieval mixes these two elements with aplomb. More »
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Being the biased Super Nintendo owner that I am, I'm of the mind that the time-traveling RPG Chrono Trigger is probably the most unimpeachably perfect video game of all time (tied with Super Metroid, of course). So it leaves me absolutely tickled that the folks at Dorkly have decided to cater to my nostalgia and unceremoniously plop a Time Lord into the game's final battle. With a Gallifreyan around, Chrono Trigger would be over in five minutes. Hat tip to Zan!

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During a particularly pokey day on the Enterprise, Picard and the gang kicked back and expressed their bemusement over another televisual extravaganza that happened to have the prefix Star. And no, I'm not talking about Star Kid. This peek into an alternate universe is brought to us by YouTuber ColbyCornish. More »
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If and when the dead rise, some of us will inevitably be wearing some pretty silly outfits. In this haunting short film by Chris Russell, a costumed aquarium coupon hawker begins his journey around a crumbling world. It will definitely make you sympathize with the ambulating vitality-deprived. Hat tip to Bruno. More »
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John Carpenter's The Thing has inspired musical tributes, deep video exegesis, and even that prequel which came out last weekend. But what do MacReady, Childs, and the gang make of this new film? No sir, they don't like it. More »
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We're accustomed to Voltron being a psychedelic romp about candy-colored cat mecha, but what if the cartoon's heroes met a horrific fate? More »
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We've been admiring some pretty slick Star Wars fan films lately — but what about the old-school, DIY stuff? More »
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Lovingly made Star Wars fan films, they're growing on trees these days. The latest not-for-profit Star flick is the atmospheric Italian film, Dark Resurrection: Volume 0. In this film, a group of Jedis discover a derelict spaceship with a nasty secret. Don't worry, it's nothing like Turkish Star Wars. More »
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Check out this amazing Star Wars fan film, that shows life under the rule of the Empire. This three-part story may have a bit of shoestring-budget cheesiness, but we still think the basic story is pretty excellent. Fingers crossed, this is the kind of stuff we'll see from the mysterious Star Wars television series (if that ever gets filmed). More »
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A group of independent filmmakers have put together a snazzy homemade film based on Ben Templesmith's (30 Days Of Night) supernatural IDW Publishing comic miniseries, Welcome To Hoxford. More »
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There are about a zillion Star Wars redubs out there — The Vader Sessions being the gold standard — but this lost scene from the Battle of Endor by David Wilm speaks to me. Does this mean Xenu lives on Mon Calamari? More »
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Remember how we mentioned that Casey Jones fan film by Texan filmmaker Polaris Banks? Well, it's now viewable online now. For a shoestring production, it's some wacky fun starring the deadly sportsmaster. More »
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Given that we live in a world where Battleship is going to the multiplex, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that someone's imagined a mature audiences Where's Waldo flick. The best moments are the sniper sequence and the guest spot by The Waldog (or whatever the hell he's called). More »
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As a tribute to that certain boy adventurer who was always in mortal peril, Roger Evans has recreated the credits to Jonny Quest with patience and plastic. You can see how he reproduced each stop-motion shot here. More »
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For those of you who didn't like Darth Vader's new overdubbed voice in the Return of the Jedi Blu-ray discs, here's a fan video that offers... an alternative. More »
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The Portal series is of exceedingly high quality, so it's unsurprising that the game is inspiring some terrifically snazzy fan movies. In Dan Trachtenberg's Portal: No Escape, a prisoner uses her Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device to escape from her captors. More »
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With almost no funding, Austin filmmaker Polaris Banks made his own 35-minute fan movie about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's cricket bat-wielding vigilante friend Casey Jones. Banks got Robbie Rist, the voice of Michelangelo in the movies, to lend his pipes to the no-budget production. More »
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Last year we shared this amazing Hunger Games fan-video that acted out a soul crushing scene from the novel. Now the same production company is back and bringing us all a video from the second book Catching Fire. More »
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This nifty cartoon by a group of Italian filmmakers distills H.P. Lovecraft's Antarctic misadventure novella into a 30-minute film. The film's subtitled and the animation's not super-complex, but it zips through the story, and some of the visuals are squirm-inducing. More »
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Animator John Banana has created this charming short animation as an homage to Dave Stevens' jetpack-wielding hero. It's cute stuff, and the only thing it's missing is a CG John Locke as Howard Hughes. More »
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In the spirit of such fan films as Batman: Dead End comes Batman Deliverance, a nine-minute short that details the ignominious end of Bruce Wayne at the claws of Canada's most famous superhero (I don't mean Captain Canuck). More »
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Fans of Valve video games sure love making hyper-detailed fan movies. The latest one, Outside Aperture, tells the hidden history of what happened after the first Portal. It's not canonical, but it's cute. More »
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We know that professional handsome man Isaiah Mustafa has talked to Marvel about the possibility of playing Luke Cage, and now check out this promo video of the actor as Power Man. Neat stuff, but there's no disco tiara. More »
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Check out Kaydara, a sprawling, almost hour-long Matrix fan movie conceived by Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard, French fans of the Wachowskis' trilogy. The special effects are an absolute knockout for a labor of love. More »
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After condensing the original trilogy into 133 seconds, YouTuber dzine123 has smushed The Phantom Something or Other, Attack of that Thing, and Revenge of the Whatsit into 141 seconds of stop-motion Lego animation. The explanation of Midi-chlorians is fairly on-point. More »
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YouTube user Ray Glasser has posted this wonderfully homemade Star Trek movie he made for his TV production class at Ohio State in 1971. Check out Spock's sweet facial hair! He received an A- for this project. More »
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For the Done in 60 Seconds film contest, Wolfgang Matzl has transformed Christopher Nolan's Inception into a short film starring some dapper paper dolls and rather proper backdrops. More »
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You may remember OneMinuteGalactica's hilarious science fiction instructional movies that recast the Star Trek gang as participants in an anger management film and Superman as an office safety lesson. Now he's condemned the once fearsome T-800 to be an unwitting lead in a cheeky short film about good manners. More »
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A Jawa runs into K-9, the Doctor's robot friend, but he needs the Doctor's sonic screwdriver to repair the poor tin dog. This advertisement for the Corsham Sci-Fi Family Funday in England is ridiculously cute. More »
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A group of Half-Life fans were so enamored of Valve's classic first-person shooter that they produced a fan film based on the scifi game's mythology. As always, a crowbar is an essential tool for staying alive. More »
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With Fox shuffling Fringe off to the hinterlands of Friday night, YouTuber Gualcit has made fictional opening credits for the show's next episode, "Firefly," which is a cheeky reference to Joss Whedon's doomed drama. Enjoy those Twizzlers, Walter. [Thanks, Lakedesire!] More »
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There are plenty of cosplay tribute videos on the web, but these strange Sailor Moon home movies are gaining play due to their public access production values and the fact that all of the actresses involved look extremely bored. More »
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What would happen if someone made a dark, gritty live-action Pokémon film? It'd probably look a lot like Pokémon Apokélypse, a fake trailer so spot-on, some fans thought it was real. The last line is what makes it. [Shogun Gamer] More »
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