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Lol, it seems like there was a whole category of films made to ride the coat tails of better, more famous films by sitting beside them on the shelf at Blockbuster, waiting to be picked up by clueless parents.
My sisters still give my dad a hard time about all the knock-off movies he brought home when we were kids. To this day, a Gordy is family short-hand for a disappointing knock-off: "Hey, wait, this isn't brie, this is 'cheese product'...you got the Gordy cheese!"
Yeah, I remember that being a real thing: one studio would get wind that another studio was working on a film with a particular theme, and they'd rush to put out an equivalent movie. Later on, it wasn't even just cheap knockoffs: remember when Deep Impact came out right at the same time as Armageddon? And then like...The 13th Floor, eXistenZ, and The Matrix all came out in 1999. I wonder how much of that was strict copying, how much was scripts influencing one another, and how much was just the zeitgeist.