A Mad Max Vampire Flick, Another Mega Shark, 3-Headed Shark Attack, and More Upcoming Asylum Lunacy
It’s not all Sharknado and “Z Nation” over at The Asylum; they’ve also got a slew of other films in the works that may be over interest to b-movie fans involving apocalyptic road-raging vampires, all sorts of monster sharks, and a mockbuster of a big screen movie that already seems like a big budget Asylum mockbuster.
With fanboys salivating with anticipation over the release of Mad Max: Fury Road, The Asylum gets in on the action with the unfortunately titled Road Wars, a Mad Max knock-off and post-apocalyptic vampire flick.
After the earth’s water supply is depleted, the survivors form roving road gangs, armed to the teeth and desperate to find and protect water supplies. But when a new breed of blood-drinking humans emerges, the survivors must contend with a whole new threat to their existence.
Drought. Vehicular mayhem. Wanton acts of violence. People in tacky attire desperate for water. Inhuman fiends craving immortality. It’s pretty much the story of California at this very moment.
Mark Atkins (Sand Sharks, Android Cop) is the writer-director of this futuristic fang flick, the trailer for which you will find below.
Road Wars streets on VOD/DVD May 5th.
On May 19th, The Asylum counters the big screen 3D disaster porn epic San Andreas with their own 2D earthquake opus San Andreas Quake.
This tickles me to no end since the first thing that went through my mind upon seeing the trailer for San Andreas was how it looked and sounded like it was following the exact formula as just about every disaster flick The Asylum has cranked out in recent years. Only differences being the f/x budget and in lieu of The Rock having to rescue his family amid catastrophe, here Starship Troopers alumnus Casper Van Dien has to run around rescuing his family as Los Angeles shatters into the Pacific Ocean.
When a discredited L.A. seismologist warns of an impending 12.7 earthquake, no one takes her seriously. Now on her own, she races desperately to get her family to safety before the earthquake breaks Los Angeles apart from the mainland.
Just a few weeks back The Asylum revealed they were wrapping up work on the latest installment of the Mega Shark franchise. Having already defeated a giant octopus, a prehistoric crocosaurus, and a mechanized version of itself, their signature shark will once again find itself contending with yet another robotic nemesis: Kolossus.
In search of a new energy source, Russia accidentally reawakens the Kolossus – a giant robot doomsday device from the Cold War. At the same time, a new Mega Shark appears, threatening global security. Now the world must figure out how to stop the deadly giants before they destroy everything on land AND sea.
Now get a load of this eclectic cast: Ileana Douglas (Ghost World, Otis), Amy Rider (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager”), Brody Hutzler (“The Young and the Restless”), cosplayers Team Unicorn, and Ernest L. Thomas of the 70’s sitcom “What’s Happening?” and its 80’s revival “What’s Happening Now.”
Mega Shark vs. Kolossus is directed by Christopher Olen Ray and surfaces on July 7th.
Olen Ray is doing double shark duty by also helming 3-Headed Shark Attack, the follow-up to his 2012 creature feature 2-Headed Shark Attack.
The world’s greatest killing machine is three times as deadly when a mutated shark threatens a cruise ship. As the shark eats its way from one end of the ship to the next, the passengers fight the deadly predator using anything they can find.
No Carmen Electra this time, so ex-“Baywatch” lifeguard Jaason Simmons stars, previously seen getting chomped by flying sharks in Sharknado. He’ll be joined by the hardest cameoing man in show business, Danny Trejo, and WWE/ECW pro wrestling superstar Rob Van Dam.
No street date yet as to when we will get to see RVD eaten by the whole f’n shark.
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