Asset Plagiarism - Third Theft

Cover art kicks things off.

Dark Amazon vs Baseline Killer¹ vs Babysitter Wanted

¹Shot in 2008, but not released until 2009.

Vengeance Day² vs The Dead Undead

²Footsteps (2006) was repackaged in 2012.

This next set is just weird.

Ivanhoe - Lifeline (26 September 2008) vs Evergrey - Torn (19 September 2008)

And it doesn't stop there.

Blood Dungeon aka Dungeon Girl (2008) vs Scourge (31 January 2008)

The earliest source (as far as I'm concerned at least), smacks of:

The Reaping (2007)

Miscellany

Moon Rocks³ vs Alien

³Novel bizarrely rapes plot of unofficial Alien sequel Alien 2: On Earth, as action largely takes place underground.

M.I.A.: Missing in Action⁴ vs Uncommon Valor

⁴Spiritual successor to Green Beret.

No Such Thing as Monsters vs The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973)

Discount Leatherface doesn't even appear in piece of shit.

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (opening credits) vs Halloween; The Curse of Michael Myers (VHS back art)

Recycling an image of Donald Pleasence from the final film in original timeline makes absolutely no FUCKING sense.

The cover of the first computer game based on Miami Vice is taken directly from a promo shot in the third and final season of classic TV series.

Why have they swapped places?

(Shrugs shoulders).

Anyway.

One of the billboards in Full Throttle, aka Top Speed played the stealing game.

HA HA HA!

Taito would release Chase H.Q. a year later in 1988, with the two detectives clearly based on Crockett and Tubbs.

Go to Hell vs Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

Even font was nicked.

Finally.

John George Jones brutalised rock musician for Soft & Cuddly.

And what are those things either side of face?

Zippy of Rainbow fame turned into a monster.

(Laughs).

Two Tribes: Populous II⁵ - Mega Drive (EU only) vs The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Hokusai

⁵Why title was changed from Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is unknown.

Storm Master vs Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David

Caravaggio

Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris vs David with the Head of Goliath (Vienna)

Camila Cabello - Romance vs Judith Beheading Holofernes

The Creation of Adam - Michelangelo

God

These are more rip offs, but whatever.

Shadow of the Beast II

Blackthorne

Coming full circle.

Adam and God

Better Dead Than Alien - Amiga

Oh yeah.

Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare

Boris Vallejo

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story vs Taurus, the Bull Fantasy

Satan's Baby Doll (La Bimba di Satana) vs Incubus

Renato Casaro, how could you?

Also.

The Church (La Chiesa)

Filmmakers knew EXACTLY what they were doing.

Frank Frazetta

You can't have one without the other.

Ulysses Siren - Above the Ashes vs Sea Witch

Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme vs Dark Kingdom

Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath vs Swords of Mars

Unbelievably, the Godfather of fantasy art wasn't totally innocent.

Conan the Destroyer vs The Bearers of Bad Tidings - Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ

WTAF, right?

Until next time.