Film Review – Mockbuster

The Asylum is a movie studio that specializes in low-budget entertainment, often taking advantage of major studio releases to submit a poorly constructed knockoff (“Transformers” vs. “Transmorphers”) to make a few bucks off the curious and the confused. They’ve built an entire library of pictures, with most barely making a buck, but remaining just profitable enough to keep the entire machine running for another round of movies. To quote the “Hellraiser” tagline, the company is “demon to some, angel to others,” and for Australian corporate video director Anthony Frith, The Asylum is just the place to get his start in the film business. “Mockbuster” is a documentary about Frith’s experience helming the 2025 feature, “The Land That Time Forgot,” putting him in the middle of a potential production disaster, hiring a crew to capture the insanity of the opportunity and the inner workings of Asylum life. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com