A fan film following up on the CRITTERS franchise that serves as a pitch for WB's upcoming web series

It's tough to keep up with all the newer fan films based on established characters, as there's just so dang many of 'em, but Jordan Downey's deserves your eyeballs because (1) it's well-made, looks professional and respects the rules of the franchise it follows and (2) is a follow-up to the CRITTERS movies, a franchise that isn't exactly known for its devoted roster of fans that create original content.  The six minute short is pretty much all set-up, but it seems to have a fine regard for the world that the original four films had established.  Here's CRITTERS: BOUNTY HUNTER, just in time for Crites-mas.

FLASH SIRLOIN (1981) is a homemade, restaurant-set FLASH GORDON homage

Oh, sure, it was made for about two bucks on a lazy weekend in 1981, but Chris Maxfield and John Torretta's 8mm-lensed little fan film (using no doubt unlicensed Queen music) has a sense of exuberance and fun that plenty of similar homemade films today lack.  This wasn't done to get famous, this was done because a bunch of guys had a lot of fun making a silly little movie.  HARDWARE WARS is the clear inspiration.

Update:  From what I can tell, it seems to be shot at this place in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, which is still open!

1978 fan-film version of MOONRAKER

Hey, remember MOONRAKER?  No, not the crummy Roger Moore Bond flick from 1979 (though at least it had Richard Kiel) -- the 8mm silent film adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel made one year before by recent high school graduate Stuart Basinger.  (No relation to NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN star Kim.)  You can find more info on this production here.




MOONRAKER '78 from Fan Film Follies on Vimeo.

Stop-motion SPACE: 1999 fan film from 1979

Fan films are nothing new -- they've existed since the first sci-fi/fantasy fan got access to a camera.  This 1979 fan film, a Super-8 spectacle by 16-year-old French fans riffing off of the second season of "Space:1999," is pretty amazing, featuring tons of inventive stop-motion effects.