Lots of franchise sequels leaned into the practice of recycling footage in the 80s and 90s. But none of them did it quite as outrageously as this holiday gorefest.
Recycling footage used to be a common strategy for low to no budget filmmakers; entire producers' oeuvres and studio outputs used the practice from the silent era up until the 1950s. The difference being, of course, that the reused footage tended only to be stuff that was expensive to make and couldn't be restaged easily (stunts, fights, etc.).
I didn't even think about that era. But I have seen those Disney animation comps where they clearly reused scenes and just reskinned them with different characters.
Never heard of this before! SNDN 2 sounds like a TV clip show episode!
Footage recycling is a fascinating thing - that's partially how they made a Bruce Lee movie after his death with Game of Death (1978). But to not even shoot anything new at all?! How the hell did that guy think this plan would work?
Studios will try anything to save money! Even sabotaging their own projects. 😂
The Silent Night, Deadly Night series is pretty fun, even though none of them are masterpieces. The third one is directed by the legend Monte Hellman and stars three future David Lynch collaborators.
Don't remember much from that one, so I guess it wasn't so egregious that it stuck in my mind! (Decent movie, but that series drops off a little bit with each installment.)
Recycling footage used to be a common strategy for low to no budget filmmakers; entire producers' oeuvres and studio outputs used the practice from the silent era up until the 1950s. The difference being, of course, that the reused footage tended only to be stuff that was expensive to make and couldn't be restaged easily (stunts, fights, etc.).
I didn't even think about that era. But I have seen those Disney animation comps where they clearly reused scenes and just reskinned them with different characters.
Never heard of this before! SNDN 2 sounds like a TV clip show episode!
Footage recycling is a fascinating thing - that's partially how they made a Bruce Lee movie after his death with Game of Death (1978). But to not even shoot anything new at all?! How the hell did that guy think this plan would work?
Studios will try anything to save money! Even sabotaging their own projects. 😂
The Silent Night, Deadly Night series is pretty fun, even though none of them are masterpieces. The third one is directed by the legend Monte Hellman and stars three future David Lynch collaborators.
How do you feel about the use of recycled footage in Phantasm 4?
Don't remember much from that one, so I guess it wasn't so egregious that it stuck in my mind! (Decent movie, but that series drops off a little bit with each installment.)
They actually incorporated deleted scenes from the first movie into Oblivion so it wasn't exactly recycled. Imo, the fourth is the best.
Oh interesting! Maybe I need to rewatch it. I didn't hate it but didn't love it either.