Mine is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Hahaha! Yeah, Gordy was no Babe. It’s funny that Babe was released the following year. It reminds me of the knock off Aladdin cartoon that was released before Aladdin was actually released. Walmart put it on the shelves at just the right height for little kids to see, while everyone was hyped about the new Disney movie being released later, in 1992. I don’t even think they included Apu in it!
Yeah, I remember that being a real thing: one studio would get wind that another studio was working on a film with a particular theme, and they’d rush to put out an equivalent movie. Later on, it wasn’t even just cheap knockoffs: remember when Deep Impact came out right at the same time as Armageddon? And then like…The 13th Floor, eXistenZ, and The Matrix all came out in 1999. I wonder how much of that was strict copying, how much was scripts influencing one another, and how much was just the zeitgeist.
