It’s an unfortunate act to spend time and money making a bad movie. What does it mean, then, to make a bad movie out of an existing bad movie? Does anyone have time for that, given the amount of movies released each year?

Refried Flicks thinks so and has found a niche reviving bad movies (one so far) through the addition of new dialogue. They took a B movie from the public domain (an expired copyright speaks to how bad it was), recorded new dialogue and added a few scenes, and released it as their own. In this case, Killers From Space (1954) was reborn as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (2002).
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Rumble Fish is the movie of my youth. I return to it every 3-5 years to remind myself why it inspired me. In the intervening 25 years since its release in 1983, inspiration, unfortunately, has turned to tears, a fitting reaction to a story of lost youth. It wasn’t until I started this blog, however, that I finally read the young adult novel by S.E. Hinton.

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