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Foundation date 1 january 1997
The Asylum is an American independent film production company and distributor which focuses on producing low-budget, direct-to-video films. The company has produced titles that capitalize on productions by major studios, usually resorting to film titles and scripts very similar to those of current blockbusters in order to lure customers. These titles have been dubbed "mockbusters" by the press. Its titles are distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, GT Media, and as of 2015, Cinedigm.
Filmography of The Asylum (161 films)
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, 1h30Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Time travel films, Films about sharks, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, Vivica A. Fox, Judah Friedlander, Tori Spelling
À l’issue de Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017), la tornade de requins avait dévasté la Terre et saccagé le patrimoine de l'humanité, de la Muraille de Chine aux Pyramides d'Égypte. Humanité dont il ne restait d’ailleurs plus grand monde. Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering), se retrouvait seul, errant dans un décor de fin du monde.
Sinister Minister (2017)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Une nuit à Brightside en Californie, la police découvre une femme pendue au garage. Il s’agit de Jewel, l’épouse du pasteur DJ. Quelques années après, Trish Wells et sa fille Siena aménagent dans leur nouvelle maison dans cette même ville, sous les yeux du pasteur. Ils font connaissance. Le pasteur est remarié depuis quelque temps à Bestey qui trouve la mort dans un accident de voiture. Lorsque la fille Siena fait ses siennes, elle retrouve son père John Wells. Trish n’apprécie pas. Et surtout DJ…
Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens (2016)
, 1h25Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Disaster, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about sharks, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Disaster films
Actors Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Gary Busey, Cody Linley, Ryan Newman, David Hasselhoff
L'histoire se déroule cinq ans après les événements de Sharknado 3. La tempête porteuse de requins tueurs est de retour et la cible des squales est à présent Las Vegas. Après avoir ravagé la ville, le Sharknado se déplace et frappe plusieurs états du centre des États-Unis, sans façade maritime, qui n'ont pas l'habitude des cyclones se formant au-dessus de la mer, mais plutôt des tornades continentales. En se déplaçant et frappant diverses installations (barrage Hoover, champ de pétrole, transformateur électrique, centrale nucléaire), la tornade change de nature en se chargeant de matières de plus en plus dangereuses : poussières, pierres, pétrole, feu, électricité à haute tension, et même radioactivité. Toute la famille Shepard, enfin réunie, va devoir unir ses forces pour en venir à bout.
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2016)
, 1h30Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about sharks, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Disaster films
Actors Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, Masiela Lusha, Olivia Newton-John, Chris Kattan
Invité à Londres par le gouvernement britannique pour participer à une conférence de l'OTAN comme spécialiste en combat contre les requins, Fin est entraîné par Nova à explorer un temple souterrain situé sous Stonehenge. Des peintures rupestres leur apprennent que l'humanité a déjà été confrontée aux Sharknado à la préhistoire, mais les humains ont conçu un artefact (en forme d'aileron dorsal de requin) pour contrôler ces tornades. En s'en emparant, Fin et Nova déclenchent involontairement un Sharkado mondial qui frappe successivement les plus grandes villes du monde : Londres, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Tokyo... Leur fils Gil ayant été aspiré par la tornade à Londres, Fin et sa femme April la poursuivent à travers le monde, pour tenter de sauver leur fils et empêcher la fin du monde.
Bound (2015)
, 1h31Directed by Jared Michael Cohn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Charisma Carpenter, Daniel Baldwin
Michelle Mulan (Charisma Carpenter) is a real estate broker who has recently been promoted as a chairperson to a failing firm, even though she is fully qualified, she had only been promoted because of her father Walter's (Daniel Baldwin), status as chairman. While other chairmen want to sell the firm, she sees more advantage in merging with a larger company. Despite having a boyfriend, George (Mark McClain Wilson), Michelle does cheat on him to satiate her sexual desires. Also a single mother, she struggles to get her daughter, Dara (Morgan Obenreder), on the right track and takes her to a dinner. There, a man fifteen years her junior becomes enamored with her. After dropping Dara off at home, Michelle finds Ryan (Bryce Draper) trying to seduce her, but manages to ward him off. Still taking his number, Michelle initially decides not to meet him, but after getting a meeting enabling the merger, decides to do so. After rejecting a marriage proposal from George, Michelle goes out with Ryan. On their date, he introduces her to the world of B&D and S&M after which Michelle cheats on George with Ryan. After breaking up with George, Michelle begins to date Ryan and easily gives in to his dominating personality.
Avengers Grimm (2015)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Casper Van Dien, Lou Ferrigno, Rileah Vanderbilt
When the Magic Mirror transports Snow White and Rumpelstiltskin from the kingdom to modern-day Los Angeles, it's up to Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Red to follow them in order to stop Rumpelstiltskin from taking over both the real and fantasy worlds.
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015)
, 1h33Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Disaster, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about sharks, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Disaster films
Actors Ian Ziering, David Hasselhoff, Tara Reid, Frankie Muniz, Cassie Scerbo, Ryan Newman
Fin et April passent leurs vacances d'été en Floride. Pas de chance ! Cet État, habituellement ensoleillé, est détrempé par la pluie. Mais il y a pire : un Sharknado s'annonce. C'est toute la côte Est, d'Orlando à Washington, qui cette fois-ci sert de garde-manger aux requins volants. Fin et April vont devoir, une fois de plus, sortir le grand jeu.
Mercenaries (2014)
, 1h30Directed by Christopher Ray
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen, Vivica A. Fox, Zoë Bell, Cynthia Rothrock, Nicole Bilderback
During a visit to Kazakhstan the daughter of the U.S. President (Panhilason) is captured by a female warlord (Nielsen) and held for ransom. The CIA creates a team to rescue her from Ulrika's base; a former Soviet prison nicknamed "The Citadel". The team Kendall (Rothrock) puts together (Bilderback, Loken, Bell, and Fox) were all serving time in U.S. prisons but are offered full pardons for taking part in the operation.
Asian School Girls (2014)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Andray Johnson
Four Asian school girls are drugged and raped by a Los Angeles crime syndicate. When one of them commits suicide, the other three plot their scheme against the syndicate to avenge her death. They take jobs as strippers in order to acquire $5,000 worth of weapons and get closer to their targets.
Apocalypse Pompeii (2014)
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Adrian Paul, John Rhys-Davies, Dylan Vox
When a Former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mount Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring operation beneath the ruins of Pompeii.
Android Cop (2014)
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Robot films
Actors Michael Jai White, Charles Dutton, Randy Wayne, Kadeem Hardison, Morgan Benoit, Adrienne McQueen
In the year 2045, a Los Angeles Police Department detective and his new partner - a state of the art crimefighting robot cop - are tasked with recovering a runaway Telepresence android containing the consciousness of the Mayor's daughter, who remains unaware that she is a human mind in a machine body. Their investigation takes the unlikely partners into the heart of the Zone - a vast, irradiated section of California created by earthquakes years earlier - where they recover the Mayor's daughter but are betrayed by corrupt fellow officers, forcing the trio to fight their way out of the Zone through mutant ghettos, gang territories, and even the LAPD itself.
Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark (2014)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror comedy, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Films about sharks, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Giant monster films, Comedy horror films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Christopher Judge, Elisabeth Röhm, Debbie Gibson, Beejan Land
A tugboat pulling a huge iceberg arrives at a port in Alexandria, Egypt, when suddenly, the iceberg shatters and releases a megalodon from suspended animation. The Mega Shark begins its reign of terror by flipping the tugboat to the air until it crashes and decapitates the Sphinx hundreds of miles away in Giza. Following the incident, several countries around the world place their ports on lockdown and impose a ban on fishing, adversely affecting the world's economy as the megalodon terrorizes the seas. Meanwhile, rumors surface of the United Nations' proposal to develop a weapon to combat the shark.
Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)
, 1h35Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about sharks, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, Vivica A. Fox, Kelly Osbourne, Kari Wuhrer, Judah Friedlander
Fin Shepard and his ex-wife April Wexler are flying to New York City to promote How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters, a book April has written about the Los Angeles sharknado. As the plane comes in for a landing through a storm, it is battered by airborne sharks, losing an engine. Sharks enter the plane, killing passengers and crew, including both pilots. While Fin successfully lands the plane, April's hand is bitten off by a shark while she attempts to shoot it with an air marshal's handgun.
Hansel & Gretel (2013)
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about families, Children's films
Actors Dee Wallace, Adrian Bustamante, Sara Fletcher
Teen siblings Hansel and Gretel Grimm are abducted by an elderly recluse named Lilith and witness the horrors of her home in the woods. Lilith and her moronic sons are involved in a conspiracy to fatten up children before she eats them and the local population to serve in meat pies in her local shop "the Gingerbread House". The plot revolves around their attempts to escape the clutches of this old age pensioner, and her mute sons.
Jack the Giant Killer (2013)
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Ben Cross, Jane March, Ewan McGregor, Jon Campling
After climbing a giant beanstalk, Jack discovers a land in the clouds populated by evil beasts. When the beasts make their way down to Earth, he must figure out how to get back down and save everyone from the oncoming threat.