.. Is that you can't be too fussy. If you're the sort of person who cherishes production values, sound design, picture clarity, any of the niceties one expects from a modern home cinema, then 5 minutes of Planet Wars may drive you to distraction. Some of these titles are edited into disjointed ribbons, some are degraded eighth generation copies, some are dubbed, many feature dodgy subtitles, others have no subtitles at all. There are three of the best films ever made and three of the worst.
  Sometimes genuine classics are orphaned through business failures or the conservatism of film distribution. For more than 20 years, nobody was willing to take a risk on Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, one of the great American pictures. With this in mind, we are pleased and proud to present Alan Resnais’ Je T’aime, Je T’aime and Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls as part of our exhibit.
  Mostly, however, this is a salute to the weird and wonderful world of Z-grade pictures and no budget international remakes. Dare you miss the all-singing, all-dancing Filipino Batman? 
  To cover ourselves and our kind facilitators at the Greenhouse and the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, we're calling this an instalation. For maximum enjoyment please bring a passion for oddities, a capacity for irony or a rabid interest in movies.

Dir - Herk Hervey, 1962

Following a traumatic traffic accident, a young, reserved church organist finds herself increasingly drawn towards an eerie abandoned amusement park. Made for a miniscule budget ($33,000) the sole feature film of writer John Clifford and director Harold "Herk" Harvey came and went unnoticed during its initial 1963 run. It has since achieved a spooky immortality.  (USA, 84mins)

Brazilian Star Wars remake. Dir - Adriano Stuart, 1978

aka Os Trapalhões na Guerra dos Planetas

Prince Flik (the Brazilian Luke Skywalker) battles the evil dark army of Zuco to  retrieve half of a super brain computer. Many pointless car chases later, he meets his destiny. This low budget Star Wars clone was turned around within 5 months of the original film's Brazilian premiere. This may explain why everyone lives in igloos. (Brazil, 98mins)

North Korean Godzilla remake. Dir - Chong Gon Jo, Sang-ok Shin, 1985

Co-directed and produced by South Korean master Shin Sang-ok, who had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of movie fan Kim Jong-il, Pulgasari is the poignant tale of a rice doll, which on coming into contact with blood, grows to become a monster, before it is faced down by ‘The People’. A strangely lyrical piece of black propaganda.  (North Korea, 85mins)

Turkish E.T. remake. Dir - Zafer Par, 1983

A midget in a revolting rubber face arrives on earth and befriends a young boy. Maybe it's just the make-and-do creature but Badi is weird and unsettling where Steven Spielberg's film is cutsey-pie. Nobody wants to share M&Ms with this alien. (Turkey, 85mins)

Dir - Alan Resnais, 1968

Claude Rich stars as Claude Ridder, a writer who has recently attempted suicide, who agrees to become a test-subject at a mysterious research facility. When Charlie Kaufman - cinema’s most beautiful, convoluted brains - fashioned Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind from Renais’ Je T’aime, Je T’aime, he reintroduced one of cinema's Great Lost Classics, by proxy, to a new generation. (France, 90mins)

Mexican Plan 9 from Outer Space. Dir - René Cardona, 1973

aka Blue Demon y Zovek en La invasión de los muertos

A space capsule lands on Earth and emits radiation which causes the dead to return to life, in a plot sadly reminiscent of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space. Originally intended as a vehicle for the famous escape artist Zovek, was slated to star, Mexican wrestler Blue Demon was brought onboard when the star died midway through the disjointed production.  (Mexico, 85mins)

Turkish Wizard of Oz remake. Tunç Basaran, 1971

aka Aysecik ve sihirli cüceler rüyalar ülkesinde

A busty young girl is carried over the rainbow by a poorly animated tornado, where a camp scarecrow, a cowardly lion and a Tin Man assist her in bizarre musical numbers.  Tunç Basaran’s hilarious rip off has recently enjoyed an online revival where copies of the film synched to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon abound.    (Turkey, 100mins)

James Whale, 1932

James Whale’s brilliant 1932 follow-up to Frankenstein is somewhat of an oddity among orphan films in that it was made for a major studio. After various legal and logistic jumbles – all prints were believed lost for a while – Universal Pictures, creators of the greatest horror films of the day, relinquished control of the picture and it drifted into an appropriately murky limbo. Based on a novel by J B Priestley, The Old Dark House follows a group of travellers as they are forced to board with a deranged Welsh family in a damp, crumbling mansion. Featuring an unforgettable camp performance from the untouchable Ernest Thesiger, the picture’s title alone helped defined a genre. (UK, 72mins)

Phillipines Batman remake. Tony Y. Reyes, 1993.

  This unauthorized 1993 Filipino Batman comedy film can’t quite decide if it’s a remake of Tim Burton’s 1989 film or a parody of the sixties TV series. Similarly, the Caped Crusader can’t figure out if the film is set in Manila or Gotham City. Don’t miss the bewildering denouement or the cast cutting loose to the strains of 'Bird Dog' and 'At The Hop!' (Philippines, 87mins)

René Viénet, 1973

aka La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?

 "Directed" by the French situationist Rene Vienet, this film is an absurd intellectual curio: Hong Kong martial arts movie Doo Kwang Gee’s The Crush is overdubbed with stern French political diatribes as a utopian martial arts commune faces down the proletariats and bureaucrats. A stirring and romantic poem to Marx, Bakunin, and Wilhelm Reich, dogma has rarely been so entertainingly presented. (France, 90mins)