10 Amazingly Bad Rip Off Films You've Never Seen

10. Patrick Still Lives

So intent were the Italians on ripping off other pictures that they even swooped on Richard Franklin 1978 Horror movie Patrick - which was neither very good nor a sizeable hit. A legit remake, starring Charles Dance and Sharni Vinson, appeared in 2013.

Filling the movie with gratuitous nudity and fake gore, director Mario Landi gives us one of the most outrageous clones that ever met a projector bulb. In this version, Patrick is comatose following an accident and has (for reasons unexplained) developed psychic powers, which his mad scientist father uses to punish those he holds responsible for his boy’s condition.

Bodies are boiled alive in swimming pools, decapitated by car windows and graphically violated by a flying poker, but what really startles is Landi’s determined pursuit of the lowest common denominator. In one scene, a woman discovers a body hanging from a hook and, instead of raising the alarm, stops by a fountain to splash water on herself, causing her negligee to turn transparent.