10 Movies Within Movies That Deserve A Standalone Release

3. Satan's Alley – Tropic Thunder

Satan's Alley
DreamWorks Pictures

Tropic Thunder uses the movies within movies trope to great effect, and the pick of its bogus flicks has to be Satan's Alley.

Robert Downey Jr's Kirk Lazarus and Tobey Maguire play a pair of gay monks against a medieval backdrop. Subversive or what?

Presumably this one should be slapped with a 18 certificate for its racy rosary bead action and be a shoo-in for accolades during the awards seasons. It did, after all, claim a Crying Monkey Award at the Beijing Film Festival, supposedly.

Full-length versions of Simple Jack and The Fatties also have 'so bad it's good' written over them.

 
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