Feast of fan films

What?s common between A New Dope, Lord of the Hula Hoops: Fellowship of the Hoola Hoop and Matrix Unloaded? They are fanfilms made of Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and The Matrix.

Fan films are tributes, spoofs and alternate versions of popular movies and television serials made by the fans, usually short and low-budget movies. Over the past few years, thanks largely to the Internet, fan films have been made on almost all popular movies, some of them even winning awards.

Check out www.fanfilms.net which has over 450 short films, ranging from Pulp Fiction to Run Lola Run, Mission Impossible to Jaws. Some of the more popular categories here are Star Wars (131 films), Doctor Who (92), Star Trek (37), Batman (30) and Halloween (19).

The comics-to-screen titles are particularly favoured, with everything from X-Men to Superman, Spiderman to Batman (picture above) featured.