• What Is the Parallel Universe Film Guide?

    This is the post that answers the above question. Sort of. Defamer alerted me to the existence of this site only yesterday and already I’ve spent far too much time poring over it, even though I’m still not entirely certain I get it. But that’s part of the fun. What we seem to have here is a parody of the IMDb. Sometimes it’s a very obvious parody. This may also be part of the joke. For example, there’s this entry for 1975’s Ow, That Shark Bites, directed by Thomas Teitelbaum. (You all know Teitelbaum from his blockbuster hits A Boy and His Butt-Ugly Alien and Norris Hellcat and the Watery Tomb.) It’s mildly amusing that the original shark was fired over creative differences. But if you dig a little deeper into the site, you’ll find the not-so-obvious entries and then perhaps you’ll find yourself addicted.

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