Italian Spiderman by Alrugo
“Italian Spiderman” is a hilarious series of ten shorts that portray an overweight, smoking, womanizing, and ruthless super hero that is about as far from Spiderman’s noble efforts as you can get. The pitch is the fictitious series, supposedly filmed in 1968 but never released, is an uncovered relic from some long lost Italian film vault.
“Italian Spiderman” echoes the often unintentionally hilarious foreign rip-offs of popular franchises such as Star Wars, Superman, and Rambo that were popular in the late 70′s and 80′s. The direct influence is most likely Japanese Spiderman, which is arguably just as ridiculous.
It features deliberately low production value, 100% dubbed audio (as this was the characteristic of most Italian films of that era), non-actors, and often cheap props and gags. It works wonderfully well.
It all began with a film school project by a young director in Australian, which was the original “Italian Spiderman” trailer. Due to the popularity of the trailer on YouTube, the filmmakers were granted a government grant to continue developing the series. With that grant, they produced ten episodes. Whether or not they plan to continue developing “Italian Spiderman” is unknown, but enjoy their brilliance now!
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=41CBB6B230E335DASee also:
- Alrugo | Alrugo Wiki
- The Italian Spiderman soundtrack EP:
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