Home-made movie remakes from the childhood of a young adult novelist

Daniel sez, "I work at the American Library Association's Booklist magazine (I make a lot of ALA's videos, including the one of the FBI whistleblower that Boing Boing mentioned last year). My debut young-adult novel, THE MONSTER VARIATIONS, comes out on August 11. As a promotional tool (but mostly because it's fun), I've been posting all the terrible movies I made as a teen growing up in Iowa. The blog is called Francis Ford Iowa. For the most part, we remade movies we liked, including MISERY, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE BLOB, AND THE GODFATHER."

Francis Ford Iowa (Thanks, Daniel!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous, July 7, 2009 7:05 AM]

No Children of the Corn? In Iowa? Come on!

[#2 posted by olafthekid, July 7, 2009 8:31 AM]

looks much better than "be kind, rewind"

[#3 posted by DK, July 7, 2009 10:29 AM]

No "Children of the Corn," but next week I'll be posting "Dan's Brew," which involves both children and corn. (It's the third shot in the trailer.)

Just wait until "The Blob" is posted. It's the piece de resistance!

[#4 posted by kmoser, July 7, 2009 12:23 PM]

When were these done? None of them are marked with a creation date.

[#5 posted by JL Bryan, July 7, 2009 12:55 PM]

(Anon #1)

DK,

That's OK, these look hilarious. I'm sure I'll cope somehow.

We used to make videos of 'magic tricks' when I was a kid, using special effects that would have fooled anyone, provided they had never seen any form of film or television in their entire lives.

[#6 posted by DK, July 7, 2009 1:04 PM]

Usually in the closing credits there is a copyright date. Making it through to the closing credits is difficult, though.

[#7 posted by jordan, July 7, 2009 7:00 PM]

This guy's my new hero.

How cool that these films, which were probably made without any thought of being seen by strangers, are now visible to the entire (online) planet.