Shlock Haven

I wrote a feature for Wired magazine on the Asylum, a ridiculous (but lucrative) film studio that had a viral hit earlier this year with the accurately titled Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Asylum specializes in what are not-always-affectionately referred to as “mockbusters”—cheaply made knock-offs of high-profile, big-studio movies (among its more recent releases: Transmorphers: Fall of Man, Paranormal Entity. and The Terminators). For the story, I went to Wales, so that I could watch a man in a robot costume walk around an old castle. It was great. Anyway, you can read the article here.