I posted a link to a scene in Porklips Now! in response to another post. That elicited this:
So here’s a thread for vintage film parodies by the likes of Ernie Fosselius, Mark Pirro, and anyone else you may want to talk about.
Porklips Now!
Closet Cases Of The Nerd Kind
And of course…
Hardware Wars
I couldn’t find Mark Pirro’s A Polish Vampire In Burbank, but I did find the trailer. Ditto for Curse Of The Queerwolf.
I’ve remembered another one. I saw I Was A Teenage Alien at a science fiction comvention in the early-'80s. I can’t find anything on it, though there are hits for a book and a fairly recent film of the same or similar name.
I Was A Teenage Alien was made by a police officer with the San Rafael Police Department. It was billed as ‘The world’s first science fiction/horror anti-shoplifting film’. As nearly as I can recall, there was an adult alien who corrupted teens by making them shoplift. Of course this had consequences for the teens, but I don’t remember what they were. The Alien’s supervisor, basically a blob with an eye-stalk, came to Earth to check up on him. I think the supervisor was upset because the Alien had somewhat ‘gone native’.
I wish I could see this one again.
I don’t know (or care) who was responsible for it, but avoid, “Night of the Living Bread.” I’ve had funnier attacks of GERD.
Lots of people know Hardware Wars, but far fewer know Porklips Now!; seeing it in your post was an immediate rush! 
‘Suburbia. Shoot!’
Glad I could give you a rush.
I think not many people know Closet Cases Of The Nerd Kind as well. Whenever I hear someone say, ‘This means something’, I think of it. The other favourite scene is the singing mailboxes.
I remember Hardware Wars. I saw it on a VHS of short films we rented it along with a VCR from the grocery store back in the day. I don’t think I’ve seen or even heard about the others listed.
I’ve seen the Fosselius films listed here. I also love a film he has disavowed – Hardware Wars – The Special Edition, the very idea of which is hilarious, and which was executed brilliantly. According to Wikipedia’s write-up:
But that’s absurd. The original Star Wars didn’t have digital effects (in the form of CGI) – it used computerized motion-control, but the effects were modelwork, green screen, and traditional animation. Adding cheap, bad CGI to a film using substandard model effects is the perfect way to satirize a film with expensive CGI that used involved model effects.
Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind is gold for several reasons, not the least of which are the vocal talents of Corey Burton, whose impression of Hans Conreid is spot-on. My buddies and I still trade lines from this to make each other laugh:
“I’m the famous Fwench scientist, sent over here to find the UFO…uh hrrr!”
Hey, anybody remember Superbman: the other Movie?
Oh yeah!
“You’re gonna build a mountain in your living room!!”
And, just before that, when he signals for the motorcycle to go around him, and it’s Darth Vader riding a chopper.
I remember first seeing both Hardware Wars and Closet Cases in the late '70s or very early '80s at the Brown County Library in Green Bay, where they would show short films in the library’s children’s section.
YouTube now has this stuff in my algorithm; this just showed up. It’s been there for years but I don’t recall finding it with searches before.
Here’s a 10 minute video: The Making of Superb-man: The Other Movie
There was a (fake?) trailer I saw back in the early '80’s about a Flash style superhero. The speed effect was done via stop motion photography (Also known as pixelization). Any ideas what it was called?
Thanks!
That’s Mike Jittlov’s film. Not a parody.
Mike Jittlov made a lot of very short films with wonderful (pre-CGI) effects work, most of which you can’t find on the web. I saw them only because I was at a convention where he was a Guest of Honor.
The Wizard of Speed and Time started out as a short for Disney (it uses Perry and Kingsley’s Baroque Hoedown as its music, the same thing Disney uses in its Main Street Electrical Parade – Baroque Hoedown - Wikipedia ) When I first saw him, he wanted very much to make it into a full-length feature.
In 1989 Jittlov released a feature-length film of that title, but it wasn’t the film he had been describing. He wanted to make a full-length fictyional story about that Wizard. The film that emerged was a (largely fictionalized) film about the making of the short. He obviously did that because of poor funding. I really would have liked to have seen the film as he originally envisioned it.
Well, whaddya know? The first film I worked on. My best fiend was talking about shooting some make-up effects on super-8 to see how they would look on film. I said, ‘Why just shoot them? Why not make a film?’ So he got to work writing it. He and I shared the camera work, he directed and produced, and I get killed on a motorcycle. Gobs of fun.
Mutilation Maniacs (1981 - 10 minutes)
Mike is still making films.