Why is it even when The Asylum makes an original movie they still seem to find a way to make it incredibly unimaginative? Last month they gave us STREET RACER, an obvious FAST & THE FURIOUS knock-off released to coincide with the opening of the disastrous SPEED RACER, but still not an outright mockbuster. If you're wondering where my STREET RACER review is, well, I lasted exactly 23-minutes before I realized life was too short and there had to be something, anything, better that I could do with my time than watch a boring ass racing movie with racing scenes that look anything but fast or furious; from what I saw I don't think the cars were even pushing 50 mph (let alone the 130 mph the box art hyped).

After their upcoming mockbuster of the 3-D Brendan Fraser movie JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, also cleverly titled JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, and not to be confused with the Ion Network's recent JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH starring Rick Schroeder and Victoria Pratt... Sorry, even I'm getting confused now.

The Asylum's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH will be easy to discern from the big screen 3-D and made-for-TV versions because it's going straight-to-DVD on July 1st, stars Greg Evigan and Dedee Pfeiffer, and looks more like a movie about a group of female soldiers trapped on an island crawling with dinosaurs and giant spiders. It really is quite sunny in the center of The Asylum's Earth. Have a look at the Quicktime trailer.

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH TRAILER

Anyway, next up after their JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH will be a completely original production entitled EVIL. Yep, EVIL... Just plain 'ol EVIL. Remember what I was saying a moment ago lack of creativity even in their original films? This is what I was getting at.

EVIL is the latest from their Faith Films line of Christian-themed movies. Their website lists the plot as, "Based on the classic legend of a cynical journalist who discovers that the power of faith can defeat the forces of unspeakable darkness." Personally, I love the tagline on the box:

"THE CLASSIC CHRISTIAN TALE OF ABOUT THE ULTIMATE POWER OF FAITH"

Is "good vs. evil" now considered a classic Christian tale? I always thought it more an idea, a concept if you will, than a classic Christian tale. I'm fairly certain if there was a classic tale in the Bible about a cynical journalist battling unspeakable darkness Cecil B. Demille would have made that movie decades ago. This would also explain why the movie is simply called EVIL. Hey, if it was called GOOD then we'd go in expecting "good" to win. But since the movie is called EVIL we'll be surprised when "good" triumphs over the film's title. It's a swerve of M. Night proportions!

The Asylum will unleash their EVIL upon us all on August 16th.

Oh, and for you wrestling fans out there who've asked yourself, "What about Raven?" You can add him to the cast alongside the Insane Clown Posse of the just-wrapped Asylum mockbuster DEATH RACERS due in September.