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rip-off of Outer Limits episode?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_and_Narrow_(The_Outer_Limits)

It's an episode from 1996 with Ryan Phillipe about a military academy that implants chips in the students brains to make them perfectly obedient and controllable students.

You can watch the whole thing for free on HULU:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/61859/outer-limits-straight-and-narrow#s-p3-n2-so-i0

thoughts?

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You know that Disturbing Behavior is an unofficial remake of the 1981 movie Strange Behavior? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082243/

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In return they all owe something to The Stepford Wives, which in return owes something to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

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yes yes, everything is a rip off of everything.

Body Snatchers is a rip off of Puppet Masters. Puppet Masters was inspired by the fear of Communism (Red Panic as opposed to blue ribbon panic.)

But I do love to hear about the homage trails back to the oldest story we can pinpoint. And hearing that short stories became feature length films is always fun. Anthologies can be great inspirations for full length one story films.

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