Fallen
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iishadowchildii — 16 years ago(April 23, 2009 06:40 PM)
Surprised no one mentioned Wes Craven's Shocker out before both of the aforementioned titles and very very similar in concept.
But at the end of the day, who really cares? Broken down to the basics, there are a LOT of movies in a variety of genres that are essentially the same. Original ideas rarely make it to the big screen. -
PapaT_86 — 16 years ago(October 23, 2009 03:09 AM)
Yeah, and
The Hidden
(perhaps the best of the lot) and
The Horror Show
aka
House 3
. There was also a recent foreign film that used the same idea but I can't remember the title. Basically, there have been a number of horror films that used the same idea as
The First Power
and a few of them pre-date it, so I'm not sure if I'd say
Fallen
was a rip-off of
The First Power
, although there are a considerable number of similarities. -
hecantune — 16 years ago(December 08, 2009 07:04 PM)
I like The First Power more but Fallen is
hardly
a "ripoff". It's got a similar premise and that's about it. People are constantly taking a few similarities between movies and blowing them out of proportion.
Back off!
Way
off! -
koffeenkreame41-1 — 14 years ago(August 29, 2011 12:43 PM)
How is it the same? Patrick was a devil worshipper that can't be killed, his spirit can move from body to body. In Fallen, a demon possesses a guy (Elias Koteas) and has him go on a killing spree. He's captured and given the gas chamber and dies. The spirit leaves the body and begins to mess with Denzel's head. Killing someone, leaving their body and killing that same person whose body it left just fvck with DW's head. While I LOVE both films, Fallen's a better film, some parts of TFP are a little over the top but both films are definetely scary.
Other than a guy getting the gas chamber and dying in it only to return and torment the cop, nothing else is the same, there is a woman that helps DW but she isn't a psychic. Both films are different, almost like comparing Angel Heart & Devil's Advocate, both films have voodoo, right? Or Sixth Sense & Stir of Echoes, both main kids see ghosts, right?
"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna*beep*wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.