For decades filmmakers around the globe have been remaking, remixing, and ripping off Hollywood in colorful and imaginative ways. Their movies have chronicled a Muslim Exorcist, a love story aboard the doomed Nigerian Titanic, a Japanese portal to the Planet of the Apes, an Indonesian Terminator with no robots, and a slugfest in Istanbul between Captain America and a mobbed-up Spider-Man. Most were extremely low budget, many were unauthorized, and all of them were fantastic. Lately these movies and many like them have begun to resurface thanks to cherry-picked YouTube clips. But why and how were they made in the first place? This book tells the little-known stories of the ingenious and wily filmmakers who made an Italian 007 flick by casting Sean Connery's tradesman brother, produced a Turkish space opera by stealing a print of Star Wars to cannibalize its effects footage, and added exuberant song-and-dance sequences to an Indian Silence of the Lambs. Their stories reveal more than mere imitations; they demonstrate the fascinating ways ideas evolve as they cross borders.