GEEKPR0N’s Favorite Fan Films!
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The internet is full of all kinds of amazing fan created works. Art, fanfic, cosplay and the ever impressive fan films. Short films are a hard thing to do properly, even when working from an original idea. Creating one based on a pre-existing piece of media is even harder.
Some of these fan films put big budget Hollywood blockbusters to shame and portray our favorite characters, worlds and stories in ways that the big studios haven’t been able to yet. They are labors of love from people creating them for no reason other than love.
So we present to you dear readers ten fan films that set the bar for what fan films can be. And we ask you to vote on which is the best. Below is the list of films with links to view them. They range in length from five to forty-five minutes so sitting though all of them is a bit of a commitment but well worth it.
Nuka Break – Fallout
Directed By:Vincent Talenti
Written By: Brian Clevinger
Synopsis: A former vault dweller, a freed slave and a ghoul find all manner of trouble in the Mojave wasteland.
Watch it here
Dirty Laundry – The Punisher
Directed By: Phil Joanou
Written By: Chad St. John
Synopsis: Even Frank Castle needs to do laundry sometimes. But even when he’s trying to do something as simple as that, he still has to dispense his own kind of justice.
Watch it here
Modern Gear Solid – Metal Gear Solid/Call of Duty
Written and directed by: Micah Moore
Synopsis: Solid Snake and Ghost must team up to stop the evil ActivistSun from unleashing the powerful Modern Gear on the world in this video that both parodies and pays tribute to both Metal Gear Solid and Call of Duty.
Watch it here
Enter the Freeman – Half-Life
Directed by: Ian James Duncan
Written by: Thomas Dunn
Synopsis: As a crisis erupts across the Black Mesa a team of security guards is sent to rally the medical staff and is confronted with something that can’t explain, and saved by a man with little to say.
Watch it here
The Recall – Spawn
Directed by: Michael Paris
Synopsis: A witch is contacted by an old friend to rejoin the fight against darkness.
Watch it here
New Year’s End – Bioshock
Written and Directed by: Jared Potter
Synopsis: New years eve, 1959, the night that the fall of Rapture began.
Watch it here
Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special – Lobo
Directed by: Scott Leberecht
Based on the comic by: Simon Bisley, Keith Giffen and Alan Grant
Synopsis: The Main Man is hired to do a job that he’s wanted to for years. Kill Santa.
Watch it here
Judge Minty – Judge Dredd
Directed by: Steven Sterlacchini
Written by: Steven Sterlacchini and Michael Carrol
Synopsis: A lone judge, sent to take the Long Walk onto the Cursed Earth is hunted by a deranged gang in the ruins of the old world.
Watch it here
Dreamer’s Fight – Naruto Shippuden
Written and directed by: Christopher C. Cowan and Haile Lee
Synopsis: Naruto and Rock-Lee face off to see who is stronger.
Watch it here
Red Sand – Mass Effect
Written and directed by Caleb Evans
Synopsis: Set before the events of the games, a squad of marines must defend a newly discovered alien artifact on Mars. Staring Mark Meer as Jon Grissom, the man who went on the lead the first trip through the Mass Relay.
Watch it here
Let us know which one is your favorite in the comments below! Did we miss one of your favorites, tell us and we’ll be sure to include it in our follow-up!
Here’s another one: Joker Rising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTeR5E0qTck
My personal favorite is Dirty Laundry. The Mortal Combat web series is very good as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s6UiEuCYXA . 2 other fan made films have just been released. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-06-fans-tease-trailer-for-live-action-legend-of-zelda-film and http://comicbook.com/2015/03/06/john-stewart-green-lantern-fan-film-teaser-released/
Street Fighter: Legacy gave me hope that there would be great video game fan films for the franchise.
Joey Ansah then did Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, which did not disappoint.
While I did find Fallout: Nuka Break to be cool, I preferred their tie-in, Red Star.
Their other video series: Aperture R&D is also very entertaining.