A Foot And A Half A Second

The bad videogame movie is by no means a purely Western beast; there are no shortage of creaky adaptions of Japanese horror games like the luridly named  Corpse Party ,  Fatal Frame , and  Forbidden Siren , not to mention veritable stacks of anime movies and series based on everything from dating simulator Tokimeki Memorial  to puzzle series Professor Layton , to the work that arguably broke anime into the west,  Pokémon  and its cinematic outings, topped by  Pokémon the First Movie  (1998). Whilst many of these adaptions, in Japan and beyond, remain animated like Mario's two cinematic outings, or rely heavily on CGI, for example the tremendously successful  Sonic the Hedgehog  and  Five Nights at Freddie's franchises   (the latter of which also smartly goes for a mid-budget horror sensibility). But these are still beholden to the summer blockbuster model. Elsewhere, one could simply circumnavigate the entire studio syst...