Metal Shifters  (2011)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2016
SYNOPSIS: The Iron Giant meets Killdozer: Alien bacteria arrives on a meteorite and infects metal, animating a giant iron statue that goes on a killing rampage in a small town.
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Most Ludicrous Premise
It's Like The Iron Giant Meets Killdozer!
Autoparts golem built for town centennial brought to murderous life by (possibly communist) alien bacteria.
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Worst Cover Copy
Cylon on the Cover

"It travelled millions of light years through space before colliding with a Soviet satellite and crashing into rural Redeemer, Idaho. Now an alien bacterium that transforms steel objects into furious killing machines has infected the local scrapyard. Can a local contractor (Sharon Smith of 'Stargate: Atlantis' and 'The 4400') and his estranged ex-girlfriend (Nicola de Boer of 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' and Cube) find a way to stop a heavy metal monster from tearing a path of biological and mechanical destruction through small-town America? Chris Gauthier ('Eureka'), Paul McGriffon ('Stargate: Atlantis') and Donnelly Rhodes ('Battlestar Galactica') co-star in this SyFy Original blast of mayhem from the creators of Snakehead Terror, Ice Quake, Solar Attack and Stonehenge Apocalypse." who are they trying to fool with all the callouts to other sci-fi shows?

Tagline: "One Man's Junk is Another Man's Nightmare."

The monster doesn't look anything like the Cylon pictured on the cover. Nothing gets nuked (in fact, there is not a single explosion of any kind in the entire movie). And the best thing they can find to say about it is that it's from the creators of Snakehead Terror, Ice Quake, Solar Attack, and Stonehenge Apocalypse (which, coincidentally, may also appear in this category someday).

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Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Paul Ziller Also wrote screenplays for Loch Ness Terror and Avalanche Alley. As well as many other Smithee films. 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Kavan Smith <Not Yet in Database> Maj. Evan Lorne on the "Stargate" TV shows 
Colby Johannson <Not Yet in Database> TV hunk: Lt. "Flat-Top" on "Battlestar Galactica"; Chipper Dunn on "Peacemakers"; Greg on "Reaper" 
Nicole de Boer <Not Yet in Database> Ezri Dax from "Deep Space Nine"; Sarah Bannerman on "The Dead Zone" TV show 
Merritt Patterson <Not Yet in Database> Olivia Matheson on "Ravenswood"; Ophelia on "The Royals" 
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