“Plan 9 from Outer Space” (1959) | Ed Wood
Ed Wood’s ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ - 1959 film poster, starring Bela Lugosi, Vampira and Lyle Talbot
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 32: Bride of the Monster! (aka Bride of the Atom)
Ed Wood does it again in his second feature film, whose making was painfully chronicled in the film biography “Ed Wood”. Wood desperately tried to raise funds for this movie. He promised to give the leading role to Loretta King in exchange for financing the film. She didn’t have a dime and a few days into production they got shut down. Leading man Tony McCoy’s father refinanced the film for $50,000 dollars and got the rights to it lock, stock and barrel. Just too bad he didn’t make a dime back!
Filmed on flimsy sets and using an abundance of stock footage, this film tells the story of Dr. Eric Vornoff (played by Bela Lugosi) who is continuing illegal experiments, that got him banned from his homeland, that can produce a race of atomic supermen. Assisting him in this venture is the mute manservant Lobo (played by Tor Johnson) and a giant killer octopus (played by stock footage of an actual octopus and a flaccid rubber octopus stolen from Republic Studios).
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode15: Final Curtain!
A short film by Ed Wood made to be the pilot for a series that would have been called “Portraits of Terror”, a Twilight Zone like series of different horror stories. The film is about an actor experiencing strange and supernatural occurrences in an empty theater after dark.
It stars Duke Moore and is narrated by Dudley Manlove, both starred in Wood’s “Plan 9 From Outer Space”.
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 14: Trick Shooting With Kenne Duncan!
A 1960 short film directed by none other than Ed Wood! Starring his long time friend and collaborator Kenne Duncan, showing off some very impressive marksmanship.
This film was made mostly as promotion for Remmington rifles and ammunition, particularly their Model 552 rifle and Nylon 66 rifle, both .22 caliber.
This film may be Wood’s most competently direct film of his entire filmography. After Kenne is finished with his trick shots, the film is concluded with footage of his trip to Japan.
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal! The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master! I will perfect my own race of people. A race of atomic supermen which will conquer the world! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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| — | Bela Lugosi as Dr. Eric Vornoff in “Bride of the Monster” |
I tell a tale of the threshold people, so astounding that some of you may faint. This is a story of those in the twilight time. Once human, now monsters, in a void between the living and the dead. Monsters to be pitied, monsters to be despised. A night with the ghouls, the ghouls reborn from the innermost depths of the world.
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| — | Criswell, “Orgy of the Dead” |
Public Domain
The following films are considered public domain in the US (the copyright protection has lapsed) and can be downloaded, sold and exhibited by anyone.
The Driller Killer
Lady Frankenstein
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Horror Express
Drive-In Massacre
Sisters of Death
Messiah of Evil
Nightmare Castle
Incredible Two-Headed Transplant
Mutant (1984)
Grave of the Vampire
Savage Weekend
Silent Night, Bloody Night
Don’t Look In The Basement
Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages
Bride of the Monster
Glen or Glenda
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Beast of Yucca Flats
Dominique (aka Dominique is Dead)
Scream Bloody Murder
Reefer Madness
Marihuana
Cocaine Fiends
Assassin of Youth
Carnival of Souls
Last Man On Earth
The Trial (1962)
A Bucket of Blood
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
M (1931)
Nosferatu (1922)
Embryo
Little Shop Of Horrors (1960)
Dementia 13
The Terror
Freaks
Bloody Pit of Horror
Atom Age Vampire
Death Rides A Horse
The Battle of El Alamein
Horror Hotel
White Zombie
A Trip To The Moon
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave
Images of Bruce Lee
Black Fist
The Street Fighter (1974)
Return of the Street Fighter
The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge
The Real Bruce Lee
Battleship Potempkin
Blood Tide
Eegah
Faust (1926)
Greed (1924)
Jail Bait
The Violent Years
Metropolis (1927)
Planet of Dinosaurs
Spider Baby
Mad Dog Morgan
Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks
Frankenstein ‘80
