Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!

Episode 7: Night of the Living Dead!

The film that is singularly responsible for starting the zombie apocalypse genre. Turning the zombie from a mindless slave of Voodoo legends into a flesh-eating plague! This film makes many top 10 lists of some of the scariest and most influential horror films of all time. The film is a perfect piece of satire about race ( the fate of Ben) and the Vietnam War (just listen to Ben describing what happened at Beakman’s Diner. He sounds like a war shocked veteran retelling and reliving a horrific battle). 

It was also among only a small number of films in the 60s that added blood and gore to the mix ( others being “Blood Feast” and “2000 Maniacs” to name a few).

Unfortunately, the distributor changed the films title card and forgot to put the copyright on ( according to the copyright laws at the time, the copyright info had to be displayed with the title card). The film then lapsed into the public domain and George A. Romero and company barely saw any money from it.

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

Night of the Living BREAD!

Creepshow (Main Titles) by John Harrison

“Jolting tales of horror!”

Try listening to this on a stormy night…

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George A. Romero’s “The Crazies”.

Trust your government…

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More from George A Romero’s “The Crazies”.

In a strange way for me, the gas masks and all white NBC suits don’t dehumanize the soldiers to me. Their deaths seem even more the horrifying when they can’t express their pain and when those white suits are stained with blood

More from George A Romero’s “The Crazies”.

In a strange way for me, the gas masks and all white NBC suits don’t dehumanize the soldiers to me. Their deaths seem even more the horrifying when they can’t express their pain and when those white suits are stained with blood

George A. Romero’s “The Crazies”.

Trust your government…

The Anchor Bay survivors from my VHS collection. I could never truly replace them

With the exception of the “Dawn of the Dead” gatefold slip case, the rest are from Anchor Bay’s clam shell VHS collection. All of them brought me so much joy and enrichment in an otherwise bland and boring existence.

Very rare industrial song from a special edition soundtrack of George A. Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead”. 

I have no idea who made it or which release it was on but it is an amazing song using dialogue samples from the film.