I know that a lot of people have gone after DC and Warner Bros. for their lack of action and vision in terms trying to compete with Marvel and Disney and the flood of super hero films that they are cranking out. I think that DC/Warner Bros. are fucking stupid for saying that a Wonder Woman film would “confuse” audiences, but that incredibly moronic statement aside, I think that Marvel/Disney is actually playing a bit of catch up.
I know that at first on the surface, Marvel has DC beat in terms of the super-hero genre. DC has only “Man of Steel” and the Christopher Nolan Batman films so far with vague plans of doing more. But in the past DC has made a ton of films of other genres based on comics from its subsidiaries. Examples:
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
RED
Constantine
A History of Violence
Road To Perdition
The Spirit
Of course they have also had some major disappointments like “Jonah Hex”, “Catwoman” and “Green Lantern”; but they remain competitive in other areas. Their DC Universe animated films are excellent. Films like “Under the Red Hood”, “The Flashpoint Paradox” and “Superman/Batman: Apocalypse”. And, DC is excelling in television programs like “Arrow” and “Smallville”, with “Gotham” set to go. Against say, “Agents of SHIELD”.
Even though DC is lagging in theatrical releases, they situation is a bit more even than it appears.
But seriously though, DC, what the fuck were you strung out on when you decided against a Wonder Woman movie?
“The Fear” from 1995 and its 1999 sequel “The Fear 2: Halloween Night” (aka “The Fear: Resurrection”).
A psychology student named Richard has reoccurring nightmares of hooded figures in Black Pete masks burying a woman, and an approaching wooden figure.
For his thesis in facing ones fears, he takes a group of friend’s to his family’s cabin where they meet his uncle, who runs a nearby Christmas themed amusement park, and Morty, a wooden mannikin that was built for Richard’s father by a local Indian shaman. Morty was used in the father’s shop but is now used as part of the fear therapy, because each of the subjects can tell Morty their worst fears and he won’t judge them. But what they don’t know is that Morty is no inanimate wooden figure… And he won’t judge them for their fears… he’ll use their fears against them!
Features a cameo appearance by Wes Craven and a soundtrack with Esham, Insane Clown Posse and The Gravediggazs.
Esham - The Fear (Morty’s Theme)
From the soundtrack of the 1995 film “The Fear”
Tell Morty your deepest fear…
Original drive-in trailer for “The Vampire’s Coffin” and “The Robot Vs The Aztec Mummy”.
In HYPNO-SCOPE!
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 31: Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks! (aka Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette)
One of the more bizarre takes on the Frankenstein mythos. This time Count Frankenstein (that’s right, he is a count instead of a baron in this) creates a monster from the usual sources, but the extra special ingredient is a Neanderthal man for the body!
Assisting the good doctor in this little venture are a hunchback with a masochistic wife and a necrophiliac dwarf!
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
This is how you advertise a movie!
“Halloween II” 1981
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 30: The Beast Of Yucca Flats!
One of the worst movies of all time! And a favorite on “Mystery Science Theater 3000”!
Directed by Coleman Francis. Tor Johnson plays a Soviet scientist who defects to America and gets chased into a nuclear test site by KGB agents. The radiation turns him into a homicidal mad man!
Contains immortal lines of narration like:
“Flag on the moon. How did it get there?”
“Boys from the city, not yet caught in the wheels of progress, feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs.”
Pure poetry!
The movie was filmed without a soundtrack. Narration, voiceovers and some sound effects were added in post-production. To avoid having to synchronize the audio to the picture, characters only speak when their faces are either off-screen or not clearly visible due to darkness or distance. Likewise, during scenes in which firearms are used, the muzzles of the guns are usually out-of-shot when the weapons are fired. Extensive narration is used in lieu of plot points being conveyed through dialogue.
This version has the full opening murder scene with a little bit of nudity.
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
I was not born to show people the error of their ways. I was born to murder the world!
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Nix, Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusions
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 26: Don’t Look In The Basement! (aka The Forgotten, aka Death Ward #13)
A young nurse named Charlotte takes a job at a secluded mental asylum in the country after her predecessor was murdered by one of the inmates. Now, seemingly alone in the isolated hospital with a tyrannical doctor and criminally insane inmates, she begins to fear for her life. She has reason to because the insane have taken over the asylum!
A loose adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”.
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
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