Prop from Dog Soldiers by time-warrior
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 52: Gamera The Invincible!
Yes, this is the “Americanized” version of the film that, much like the “Godzilla, King of the Monsters” version of “Godzilla”, this film was re-edited and news scenes with American actors were added. This version is public domain while the original Japanese is still copyright protected.
In an icy North American region, a Soviet bomber is shot down by an American fighter jet. The bomber crashes and its cargo, a low-level atomic bomb, explodes. The resulting cataclysm awakens a giant, prehistoric monster called “Gamera”, who has the appearance of a giant turtle with large tusks.
Gamera destroys the American jet with his fireball and escapes into the sea. The monster heads to Japan and surfaces from Sagami Bay, destroys the city of Fujisawa and retreats back into the sea. Scientists and government officials hold a conference to discuss killing the monster.
Gamera destroys a research ship, kills the crew, and then heads to Tokyo. He is sedated and hit by group of bombs. Gamera awakens in time, protected from the bombs by his hard shell, and escapes the attack with a new ability: flying.
Gamera lands in and proceeds to Tokyo, rampaging through the city. The military observes that he ate fire from the buildings he destroyed, and they devises “Plan Z”. Using fire, they lure Gamera to a missile complex, where he is imprisoned in a giant rocket ship. Held by strong chains, the monster is launched into outer space, presumably never to return.
This film was created as a “Mock-Buster”, an attempt to make a quicky rip-off of another popular film, in this case “Godzilla”.
Its up to the writer and her doctor (played by Price) to find who this killer really is!
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
August 15th was my birthday, but I forgot to post this picture from the day I was born!
I was such a precocious little scam when I escaped from the delivery room!
It took 3 days and 16 state troopers to recapture me.
“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.
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
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
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 12: Lady Frankenstein!
Another screen adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel, but this one was unique for its levels of sex and violence, as well as its female lead. Often considered feminist science fiction/horror film because the focus is not on Baron Frankenstein in this version but his daughter, challenging 19th century gender roles by being a brilliant surgeon and a femme fatale.
Tania Frankenstein returns home from medical school and takes over her father’s work when his creation kills him and goes on a rampage. Using her brilliant mind and beautiful face and body, she sets out to prove to the world that her father was a genius!
The trailer to this film was sampled at the beginning of Rob Zombie’s song “Living Dead Girl”. The film was originally distributed by Roger Corman of this Italian horror film.
Rivaled only by “Curse of Frankenstein” and “Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein” in its combination of sex, violence and gothic horror.
