Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 24: Mutant! (aka Night Shadows)
Bad but interesting entry in the zombie genre. This film began life as a script that ripped off Stephen King’s “The Stand” and eventually evolved in what you see here… The best they could do.
The film focuses on two brothers driving through rural Georgia. They get stranded in a small town when some rednecks they offended run them off the road. It becomes clear that the town is hiding something. That something is that a chemical manufacturing corporation has been dumping toxic waste down a mine shaft and it is leaking into the local water supply, mutating the locals into zombie-like creatures that spew acidic goo and suck blood.
This movie is bad but it should keep you entertained. It was directed by John “Bud” Cardos who directed other cult B-movies like “Kingdom of the Spiders” and “The Dark”. Dick Clark was a producer on the film though he was uncredited. An unofficial sequel was made called “Alien Predators” in 1987 and a loose remake called “Nightmare at Noon” with some of the same cast.
The film also boasts an awesome score by Richard Band.
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
Alucarda - The Beyond suite
From “Lucio Fulci: A Symphony of Fear” tribute album.
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
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
“The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters!”
Motley Crue - Save Our Souls
from the album “Theater of Pain” and the soundtrack of the film “Demons”.
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