Public Domain Pandemonium I: Lady Frankenstein; The Terror; Sita Sings the Blues – CFQ Spotlight Podcast 3:8
Free at Last, Free at Last: From left to right: SITA SINGS THE BLUES; LADY FRANKENSTEIN; and THE TERROR
The universe of the genre film is filled with many strange and wonderful things: heroes; demons, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion (oh, Roy Batty, we miss you). But nothing is so strange or, at times, wonderful as the sight of movies that, by accident or design, have fallen out of copyright and are now subject to the random winds of distribution. They’re copied and recopied, cut and redubbed, posted in versions of varying quality on YouTube, all quite legally and for absolutely no money.
In other words: You ever wonder from whence came those films on that 1000 SCI-FI CLASSICS! DVD set that you bought on Amazon for $2.99 in order to bring your $22.01 order up to the $25 needed for free shipping? Now you know.
So, in the absence of a new theatrical release this week, we here at the Cinefantastique Spotlight are debuting our first “Public Domain Pandemonium,” where each of us offers for discussion a movie readily available on the web and elsewhere. Steve Biodrowski gives us his take on giddily nude horror film LADY FRANKENSTEIN; Lawrence French talks about Roger Corman’s let’s-burn-off-Karloff’s-contract-and-these-two-remaining-days-we-have-on-the-castle-set “classic,” THE TERROR; and Dan Persons talks about the unusual, Creative Commons animated musical-fantasy, SITA SINGS THE BLUES. A trio of fun films, all available by clicking the links above. And all for free! Ya cheapskate.
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Read more about Public Domain Pandemonium by clicking the links below:
- Public Domain Panic II: Haxan; Dementia 13; Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning: The Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast – 3:24 (0.591)
- The Little Shop of Horrors: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of 1960 (0.482)
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Capsule: Corman's World): CFQ Spotlight Podcast 2:49.1 (0.354)
- Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast #11: Source Code (0.333)
- Scream 4: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast #13 (0.333)
- Tales of Terror: A CFQ 50th Anniversary Spotlight Podcast - 3:10 (RANDOM - 0.333)
Hooray! Hooray! And … what the hell???
Okay, first off, thank you for your reviews of Lady Frankenstein and The Terror. I’ve heard of both of these films before (and I probably own them somewhere on one of my many DVD compilations), but you’ve now inspired me to actually watch both of these films sooner rather than later.
That’s the Hooray! and Hooray! part. And now, I’d like to conclude with a few words in support of Sita Sings the Blues.
This film is fan-frigging-tastic! The variety of animation styles, the unusual (and catchy, and compelling) musical numbers, and the sense of humor woven through this story all made this film a joy for me. Yes, I agree that the personal story of the modern-day breakup was one of the weaker aspects of the film, but Sita’s story carried me through.
So please watch this film, Larry, and then tell us what you think! And remember — your choices aren’t GOOD or BAD. You can choose between GOOD, BAD, or GREAT!
Oh, well, at least it’s not binary. Why didn’t you go the full Colbert: SITA SINGS THE BLUES: Great film, or THE GREATEST film?