@atomicpoet It's also interesting to watch ones with up and coming actors. Somehow The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made, it is horrible, so horrible that it was shelved...until two of its unknown actors became A listers. (Renée Zellweger &
Matthew McConaughey)

Carolyn Jennifer Aniston was in the original Leprechaun, and watching her in it is a hoot.

@atomicpoet you probably know about how the original Night of the Living Dead ended up being a public domain movie then. If not, look it up. It's wild.

I found out that the movie was public domain because I ran a movie series and I couldn't find anyone who would license me to show that movie. Mind you, none of the distribution houses would tell me that there was no license. One by one, they'd tell me they didn't have it.

Sheldon Yeah, there were a few movies during Hollywood’s golden age that wound up in public domain. A good many were B movies, but there’s some prominent ones too.

The next 15 years will be fascinating because there’s so much stuff that was a big deal when I was growing up that can no longer be hoarded as IP.

King Kong is especially interesting because that’s still an active franchise.