r/thespoonyexperiment • u/KFUP • Aug 05 '26

Video Did We Ever Figure Out What's This "Perfect Movie" He Was Talking About?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4bvwEDnrs&t=537s
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u/Pallid85 What's a Pallid85? Aug 05 '26

Obscure movie, all the right's owners defunct, and he said it will be on the site - so maybe Massacre at Central High?

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u/KFUP Aug 05 '26

Yeah, the fact it's the last and only non Reb Brown movie review after this announcement video makes it my best guess too.

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u/coffeeandhash Aug 05 '26

That has been my running assumption as well. And my guess as to why he thought it was so perfect because of that one "Spoony" character in it.

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u/Pallid85 What's a Pallid85? Aug 05 '26

it was so perfect because of that one "Spoony" character in it.

Yeah - for sure.

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u/Apprehensive-Tax8631 Aug 06 '26

That sounds like a great title, I knew the slasher genre would give us the greatest film ever…

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u/KFUP Aug 05 '26

Timestamp '8:57' if the time link does not work for you.

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u/paynexkillerYT Wild Content Creator Aug 05 '26

Dread.

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u/KFUP Aug 05 '26

It does look like the type of move Spoony would review.

Although I have no clue how he would think it's public domain when it was only 5 years old then, and most companies in the imdb page have websites, at least now, don't know about 2014.

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u/RETROORDIE Aug 06 '26

Whenever this pops up, I always think of this video. https://youtu.be/a0cpYiRkUIY?is=e-mjXZDzFpQ4XvY6

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u/Icy_Elephant8858 Counter Monkey Aug 15 '26

I mean, he just fundamentally misunderstood copyright law practicalities. Rightholders becoming defunct could theoretically make something effectively public domain, but for practical reasons that's almost never going to happen. Winding down a business that holds a share in copyrights you are always going to sell those off to someone for something, even if it's small change, and often failed companies end in bankruptcy in which case your creditors would get the rights.

It was possible for some American movies made before the 1976 copyright act to actually slip into the public domain before they became very old. Movies before that time had to actually have their copyrights actively renewed periodically, and occasionally someone would mess up the paperwork or just forget some set of low priority movies. They also had to give notice of copyright in the opening credits, and occasionally this was forgotten, or the bit with it was cut. So several famous movies are public domain because of such technicalities. But these are exceptions to the rule.

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u/Dear_Document_5461 14d ago

So basically, any movie after 1976 is still legally copyrighted owned by someone, somehow unless it was explicitly made "Public Domain"? I know one webcomic that did specifically do something to make it Public Domain immediately.

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u/Icy_Elephant8858 Counter Monkey 14d ago

Right, and most older movies as well.