
Public Domain
Feast of Flesh
1967 · Creative Enterprises / Key Films · Dir. Emilio Vieyra
A masked killer prowls the beaches of Argentina, injecting beautiful girls with heroin, and then using weird organ music to make them his zombie slaves.
Confidence
85
— Legal Reasoning —
Why this status applies
Feast of Flesh (1967), also known by the title 'The Flesh Feast', was produced in the United States and released during the automatic renewal era (1964–1977). Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works from this period are generally protected for a 95-year term unless they were published without a valid copyright notice. A search of the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) and the US Copyright Office online database reveals no registration for this title under either 'Feast of Flesh' or 'The Flesh Feast' at the time of release.
Crucially, this film is widely documented as having entered the public domain due to publication without a valid copyright notice on the release prints. It has been extensively circulated for decades by known public domain distributors, including Alpha Video, Something Weird Video, and Sinister Cinema, without legal challenge. The film is also hosted on the Internet Archive and various public domain streaming platforms. In the absence of a registration or a valid notice to trigger the 1992 Automatic Renewal Act's protections, the film is considered to have fallen into the public domain upon its initial publication.
Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), Motion Pictures and Filmstrips 1960-1969
- AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Something Weird Video Catalog
- Alpha Video (PD Distributor) Title Database
- IMDb: Feast of Flesh (1967)
Research summary based on cited sources, not legal advice. Always consult a qualified copyright attorney before commercial use.