Weirdo Video Rare & authentic films of cultural, historical, and ironical significance.

The Tell-Tale Heart

1940's

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart - 1941

Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Tell-Tale Heart, written in 1843, was produced in 1941 and directed by Jules Dassin, a one-time assistant to Alfred Hitchcock. The film explores the visceral guilt a treacherous worker feels after he murders his boss in cold blood. He cannot escape his conscience as the mundane world around him suddenly […]

MORE ...

Martha Carson: Who Built the Ark?

1950's

Martha Carson: Who Built the Ark?

Martha Carson: Who Built the Ark? - 1959

Who built the Ark? Noah, Noah, Who built the ark? Brother Noah built the ark. Old man Noah build the Ark, He build it out of hickory bark. He build it long, both wide and tall. With plenty of room for the large and small. Who built the Ark? Noah, Noah, Who built the ark? […]

MORE ...

Door to Heaven

1940's

Door to Heaven

Door to Heaven - 1941

This bizarre, low-budget film was produced to propagate “the gospel of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” at least the one according to the members of this particular congreagation based in Wheaton, Illinois. Setting itself up as an instruction manual on how to get your soul through the pearly gates, the film really stretches the […]

MORE ...