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Who Grew Up Watching Creature Feature...?
One thing I just love about the internet, you can find almost any information.
http://www.crazedfanboy.com/creaturefeature/index.html Creature Feature used to show horror movies from the original Universal films of the 30/40s up through the Hammer films of the 60/70s which a bunch of 50's sci-fi and Godzilla stuff for good measure. Some of my earliest memories are staying up late with my Dad to watch these films as a kid. In addition to the usual Sat. double feature in FL they showed the same films the Friday night before starting around 11:30pm and winding things up around 2am. We started this ritual around 1975 when I was just 7 years old (thankfully they weren't too scary) and continued until my teens. It was a wonderful way to spend part of my formative years. The list makes me kinda sad because it's been a couple years now since I lost my father and everything simply reminds me what a big part of my life he was. But at the same time I can vividly recall watching each film with him (usually seeing that film for the very first time - no surprise that the original Universal horror films remain my favorites). Even the cheesy American Pictures International films were a lot of fun. The news would be over and we'd have the buttered popcorn and cokes ready to go. Sometimes a late night pizza delivery. I was usually camped out on the floor in front of the set with my pillow and blanket. Sometimes I saw both films, sometimes I woke up Saturday morning in the living room just in time for cartoons. In any case, if you are a fan of classic horror, it's a great list. CREATURE FEATURE - Shows hosted by Dr. Paul Bearer WTOG Channel 44 9/7/73 - Sat. 2p(?) "The Mummy's Tomb" "Most Dangerous Man Alive" Creature Feature premiere featuring DPB (?) 9/15/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Deadly Mantis" 9/22/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" 9/29/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 10/6/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "Tarantula" 10/13/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Creature Walks Among Us" 10/20/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "Son of Frankenstein" 10/27/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "It Came from Outer Space" 11/3/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "Son of Dracula" 11/10/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "20 Million Miles to Earth" 11/17/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "Revenge of the Creature" 11/24/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Strange Door" 12/1/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Witch's Curse" 12/8/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Invisible Ray" (Karloff/Lugosi) 12/15/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Brain" (1962 or 1965) 12/22/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus" 12/29/73 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Gamma People" 1/5/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "The H Man" 1/12/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Invisible Man Returns" 1/19/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Black Torment" 1/26/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Monolith Monsters" 2/2/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "Monster on the Campus" 2/9/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "Voyage Into Space" 2/16/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "Circus of Horrors" 2/23/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "Destroy All Monsters" "Don't Bother" (odd St. Petersburg Times "TV Dial" comment) 3/2/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "Battle Beyond the Sun" 3/9/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "The Man Who Reclaimed His Head" 3/16/74 - Sat. 2p-4p "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon" "Fearful" (odd St. Petersburg Times "TV Dial" comment) 9/7/74 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Mummy's Tomb" "The Most Dangerous Man Alive" (1961) Creature Feature begins featuring two movies 1/3/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Billy the Kid vs. Dracula" (1966; John Carradine) "Jungle Woman" (1944) Not "Jungle Woman" again! 1/10/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Angry Red Planet" (1959) "Monster on the Campus" (1958) Outstanding double-feature. "Angry..." is a colorful sci-fi classic which I saw again recently on FLIX. "Monster on the Campus" was a movie I never saw on Crea-Fea, but rather on AMC. Loved that giant dragonfly! - Andy 1/17/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter" (1966) "The Thing that Couldn't Die" (Karloff, 1958) Another great double-bill. I've re-watched both films recently. "The Thing..." haunted me for years. I was terrified by "Sir Francis Drake's" mesmerizing evil eyes stare! - Andy 1/17/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Flying Saucer" (1965; Italy) "Pillow of Death" (Last entry in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series starring Lon Chaney Jr.; 1945) 1/31/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Mothra" (1962; Japan) "She-Wolf of London" (1946) Yet another great double-bill. Japanese Monster Movies were always a treat. - Andy 2/7/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Atom Age Vampire" (1961; Italy/France) "The Mummy's Curse" (1944) Lon Chaney Jr., I thought, was a great Mummy. For some reason Universal switched the setting from previous "Mummy" sequels from New England to Louisiana. I always wondered why the Mummy walked with a limp arm - and was then able to pick up Princess Ananka with both arms! Is it just me, or did the cultish Egyptian priests call their region "Arkham"? - Andy 2/14/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Island of Terror" (1967; Peter Cushing) "The Mole People" (1956) Can't beat these films. "Island..." was a truly terrifying picture for the '60s. The amoeba-like creatures were frightening! Great shock ending too! Happy Valentine's Day! - Andy 2/21/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Tomb of Ligea" (1965; V. Price/Dir. Roger Corman) "The Gorgon" (1964; Hammer; Christopher Lee) 2/28/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "I, Monster" (1972; Christopher Lee) "The Tingler" (1959; V. Price/Dir. William Castle) 3/6/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Invisible Man Returns" (1940; V. Price) "The Monolith Monsters" (1957) 3/13/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Mission Stardust" (1968; Italy/Spain/W. Germany/Monaco) "The Mad Doctor of Market Street" (1942; Lionel Atwill) Monaco? 3/20/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Beyond the Time Barrier" (1960) "Curse of the Undead" (1959) DPB performs "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"! 3/27/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Invisible Agent" (1942; Peter Lorre) "Invisible Creature" (1960; England) 4/3/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "It Came from Outer Space" (1953; Richard Carlson) "The Day the Earth Froze" (1964) 4/10/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Black Castle" (1953; Karloff) "The Leech Woman" (1960) 4/17/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Attack of the Monsters" (1969) "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon" (1956; Beverly Garland) "Attack..." aka "Gamera vs. Guiron" 4/24/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Curse of the Demon" (1957; Dana Andrews) "The Gamma People" (1956) "The Gamma People" is one of my late-night favorites! - Andy 5/1/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Rodan, the Flying Monster" (1957) "Konga" (1961; Michael Gough) A cut rate, guy-in-a-suit, rip-off of King Kong, but still lots of fun! - Ed Tucker 5/8/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Island of the Burning Doomed" (1967; Lee/Cushing) "Voodoo Island" (1957; Karloff) 5/15/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "House of Frankenstein" (1944; Karloff) "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman" (1943) Great Universal double-bill! 5/22/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Conqueror Worm" (1968; V. Price) "Terror in the Crypt" (1963, Christopher Lee; Spain/Italy) 5/29/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Blancheville Monster" (1962; Spain/Italy) "The Spider Woman Strikes Back" (1944; Rondo Hatton) 6/5/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Invisible Man" (1933, Claude Rains) "The Invisible Agent" (1942, Peter Lorre) An Invisibility Double-Feature! 6/12/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942, Lon Chaney Jr.) "The Most Dangerous Man Alive" (1961) 6/19/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Black Cat" (1941, Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone) "Yongary, Monster from the Deep" (1967) Note "The Black Cat" was not the '34 Karloff/Lugosi classic. "Yongary" was a fun, all-color South Korean giant monster movie! 6/26/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Dinosaurus" (1960) "Werewolf of London" (1935, Henry Hull) "Dinosaurus" was one of my all-time favorite fantasy films. WOL was one of the original films to feature a werewolf, pre-dating Lon Chaney Jr.'s "The Wolfman" by six years. - Andy 7/3/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Black Friday" (1940, Karloff/Lugosi) "The 27th Day" (1957) 7/10/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Ghost of Frankenstein" (1942; Chaney Jr., Lugosi) "Son of Dracula" (1943, Lon Chaney Jr.) Very solid double-bill 7/17/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) "Return of the Giant Majin" (1966) I loved the giant "Majin" series. "Majin" was a giant walking stone statue that terrorized Samurai-era Japan. - Andy These were true torture for me as a kid. I loved the Japanese monster aspect of the films, but you had to sit through an hour of boring story line waiting for the statue to finally get pissed off enough to start stomping stuff! - Ed Tucker 7/24/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959; Lugosi, Vampira) "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932) Ed Wood! Aw-right!!!!! 7/31/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Revenge of the Creature" (1955, John Agar) "The Man Who Cried Wolf" (1937) Note TMWCW was a crime drama, not a horror film. DPB complained about how crime dramas and European "giallos" were broadcast on CF, tricking kids into thinking they were horror films because of their horror-esque titles 8/7/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Son of Frankenstein" (1939; Karloff, Lugosi) "The Raven" (1935; Karloff, Lugosi) 8/14/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Terror of the Tongs" (1961 - Hammer, Christopher Lee) "The Mummy" (the 1932 Karloff classic) No! Not "Terror of the Tongs"!!! AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!! 8/21/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Billy the Kid vs. Dracula" (1966; Lon Chaney Jr. ) "The Frozen Ghost" (1945, Lon Chaney Jr.) 8/28/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Valley of the Dragons" (1961 ) "The Wolf Man" (1941, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains) "Valley/Dragons": There was something I found really cool about this film as a kid and years later when I discovered it was based on Jules Verne’s "Off On a Comet". 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10-09-2011, 07:44 PM
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9/4/76 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Battle in Outer Space" (1960) "Man-Made Monster" (1941; Lon Chaney Jr., Lionel Atwill) 9/11/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Cult of the Cobra" (1955) "The Invisible Woman" (1940) 9/18/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Valley of the Dragons" (1961) "The Strange Door" (Karloff, 1951) "Valley/Dragons": There was something I found really cool about this film as a kid and years later when I discovered it was based on Jules Verne’s "Off On a Comet". I understood why. - Ed Tucker 9/25/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) "Curse of the Undead" (1959) 10/2/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Battle of the Worlds" (1961; Italy, Claude Rains) "Terror in the Jungle" (1968) "Terror in the Jungle" seems like a bit of a rarity. Had to look this one up. - Andy 10/9/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Curse of Bigfoot" (1972) "The Thing That Couldn't Die" (1958) I knew this was a dog even as a kid, although I did like the beginning where the archeologists find the American Indian “mummy” buried under the tablet and haul it out. This film had a little bit of everything and a whole lot of nothing! It’s interesting to note that this film ended up on Creature Feature only four years after it was made. - Ed Tucker 10/16/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957) "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) 10/23/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Phantom of the Opera" (1962; Hammer, Herbert Lom) "Night Creatures" (1962) "Night Creatures" was an interesting horror feature. Loved the skeleton-costumed riders. - Andy 10/30/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "House of Dracula" (1945) "Dracula's Daughter" (1936) 11/6/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Dracula, Prince of Darkness" (1966; Hammer, Chris Lee) "The Curse of Dracula" (1958) 11/13/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Godzilla" (1956; Toho, Dir. Onoshiro Honda, Raymond Burr) "Godzilla's Revenge" (1969) Heaven to a little kid watching Crea-Fea! 11/20/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Monster Zero" (1966; Toho, Nick Adams) "Night Monster" (1942; Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill) 11/27/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" (1970; P. Cushing) "Mark of the Vampire" (1957, Kenneth Tobey) 12/4/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Magic Serpent" (1966) "The Invisible Man's Revenge" (1944, John Carradine) Another highly underrated fantasy film from Toho. - Ed Tucker 12/11/76 - Sat. 2p-4p "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter" (1966) Only one feature this day, followed by college football at 4pm 12/18/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Brain that Wouldn't Die" (1959) "The Man Who Turned to Stone" (Victor Jory) 12/25/76 - Sat. 2p-5p "It Happened on 5th Avenue" (1947) "Susan Slept Here" (1954) Crea-Fea pre-empted for a X-Mas special edition show! No wonder I like Halloween more than X-mas... 1/1/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "It Came from Beneath the Sea" (1955) "Warning from Space" (1956 or 1968) Note: The entry reads "Warning from Space" which was a 1956 Japanese film featuring Starfish-shaped aliens. The date given in "TV Dial", however, was 1967, which leads me to believe it could have been a sci-fi film called "Warning from Outer Space" (1967) 1/8/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956) "The Strangler" (1963) This is one of Victor Buono’s best roles ever and seemed very adult to me as a kid. - Ed Tucker 1/15/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "12 to the Moon" (1960) "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster" (1965) "Frankenstein..." a camp classic! 1/22/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Tarantula" (1955) "Dance of Death" (1968; Mexico, Boris Karloff) "The Dance of Death" was one of Boris Karloff's last films. aka "House of Evil". Jack Hill wrote the screenplay. 1/22/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Island of the Lost" (1968) "Jungle Captive" (1945) 2/5/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Raven" (1963; AIP, Price/Karloff/Lorre, Dir. Corman) "When Worlds Collide" (1951, dir. George Pal) A fantastic double-feature 2/12/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" (1964) "The Giant Claw" (1957) 2/19/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Destory All Monsters" (1968, Toho) "Monster on the Campus" (1958) DAM rules! 2/26/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Mummy" (1959; Hammer, Lee/Cushing) "The Mummy's Ghost" (1943, Lon Chaney Jr.) 3/5/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Angry Red Planet" (1960) "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954) 3/12/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "This Island Earth" (1955) "The Mad Ghoul" (1943) 3/19/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Man Who Could Cheat Death" (1959) "Beast of Hollow Mountain" (1956; anim. by Willis O' Brian) 3/26/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Conquest of Space" (1955, dir. George Pal) "Journey to the 7th Planet" (1962, John Agar) Good sci-fi double-bill 4/2/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Man Who Reclaimed His Head" (1934) "The Black Cat" (1941) 4/9/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" (1958) "The Phantom Planet" (1962) "It!..." is a personal favorite of mine. It's very scary, as compared with other sci-fi films of the late '50s and was an influence on "Alien" (1979). - Andy 4/16/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Invisible Ray" (1936, Karloff/Lugosi) "The Mole People" (1956, John Agar) 4/23/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "War of the Gargantuas" (1966, Russ Tamblyn) "Dead Man's Eyes" (1944, Lon Chaney Jr.) "War..." was one of the most fun full-color features shown on Crea-Fea (at least to a 10-yr.-old kid), and I believe was a pseudo-sequel to "Frankenstein Conquers the World". Unforgettable! - Andy As much as I loved the giant Japanese monsters as a kid, this one actually did scare me. The scenes of the Green Gargantua eating people and then spitting out their clothes were pretty intense. I was also unnerved by the early scene of the fisherman looking down into the water from his boat only to see the Green Gargantua standing on the bottom of the ocean looking up at him! It’s hard to believe this was a sequel to "Frankenstein Conquers the World". - Ed Tucker 4/30/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Women of the Prehistoric Planet" (1966, John Agar) "Isle of the Dead" (1945; Karloff, dir. Val Lewton) "Isle..." was a haunting favorite of mine. Note that "Women..." was broadcast on "Fright Theatre" the same night (see the FT database below) - Andy 5/7/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942) "The Mummy's Revenge" (1972, Paul Naschy) A rare excursion into Spanish horror for Crea Fea. A real treat, and a nice break from the B&W Universal classics. 5/14/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Bride of the Gorilla" (1951; Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr.) "Brides of Dracula" (1960; Hammer, Peter Cushing) "Bride(s)..." double feature! After "Horror of Dracula", Christopher Lee refused to play Count Dracula for a number of years. English actor David Peel filled in. Great film. Directed by Terence Fisher with a script by Jimmy Sangster. 5/21/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Navy vs. the Night Monsters" (1966, Billy Gray) "Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" (1952) I recall at the time, seeing "Navy..." was a pretty exciting, full-color experience. It was scary and action-packed. I remember being surprised seeing Billy Gray ("Bud" in "Father Knows Best") in the cast. He gets his arm ripped off! BLMABG, despite the inane title, was a very fun movie featuring a look-alike Martin/Lewis team. 5/28/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Evil of Frankenstein" (1964; Hammer, Peter Cushing) Second feature pre-empted by baseball (Braves vs. Giants) 6/4/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Atomic City" (1952) "The Mad Magician" (1954, Vincent Price) 6/11/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Atom Age Vampire" (1961) "The Mummy's Curse" (1944, Lon Chaney Jr.) 6/18/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Scream of Fear" (1961; Hammer, Susan Strasberg) "The Leech Woman" (1960) 6/25/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Flying Saucer" (1951; Italy) "Battle Beyond the Sun" (1963) 7/2/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Son of Frankenstein" (1939; Karloff/Lugosi) No 2nd feature 7/9/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Voyage Into Space" (1969) 2nd feature pre-empted for baseball (Braves vs. Giants) Hi, Ed! 7/16/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Konga" (1961; Michael Gough) "Return of the Giant Majin" (1966, Daiei) "Konga": cut rate, guy-in-a-suit, rip-off of King Kong, but still lots of fun! "...Majin": These were true torture for me as a kid. I loved the Japanese monster aspect of the films but you had to sit through an hour of boring story line waiting for the statue to finally get pissed off enough to start stomping stuff! - Ed Tucker 7/23/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Terror in the Crypt" (1963, Christopher Lee) "Creature with the Atom Brain" (1955) Note the TV Guide mistakes the year of "Terror..." - 1940. 7/30/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Night Creatures" (1962, Peter Cushing) "Revenge of the Creature" (1955) 8/6/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "First Spaceship on Venus" (1962) "Beyond the Time Barrier" (1960) 8/13/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Voodoo Island" (1957, Karloff) "Curucu, Beast of the Amazon" (1956) Augh! Not Curucu! 8/20/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Projected Man" (1967) "Mission Stardust" (1968; Itlay, aka "4...3...2...1...morte") 8/27/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Gorgon" (1964; Hammer, Christopher Lee) "The Deadly Mantis" (1957) 9/3/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Invisible Man" (1933) "The Invisible Man Returns" (1940) 9/10/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Devil's Hand" (1961) "The Creeping Terror" (1964) "The Creeping Terror" was a real treat for bad movie fans!
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9/17/77 - Sat. 2p-5p
"Footsteps on the Moon" (1967) "The Frozen Ghost" (1945) Never heard of "Footsteps...". This is probably a documentary. 9/24/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Terror in the Jungle" (1968) "Island of Doomed Men" (1940) "The Creeping Terror" was a real treat for bad movie fans! 10/1/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Horror Castle" (1964, Christopher Lee) "The Boogie Man Will Get You" (Karloff, 1942) "Horror Castle" - Great feature! Always liked the title of the 2nd Karloff feature, although I bet it's better than the actual movie. 10/8/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Terror Beneath the Sea" (1970, Sonny Chiba) "Atomic Submarine" (1959) Another great double-feature. 10/15/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Curse of the Living Corpse" (1964, Roy Scheider) "Carnival of Souls" (1962, Dir. Herk Harvey) You can't beat this line-up. "Curse" was one of my Crea Fea faves, but I don't recall ever seeing "Carnival..." on Crea Fea - what a treat that must have been! 10/23/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "I, Monster" (1971, Lee/Cushing) "Monster from the Surf" (1965) Again, "I, Monster" is another Crea Fea movie I managed to miss (I must have been out seeing "Star Wars"). 10/29/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Count Dracula" (1970, Christopher Lee, Dir. Jess Franco) "The Raven" (1935, Karloff/Lugosi) "Count Dracula" also stars Klaus Kinski as Renfield and Soledad Miranda! Franco on the Feature! Guess this was the Halloween show. 11/5/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Attack of the Mushroom People" (1966) "Attack of the Giant Leeches" (1959) Another film on CF that actually scared me. How dumb can these people be? Don’t eat the damn mushrooms! - Ed Tucker 11/12/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Frankenstein Conquers the World" (1966) "House of Frankenstein" (1944, Karloff, Chaney Jr.) Good double-feature, although odd seeing a Japanese Frankenstein (critically panned) paired with a traditional American version. 11/19/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Beast with a Million Eyes" (1955) "Astounding She Monster" (1957) As a kid, I had to do a double-take to see if Shirley Kilpatrick was really nekkid! 11/26/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" (1957) "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957, Michael Landon) Wow! 12/3/77 - Sat. 3:30p (?) "Behind the Mask" (1932, Karloff) No 2nd feature given. Not sure if this played for 3 hours. A non-horror crime thriller teaming up Karloff & Edward Van Sloan after the successes of "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" 12/10/77 - Sat. 3:30p "From the Earth to the Moon" (1958) No second feature (again)? Started at 3:30pm 12/17/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Man They Could Not Hang" (1939) "Sound of Horror" (1965) Sorry, but as a kid I never did like the Karloff crime thriller films. 12/24/77 - Sat. 2p-5p "Susan Slept Here" (1954) "The Lions are Free" (1969) The Christmas Show. AAUGH! 12/31/77 - Sat. 2p-5p Pre-empted for The Peach Bowl AAUGH! 1/7/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Monster on the Campus" (1958) "The Monolith Monsters" (1957) 1/14/78 - Sat. 2p-5p Pre-empted for Challenge Bowl 1/21/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Tarantula" (1955) "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956) Good double-feature 1/28/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Tomb of Ligea" (1965, Vincent Price, Dir. R. Corman) "The Missing Guest" (1938) 2/4/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Frankenstein" (1958) Only one feature this day 2/11/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Blood of the Vampire" (1958) "Night of the Blood Beast" (1958) A 1958 double feature! 2/18/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Dracula" (1931, Lugosi) "Son of Dracula" (1943, Lon Chaney Jr.) Good selections 2/25/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "THX-1138" (1971, Dir. George Lucas; Robert Duvall) "Invasion of the Saucer Men" (1957) What a delight it was seeing George Lucas' masterpiece on the small screen! It was a very bizarre sci-fi film for Crea Fea, but it helped me to appreciate the art film at a young age. Kudos to AIP for acquiring this title, which came to light after "Star Wars" proved to be a mega-hit. IOTSM was a great flick too! 3/4/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Atom Age Vampire" (1961) "Man-Made Monster" (1941, Lon Chaney Jr.) 3/11/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Werewolf of London" (1935, Henry Hull) "The Invisible Man's Revenge" (1944, John Carradine) 3/18/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959, Dir. Ed Wood; Lugosi) Only one feature this day. Followed by "American Hot Wax"(?) at 4pm 3/25/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Blancheville Monster" (1962) "The Man Who Cried Wolf" (1937) 4/1/78 - Sat. 3:30p-5p "Catgirl" (1957) First feature pre-empted by by college basketball (starting at 1:30pm). 4/8/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Dagora, the Space Monster" (1964, Japan) "Curse of the Undead" (1959) 4/15/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Curse of the Werewolf" (1961, Hammer; Oliver Reed) "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932) 4/22/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Mark of the Vampire" (1957) "Fiend Without a Face" (1958) 4/29/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "It Conquered the World" (1956, Dir. Roger Corman) "Valley of the Dragons" (1961) "Valley/Dragons": There was something I found really cool about this film as a kid and years later when I discovered it was based on Jules Verne’s "Off On a Comet". I understood why. - Ed Tucker 5/6/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Godzilla vs. The Thing" (1964, Dir. Onoshiro Honda) "Godzilla" (1956, Dir. Onoshiro Honda) I was definitely home watching these two! 5/13/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Attack of the Puppet People" (1958) "Attack of the Robots" (1966, Dir. Jess Franco) "Attack" double-feature! AOTR - an interesting selection 5/20/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Gargoyles" (1972) "Monster Zero" (1966, Nick Adams) "Gargoyles" is an all-time favorite! It stars Scott Glenn ("The Keep") in an early role. Emmy-winning make-up effects by a very young Stan Winston 5/27/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "War of the Monsters" (1966, Japan) "The Giant Gila Monster" (1959) WOTM: The second Gamera film. Gamera fights Barugon. 6/3/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Ape Man of the Jungle" (1962 or 1964) "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954) The first feature is an odd choice. First of all, it's not a horror film. According to the IMDB, it's a "Tarzan" imitation from Italy (where else?). Instead of "Tarzan", our hero's called "Tarzak"! 6/10/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Dinosaurus" (1960) "The Man with 9 Lives" (Karloff, 1940) 6/17/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Valley of Gwangi" (1969, Effects: Ray Harryhausen) Only one feature this Saturday. "Gwangi" followed by "Grease Day USA", no doubt a special on the movie "Grease", which was released in 1978! - Andy Cowboys and dinosaurs, I’m there! - Ed Tucker 6/24/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Conqueror Worm" (1968, Vincent Price) "The Spider" (1958) The SPT "TV Dial" lists the date for "The Spider" as 1945. If it's the same movie, that's incorrect. I corrected it here for the database. This was originally titled "Earth vs. the Spider" 7/1/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Mothra" (1962, Japan; Dir. Onoshiro Honda) "Jungle Captive" (1945) Always hated "Jungle Captive" 7/8/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Majin - Monster of Terror" (1966, Japan) "Jungle Woman" (1944) Loved the "Majin" movies. Hated "Jungle Woman"! - Andy These were true torture for me as a kid. I loved the Japanese monster aspect of the films but you had to sit through an hour of boring story line waiting for the statue to finally get pissed off enough to start stomping stuff! - Ed Tucker 7/15/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Scars of Dracula" (1971, Hammer; Christopher Lee) "Blood of Dracula" (1957) "Scars..." was a rare '70s Hammer feature shown on Crea Fea. Good stuff! 7/22/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Battle of the Worlds" (1961, Italy) "It Came from Outer Space" (1953, Russell Johnson)
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7/29/78 - Sat. 2p-5p
"The Projected Man" (1967, Bryant Halliday) "The Masque of the Red Death" (1964, Vincent Price) 8/5/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" (1956, F/X: Willis O' Brien) "The Leech Woman" (1960) 8/12/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "I, Monster" (1971; Christopher Lee) "Monster from the Surf" (1965) 8/19/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Terror of the Tongs" (1961; Christopher Lee) "The Giant Claw" (1957) Love "The Giant Claw"! Loathe "...Tongs" 8/26/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" (1964) "The Curse of Dracula" (1958) 9/2/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "Curse of the Demon" (1957) "Creature with the Atom Brain" (1955) 9/9/78 - Sat. 2p-5p "It Came from Beneath the Sea" (1955) "Before I Hang" (Karloff, 1940) "It Came..." was always a fun feature. Karloff unfortunately made a plethora of fantastic crime dramas that barely qualify as horror films. 9/8/79 - Sat. 2p-5p "Voyage Into Space" (1968) "Valley of the Dragons" "Valley/Dragons": There was something I found really cool about this film as a kid and years later when I discovered it was based on Jules Verne’s "Off On a Comet". I understood why. - Ed Tucker 8/2/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Night of the Blood Beast" (1958) "An Angel for Satan" (1966, Italy; Barbara Steele) "An Angel..." - good selection 8/9/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Doomwatch" (1972) "The 27th Day" (1957) I recall seeing a color still from "Doomwatch" in one of my '70s horror movie hardcover books. Always wanted to see it based on that still! Never did, though. I must have missed this on Crea Fea, unfortunately. 8/16/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Track of the Vampire" (1966, William Campbell) "Sound of Horror" (1965, Italy; Soledad Miranda) I'm surprised they're referring to the first feature as "Track..." and not "Blood Bath" - what Crea Fea typically called it. This was one of my favorites. "Sound..." is an interesting selection. 8/23/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen" (1959, Czechoslovakia) "Creature with the Atom Brain" (1955) Typically, I was never thrilled to see "Baron Munchausen", but grew to appreciate it over the years. The effects were very unique and if I recall, some of the scenes were tinted bizarre colors. 8/30/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Horror of Frankenstein" (1971, Hammer; Ralph Bates) Only one feature this week; the second pre-empted by football. 9/6/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "The X from Outer Space" (1966) "The Man with 9 Lives" (Karloff, 1940) 9/13/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Curse of the Living Corpse" (1963) "Zombies of Mora Tau" (1957) "Curse..." was one of my favorite Creature Feature films. It features Roy Scheider in an early role and a decapitated head served on a platter! Somehow I always managed to miss "Zombies of Mora Tau". - Andy 9/20/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Gorgon" (1964, Hammer; Cushing/Lee) "Bride of the Gorilla" (1951, Raymond Burr) 9/27/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Curse of the Swamp Creature" (1966) "The Brain Eaters" (1958, Leonard Nimoy) John Agar double-feature! 10/4/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Evil of Frankenstein" (1964, Hammer; Peter Cushing) "The Projected Man" (1967, Bryant Halliday) 10/11/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Zontar, the Thing from Venus" (1966) "Attack of the Puppet People" (1958, John Hoyt) Yet another John Agar double-feature! 10/18/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Eye Creatures" (1965, John Ashley) "Dinosaurus" (1960) Larry Buchanan R.I.P. 2004 10/25/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Slaughter of the Vampires" (1961) "It Conquered the World" (1956, Dir. Roger Corman) 11/1/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Lost Continent" (1968, Hammer) "Invasion of the Saucer Men" (1957, Frank Gorshin) 11/8/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Kiss of the Tarantula" (1972) "The Spider" (1958) A very cool arachnid double-feature! "Kiss..." was a real treat! 11/15/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Blood of the Vampire" (1958) "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" (1972) WOW!!! "Children..." arrives!!! One of my faves! I didn't see this on Crea Fea, but I can just imagine what a thrill this must have been to see on Crea Fea in 1980. Unreal. The good titles just keep on coming. See "The Alien Factor" next entry. 11/22/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Alien Factor" (1978, Dir. Don Dohler) "The Electronic Monster" (1958) I recall seeing the cover of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine with one of the creatures from "The Alien Factor" on it, and was hooked. I do recall seeing this episode. Unforgettable! 11/29/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "This Island Earth" (1955, Rex Reason, Faith Domergue) "The Devil Doll" (1964, Bryant Halliday) Yet another outstanding double-feature. "The Devil Doll" is another favorite. Halliday (also in "The Projected Man") is excellent. The ventriloquist dummy "Hugo" is the stuff of nightmares! 12/6/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Flesh Eaters" (1964) "Beast of Hollow Mountain" (1956, F/X: Willis O' Brien) Great titles, do not stop! "The Flesh Eaters" is recognized as one of the first gore films (along with the full-color "Blood Feast"). Although tamer, it featured grisly effects for the time. 12/13/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959; Dir. Ed Wood, Lugosi) "They Saved Hitler's Brain" (1964) Would you believe my mom is one up on me? She managed to see "They Saved Hitler's Brain" on late-night TV - and I still haven't seen it yet! I must have been at the game rooms in 1980. 12/20/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Die, Monster, Die" (1965, Karloff) "Varan the Unbelievable" (1962) Another good double-feature. "Die..." was based on "The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft. 12/27/80 - Sat. 2p-5p "Monster from the Surf" (1965, John Hall) "Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" (1964) 1/3/81 - Sat. 2p-5p "The Deadly Bees" (1967, Scr: Robert Bloch) "The Giant Claw" (1957) 9/12/81 - Sat. 2p-5p "Phantom of the Opera" (Hammer, 1962) "The Brides of Dracula" (Hammer, 1960) A notable Hammer double-feature. Seeing the Herbert Lom version of "Phantom..." always made me want to see the Lon Chaney original, which was typically not available in the days before video. "Brides..." is a great Hammer vampire classic. Thankfully I have most of these on DVD but I've spotted a couple titles I had forgotten all about.
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We had something similar in Australia when I was growing up. The first I remember was "Ten's Bloody Movie" which aired on Channel 10 I think on a Friday night. They used to play a lot of Hammer/Amicus etc movies. This was probably in the late 70's?
Anyway, that ended, and later Channel 7 had "Creature Feature" which mainly played older films such as the Universal monster films. I think these would have started in the late 70's or early 80's. I remember anxiously waiting each week for the TV Guide to see what horror film would be on in the coming week. Initially, I had to stay up late to watch them, but once VCRs came along there was no excuse to miss a movie. These are certainly very fond memories of my childhood also.
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10-10-2011, 09:17 AM
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In a lot of ways TV has not changed for the better. While I absolutely appreciate the DVR and DVDs which allow me to watch what I want, when I want...I have fond memories of the family coordinating around the TV to watch specific movie night events and especially series like Shogun, Roots and things of that sort. It gave you a little purpose in life to have your ass home before the show got started. I can still remember my Dad racing us through the pizza so we could be home in time before Battlestar Galactica started.
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10-10-2011, 09:55 AM
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The only movie I've seen on that entire list is Carnival Of Souls which I found boring. I don't think I was even born before any of those movies. I grew up on horror icons like Freddy, Jason, Pinhead, Michael Myers, Leatherface, The Blob(remake), and The Fly(remake).
Now don't get me wrong, I in no way think my icons are any better than the older ones. I just think its a generation thing. I have a couple of classic horror channels on my Roku player I should start watching and stop being a movie snob. This looks like a great list to get started on!:)
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You don't sound much younger than I am (here I'm assuming again) as I also grew up with Freddy, Jason and Myers as my high school age horror movies. Many of the Hammer classics came out before I was even born, to say nothing of the Universal classics which came out before my father was born. My appreciation is obviously a nostalgia thing as those are the films I grew up on. As a result they are the most fun. Most of the Japanese Godzilla, Rodan and other Toho/Daiei monster films were actually pretty terrible but I still love them because I grew up watching them as a kid. I honestly never cared much for the slasher movies of the 80s except for things like PJ Soles moments. But all these years later I'm starting to warm up to them for nostalgia reasons. The remakes of The Blob, The Fly and The Thing were always great IMO however.
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10-10-2011, 12:28 PM
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Seen a couple of those.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is brilliant. A little creepy in places and with a brilliant premise. Avoid the remake, The Invasion. Carnival Of Souls - To me this is very much akin to a more obscure Night Of The Living Dead. A similar era on a very small budget and much it has this strange thing that a lot of the films had during the final days of the B-movie, in that it seems rather uninteresting, almost campy, at first but it evolves into something quite extraordinary (Planet Of The Apes is another example of that kind of later-B Movie) When watching the sound bugged me because it's a very quiet film and you can struggle to hear the dialogue (perhaps because the low budget didn't allow for overdubbing so the audio's all "live", as it were) but it helps build a creepy ambience. The ending is just wonderfully and disturbingly bizarre. THX 1138 - What is this doing here!? Other than the shell dwellers I can't see how this is a creature feature. Regardless, I like it. Though a George Lucas science-fiction film, it's very different to Star Wars, it's darker, more subdued and experimental, more like 1984. It also has a good cast for a low-budget independent film as it stars Robert Duvall (who was associated with Lucas and the film's producer and Lucas's mentor Francis Ford Coppola) and Donald Pleasence. Scars Of Dracula - I've seen it...can't say I remember much of it.
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