Creature Double Feature...*sigh* I miss this stuff... Laying around for hours eatin' snack food. Soaking up all the goofy horror, the black, & white films being re-run for so many years..I'm sure this side of the horror sci-fi genre is remembered fondly by many. Elvira is really a pretty, happy redhead IRL. She was cool. I'm not sure if anyone remembers Creature Double Feature, they ran Godzilla movies on the weekends. I think much of this programming might've run under different names in different broadcast zones.. Who else wasted many rainy afternoons happily on these? I'm sure there's plenty I'm leaving out...
Here are a couple nostalgia links.. http://www.houseofhorrors.com/pricebio.htm http://www.elvira.com/
i remember elvira being a commic book before there were any elvira movies. the sexiest commic book that somehow escaped mccarthyist pseudomoral censorship. i also remember movies (at the movie house) ALWAYS being double features, with a cartoon and a newsreal, and NO damd advertisements either. all the lobby of our little movie house in colfax had was a popcorn machine, a soda fountain and a bunch of candies, some, like nonparells and little boxes of allgoods or good and plenty and licorice allsorts, unique to movie houses, and a few that weren't like hershey bars and tootsie rolls. at any rate they always kept the popcorn machine stocked and hot as long as the movies were going on. =^^= .../\...
How 'bout this dude...you've seen him as the reporter in Night of the Living Dead http://myweb.wvnet.edu/e-gor/pittsburghhorrorhosts/chillymemorabillya.html He ran for over 20 years: Hers's a list of his movies starting in 1963: The Brain from Planet Arous (3:00 pm Saturday afternoon, September 14, 1963) The Giant Behemoth (11:10 pm Sunday night, September 15, 1963) ETC. http://myweb.wvnet.edu/e-gor/tvhorrorhosts/chillyshow.html He also hosted Studio Wrestling before Vince McMahon got it from his father:
abot and costello, along with the three stooges, had been virtualy forgotten archival footage till the early days of pizza joints, which i don't know when they started doing this, but for a while nearly all ran black and white tapes from their movies and short features. =^^= .../\...
Loved Elvira,, her real name was Cassandra Peterson or something like that wasnt it? She was cool,, playing all the old funny horror movies,, like attack of the killer toatoes where ya could see the paper mache peeling off the tomatoes and the wheels on the running boards and people s feeet pushing em,,lol,, Thats good filmmaking right there,,lol
Great responses in here, thanks for the memories! Sammy Terry was another one to remember. http://www.horror-wood.com/sammy.htm Although, I don't think he had much to do with wrestling.
Gotta love all the old alfred hitchcock and tales from the crypt,, do they play those any more??? I don't have cable anymore,,,
We used to watch Chiller Thriller every Saturday. Today, everyday Saturday I have to watch Sci-Fi. http://www.dvddrive-in.com/Chiller/chiller.htm I used to watch Creature Double Feature when I lived in Worcester, Ma. -Rat Fink
This is the guy I remember out of Philly, Dr. Shock. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3257/drshockphilly.html
Thanks, Denimstar, & White Feather..For your additions..erzebet1961, toss up a link if you like! ..It's pretty cool finding out we all had our own local spookmasters as this thread grows. There were lots more than I originally thought out there!