Monster Movie Shows!

[RCMerchant]

 

  Back in the late 50's and early 60's, TV stations started to air Monster movie programs, with them being hosted by the likes of  Vampira, Zacherly, Sir Ghastly Graves and Ghoulardi. I was way to young to catch them that early, but in the mid 60's I recall watching Chiller when we lived in upstate NY, in Middletown and Marlbourgh. Later, when we moved to Michigan ,I watched Double Creature Feature on UHF channel 28,and Shock Theater on 41,hosted by some geek dressed like a witch!  Later on in the 80's on USA it was Elvira and Rhonda Shear on UP! All Night,and Joe Bob Briggs on Monster Vision.
  Sadly,we no longer have those around anymore,but Friday nite on cable they still show some good monster movies back to back.
 I recall seeing great double features on 28...like The WEREWOLF of LONDON and DRAUCLA'S DAUGHTER or,on the cheezier side, the PHANTOM PLANET and MUTINEY in OUTER SPACE.

  Anyway...any old Monster Movie Show memories you care to share?

   [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CafM97ifNc

[JaseSF]

There's still Horror hosts around. Mr. Lobo, host of the thoroughly entertaining and frequently hilarious Cinema Insomnia (in Virginia), used to pop in over at Scifilm.org from time to time. I'm sure there's others still at it. Believe the former Eddie Munster is one of them...

[AnubisVonMojo]

Sadly I was born too late to enjoy the golden age of monster movie shows, but I do have fond memories of such a show that ran on Saturday afternoons and was hosted by Al "Grandpa" Lewis. I was introduced to the majority of Godzilla's resume thanks to that show. Beyond that, Joe Bob Briggs and the "USA Up All Night" crew were the only monster shows I ever got the chance to watch.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAaD4kHHCfo

[IzzyDedjet]

I have fond memories of UTV 29's Saturday Morning Creature Feature, when I was growing up in Buffalo, N.Y.

[Shadow]

As a wee lil Shadow in the early and mid 70's, I remember watching Bob Wilkins and his Creature Features show on channel 2 in the San Fransisco Bay Area. He'd come on Friday and Saturday nights and often ran a double feature. Sometimes he would have famous guests (Christopher Lee once) and report any news on upcoming monster films. Those were the good old days when I discovered my love of 50's scifi and horror. Poor Bob is in his 80's now and suffering from Alzheimer's, but to this day I often sing aloud the theme song to his show:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MrQYSNYLVc

[RCMerchant]

 

Sadly I was born too late to enjoy the golden age of monster movie shows, but I do have fond memories of such a show that ran on Saturday afternoons and was hosted by Al "Grandpa" Lewis. I was introduced to the majority of Godzilla's resume thanks to that show. Beyond that, Joe Bob Briggs and the "USA Up All Night" crew were the only monster shows I ever got the chance to watch.

I found another clip too...He really loves doing his shtick!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55zQuuUZfw

 I have an old VHS tape of MISSLE to the MOON,with Granpa Lewis doing a monster show type intro,with crazy old film clips and props ...no doubt a take on the program you speak of! It has a prolouge with him in it too!

 

As a wee lil Shadow in the early and mid 70's, I remember watching Bob Wilkins and his Creature Features show on channel 2 in the San Fransisco Bay Area. He'd come on Friday and Saturday nights and often ran a double feature. Sometimes he would have famous guests (Christopher Lee once) and report any news on upcoming monster films. Those were the good old days when I discovered my love of 50's scifi and horror. Poor Bob is in his 80's now and suffering from Alzheimer's, but to this day I often sing aloud the theme song to his show:

 Bob Wilkens had a part in the backyard z-Budget film the MILPITAS MONSTER as (who else ? )-Himself!

   [youtube=425,350]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vCu4C1szCk
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[Joe the Destroyer]

I used to eat these up!  I think the ones I always watched were:

Super Scary Saturday (TBS)
Saturday Nightmares (USA)
Captain USA's Groovy Movies (USA)
USA Sci-Fri (USA)
Up All Night (USA)
Monstervision (TNT)
100% Weird (TNT)

These were what got me into bad movies.  Turner used to show a lot of Godzilla flicks, and USA seemed to really like Gamera.  After a while, though, some of them got stale and just showed the same stuff over and over again.  I remember Saturday Nightmares especially doing this toward the end of its life.

[IzzyDedjet]

All of the things that you mentioned are cool, Joe, And I spent more than my fair share of time watching them.
However, I honestly feel that the spirit of this thread comes from the time before, or at least before everyone and his brother had cable television.
If you read up some, you'll see some mention of local network channels that offered weekly programming dedicated solely to purely cheesy horror classics and various monster movies.
While Joe Bob, Elvira and Rhonda were undeniably good at what they were doing on their respective shows, theres just something about a local celeb mucking around in a dracula costume introducing, a movie, or doing the commercial breaks for local merchants.
I may be wrong, but that's my feeling on it.  Then again, there may be no wrong answer.  Either way,  to cheesy monster movies.  We all love them

[RapscallionJones]

Thank god for this thread! 

One of my fondest childhood memories was the Creature Double Feature on UHF channel 56, WLVI out here in New England.  When I was 7 my family moved to Massachusetts.  Not into a neighborhood populated with other kids my age to play with, but to a busy streets, surrounded by retirees.  So I had nothing to do but watch TV and I watched a lot of TV.

I couldn't have possibly cared any less for the VHF channels.  There was never anything on them that interested me.  WLVI had cartoons in the afternoon after school, reruns of stuff like Welcome Back Kotter and What's Happening after that and then some trashy eight o'clock movie.  My entire world was changed by saturdays.  After cartoons were over, I desperately surfed the handful of channels available to find some more animated goodness, but I found something else entirely.

Creature Double Feature introduced me to horror movies proper and they are an important part of the person I am today.  They played a lot of crap, but at 7, I didn't know the difference.  They also played a fair share of awesome.  I saw a lot of great Hammer horrors, Bava and Kaiju movies.

[Derf]

In South Texas we had a local horror movie host back in the 70s that went by the name of Count Vesco. I was too young to watch him regularly, but I did catch some of the movies and began to like the cheesy 50s monsters then. Vesco was a vampire with an Igor-like assistant named Derf, which is where my screen name here originated. Sorry, no video clips are available.

[Oldskool138]

Creature Double Feature introduced me to horror movies proper and they are an important part of the person I am today.  They played a lot of crap, but at 7, I didn't know the difference.  They also played a fair share of awesome.  I saw a lot of great Hammer horrors, Bava and Kaiju movies.

I remember Creature Double Feature when I was kid living in Mass and RI.  Christopher Lee scared the crap out of me in his Dracula films.   I remember watching a lot of Godzilla movies on Double Feature as well.

My favorite was Joe Bob Briggs and MonsterVision.  That's was really added gasoline to the fire of my love of horror movies.  You can't beat a guy on a cheezy set getting drunk and either ripping or pointing out cool things in the movie that you're watching.  I loved the fact that you could hear the crew laughing hysterically in the background at Joe Bob's jokes.

[HappyGilmore]

When I was growing up, I watched

MonsterVison with Joe Bob Briggs
USA's Up All Night with Rhonda and Gilbert.

Good stuff.

[RapscallionJones]

I remember Creature Double Feature when I was kid living in Mass and RI.  Christopher Lee scared the crap out of me in his Dracula films.   I remember watching a lot of Godzilla movies on Double Feature as well.

The best thing about those Hammer flicks when I was that young was seeing them and thinking: "All these people are in Star Wars."

A local car dealership owned by a fan of the show sponsored what was supposed to be a resurgence of the show.  The owner of the dealership even dressed up like a horror host and riffed on the movie between commercial breaks but it wasn't meant to be.  CDF never aired again.  There's a tiny presence on the web of nostalgic WLVI Creature Double Feature fans and it also has its own Wikipedia page.

[Oldskool138]

A local car dealership owned by a fan of the show sponsored what was supposed to be a resurgence of the show.  The owner of the dealership even dressed up like a horror host and riffed on the movie between commercial breaks but it wasn't meant to be.  CDF never aired again.  There's a tiny presence on the web of nostalgic WLVI Creature Double Feature fans and it also has its own Wikipedia page.

That's because Ernie Boch Jr. is a egotistical tool.  A rich tool...but a tool nonetheless.  I bet his house is filled floor to ceiling with mirrors and he as a tape recorder in each room so he can hear himself talk.

Okay, I'm a little jealous since I always wanted to host my own horror movie show....

[indianasmith]

When I was a kid (late 60's early 70's) there was a program on Dallas Fort Worth's Channel 11 called "Family Theater" that featured all the old classic horror/sci-fi films from the 50's and earlier - great stuff!