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.
You got that right. A good Horror Host is fun because you feel "Shared pain" if the film stinks,ands shared joy when its a good flick.
Like MST3K...Shared pain with MANOS,baby.
Ah,the days of local TV....man,I miss them...