Created in the 1950s, these movies generally featured giant mutant monsters or aliens from outer space terrorizing Earth. Terror's House of Horrors and The House That Dripped Blood, became popular features on the shows.Ĭreature Features also aired many "nuclear monster" and "space alien" science fiction movies.
Later, during the 1970s, the films of Amicus Productions and Tigon British Film Productions, which included Dr. They broadcast all the best British horror films by Hammer Film Productions, like The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, The Phantom of the Opera, The Curse of the Werewolf, and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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They aired all the movies produced and distributed by American International Pictures, including all the Roger Corman B-movies of the 1950s and 1960s such as The Raven and The Terror, plus most of the Japanese " monster movies" produced by Toho Studios, and Daiei Motion Picture Company (famous for their Godzilla and Gamera movies).
Several old RKO films like King Kong, Son of Kong, and the original Mighty Joe Young were also included. This package also included an uncut print of Night of the Living Dead The movies Ĭreature Features normally showed all the classic Universal Horror movies from the 1930s and 1940s, like Dracula, Frankenstein, and others. The films in this package ranged from horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s, British horror films of the 1960s, and the Japanese "giant monster" movies of the 1960s, and 1970s. Ĭreature Features was another film package that was released in the early 1960s and added to in the 1970s. A "Son of Shock!" package was released in 1958. Viewers loved the package, as well as the concept, and ratings soared. This is why many of the early programs were called " Shock Theater". They encouraged the use of hosts for the broadcasts. In October 1957, Screen Gems released a bundle of old Universal horror movies to syndicated television, naming the collection "Shock!".
5.5 1970, WGN-Channel 9 and WFLD-Channel 32 (Chicago).5.4 1969, WNEW-Channel 5 (New York City).5.3 1968, WSJV-Channel 28 (South Bend, Indiana).
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