CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Godzilla King of the Monsters! (1956)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Godzilla King of the Monsters was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 9, 1965 at 11:15 p.m., Saturday, October 31, 1965 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, December 9, 1967 at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, February 15, 1969 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, April 4, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, September 4, 1971 at 1:00 a.m. […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Violent Years (1956)
Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video (August 25 – 31) Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video! Take a walk on the wild side with troublesome teenagers, sleazy sex kittens, way-out hippies, country bumpkins, big bad bikers, Mexican wrestlers, and every other variety of social deviant you can think of. Originally called Teenage Girl Gang […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)
Curt Siodmak wrote The Wolf Man and for that, we should always thank him. He also directed and wrote this film, which was shot in Eastmancolor on location on the Amazon River. There was 10,000 feet of color film left over that Siodmark couldn’t export. so the same cast and crew made Love Slaves of the […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)
Frank Tashlin made the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and you know, that’s pretty much what this movie is. It’s a cartoon come beautiful and wonderfully to life. He’d work with Jerry Lewis on six of his solo films (Rock-A-Bye Baby, The Geisha Boy, Cinderfella, It’s Only Money, Who’s Minding the Store? and The Disorderly Orderly) […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Warning from Space (1956)
Made by Daei, the same people who would gift us with Gamera, and released in the U.S. eleven years after it came out in Japan, this movie has been pointed to as one that Kubrick watched as he grew fascinated with science fiction. The Pairan aliens of the film are perhaps the best reason to watch […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Menace from Outer Space (1956)
Clean-cut, square-jawed Rocky Jones of the Space Rangers was the lead character of a syndicated science fiction series that ran for two seasons from February to November of 1954. Shot in black and white, the show was about Rocky’s adventures as the space policeman for the United Worlds. Flying in his Orbit Jet XV-2 — […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The She-Creature (1956)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The She-Creature was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, March 6, 1965 at 11:15 p.m. It also aired on August 13, 1966. Edward L. Cahn also made Creature With the Atom Brain, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Zombies of Mora Tau and so many more. In this, Dr. Carlo Lombardi (Chester Morris) hypnotizes Andrea Talbott (Marla […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Black Sleep (1956)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Black Sleep was first on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 14, 1963. It was also on the show on July 5, 1964 and January 23, 1965. Reginald Le Borg was a banker in Austria and a director in America, making low budget horror at Universal like The Mummy’s Ghost and Weird Woman. Released along with The Creeping Unknown, […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Atomic Man (1956)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Atomic Man was first on Chiller Theater on Sunday, October 13, 1963. It was aired on March 7, 1964; July 10, 1965 and December 3, 1966. Cut down by seventeen minutes and renamed from Timeslip, The Atomic Man played U.S. theaters on a double feature with Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It had already been a live TV play […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Forbidden Planet (1956)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Forbidden Planet was first on Chiller Theater on October 12, 1963 at 3 p.m. It also aired on June 14, 1964 and February 27, 1965. Directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block, Forbidden Planet is a movie that […]
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