CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Monster That Challenged the World was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, November 3, 1963 at 11:10 p.m. Director Arnold Laven went from the mail room at Warner Brothers to producing The Rifleman and The Big Valley, as well as directing other movies. With a script by David Duncan and Pat Fielder (The Vampire, The Return […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Voodoo Woman (1957)
Harry West (Norman Willis) finds gold in an idol worshipped by a tribe in Bantalay and hires treasure hunter Marilyn Blanchard (Marla English) to help get it out of the country. Instead, she murders him and gets Ted Bronson (Mike Connors) to help her get deeper into the jungle to recover the gold. In that very […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Monolith Monsters (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Monolith Monsters was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 20, 1973 at 11:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 8, 1975 at 2:30 a.m.; Saturday, November 15, 1975 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, December 10, 1977 at 11:30 p.m. A large meteorite crashes into the Southern California desert and explodes into hundreds of black fragments […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Vampire (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Vampire was on Chiller Theater on Saturday. December 28, 1968 at 1:00 a.m. Directed by Paul Landres and written by Pat Fielder, who also collaborated on Return of Dracula, this film was also shown on TV as Mark of the Vampire. Dr. Paul Beecher (John Beel) gets his migraine meds screwed up […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Zombies of Mora Tau was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, August 26, 1967 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, August 8, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. You have to feel for the deep-sea divers in this movie. Sure, they have to deal with their boss, wealthy businessman George Harrison, but now to get the […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Curse of the Aztec Mummy was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 8, 1966, at 11:20 p.m. K. Gordon Murray seems like the perfect person — if Jerry Warren wasn’t going to do it — to bring this movie to the U.S. as The Curse of the Aztec Mummy. None of the voices seem […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Pharaoh’s Curse (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Pharaoh’s Curse was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 2, 1965, at 1 a.m., Saturday, May 6, 1967, at 11:20 p.m., and Saturday, April 6, 1968, at 1:00 a.m. King Diamond once sang, “Now, if you breaking the seals And disturbing the peace Then you’re startin’ up a curse Bringin’ evil disease […]
RETURN OF KAIJU DAY: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
“Here in this face lies the key to your death Touch it, see it Here in this fist is the means to your end Touch it, feel it GREEN HELL! You’ve come to this as no one could I’ll bet you never knew you would And don’t you run away from it I’ll bet you […]
RETURN OF KAIJU DAY: Godzilla le Monstre de l’Ocean Pacifique (1957)
As a kid, we only had Godzilla King of the Monsters! and as far as we knew, that was the definitive edition. We didn’t know that there was the Japanese original cut, the Luigi Cozzi-made Cozzilla or this French edition, which combines the American and Japanese cuts and dubs it all into French. Made by Les Films […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Back from the Dead (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Back from the Dead was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, May 17, 1964 at 11:10 p.m. Charles Marquis Warren directed this and the film it played double features with, The Unknown Terror, before creating Rawhide and adapting Gunsmoke to television. It was written by Catherine Turney and was based on her book The Other One. Dick (Arthur […]
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