CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Curse of Dracula (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Curse of Dracula was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 7, 1963 at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, January 9, 1965 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, August 21, 1965 at 1:00 a.m. Dracula (Francis Lederer) escapes a band of vampire hunters led by John Meierman (John Wengraf) and gets on a train, where he kills […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: She Demons (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: She Demons was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 10, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. Jerrie Turner (Irish McCalla, a model for Vargas and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle), Fred Maklin (Tod Griffin), Sammy Ching (Victor Sen Yung, Charlie Chan’s number one son) and Kris Kamana (Charles Opunui) are the only survivors of a shipwreck […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: It! The Terror from Beyond Space was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, July 23, 1966 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, September 19 at 11:15 p.m. In 1973, Earth is on its second manned mission to Mars. Only Col. Edward Carruthers (Marshall Thompson) survived and it’s thought that he killed the other nine members […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Hideous Sun Demon (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Hideous Sun Demon was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 18, 1965 at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, June 6, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, October 21, 1972 at 1:00 a.m. Written, directed and produced by Robert Clarke — the only movie he’d write and direct, sadly, after a career of acting in […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Teenage Caveman (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Teenage Caveman was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 26, 1964 at 1:00 a.m. Robert Vaughn thought that this was the worst movie ever made. Roger Corman wanted it to be called Prehistoric World. In England, they called it Out of the Darkness. Yes, Teenage Caveman is something. The early humans live amongst the rocks and […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 19, 1963 at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, December 31, 1966 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, June 1, 1968 at 1:00 a.m. Nathan Juran came to America from Romania. His brother became quality control master Joseph M. Juran. As for Nathan, he […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Haunted Strangler (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Haunted Strangler was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, June 27, 1964 at 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, September 13, 1964 at 11:15 p.m. Jan Read wrote the story “Stranglehold” just for Boris Karloff, who made this movie at the same time as Fiend Without a Face, the movie that it played double features with. […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: My World Dies Screaming (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: My World Dies Screaming was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, May 9, 1964 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, July 16, 1966 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, August 2, 1969 at 1:00 a.m. under the title Terror In the Haunted House. That was its TV title, which was used as part of the 22 film Allied […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: War of the Satellites (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: War of the Satellites was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, May 3, 1964 at 11:10 p.m., Saturday, September 7, 1968 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, July 5, 1969 at 1:00 a.m. My mom was nine when Sputnik went up into space and she said that people were so afraid of what it was […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Vampire’s Coffin (1958)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Vampire’s Coffin was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, September 3, 1966 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, July 12, 1969 at 1:00 a.m. The Vampire’s Coffin is the sequel to El Vampiro, a movie that brought Universal monsters to Mexico and created a new species of vampires. A graverobber named Manson (Yerye Beirute) has been hired […]
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