CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Monster of Pedras Blancas was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 23, 1965 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, September 23, 1967 at 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 8, 1968 at 11:20 p.m. Irvin Berwick and Jack Kevan were nobodies at Universal. Kevan hated working for makeup department boss Bud Westmore, who took all […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The Bat (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bat was on the CBS Late Movie on June 26, 1984. If you like your horror with a heavy dose of classic Hollywood royalty mixing it up with proto-giallo bloodshed, 1959’s The Bat is here for it. Based on Mary Roberts Rinehart’s legendary 1908 novel The Circular Staircase and its subsequent 1920 Broadway hit, this […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Eyewash (1959)
Week 4 (July 12 – 18) – Roots of the Underground: Film-makers’ Coop The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is a non-profit dedicated to experimental and avant-garde cinema; almost all of the most well-known American experimental filmmakers have had works in their catalogue at some point. Robert Breer occupies a singular space in the history of experimental animation. His work—often […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: The Three Treasures (1959)
Birth of Japan was produced by Toho as their celebratory thousandth film. At the time, it was the most expensive Japanese film ever made. Based on the legends of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, and the origins of Shinto, it was released in America as The Three Treasures and in the rest of the world as Age […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Incredible Petrified World (1959)
Jerry Warren sat on this movie for two years before playing it with Teenage Zombies. Shot in Colossal Cave in Tucson, Arizona, the monster costume looked so bad that Warren didn’t use it. Let’s think about that for a minute. An effect so bad that Jerry Warren wouldn’t use it. Professor Millard Wyman (John Carradine) has […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Angry Red Planet (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Angry Red Planet was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, April 10, 1965 at 11:20 p.m.; Saturday, May 7, 1966 at 11:20 p.m.; Saturday, May 27, 1967 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, June 22, 1968 at 11:20 p.m. Directed by Ib Melchior, who wrote this with Sidney W. Pink, The Angry Red Planet starts with Dr. […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 26: The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
26. THAR SHE GLOWS: There be a light house in this plot. Irvin Berwick and Jack Kevan were nobodies at Universal.. Kevan hated working for makeup department boss Bud Westmore, who took all the publicity ahead of the people who actually did the work. They formed Vanwick Productions and became independent producers and seeing as […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Terror In the Midnight Sun (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Terror In the Midnight Sun was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, March 2, 1968 at 11:20 p.m.; Saturday, July 26, 1969 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, May 30, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. as Invasion of the Animal People. Known internationally as Terror In the Midnight Sun and in its native Sweden as Space Invasion of Lapland, this […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Man and the Monster (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Man and the Monster was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, June 22, 1968, at 1:00 a.m. It’s the Mexican horror movie El hombre y el monstruo. If I’ve learned anything from watching Mexican films, it’s that you should never make a deal with el diablo. If you’re like Samuel Magno (Enrique Rambal, The Exterminating […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Incredible Petrified World (1959)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Incredible Petrified World was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 22, 1966, at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, August 8, 1970, at 11:30 p.m.12, 1967 at 1:00 a.m. Jerry Warren sat on this movie for two years before playing it with Teenage Zombies. Shot in Colossal Cave in Tucson, Arizona, the monster costume looked […]
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