Same here. I watch them on Halloween as well as the old B-movies I used to watch on WNEW 5's Creature Features and WPIX 11 Chiller Theater as a kid in the early 70's.
Nah...ya' gotta' have a little fun now and then. My heyday, like I said, was the old Chiller Theater and Creature Features shows on Saturday night New York programming. Not sure of where you are in the world, but here's a clip of the opening to the old WPIX 11 Chiller Theater I grew up with in the Tri-State Area.
King Kong (or whatever movie they showed) would play all day when I was little. And later they would play 3 Godzilla movies every day after Thanksgiving-it was King Kong vs. GodzillaGodzilla vs. The Smog Monster and Godzilla vs. Megalon
And as far as WOR 9, remember Fright Night at 1 AM Saturday\Sunday morning? Many good memories of that one!
Y'know, another great movie that gave me sleepless nights was the old ABC made-for-TV movie Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark back in 1973. (Yes the one with the little monsters in the fireplace.) The night it premiered on ABC, I had a choice of going out with the youth group my mom and dad were in charge of (and spending the night with a bunch of hippies coming down from the 60's) or staying home and seeing this movie.
So as you can guess, I stayed home and watched the movie, and didn't sleep. While rather dated by today's standards, the film occasionally manages to put me at that point in time when I was little and scared. The 70's era TV horror movie was the king of it's day!
Oh man how could I forget Gargoyles? I saw it when it first premiered on the CBS movie. Cornel Wilde was the professor, and a young Scott Glenn played one of the motorcycle gang who helped the police fight the creatures. Also look for a now-deceased Grayson Hall as the drunken hotel manager. Hall was also Dr, Julia Hoffman in the original Dark Shadows TV series, later played by cult legend Barbara Steele in the TV series remake with Ben Cross as Barnabas.
That was one awesome movie, and it was also the first FX-makeup job of a young Stan Winston. Bernie Casey played the Gargoyle leader, and it's said that a young Richard Moll played one of the Gargoyles. How do I know all of this, why I have the DVD of course!
Hey you're really cool, man. Remembering all this stuff just as much as me. Feel free to drop me a line whenever, you're always welcome! Have one on me!
The make up effects were great in that movie. The gargoyle leader was both scary and handsome. Only thing i can compare it to is the Darkness character in Legend. You really know your stuff...
Thanks, but the only reason I "know my stuff" is because I read the back of the DVD cover, LOL Well I'm only half-truthful because I also looked it up on the "Net and the IMDB and all that, so I'm kind of cheating
Nice observation about the Gargoyle leader, he was scary and sort of a ladies man among the single green females in his harem, lol And yes, Darkness from Legend does come to mind with the facial features. Did Stan Winston create him too? Wouldn't surprise me if he did.
I looked it up, and it was a gent named Rob Bottin, who did work on movies like The Howling, ine of the first grown up werewolf movies i remember seeing...
Gremlins left an impression for sure. For many years.
Even now when I open a kitchen cupboard at night I think of the scene where the Gremlin pops out of the cupboard when Billy dresses his wound at the school.
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Jul 17th, 2014 01:05 AM
Have one on me! 
