Anybody from the NYC area, circa 1965 or so, remember a clip of this (think it was her tearing roof off of house) being part of WPIX's "Chiller Theatre" intro?
shareI do believe so...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CafM97ifNc
Oh, thank you so much, nyctc7!!!! Do you know what film that one-eyed monster, looking through the opening of the cave is from? I think I know the others..."Plan 9", "The Ape Man", "The Incredible Shrinking Man". Great stuff!!!
shareSure do! I think it was about 1963. I was 10, and scared by FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER, FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE and ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN. All of which were lovingly shown on WPIX CHILLER THEATRE. Thanx for the memories.
WOR channel 9 had SUPERNATURAL THEATRE, and WNEW channel 5 had Creature Feature
JS
Do you remember the one year Zacherly hosted Chiller Theater on WPIX? He used to do humorous cut-in scenes during the movie. For this one, he was dressed like the Sheriff and when Nancy picked up Harry near the end, they cut to Zacherly looking up, waving saying, "Goodbye, Harry!"
shareNow if only someone, ANYONE, would tell me what the intro music to Chicago's "Thrillerama" was, I'd be a happy man! (Well, not ecstatically so to the end of my days, but it is something that I've been wondering about for fifty years now!)
Thrillerama, for those not around here, was a late-night Saturday show on our NBC affiliate, showing mostly old Allied Artists films in the mid-60's right after the news. (Yes, Virginia, there was a time before Saturday Night Live!...and when those hours were considered late-night on tv! Stations were usually off the air by 2 am or so, after playing the Star-Spangled Banner!)
Anyway, Thrillerama didn't have anything fancy like a ghostly host or anything; it just started out with a static shot of foaming and steaming laboratory test tubes, and went into a nice selection of old Allied Artists spookers.
But during that initial intro, it played one of the CREEPIEST themes I've ever heard in my life!
And, given how cheap everything else was (not even a host!), I have to imagine that it's at least a 50-50 possibility that they got that theme from somewhere else, rather than having had it made up special for them. So what WAS it? It was TERRIFYING!!!
(I'm reminded of having run into a site once about some long-gone spook house in New Jersey, I think, which used to have a VERY creepy theme playing while you were waiting in line, and someone had been nice enough to download the thing. And there were dozens of comments from people, saying how they remembered the thing, and how awesome and creepy it was...and not a one of them recognized it. [Quite possibly those comments had been edited, just to keep it a secret...and avoid the copyright police.] And I wanted to scream out "You dummies, you don't recognize the theme from "Mysterious Island?" lol!)
I am happy that someone from the NYC area remembers CHILLER THEATRE..Late night movie watching has never been the same since this programming has ended.
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