Saturday afternoon... Creature Double Feature on the UHF stations... Late night Fridays - Chiller Theater, Horror Theater...
It was great!
I LOVED the original War of the Worlds too... scared the crap out of me when I was little. The green death X-ray from the Martian ships, the sound effects... it wasn’t real sophisticated special effects like today, but for it’s time, it was amazing.
Loved Ray Harryhausen’s monster too - Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, 20 Million Miles to Earth, the Sinbad monsters...
Great imaginative stuff for kids!
mines was Creature Feature on Saturday on KTVU with Bob Wilkins. There was one movie that stood out for me it wasn’t bug but martians. I remember a scene where a woman and child were involved. Don’t recall if they were kidnapped by this man who happens to be an Alien (not the Mexican kind =) ) They were forced to stop on the side of the road and the woman and child fled but the man remained in the driver seat. He just sat there then opened his coat and shirt to reveal his chest and it gave out like some sort of X-ray of his chest. Have no clue what the movie was but as a kid that creep me out.
We had Creatu Feature on Saturday afternoons. And that Harryhausen stuff was amazing for its day. Thanks for bringing back some pleasant memories.