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The Importance of SHOCK THEATER

SHOCK THEATER, also promoted as simply SHOCK!, was the jump start to horror fandom and the love and appreciation for horror cinema, which solidified with the publication of FAMOUS MONSTERS several...

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Back when i was 9 and 10 years old, there use to be a show that broadcated Staurday nights at 12:30 am out of Baltimore called SHOCK THEATRE. I doubt it was the same thing, but i wonder if it was a...

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There were a number of post SHOCK! programs that used the name "Shock Theater" or "Shock Theatre". "Nightmare Theater" was also popular. Mirek

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Unfortunately for me I never saw Shock Theater presentations when I was a kid. Yes, Famous Monsters of Filmland was huge for me in developing a love for classic and current monster/horror/sci-fi...

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Well, one of the reasons I'm thinking it may have been a reboot is I remember when it would cut tp and from the commercial breaks, there was a face with wide eyes peering through fingers, but I can't...

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Just a note that the replies here have been "hidden" waiting for my approval. Apparently when I set up this new forum, "post screening" was also set up as a default. I've cleared this up, hopefully....

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HombreLobo44 wrote:Unfortunately for me I never saw Shock Theater presentations when I was a kid. Yes, Famous Monsters of Filmland was huge for me in developing a love for classic and current...

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Very nice seeing this, Mirek. Thanks very much for starting it off. I was born in 1962 after SHOCK premiered, and I always estimate my very first horror film on TV as being FRANKENSTEIN ('31), seen...

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I think of the Shock Theater/Horror Host heyday as lasting until 1975 or so, and the advent of Saturday Night Live. I broke my cherry in Chicago with Svengoolie (who showed mostly the 1950s B&W...

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I was born in 1953, but I guess I was still a little young for the original Shock package. My movie watching really kicked in in the early 1960s, with Chiller Theater, broadcast on WPIX, with Zacherly...

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For me, it was also CREATURE FEATURES in NYC... and CHILLER THEATRE.  New York also showed a lot of the Universal Horror films at a 4:30pm afternoon slot in the 1960s.  This wasn't any type of Shock...

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I have scans of the SHOCK! pressbook. Really nice to go over this monumentally influential program. The very genesis of the Monster Kid generation/s. CHILLER I remember seeing on Ch. 11. The one with...

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My first was THE CURSE OF DRACULA, starring Francis Lederer, which played on the NBC Channel 5 affiliate in Chicago probably around 2 or 3 am in 1968, or 1969.

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I have scans of the SHOCK! sales book, too, and will be posting them. Mirek

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I saw the SHOCK! and SON OF SHOCK! stuff appropriately enough on Dr. Shock's Scream In! in the early seventies. The first horror film I remember watching was DEAD MEN WALK, which was a PRC, but gave...

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Yeah, SON OF SHOCK. How odd, being that it's the direct sequel to FRANKENSTEIN. Maybe that's why It seemed that BRIDE wasn't shown as frequently as some of the others. It always seemed to be a rare...

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Latarnia wrote:I have scans of the SHOCK! sales book, too, and will be posting them. MirekLooking for the Like button...

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I grew up watching horror, sci-fi, kung-fu, and mystery movies with my mom on local TV. It was generally either channel 44 (before it became Spanish), WGN, and WFLD (before Fox took over). I never saw...

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Here's the page made for Creature Features, with video and audio: http://wgncreaturefeatures.tvheaven.com/

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My experiences were very similar to yours, Ben, but it was my Grandma. I can remember many Saturday mornings and afternoons laying in bed with my Grandma watching Detroit Creature features. It's where...

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