Creature Double Feature

[Chicken57]

This is the 1966 Japanese movie "Saida vs. Gaira," known as "War of the Gargantuans" in its U.S. release (which had Russ Tamblyn as a scientist who was protecting the good monster). However, the good gargantuan was more brown than red (perhaps it only looked red in the version you saw). The green and brown gargantuans eventually fight (destroying Tokyo in the process, of course), and then get swept away by an erupting volcano. The film is available on DVD. (the green one ate people)

[shinobisnivy]

what was the name of the two human like, giant green moster brothers who lived in Japan. They looked like the jolly green giant...

[earlniscus]

we need someone with the original hand bursting out of the earth in front of the gravestone with the lightning and thunder...i am sad that it has not surfaced...there is one circulating around, but it is not the Channel 48 green handed menace.

[onepcwhiz]

i watched them! But I don't remember any of the movie names..

[LeatherCasket]

MckyMseNTarotCrds The movie was Called The amazing two headed Transplant one guy was a murderer the other was mentally ill he wore over alls Casey Casem was also in the movie.. It scared me too : )

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

Wow. Seeing some of the movies mentioned in other comments is giving me chills. I remember being terrified by Equinox and the Two-Headed Transplant in particular. The two headed one I'm talking about is the one where the one guy was mentally challenged; I know there was another one with Rosey Grier, but that wasn't anywhere near as scary.

[earthshakingfart]

I don't remember the movies, but I remember watching it and seeing the hand pop up from the grave at the beginning, I am from South Jersey

[123ihatethiscrap]

creature feature was on in the early 80's I guess that was when I started getting high I don't remember it being on in the early 80's. I have a lot of those kind of creature feature films  on dvd now.

[123ihatethiscrap]

All I the gremember about this C-D-f is they showed a painting of what looked like a werewolf and creature double feature wrote in blood or something. some times I got lucky and they would play Equinox, godzilla..., frankenstien v.s. dracula..., attack of the giant leachis. some times we were unlucky attack of the giant shrews, puma man.

[MathDoctorBob]

@123ihatethiscrap - I wish I could remember the name of the movie that goes with the CDF Station ID. Through the whole movie, the main actor is trying to find his missing wife. At the end, he is locked in a cellar with her, and she has changed into the station ID monster. Possibly a Hammer production.

It was agony waiting an hour and a half through something lame to get to Godzilla.

[earlniscus]

Awesome...reminds me of the glory days of Two Headed Transplant, Equinox, Dracula v. Frankenstein...I can remember chillin out to an afternoon of unadulterated horror many a time through the early 80's.  Back to back with Dr. Shock on 17....quality programming.

[catbleblk]

I lived in Philly all my life and I uesd to watch Creature Double Feature every weekend on channel 48. They showed the Dunwich Horror, Deathmaster, Chidren shouldn't play with dead things, Count Yorga and every Vincent Price movie ever made.

[RyosoMercurian]

Don't know if it was mentioned yet, but someone recreated the complete movie list for Channel 56 Boston's CDF by going through archived local newspapers for their TV listings. It would work for Philadelphia, I'd think.

[bossofme]

That's a great idea - a daunting task, though, to cover 4 years' worth - but I will do it eventually. "Matango" and "Tourist Trap" are burned into my brain. But there are two other films, which I can only see snapshots of, and have vague memories of their plot, but I REALLY want to see them again. I'm sure now they would play almost as comedies, but I remember being terrified as a kid!

[ptl1143]

Yeah, I used to watch those down on LBI in the summer. I watched them on channel 29. I remember the Yorga Films: Count Yorga, Vampire; Count Yorga Returns. Then the other Robert Quarry, The Death Master. A real good one. Those were fun to watch as a kid.

[careerbellman]

I probably say Death MAster on CDF a few times. Love that movie!

[docferal]

Yea, Channel 48 had Creature Double Feature from 12-4.. and about 1pm on 17 there was Dr. Shock Theater. CDF did more current horror films in color and Dr. Shock did more of the classic Univeral films and more B/W. The intro bits with Dr. Shock where all in B/W.

After Dr. Shock died 17 dropped Dr. Shock Theater Didn't have a host until some time after Dr. Shock Theater was pulled. When CDF did end up getting a host it was Svengoolie. His theme was Billy Joel's "You Might Be Right"

[elgrano]

The creature double feature I know is what we in North Jersey got when we had the Philly channel briefly for a couple of years. I remember some really deep gravelly voiced guy mid-break saying things like "stay tuned, creature double feature will be right back after these messages":

[evilflix]

does anyone remember the creature feature show that played the music of led zepplins volume 4 and had scenes from children shouldnt play with dead things....

[dirt031]

In Boston we watched Creature Double Feature on channel 56 on Saturday afternoon.

[blabadiblabla]

Omg, me too!! I remember "The Man With the X-ray Eyes" creeped me out when I was a kid. Oh ya and "The Screaming Skull"... they played that one alot. Sometimes after hours of watching that stuff as a kid, I remember the feeling of depression that would come over me but I still loved it. Hey what was the name of the one were the scientist saves his girlfriend's head and brings it to life and then the head tells this monster in the closet to kill him? Do you remember?

[dirt031]

I remember the one with the head, it was pretty creepy. I remember the screaming skull, some of the Roger Corman ones, there was one with these flying bat like creatures that took over peoples bodies.

Here's a long shot do you remember the one with the aliens that had needles come out of their fingers and they could inject alchol or something like that into their victims. I remember that year that Christmas Eve fell on a Saturday. Christmas Eve and Creature Feature, good times. good times.

[blabadiblabla]

No, I don't remember those. But you jogged my memory so that I recall the movie with the creatures that looked like brains... they slid around on the floor like snails then had these two really long anteni thingys that would attach to the back of people's necks so they could control them. Remember,lol? Total nightmare inducing stuff.

Well, Creature D Feature on Christmas eve? Wow that's awesome. :D Was there a blizzard that day too? Now that would be something! ;)

[dirt031]

Technically it was Saturday afternoon as usual, but that night was Christmas Eve (wish it snowed..) needless to say it was a great Saturday. I remember the brain creatures, I actually think I have it on DVD now... there were so many, the giant leeches, the shrews, of course Godzilla and King Kong, Rodan was my favorite. I wish they'd bring back (impossible today with informercials), I'd watch them with my kids.

[blabadiblabla]

Gammara was the best! He was like a flying turtle. I loved it when he would carry the little kids on his back and save the day. Rodan rocked it too. Hey, didn't his forhead turn red when he got angry? I think so. Then he would blast Godzilla with a lazer beam.

Yes it would be fun to see them again. Very nostalgic. Thanks for reminding me about the Japanese monster flicks. :D

[dirt031]

I forgot about Gammara, the little kids who eat the donuts and pass out... the aliens eat brains, that left an impression. I think there were two rodans, the one with the pointy head was a little campier, the other one looked kind of like a jet in the sky when it flew, I always liked that one more - it had the giant catepillars in the flooded mines-also had a classic line "help over here, there's a monster in my house!!"

[blabadiblabla]

Hehehe.. I am not recalling the donut thing but that made me laugh. Anyhow it's amazing how little I recollect. I think one of those brain eating monsters got to me. Yeah it's too late for me so save yourself, run!!! ;)

Think I'll do a search on Rodan to see if they got any cool clips on here. if I find a really good one I'll send it to ya. :D

[dirt031]

IT was one of the Gamara movies, the kids meet these alien women, they eat powdered donuts and fall asleep.. one kid has his head shaved!!! Creeped me out as a 6 year old watching that. Look up the rodan clips, there must be some, I actually have it on DVD, my kids love it.

[Dablkwid0w2008]

I remember that one,,scary stuff

[harporocks]

That was Invasion Of The Saucer-Men,great flick!

[dirt031]

Wow, that's it. I wish they had a channel that would play all those classics. You almost never see them anymore. I just saw a Roger Corman remake of a 50s black and white movie where a father and his daughter survive a nuclear war, then some strangers show up, there is a monster (which turns out to be her missing fiance). Corman's remake wasn't as good as the 50s original!!!

[LBurger71]

I watched Creature Double Feature out of Philadelphia in the 70s. I remember also watching Uncle Ted's Ghoul School. Uncle Ted was actually from the area I live in now (near Scranton, PA) and years ago I saw his obit in the local paper. I cut it out and saved it. He also used to do magic shows live on TV for a live television show called Miss Judy and the Land of Hatchy Milatchy.

[THESZUMSKI]

I am dying found out the complete movie list and see the opening to show again. I remember them playing a lot of Hammer Horror Films. Some other goodies are Godzilla VS the Smog Monster, Count Yorga Vampire and the Incredible Two- Headed Transplant.

[BullockOnline]

It was channel 48 at the Jersey Shore, too. Philly tv, Philly radio - WMMR! Bring back the '70s.

[rushfanman]

Saturday afternoons in Philly as I remember on channel 48. We used to love the movie called Baron Blood. I remember the one about the boarding house--they used to play it often. All i can remember now is something about a closet. Most of those films were from AIP. Look up Creature Double Feathure on Wikipedia. They have some info on it. Those were the days when movies were scary. Tales from the Crypt (1972), the House that Dripped Blood, and Baron Blood were all downright creepy.

[lefkytheshin]

I loved CDF as a kid. A strange and haunting song. Who is it?

[tveyeonme]

Joanna Newsom/ This Side of the Blue

[czori]

Does anyone remember the one where a teeage boy lived with his mother is a girls boarding school? And he cut the girls up to make one perfect girl that his mother would approve of?

[Dragonsfire19692007]

Yes. That was movie from 1969 called The House That Screamed. The Italian version was called La Residencia.

[Wally4363]

I remember it well, but most of the movies were just the standard old horror flicks with some odd ball ones thrown in.

[Khultan]

I am only learning now that there were other networks in other states who had at least one show's who's theme is horror/sci-fi programs. I thought Creature Features was something unique to San Francisco, the bay area. How wrong I am.

[1creamycenter]

I lived in Hagerstown,Maryland (10 miles South PA, border) & I watched Creature Feature version on Channel 45 WBFF out of Baltimore, Maryland. During the middle to late 70's or was it Channel 20 WDCA with Count Gore DeVol who Doubled as Captain 20 for Daytime type kids show rip off of a Vulcan as his costume.

[Khultan]

I'm from San Francisco and there was a Creature Features that aired every Friday and Saturday nights starting at 11:30 pm and hosted by cigar puffing, bi-focaled, bowl-headed Bob Wilkens.

[OdenZeus2112]

Yea, I remember (bowl headed?)Bob Wilkens when I used to watch SF's Creature Features - that was great. It was the first time I saw Night of the Living Dead when I was a kid - scared the effin' crap out of me.

[larbet]

Man I used to love Creature Double Feature on channel 48 I belive...and Doctor Shock was awsome too! Good stuff.

[spazquest]

I grew up in Downingtown 30 miles west of Philly. I remember creature double feature well!! Remember Doctor Shock? I could get a list for you. contact me

[donaldintn]

sounds like Joanna Newsome

[gutterhelmet]

There is a list of all the movies at wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C­reature_Double_Feature

[idiotgud]

WTF????