Thank you very much even though i wish it was on vinyl because i have the Theme movie sound track form the Movie Barbrarella with Jane Fonda But i'm going to look online for it. Thanks again.
The track, "Visitors from Space", is by Dick Jacobs and His Orchestra and can be found on various compilations online. It's a re-recording of part of the soundtrack to, "It Came from Outer Space". Note there are two versions: one with theremin and one without.
Dude... You dug up an image from the primal swamps of my memory! I was born in 67. And I remember as a toddler running into the kitchen to tell my mom that there was something scary on TV! Seeing it was this intro (and trying not to giggle) mom explained it was just a 'silly face' introducing the movies. Somehow that made it funny & I've loved horror movies ever since! Used to watch them with my dad every Saturday. Thank for the flash back to the good-ol-days bro!
Very nicely done. CF and Chiller were not my favorite monster showcases from the old days but I certainly remember them and this was very lovingly done.
Thanks for all the more recent comments from Konga, Johnny, Bronx, Hiker and Tropic.
Yeah, it ain't perfect, but the basics are close: sound, image and type.
Konga: Some of us think the face was an "up nose" shot of Lou Steele, aka The Creep. One element that definitely was part of it was the "U" curve above the "face", and that may have been his glasses. Other ideas abound, such as, it's really the Glenn Strange Frankenstein monster. Whatever, the psychedelics blurred out all the details.
Holy cow, I had been trying to find this theme for a while! I always remembered the Chiller Theater intro but this one had me stumped. I'm 50 (ouch!) and lived in B'klyn most of my childhood so this brings me right back to those days. How I wish I was back there...life wasn't too hard...everyone lived more or less comfortably...people weren't so crazy...summers hanging out at Coney Island and Palisades Amusement Park...Thanks.
@BronxNYE206St Me too! I grew up in Suffolk County in the 70's. Ch9 was the Mets, Ch11 was the Yankees. Remember Bob McAllister and Wonderama on Ch5? A much simpler time!! (Sigh)
OK, as far as the graphic goes-here is what I remember: A horizontal line thru the middle. The BOTTOM portion was some sort of line/graphic - almost like the rays of the sun, slightly squiggly. The top portion was a demon face , I think done in negative as you already did-but with more detail--like the demon from Disney's "Fantasia" ...and teeth and horns. The logo was in the center--and it was pretty plain...a font used in WNEW's TV guide ads. Does this ring a bell? W
Man! I grew up in New York during the 70's and watched Creature Feature every Saturday night. Afterwards...I was too spooked to go right to sleep so I'd stay up and watched 'Mannix'. It came on immediately after CF. Not that I was a fan of Mannix....I was just too scared to go to sleep. Those were the days! A bowl of popcorn and the anticipation of Creature Features or Chiller theater!
Didja know "Chiller" has been brought back for the third straight Halloween? It's on again this year! If you're local, check listings, if not, get a friend to record it!
Yep, those were fun days. It's too bad that the original CF intro hasn't turned up yet, still, there's hope. It's not as if it's "London After Midnight" ...
@Saturday8pm Yes...I remember last year! Chiller was proud to present "Tarantula!"
You Tube is incredible! I've taken so many nostalgic trips through it...70's movie intros, commercials, talk shows, and rarities. Stuff I have long forgotten until this website! I wonder what today's youth will 'look back on'? The Chiller hand is my favorite, so far! I remember watching 'The Manster' on Creature Feature. It scared me so much I had to sleep with the lights on for about a week!
Check out the other "Chiller" intro I done from '68!
Other names to check out: Tapthatt2012, CrowTRobot1313 and Tomscolor, who has original audio of The Creep from CF! Tap has TONS of genre-spanning material, and Crow is busy recreating CF and CT! Happy Tubing!
Great, right down to the theme music, which I believe was originally from IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE. So many great Saturday nights were spent with CF and CHILLER THEATER. Question: does anyone remember WOR-TV's SUPERNATURAL THEATER (with clips from FRANKENSTEIN 1970, THE GIANT BEHEMOTH, AND QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE opening it) and MAD MAD MOVIE (Republic serials re-edited for TV, with a supercool beginning-I loved Kenne Duncan with the Radium Vapor Gun!-and music to match).
@tapthatt2012 It also showed a bunch of fistfights, a gun fight from THE CRIMSON GHOST, a truck crashing through a warehouse wall (used in THE CRIMSON GHOST and MANHUNT OF MYSTERY ISLAND), and a rather nasty shot of bullets crashing through car glass and Linda Stirling ducking from it. It used really cool music that I also heard (believe it or not) in a chase scene from COURAGEOUS CAT AND MINUTE MOUSE! Yes, I remember this stuff, but can't remember the days of the week half the time anymore.
@tapthatt2012 HOLY SMOKE, THAT'S IT!!!!! I haven't this music in eons! Many, many thanks for sharing this, tapthatt2012. Now if only the MAD, MAD MOVIE intro can make its' way onto YT.
I remember the series premiere. The original version of THE WOLFMAN, with Lon Chaney Jr. and Maria Ouspenskaya (nowadays, better known as Queen T'Pau of Vulcan) as "Maleeva, Queen of the Gypsies."
At first, I thought you mean somewhere there's a revival of this. Then I realized you meant everytime the WOLFMAN is reaired. See? the delusions nostalgia creates. LoL!
Hey, RPF! Folks more knowledgeable than I have insisted it was a still from Glenn Strange's performance of Frankenstein, but I used my own puss since I couldn't find an image that worked! As other posts discuss, this was probably created using a videography technique known as "video feedback". Another famous intro employing this was the old "Dr Who" series.
Most Welcome, #54! It was a gas to create it with a little help from my online buddies.
Check out the page at DVD Drive In online, they have a number of nostalgia pages on NY TV of this ilk. "Chiller", WOR's "Fright Night", this and others are profiled, some with partial listings with what aired. How cool is that?
The face, I could have swore, was more grimaced, the mouth more downturned and wasn't as long from end to end. But it's VERY CLOSE, that's for sure, and the music is right on!
And with the correct font of CrowTRobot1313's repro, WE ARE CLOSE. As it stands, this video is a lot of fun to watch and truly brings back some memories in a big way.
Somehow I feel a craving for Jiffy Pop, old formula Coke in a glass bottle, and Celentano pizza out of the box, LOL :-)
Dude, I ain't gonna stop until I've P'dO everyone with my pickiness!!! }:0)>
Do you know if we can send images in our boxes here? Can I send you some samples so you can approve 'em? Somehow, it's not always easy to be objective when I'm creating 'em ... BTW, is this video playback "choppy" for you? That's one of my peeves ... I think it's because of DSL here, unsure.
!!!!!!!Great Work Saturday8pm!!!!! It really brings back the memories , I hope some clips pop up on youtube with the Creep somewhere down the line. I know they are around since they use to be on swap lists in the early days of video tapes.
Thanks! I agree, it's out there. I've been meaning to email Prof Kinema, a guy who really is a professor of media somewhere, and he collects such ephemera. For example, I asked him about the whereabouts of the original "Chiller Theatre" sequence with the hand, and if I recall correctly, all he would verify was its existence, but I could tell he wasn't about to share it ... that was 10 years ago now, well before YouTube® began rocking the boat with all this collective memory.
That was COOOOOL! Thanks for posting it and how great to hear the theme to Horror Hotel afterwards. By the way, is the music for Horror Hotel or House On Haunted Hill available on CD?
Hey Bubbles! So, you guys grew up on this theme too? I figgered you were from the greater NYC area. Both "Horror Hotel" and "House on Haunted Hill" have fallen into the public domain and are available for download, so you'll never be without again! Both have enjoyed significantly enhanced DVD upgrades and are worth seeking out. Check out the iMDB and Wiki for details, as I'm unclear as to which versions are the superior.
My mind is a bit fuzzy on which one was the right one, but that face seems to be somewhat reminiscent of what I remember.
It's hard because with each reproduction, there's something I remember, and it's hard to put together a true picture with so many little fragments comeing and going.
My timing is off in spots, needs more work. The biggest problem is the background, there was more going on there that was layered and moving, more or less. I had an image of my own eye ( that's my face in there, too ) I was going to place in there, but I scuttled the idea for time's sake. Will reincorporate it later.
Thanks Sat@8 ... I don't believe that either House or Hotel have soundtracks available. And yes we both did grow up in the NY metro area - she in Long Island and me in CT. It's amazing how often people remember that scary white haired lady (ghost) in the wine cellar in House!
Yeah, the girl is in the cellar as the lights come on, and the first thing she sees is that crazy witch with the blank eyes. That scared the hell out of me too lemme' tell ya'!
No wonder they remembered her, lol
I remember seeing Horror Hotel many times on CF as a kid, and the ending scene in the graveyard came right out of one of those old horror comics like Tales From The Tomb, or Weird.
The Creature Features intro followed by the beginning of Horror Hotel. God does that bring back memories. The first movie EVER the scare the crap out of me! I used to troll the TV sheet from the Newark Star Ledger to find out when it was coming on. I never missed it.
Howdy, Jim! glad to make your nightmares come true.
HH was an effective little truffle that provoked the same reaction in me too ... I remember vividly seeing this one alone with me sis when my folks were out to dinner one night ... the "babysitter" was a hippy next door who "checked in" on us every hour or so, and we watched this ALONE in a big house out in the burbs!
Check out CrowTRobot1313's channel, he's been hard at work doing COMPLETE CF AND "Chiller Theatre" recreations. Far out!
I grew up in New Jersey and we got Creature Features in our area too, because we lived high on a hill with no trees around--GREAT reception.
And we had a rotary antenna that allowed us to tune in to UHF as well, and that usually came out as clear as a bell on top of the great reception we got with NY programming all the time.
Jiffy Pop popcorn, soda in glass bottles, Celentano pizza from the box in those foil trays, and Creature Features..what great days we lived in, man!
Similar scenario to the north, Shawn ... we rarely had to adjust the antenna though it was not rotarized. The best part was that the properties were large and the sense of isolation acute ... so, you really felt alone watching these things!
Thanks Tap ... it was a lot of fun to make, though sometimes frustrating. I will tweak it here'n'there as time allows, there are timing issues and I doubt I'll be able to surmount that dissolves issue ... it seems to be an iMovie to Flash conversion problem. iMovie is Apple's consumer version of FinalCut Pro, while good, it's obviously limited.
Thank you very much even though i wish it was on vinyl because i have the Theme movie sound track form the Movie Barbrarella with Jane Fonda But i'm going to look online for it. Thanks again.
368Lefty 1 week ago
I would love to have "the "Audio track What's the Name "of ot and who's "the Artist
368Lefty 3 weeks ago
Hey Lefty,
The track, "Visitors from Space", is by Dick Jacobs and His Orchestra and can be found on various compilations online. It's a re-recording of part of the soundtrack to, "It Came from Outer Space". Note there are two versions: one with theremin and one without.
Saturday8pm 1 week ago
I know where you children are...and I ain't gonna tell ya!
poughkeepsiejohn1 4 months ago
FN and Dukes, thanks. Good times back then. Most of the time I was too scared to check out an entire film!
Saturday8pm 6 months ago
Dude... You dug up an image from the primal swamps of my memory! I was born in 67. And I remember as a toddler running into the kitchen to tell my mom that there was something scary on TV! Seeing it was this intro (and trying not to giggle) mom explained it was just a 'silly face' introducing the movies. Somehow that made it funny & I've loved horror movies ever since! Used to watch them with my dad every Saturday. Thank for the flash back to the good-ol-days bro!
dukes0916 7 months ago
Very nicely done. CF and Chiller were not my favorite monster showcases from the old days but I certainly remember them and this was very lovingly done.
FrightNight7387 8 months ago
Thanks for all the more recent comments from Konga, Johnny, Bronx, Hiker and Tropic.
Yeah, it ain't perfect, but the basics are close: sound, image and type.
Konga: Some of us think the face was an "up nose" shot of Lou Steele, aka The Creep. One element that definitely was part of it was the "U" curve above the "face", and that may have been his glasses. Other ideas abound, such as, it's really the Glenn Strange Frankenstein monster. Whatever, the psychedelics blurred out all the details.
Saturday8pm 9 months ago
Holy cow, I had been trying to find this theme for a while! I always remembered the Chiller Theater intro but this one had me stumped. I'm 50 (ouch!) and lived in B'klyn most of my childhood so this brings me right back to those days. How I wish I was back there...life wasn't too hard...everyone lived more or less comfortably...people weren't so crazy...summers hanging out at Coney Island and Palisades Amusement Park...Thanks.
tropicvibe 9 months ago
I remember this on Ch 5 miss those days of great tv Ch 11 and Ch 5 Ch9 in NY were great tv channels back then
BronxNYE206St 1 year ago
I remember this on Ch 5 miss those days of great tv Ch 11 and Ch 5 Ch9 in NY greatest tv
BronxNYE206St 1 year ago
@BronxNYE206St Me too! I grew up in Suffolk County in the 70's. Ch9 was the Mets, Ch11 was the Yankees. Remember Bob McAllister and Wonderama on Ch5? A much simpler time!! (Sigh)
hiketaker 11 months ago
EXCELLENT Pally ! Love your retro mindset ! Great post !!!
Johnnyboy792 1 year ago
OK, as far as the graphic goes-here is what I remember: A horizontal line thru the middle. The BOTTOM portion was some sort of line/graphic - almost like the rays of the sun, slightly squiggly. The top portion was a demon face , I think done in negative as you already did-but with more detail--like the demon from Disney's "Fantasia" ...and teeth and horns. The logo was in the center--and it was pretty plain...a font used in WNEW's TV guide ads. Does this ring a bell? W
konga5 1 year ago
Man! I grew up in New York during the 70's and watched Creature Feature every Saturday night. Afterwards...I was too spooked to go right to sleep so I'd stay up and watched 'Mannix'. It came on immediately after CF. Not that I was a fan of Mannix....I was just too scared to go to sleep. Those were the days! A bowl of popcorn and the anticipation of Creature Features or Chiller theater!
hairyhand 1 year ago
Mr Hand! are you THE Chiller hand? ;0)
Didja know "Chiller" has been brought back for the third straight Halloween? It's on again this year! If you're local, check listings, if not, get a friend to record it!
Yep, those were fun days. It's too bad that the original CF intro hasn't turned up yet, still, there's hope. It's not as if it's "London After Midnight" ...
Saturday8pm 1 year ago
@Saturday8pm Yes...I remember last year! Chiller was proud to present "Tarantula!"
You Tube is incredible! I've taken so many nostalgic trips through it...70's movie intros, commercials, talk shows, and rarities. Stuff I have long forgotten until this website! I wonder what today's youth will 'look back on'? The Chiller hand is my favorite, so far! I remember watching 'The Manster' on Creature Feature. It scared me so much I had to sleep with the lights on for about a week!
hairyhand 1 year ago
Check out the other "Chiller" intro I done from '68!
Other names to check out: Tapthatt2012, CrowTRobot1313 and Tomscolor, who has original audio of The Creep from CF! Tap has TONS of genre-spanning material, and Crow is busy recreating CF and CT! Happy Tubing!
Saturday8pm 1 year ago
Fabulous!
1400deadwood 1 year ago
Thanks, Deadwood! I hope to tweak this into a final form before Halloween. Never happy with it.
Saturday8pm 1 year ago
Great, right down to the theme music, which I believe was originally from IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE. So many great Saturday nights were spent with CF and CHILLER THEATER. Question: does anyone remember WOR-TV's SUPERNATURAL THEATER (with clips from FRANKENSTEIN 1970, THE GIANT BEHEMOTH, AND QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE opening it) and MAD MAD MOVIE (Republic serials re-edited for TV, with a supercool beginning-I loved Kenne Duncan with the Radium Vapor Gun!-and music to match).
Gerry50ify 1 year ago
No, probably before my time. Certainly someone here does!
Saturday8pm 1 year ago
@Gerry50ify what else do you rmemeber of the mad mad movie open?
tapthatt2012 1 year ago
@tapthatt2012 It also showed a bunch of fistfights, a gun fight from THE CRIMSON GHOST, a truck crashing through a warehouse wall (used in THE CRIMSON GHOST and MANHUNT OF MYSTERY ISLAND), and a rather nasty shot of bullets crashing through car glass and Linda Stirling ducking from it. It used really cool music that I also heard (believe it or not) in a chase scene from COURAGEOUS CAT AND MINUTE MOUSE! Yes, I remember this stuff, but can't remember the days of the week half the time anymore.
Gerry50ify 1 year ago
@Gerry50ify check my super dragon clip and let me know if the music sounds familiar from ach 9 showcase.
tapthatt2012 1 year ago
@tapthatt2012 HOLY SMOKE, THAT'S IT!!!!! I haven't this music in eons! Many, many thanks for sharing this, tapthatt2012. Now if only the MAD, MAD MOVIE intro can make its' way onto YT.
Gerry50ify 1 year ago
Great!
RHNarrator 1 year ago
Thanks.
Saturday8pm 1 year ago
I remember the series premiere. The original version of THE WOLFMAN, with Lon Chaney Jr. and Maria Ouspenskaya (nowadays, better known as Queen T'Pau of Vulcan) as "Maleeva, Queen of the Gypsies."
Carycomic 1 year ago
Cary: That would've been July '69 then. Got a tape of the intro by chance? That's what we're all pining for!!!
Wolfman: I didn't know that about Maria! Totally missed that.
Saturday8pm 1 year ago
Sadly? No. All I have is my fond memories of that premiere. Memories that I recharge with faithful watching of it, each and every it's telecast.
Carycomic 1 year ago
... "each and every ( time ) it's telecast."
At first, I thought you mean somewhere there's a revival of this. Then I realized you meant everytime the WOLFMAN is reaired. See? the delusions nostalgia creates. LoL!
Saturday8pm 1 year ago
BTW, describe that premiere as you remember it. Fans wanna know!
Saturday8pm 1 year ago
@Saturday8pm Dude you are classic! I haven't seen this in over 30 years! Great childhood memories back in Jersey. Wow, those were the days!
Zane777077 1 year ago
The original image, as I recall, was Albert Dekker as DOCTOR CYCLOPS (chromakeyed of course).
rpfaiola 2 years ago
Hey, RPF! Folks more knowledgeable than I have insisted it was a still from Glenn Strange's performance of Frankenstein, but I used my own puss since I couldn't find an image that worked! As other posts discuss, this was probably created using a videography technique known as "video feedback". Another famous intro employing this was the old "Dr Who" series.
Saturday8pm 2 years ago
Thank you. I remember those early 1970 days in NYC ,Creature Feature and Chiller. Every Saturday was kids day on TV.
unhappyview54 2 years ago
Most Welcome, #54! It was a gas to create it with a little help from my online buddies.
Check out the page at DVD Drive In online, they have a number of nostalgia pages on NY TV of this ilk. "Chiller", WOR's "Fright Night", this and others are profiled, some with partial listings with what aired. How cool is that?
Saturday8pm 2 years ago
The face, I could have swore, was more grimaced, the mouth more downturned and wasn't as long from end to end. But it's VERY CLOSE, that's for sure, and the music is right on!
And with the correct font of CrowTRobot1313's repro, WE ARE CLOSE. As it stands, this video is a lot of fun to watch and truly brings back some memories in a big way.
Somehow I feel a craving for Jiffy Pop, old formula Coke in a glass bottle, and Celentano pizza out of the box, LOL :-)
Shawnster65 2 years ago
Dude, I ain't gonna stop until I've P'dO everyone with my pickiness!!! }:0)>
Do you know if we can send images in our boxes here? Can I send you some samples so you can approve 'em? Somehow, it's not always easy to be objective when I'm creating 'em ... BTW, is this video playback "choppy" for you? That's one of my peeves ... I think it's because of DSL here, unsure.
Saturday8pm 2 years ago
!!!!!!!Great Work Saturday8pm!!!!! It really brings back the memories , I hope some clips pop up on youtube with the Creep somewhere down the line. I know they are around since they use to be on swap lists in the early days of video tapes.
CreatureFeaturesWNEW 2 years ago
Thanks! I agree, it's out there. I've been meaning to email Prof Kinema, a guy who really is a professor of media somewhere, and he collects such ephemera. For example, I asked him about the whereabouts of the original "Chiller Theatre" sequence with the hand, and if I recall correctly, all he would verify was its existence, but I could tell he wasn't about to share it ... that was 10 years ago now, well before YouTube® began rocking the boat with all this collective memory.
Saturday8pm 2 years ago
That was COOOOOL! Thanks for posting it and how great to hear the theme to Horror Hotel afterwards. By the way, is the music for Horror Hotel or House On Haunted Hill available on CD?
bubblesandpickles 2 years ago
Hey Bubbles! So, you guys grew up on this theme too? I figgered you were from the greater NYC area. Both "Horror Hotel" and "House on Haunted Hill" have fallen into the public domain and are available for download, so you'll never be without again! Both have enjoyed significantly enhanced DVD upgrades and are worth seeking out. Check out the iMDB and Wiki for details, as I'm unclear as to which versions are the superior.
Saturday8pm 2 years ago
Not bad!
My mind is a bit fuzzy on which one was the right one, but that face seems to be somewhat reminiscent of what I remember.
It's hard because with each reproduction, there's something I remember, and it's hard to put together a true picture with so many little fragments comeing and going.
The music is spot on!
Shawnster65 2 years ago
My timing is off in spots, needs more work. The biggest problem is the background, there was more going on there that was layered and moving, more or less. I had an image of my own eye ( that's my face in there, too ) I was going to place in there, but I scuttled the idea for time's sake. Will reincorporate it later.
Saturday8pm 2 years ago
Thanks Sat@8 ... I don't believe that either House or Hotel have soundtracks available. And yes we both did grow up in the NY metro area - she in Long Island and me in CT. It's amazing how often people remember that scary white haired lady (ghost) in the wine cellar in House!
bubblesandpickles 2 years ago
The white haired ghost lady
from House On Haunted Hill!
Yeah, the girl is in the cellar as the lights come on, and the first thing she sees is that crazy witch with the blank eyes. That scared the hell out of me too lemme' tell ya'!
No wonder they remembered her, lol
I remember seeing Horror Hotel many times on CF as a kid, and the ending scene in the graveyard came right out of one of those old horror comics like Tales From The Tomb, or Weird.
Shawnster65 2 years ago
The "white haired ghost lady" scared me too, both back in the day AND recently! I got so PO'd at myself, then laughed.
jimsher9880 1 year ago
Scariest moment of the film. I miss William Castle's Reserve Cheddar®. Went well with a nice porter.
"Horror Hotel" ... one of my biggest TV shocks was that burnt witch's face at the end. YiKES!!!
Saturday8pm 2 years ago
The Creature Features intro followed by the beginning of Horror Hotel. God does that bring back memories. The first movie EVER the scare the crap out of me! I used to troll the TV sheet from the Newark Star Ledger to find out when it was coming on. I never missed it.
jimsher9880 2 years ago
Howdy, Jim! glad to make your nightmares come true.
HH was an effective little truffle that provoked the same reaction in me too ... I remember vividly seeing this one alone with me sis when my folks were out to dinner one night ... the "babysitter" was a hippy next door who "checked in" on us every hour or so, and we watched this ALONE in a big house out in the burbs!
Check out CrowTRobot1313's channel, he's been hard at work doing COMPLETE CF AND "Chiller Theatre" recreations. Far out!
Saturday8pm 2 years ago
We were so spoiled! CF AND Chiller! Everything from early Universal horror to Mario Bava, Hammer and William Castle.
jimsher9880 1 year ago
Jim, check out "Spine Tingler", a 2007 doc on the career of William Castle. You'll love it!
Saturday8pm 1 year ago
I grew up in New Jersey and we got Creature Features in our area too, because we lived high on a hill with no trees around--GREAT reception.
And we had a rotary antenna that allowed us to tune in to UHF as well, and that usually came out as clear as a bell on top of the great reception we got with NY programming all the time.
Jiffy Pop popcorn, soda in glass bottles, Celentano pizza from the box in those foil trays, and Creature Features..what great days we lived in, man!
Shawnster65 2 years ago
Similar scenario to the north, Shawn ... we rarely had to adjust the antenna though it was not rotarized. The best part was that the properties were large and the sense of isolation acute ... so, you really felt alone watching these things!
Saturday8pm 2 years ago
happy halloween !! loved it!!
tapthatt2012 2 years ago
Thanks Tap ... it was a lot of fun to make, though sometimes frustrating. I will tweak it here'n'there as time allows, there are timing issues and I doubt I'll be able to surmount that dissolves issue ... it seems to be an iMovie to Flash conversion problem. iMovie is Apple's consumer version of FinalCut Pro, while good, it's obviously limited.
It's a start!
Saturday8pm 2 years ago