WKBD TV 50 CHILLER MOVIE OPEN V2 "recreation"

WKBD TV 50 CHILLER MOVIE OPEN V2
this is a recreation except for the very ending where you see the fly at the super of chiller movie

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• WKBD
• TV
• 50
• CHILLER
• MOVIE
• Detroit

[ronnyraven]

The show with Led Zeppelin was the "Thriller Double Feature" not the "Saturday Shocker". I'm not pointing that out cause I'm one of those people who like to sound smarter than everyone else (I hate that) just trying to point people in the right direction.

Also "House on Haunted Hill is one of the clips at about 0:19. I recognize the same movies you do but there are a few scenes on there I'm not sure what they are. Hopefully someone else will come and be able to point them out.

[MonsterStuff]

Pretty neat, although this isn't at all how the actual opening went. Most of these clips weren't really in it, nor this music.

Or were you just trying to *guesstimate* what it was like (and this isn't supposed to be a literal imitation)?

[sevilami]

This is well done but as a now adult detroiter with fond memories of chiller creature feature and Saturday night dead I keep hoping someone with old VHS or beta will be kind enough to post and share. God I miss those days of tv with Godzilla movies hammer horror etc .... Good times :-)

[detroitrob311]

@DrGlitterhouse

excuse me, I meant "Horror Of Dracula" but if you want me to be precise, it started with a wavy fade in to Christopher Lee as his Dracula character showing his fangs about to bite his victim and then the music shifts along to the climatic end of Horror Of Dracula. I have some video clips of the commercial break with a scene from The Fly and the WKBD logo. This was on Saturday nights at 11:30 starting I believe in fall of 1982.

[detroitrob311]

I am talking when it was syndicated to Detroit back in 1982 or 83. WKBD TV50 ran a intro spot with scenes from mostly Hammer studio films and it closed with a scene from The Fly. I think the music was from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, then Sven would come on an introduce the film.

[marlarice]

@detroitrob311 "Svengooli Intro" is on YouTube.

[detroitrob311]

also, only way we will ever see that very early 80's intro again is if someone unearths it from some an old VHS or Beta tape.... hopefully some one has it. i liked the Close Encounters music played along to the clips.

[detroitrob311]

Chiller Movie was the best! It was on I think 11:30 and Saturday nights. Never will I forget the use of clips from hammer studio's Dracula films to the tune of some eerie music from Close Encounters film then the film. Then on to Son of Svengoolie who would crack a few jokes and play the film. Sadly, no known clips exist. The original intro reels were eventually destroyed as WKBD does not archive stuff like that.

[jimbradleymusic]

Please have the original somewhere. Please have....

[DrGlitterhouse]

I don't remember the opening to Chiller being anything like this, except the Close Encounters sting and the scene from The Fly at the end. I distinctly remember scenes from the climax of Horror of Dracula being part of it though, with music from Close Encounters throughout.

[sevilami]

@ronnyraven Thanks so much for sharing the Thriller Double Feature commercial--man does it bring back memories. I remember as a kid in Detroit area having to run inside when I would hear the air raid sirens on a Sat afternoon to watch the Creature Feature, Thriller, or Chiller and have been hunting for the classic detroit tv bumpers for ever--thanks for sharing (you dont have the actual show opening vid do you?) ;)

[ronnyraven]

@kyokogodai I'm right there with you. I spent many Friday nights watching that and probably just about as many more falling asleep in front of the t.v. while visions of monsters dance through my dreams.