Creature Features WGN

Creature Features was a show on WGN Chicago in the sixties and seventies that used to show old horror movies. The opening showed clips from those movies and a poem reading by Marty McNeely a staff announcer. This is my humble attempt to recreate that opening.

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Film & Animation

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• short
• film

[benthemiester]

In LA we had Fright Night. A character named Seymour played by Larry Vincent, would do B grade slapstick jokes and complained how bad the movie was during intermissions. Loved it. He's the guy who did the song, Freckles on Her Butt.

[huzoomnhu]

Today in Chicago we have Svengoolie who does songs and jokes during breaks of the movies. You can check him out on the WCIU web site.

[cosmicku]

I love to know the music for this

[huzoomnhu]

The music is from the 1962 movie Experiment In Terror starring Lee Remick and Glenn Ford.

[tonnyosmond]

greatttttttttt

[huzoomnhu]

Glad you liked it. Ii was one of my favorite shows. I don't think a copy of the original opening exists so I made my own crude version.

[tinanjohn1]

get the popcorn and the eight pack of pepsi bottles

[Shawnster65]

I miss the one I grew up with in the Tri-State Area (NY NJ LI) that played on WNEW 5 (now Fox 5) in the very early 70's.

It was hosted by "The Creep" aka Lou Steele, but also had a hostless opening with a horrible face that glowed on and off to "Vistors From Space" by Dick Jacobs' Orchestra.

That and I miss WPIX 11's Chiller Theatre too. Hell I miss those days, PERIOD.

[cdfreester]

I remember this. I also remember the Lon Chaney "London at Midnight" vampire shot as the title board for the show. It used to show up in the local TV Guide, too. I was a big monster movie freak when I was a lad in those days (early 70's).

[zuzulo56]

@huzoomnhu You can have Glen...I'll gratefully accept Lee! AND my wife agrees...

[rebth1st]

I think this is where Michael Jackson got his inspiration for Thriller.

[jonsey617]

@kebr9

I remember those races! My mother was so hyped on those! We would always shop at on Saturday Mornings at the Jewel Store and she was so thrilled to get her race cards. That evening our family would watch the races on tv. Such wonderful memories....wish there was some way to watch a snippett of those races again on You Tube.

[jdc1940]

@huzoomnhu henry mancini

[SNAZZYJAZZYCAT]

wow.I have never told this story.........when the Garfield Goose Puppets were available in stores...I begged Mother to take me to the store and get me one and

when I got to the store,all the puppets were in color!!! Having a black and white TV,

the colored puppet was such a disappointment,I didn't want it anymore.

I'm sure Mother had a good laugh.

[donslapix75]

@kebr9 wow, I forgot about that, I think it was called Night at the races and was actually called by an old WGN sports broadcaster who called the races at one of the race tracks back in Chicago. Thanks for that great memory!

[luridplanet]

Good luck seeing horror movies on local TV anymore - or any movies for that matter

[speeddammit]

@huzoomnhu I was fortunate enough to get to see the first year of Son of Svengoolie before my family moved from the area. Chicago television from the late 60's through the 70's was just awesome! Thanks for posting these vids!

[speeddammit]

Oh those WERE the nights! This brings back SO many memories. Jiffy-Pop popcorn and sitting on the floor, scared to death. And with Halloween approaching, memories of trick-or-treating, the fall colors, the Halloween parties in grade school.

Ahhh...the memories.