WOR-TV Fright Night Opening

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[abcbatman1966]

contrary to the photos depicted, Fright Night (WOR ch. 9) tended to show many 1970's horror pics, w/ unpleasant themes (the Baby, Deathdream, Blood & Lace, Lemora, the Lady dracula, Etc.) , as well as foreign pics ((the night evelyn came out of the grave, Blood mania,etc.) Channel 9 did show many classic Universal pics in their weekend & afternoon schedule, but not often on Fright Night.

[FrightNight7387]

@abcbatman1966

Actually they did. According to Jim Arena's "The Complete Fright Night", the first several years of FN's existence, mainly 1973-1977, showcased old Universal Horror films quite often. After that, they went more towards "Drive-In" fare which was pretty cool :)

[FrightNight7387]

I do remember times when there was no voiceover, just that ominous opening :)

[Shawnster65]

I remember this fondly.

Right up there after Vince McMahon's Superstar Wrestling at 12 midnight.

They showed many of the horror movies of the 60's as well as the newer ones that came out of the theatre.

They also used it to showcase some of the horror movies of the day as they had the commercials and TV spots for them.

Great days man!

[Kepley100]

James Arena wrote an excellent book, FRIGHT NIGHT ON CHANNEL 9; it's a great resource and backstory on this fun horror showcase! I even got three movies that aired frequently on FRIGHT NIGHT: BRIDES OF BLOOD, MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND, and BEAST OF BLOOD from Oldies.com.

[MyFlipNWorld]

I remember watching this as a kid in new York city. The monsters would scroll by, and my mother would look at it and say, "omg, what horrible faces." She tried to get me not to watch it. The face that freaked her out the most, was the smoking skull at the end. She turned, and walked away at this point. She's freaked by skeletons, and skulls.

[benquicks]

I use this movie intro on valentines day!

[IDiggSocialMedia]

When I was a kid (esp. from in the early 1980s) I use to often stay up late to see these Fright Night films! Most of my favorites where the low budget, schockley films of the late '60s and early '70s such as "Don't Look In the Basement" and "House of Seven Corpses"! I sure would like to see some of this stuff again and earlier this year I have, on some of my over the air broadcast sub-channels!

[zeniam2]

I would love to have a channel dedicated to the old stuff. I have a hunch there are many of us would tune right in looking for all the good old stuff with lousy props and bad lighting. The stuff that we fell asleep to or just loved as we ate our buttered popcorn. Gma would let me stay up for it. It is interesting how bad some of the stuff was. I recently saw episodes of Dark Shadows. We were on our tummys with hands on chins watching that every 4pm. while my friend's mom ironed. LOVE!

[efrainr1974]

Up until now, I used to thing I was the only person who reminisced about Saturday night TV in 80's. Back in the days before cable, all we had were a handful of channels (at least in Queens, NY where I grew up). I used to try not to fall asleep during the horse racing (I'd always ask my grandmother to wake me up at midnight, just in case I did!), then watching wresting, and of course, Fright Night....my favorite movie they showed was "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"

[super8m0nsters]

There was also Saturday Morning 10 AM Classic Monster Triple Features on Ch. 9 and sci-fi films where I first saw all these movies for the first time!

I remember this intro vividly as my whole entire life as a kid in the 1970's revolved around Ch. 9, Ch. 5, and Ch. 11 for horror movies. Wrestling came on at 12 midnight Sunday morning (technically still Saturday night), and 1 AM came Fright Night. I went to many wrestling shows of the era at MSG. This is the original intro as I remember it. 

[openhandslap]

who else can relate?...im laying on the floor NOT watching horse racing from the meadowlands, telling mom to wake me up for wrestling at midnight...but mom didnt have the heart to wake me, so id sleep through Bob Backlunds MSG promos and wake up JUST IN TIME for this opening at 1am...scared shitless! (but not NEARLY as shitless as when the C-H-I-L-L-E-R hand ascended from the swamp on saturday!!) as archie and edith used to say: those were the days"!!!

[jgi99]

Very true. The very best times. I miss them days. It was the best.

[iangoblin71]

Bring this stuff back!!! Saturday Night Dead, Dr. Shock, Roland (a.k.a. Zacherley).

We don't have good horror shows anymore. Fun times.