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Creature Features is a generic title for a genre of horror TV format shows broadcast on local American television stations throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.^[1]

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Franchised television formats
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Original programming by local channels in Chicago

American International Pictures

American International Pictures LLC (AIP or American International Productions) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Amicus Productions

Amicus Productions was a British film production company, based at Shepperton Studios, England, active between 1962 and 1977.

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Andrew Keegan

Andrew Keegan (born Andrew Keegan Heying; January 29, 1979) is an American actor.

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ATN

ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia.

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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 independently made American science fiction horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) and starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson and Yvette Vickers.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Beach party film

The beach party film is an American film genre of feature films which were produced and released between 1963 and 1968, created by American International Pictures (AIP), beginning with their surprise hit, Beach Party, in July 1963.

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Bela Lugosi

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), known professionally as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian–American actor, best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 horror film classic ''Dracula'', Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956.

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Bob Wilkins

Bob Wilkins (born Robert Gene Wilkins; April 11, 1932 – January 7, 2009) was a television personality.

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Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), known professionally as Boris Karloff and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny, was an English actor.

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Bozo the Clown

Bozo the Clown, sometimes billed as "Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown", is a clown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century. Creature Features and Bozo the Clown are franchised television formats.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Buster Crabbe

Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II (February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor.

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Cable television in the United States

Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948.

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Candace Hilligoss

Mary Candace Hilligoss (born August 14, 1935) is an American former actress and model.

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Cape Girardeau (Cap-Girardeau; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. At the 2020 census, the population was 39,540, making it the 17th-largest in the state. The city is one of two principal cities of the Cape Girardeau, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Alexander County, Illinois, Bollinger County, Missouri and Cape Girardeau County, Missouri and has a population of 97,517.

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Carla Gugino

Carla Gugino (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress.

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Carrie Fisher

Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress and writer.

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, United States.

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Chicago metropolitan area

The Chicago metropolitan area, also referred to as the Greater Chicago Area and Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the Midwest, containing the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs and satellite cities.

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Chiller Theatre

Chiller Theatre may refer to. Creature Features and Chiller Theatre are franchised television formats and horror movie television series.

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Chiller Theatre (1961 TV series)

Chiller Theatre was a Saturday night television series broadcast by Channel 11 WPIX in New York City that showed classic horror movies. Creature Features and Chiller Theatre (1961 TV series) are 1960s American television series and 1970s American television series.

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Chiller Theatre (1963 TV series)

Chiller Theatre, or Chiller Theater, was a late-night horror and science fiction movie program on WIIC/WPXI, Channel 11, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Creature Features and Chiller Theatre (1963 TV series) are 1970s American television series.

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Chiller Theatre (1984 TV series)

Chiller Theatre aired on various local television stations in the Green Bay market from 1984 until early 2009.

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Chiller Thriller

Chiller Thriller was a kid-friendly horror showcase that aired on New York City television station WOR-TV (Channel 9) on Saturday mornings as early as 1974 and as late as 1977. Creature Features and Chiller Thriller are horror movie television series.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer.

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Cinemax

Cinemax (alternatively shortened to Max) is an American pay television, cable, and satellite television network owned by the Home Box Office, Inc. subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Clea DuVall

Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall (born September 25, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Count Floyd

Count Floyd is a fictional character featured in television and played by comic actor Joe Flaherty.

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Count Gore de Vol

Count Gore de Vol is a television horror host who originally appeared on Washington, D.C.'s WDCA from 1973 to 1987.

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Creature Double Feature

Creature Double Feature is a television show, syndicated in the Boston and Philadelphia area during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

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Creature Feature (1973 TV series)

Creature Feature, presented in later years as Dr.

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Crematia Mortem

Crematia Mortem was the horror host of KSHB 41's late night weekend television show Creature Feature in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, from 1981 to 1990.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Daiei Film

Daiei Film Co.

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Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian and American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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Delaware Valley

The Delaware Valley, sometimes referred to as Greater Philadelphia or the Philadelphia metropolitan area, is a major metropolitan region in the Northeast United States that centers around Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-most populous city, and spans parts of four U.S. states: southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, northern Delaware, and the northern Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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Dick Dyszel

Richard E. Dyszel, known professionally as Dick Dyszel, is an American television personality, known for his television alter-egos Count Gore De Vol and Captain 20.

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Do you know where your children are?

"Do you know where your children are?" is a question used as a public service announcement (PSA) for parents on American television from the late 1960s through the late 1980s.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG).

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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Dr Terror's House of Horrors is a 1965 British anthology horror film from Amicus Productions, directed by veteran horror director Freddie Francis, written by Milton Subotsky, and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

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Dracula (1931 English-language film)

Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code supernatural horror film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring Bela Lugosi in the title role.

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Dracula: Prince of Darkness

Dracula: Prince of Darkness is a 1966 British gothic supernatural horror film directed by Terence Fisher.

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Earth vs. the Spider (2001 film)

Earth vs.

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Ed Wood

Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pulp novelist.

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Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich (née Pattee; born June 22, 1960) is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California for attorney Ed Masry in 1993.

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Eugene Levy

Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor and comedian.

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Experiment in Terror

Experiment in Terror is a 1962 American neo-noir thriller film released by Columbia Pictures.

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Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block.

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Forrest J Ackerman

Forrest James Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor; science fiction writer and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films; a prominent advocate of the Esperanto language; and one of the world's most avid collectors of genre books and film memorabilia.

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Frankenstein (1931 film)

Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

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Fright Night (TV series)

Fright Night was the name of two science fiction and horror film programs.

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Gamera

is a fictional monster, or kaiju, originating from a series of Japanese films.

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Genre

Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.

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George Huang (director)

George Jay Huang is an American film director, writer, producer, and educator.

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Godzilla

is a fictional monster, or kaiju, that debuted in the eponymous 1954 film, directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda.

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Greater Boston

Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England, and its surrounding areas.

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Grit (TV network)

Grit is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.

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Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve) is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London.

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor.

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Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini (born Enrico Nicola Mancini; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist.

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Holiday Film Festival

Holiday Film Festival was a Thanksgiving Day science fiction film series, aired annually from 1976 to 1985 on WOR-TV (channel 9) in New York City (now WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey). Creature Features and Holiday Film Festival are horror movie television series.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Horror host

A horror host is a person who acts as the host or presenter of a program where horror films and low-budget B movies are shown on television or the Internet. Creature Features and horror host are 1960s American television series, 1970s American television series, franchised television formats, horror movie television series and Midnight movie television series.

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How to Make a Monster (2001 film)

How to Make a Monster is a 2001 film starring Steven Culp and Clea DuVall.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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It Came from Outer Space

It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 American science fiction horror film, the first in the 3D process from Universal-International.

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Jill Forster

Jill Forster (born 30 November 1936),Giles Nigel "Number 96: Australia Most Infamous Address, published by Melbourne Book" is an English Australian former actress who came to Australia as a model in 1964, she subsequently became well known for her roles in TV series, but also appeared in films and telefilms.

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Joe Flaherty

Joseph Flaherty (born Joseph O'Flaherty, June 21, 1941 – April 1, 2024) was an American actor, writer, and comedian.

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John Candy

John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian who is best known for his work in Hollywood films.

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John Landis

John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American filmmaker and actor.

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Jon Provost

Jonathan Bion Provost (born March 12, 1950) is an American actor, best known for his role as young Timmy Martin in the CBS series Lassie.

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Kaiju

is a Japanese term that is commonly associated with media involving giant monsters.

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Kaiser Broadcasting

The Kaiser Broadcasting Corp. was an American broadcast media company that owned and operated television and radio stations in the United States from 1957 to 1977.

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Kansas City metropolitan area

The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri.

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Kathy Garver

Kathy Garver (born Kathleen Marie Garver; December 13, 1945) is an American actress most remembered for having portrayed the teenaged orphan, Catherine "Cissy" Davis, on the popular 1960s CBS sitcom, Family Affair.

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KBSI

KBSI (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for Southeastern Missouri, the Purchase area of Western Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and Northwest Tennessee.

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KCRG-TV

KCRG-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of ABC, MyNetworkTV, and The CW.

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KDNL-TV

KDNL-TV (channel 30) is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, affiliated with ABC.

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King Kong (1933 film)

King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure romance monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien and music by Max Steiner.

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KMTV-TV

KMTV-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with CBS.

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KOFY-TV

KOFY-TV (channel 20) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as an affiliate of Merit Street Media.

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KPLR-TV

KPLR-TV (channel 11) is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, serving as the market's outlet for The CW.

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KSHB-TV

KSHB-TV (channel 41) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with NBC.

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KTVU

KTVU (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Oakland, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's Fox network outlet.

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Larry Clark

Lawrence Donald Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for his controversial teen film Kids (1995) and his photography book Tulsa (1971).

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Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Simon Nimoy (March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor and director, famed for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise for almost 50 years.

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Lon Chaney

Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American actor and makeup artist.

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Lou Steele

Louis J. "Lou" Steele (March 7, 1928 – February 25, 2001) was an American actor, radio, and television announcer.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.

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Mark Hamill

Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor.

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Martial arts film

Martial arts films are a subgenre of action films that feature martial arts combat between characters.

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Matango

is a 1963 Japanese horror film directed by Ishirō Honda.

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Metro Detroit

Metro Detroit is a major metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Michigan, consisting of the city of Detroit and over 200 municipalities in the surrounding area with its largest employer being Oakland County.

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Metromedia (also often MetroMedia) was an American media company that owned radio and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986 and controlled Orion Pictures from 1988 to 1997.

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Miami metropolitan area

The Miami metropolitan area is a coastal metropolitan area in southeastern Florida.

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Michiana

Michiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana.

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Mighty Joe Young (1949 film)

Mighty Joe Young (also known as Mr. Joseph Young of Africa and The Great Joe Young) is a 1949 American black and white fantasy film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and produced by the same creative team responsible for King Kong (1933).

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English former musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success.

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Milan, Illinois

Milan is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Monopoly (game)

Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game.

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Monster movie

A monster movie, monster film, creature feature or giant monster film is a film that focuses on one or more characters struggling to survive attacks by one or more antagonistic monsters, often abnormally large ones.

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My So-Called Life

My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

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Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States.

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Network 10

Network 10 (commonly known as the 10 Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network owned by Ten Network Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's UK & Australia division.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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New York metropolitan area

The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, encompassing.

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Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers.

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Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo, produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea.

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Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area

The Omaha metropolitan area, officially known as the Omaha, NE–IA, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), is an urbanized, bi-state metro region in Nebraska and Iowa in the American Midwest, centered on the city of Omaha, Nebraska.

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Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is a city in and county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States.

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Plan 9 from Outer Space

Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1957 American independent science fiction-horror film produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood.

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Quad Cities

The Quad Cities is a region of cities (originally four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern Illinois.

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Randy Quaid

Randy Randall Rudy Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American actor known for his roles in both serious drama and light comedy.

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Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British animator and special effects creator who created a form of stop motion model animation known as "Dynamation".

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Remake

A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film".

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RKO Pictures

RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer and actor.

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Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederik Sewell (born 29 October 1967) is a British actor.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.

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Saturday-morning cartoon

"Saturday-morning cartoon" is a colloquial term for the original animated series and live-action programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the United States on the "Big Three" television networks.

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Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), also known simply as Scary Monsters, is the fourteenth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 12 September 1980 through RCA Records.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.

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Scott Ziehl

Scott Ziehl is an American film director.

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Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an American brand name owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation.

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Sebastian Gutierrez

Sebastián Gutiérrez (born September 10, 1974) is a Venezuelan film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Second City Television

Second City Television, commonly shortened to SCTV and later known as SCTV Network and SCTV Channel, is a Canadian television sketch comedy show that ran intermittently between 1976 and 1984.

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Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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SF Weekly

SF Weekly is an online music publication and formerly alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California.

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She Creature

She Creature (originally billed as Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature) is a 2001 horror made-for-television film, directed by Sebastian Gutierrez and starring Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino and Rya Kihlstedt in leading roles.

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Shock Theater

Shock Theater (marketed as Shock!) is a package of 52 pre-1948 classic horror films from Universal Studios released for television syndication in October 1957 by Screen Gems, the television subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. Creature Features and Shock Theater are horror movie television series.

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Son of Kong

The Son of Kong (also known and publicized simply as Son of Kong) is a 1933 American Pre-Code adventure monster film produced by RKO Pictures.

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Soul Train

Soul Train is an American musical variety television show. Creature Features and Soul Train are original programming by local channels in Chicago.

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Springfield, Illinois

Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County.

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St. Louis

St.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Steve Souza

Steve "Zetro" Souza (born March 24, 1964) is an American musician, best known for his work as lead vocalist with thrash metal band Exodus from 1986 to 1994, and again from 2002 to 2004.

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Steven Culp

Steven Bradford Culp (born December 3, 1955) is an American actor.

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Svengoolie

Svengoolie is an American hosted horror movie television program. Creature Features and Svengoolie are horror movie television series and original programming by local channels in Chicago.

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Tampa Bay area

The Tampa Bay area is a major metropolitan area surrounding Tampa Bay on the Gulf Coast of Florida in the United States.

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Tara Subkoff

Tara Lyn Subkoff (born December 10, 1972) is an American actress, conceptual artist, director, and fashion designer.

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Tarantula (film)

Tarantula is a 1955 American science-fiction monster film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold.

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Teenage Caveman (2002 film)

Teenage Caveman is a 2002 science fiction-horror-teen film directed by controversial filmmaker Larry Clark.

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The Amazing Colossal Man

The Amazing Colossal Man (also known as The Colossal Man) is a 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film from American International Pictures.

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The Curse of Frankenstein

The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions, loosely based on the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.

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The Curse of the Werewolf

The Curse of the Werewolf is a 1961 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed and Yvonne Romain.

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The Day the World Ended

The Day the World Ended is a 2001 American science fiction/horror television film and is the fourth in the Creature Features series broadcast on Cinemax.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1959 British gothic mystery film directed by Terence Fisher and produced by Hammer Film Productions.

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The House That Dripped Blood

The House That Dripped Blood is a 1971 British anthology horror film directed by Peter Duffell and distributed by Amicus Productions.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film)

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Herbert Lom, Heather Sears and Edward de Souza.

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The Raven (1963 film)

The Raven is a 1963 American comedy gothic horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman.

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The Terror (1963 film)

The Terror is a 1963 American independent horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman.

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The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_Features

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