(THE BADDER, THE BETTER)
Throughout the 1970s and into the '80s, Bob (and later, John) hosted "Creature Features" on Channel 2. Every weekend they would gleefully air some of the schlockiest horror and science fiction movies ever made, as well as the occasional good one.
"Creature Features" may be long gone, but its spirit lives on, at least at my house. Here is a partial list of the movies in my personal collection:
Amazing Colossal Man, The 1957 B&W Glenn Langan
Amazing Mr. X, The 1948 B&W Richard Carlson
Amazing Transparent Man, The 1960 B&W Douglas Kennedy
Ape Man, The 1943 B&W Bela Lugosi
Ape, The 1940 B&W Boris Karloff
Atom Age Vampire 1960 B&W Alberto Lupo
Attack Of the Giant Leeches 1959 B&W Roger Corman
Bat, The 1959 B&W Vincent Price
Beast from the Haunted Castle 1959 B&W Michael Forest
Beast Of Yucca Flats, The 1961 B&W Tor Johnson
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla 1952 B&W Bela Lugosi
Bloodlust 1961 B&W Robert Reed
Bluebeard 1944 B&W John Carradine
Bowery At Midnight 1942 B&W Bela Lugosi
Brain That Wouldn't Die, The 1962 B&W Jason Evers
Bride of Frankenstein 1935 B&W Boris Karloff
Buried Alive 1939 B&W Robert Wilcox
Carnival of Souls 1962 B&W Candace Hilligoss
Chamber of Horrors 1940 B&W Leslie Banks
Corpse Vanishes, The 1942 B&W Bela Lugosi
Cosmos: War of the Planets 1977 Color John Richardson
Crash of the Moons 1954 B&W Rocky Jones
Creature from the Haunted Sea 1961 B&W Robert Towne
Curse of the Swamp Creature 1966 Color John Agar
Dead Men Walk 1943 B&W George Zucco
Dementia 13 1963 B&W Francis Ford Coppola
Devil Bat, The 1940 B&W Bela Lugosi
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 1920 B&W John Barrymore
Dracula 1931 B&W Bela Lugosi
Dracula (Spanish version) 1931 B&W Carlos Villarķas
Dracula's Daughter 1936 B&W Gloria Holden
First Spaceship on Venus 1960 Color Yoko Tani
Frankenstein 1931 B&W Boris Karloff
Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man 1943 B&W Bela Lugosi
Gamera the Invincible 1966 B&W Brian Donlevy
Ghost of Frankenstein 1942 B&W Lon Chaney Jr
Giant Gila Monster, The 1959 B&W Don Sullivan
Good Against Evil 1977 Color Dack Rambo
Gorilla, The 1939 B&W Bela Lugosi
House of Dracula 1945 B&W John Carradine
House of Frankenstein 1944 B&W Boris Karloff
House on Haunted Hill, The 1959 B&W Vincent Price
Human Monster, The 1940 B&W Bela Lugosi
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The 1923 B&W Lon Chaney Sr
I Bury the Living 1958 B&W Richard Boone
I Eat Your Skin 1964 B&W William Joyce
Indestructible Man, The 1956 B&W Lon Chaney Jr
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Color Donald Sutherland
Invisible Ghost, The 1941 B&W Bela Lugosi
It Conquered the World 1956 B&W Peter Graves
Killer Shrews, The 1959 B&W James Best
King of the Zombies 1941 B&W Mantan Moreland
Lady Frankenstein 1971 Color Jospeh Cotton
Last Man on Earth, The 1964 B&W Vincent Price
Last Woman on Earth 1960 Color Roger Corman
Little Shop of Horrors, The 1960 B&W Roger Corman
Mad Monster, The 1942 B&W George Zucco
Maniac 1934 B&W Bill Woods
Metropolis 1927 B&W Fritz Lang
Monster from a Prehistoric Planet 1966 Color Tamro Kawaji
Monster Maker, The 1944 B&W J Carrol Naish
Monster Walks, The 1932 B&W Rex Lease
Mummy, The 1932 B&W Boris Karloff
Mummy's Curse, The 1944 B&W Lon Chaney Jr
Mummy's Ghost, The 1944 B&W John Carradine
Mummy's Hand, The 1940 B&W Dick Foran
Mummy's Tomb, The 1942 B&W Dick Foran
Night Fright 1967 Color John Agar
Night of the Blood Beast 1958 B&W Roger Corman
Night of the Bloody Horror 1969 Color Gerald McRaney
Night of the Living Dead 1968 B&W George A Romero
Nightmare Castle 1965 B&W Barbara Steele
Nosferatu 1922 B&W Max Schreck
One Body Too Many 1944 B&W Bela Lugosi
Phantom Creeps, The (serial) 1939 B&W Bela Lugosi
Phantom Empire, The 1935 B&W Gene Autrey
Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, The 1956 B&W Kent Taylor
Phantom of the Opera, The 1925 B&W Lon Chaney Sr
Phantom Planet, The 1961 B&W Dean Fredericks
Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 B&W Bela Lugosi (sort of)
Radar Men from the Moon (serial) 1952 B&W Commando Cody
Revolt of the Zombies 1936 B&W Dean Jagger
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians 1964 Color Pia Zadora
Satanic Rites of Dracula 1974 Color Christopher Lee
Scared to Death 1947 Color Bela Lugosi
Screaming Skull, The 1958 B&W John Hudson
She-Wolf of London 1946 B&W June Lockhart
Sisters of Death 1977 Color Arthur Franz
Snake People, The 1971 Color Boris Karloff
Snowbeast 1977 Color Bo Svenson
Son of Dracula 1943 B&W Lon Chaney Jr
Son of Frankenstein 1939 B&W Boris Karloff
SOS Coast Guard (serial) 1937 B&W Bela Lugosi
Spooks Run Wild 1941 B&W Bela Lugosi
Stanley 1972 Color Chris Robinson
Swamp Women 1955 B&W Roger Corman
Terror, The 1963 Color Boris Karloff
They Came from Beyond Space 1967 Color Robert Hutton
Tormented 1960 B&W Richard Carlson
Undersea Kingdom (serial) 1936 B&W Crash Corrigan
Unknown World 1951 B&W Bruce Kellog
Vampire Bat, The 1933 B&W Lionel Atwill
Vengeance of the Zombies 1973 Color Paul Naschy
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet 1965 Color Basil Rathbone
War of the Colossal Beast 1958 B&W Dean Parkin
War of the Robots 1978 Color Antonio Saboto
Werewolf of London 1935 B&W Henry Hull
White Zombie 1932 B&W Bela Lugosi
Wolf Man, The 1941 B&W Lon Chaney Jr
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