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Creature Feature was a TV horror movie series on WTOG in St. Petersburg, Florida from 1971 to 1995. The films were hosted by Dick Bennick Sr. (1928-1995) as Dr. Paul Bearer, who hosted a different cheap horror film every Saturday afternoon.
The humorous Bearer character was a pun-spewing, bad-joke-telling host who spoke in a halting speech pattern. His skewed gaze, caused by having one artificial eye, only contributed to the atmosphere. He also twisted around some words and names to reflect the horror atmosphere -- he frequently called the horror films "horrible movies", and the city that WTOG's studios were based "St. Creaturesburg".
His trademark signoff was "I'll be lurking for you."
Sigourney Weaver
returns as Lt. Ripley in this action-packed sequel to Alien. The only
survivor from the first film, Ripley finds her horrific account of the
alien and her crew's fate is met with skepticism -- until the
mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 prompts a team of
high-tech Marines to investigate. Also features a commentary by cast
and crew members and both the theatrical and special edition versions
of the film.
Obsessed pathologist Dr. Chapin (Vincent Price)
discovers a parasitic creature that grows in the spinal cords of people
when they experience fear. Once the parasite grows large enough, it
will attack and kill unless the host lets out a blood-curdling scream.
During the film's initial release, director William Castle, famous for his horror-film gimmicks, rigged theater seats to shock patrons and planted screamers and fainters in the audience!
This 1953 sci-fi classic, directed by Eugene Lourie and starring Paul Christian, Ross Elliott
and Cecil Kallaway, brings to the screen Ray Bradbury's short story
"The Fog Horn." The powerful force of atomic testing in the Arctic has
awakened a sleeping rhedosaurus that's been frozen solid in ice, and
the creature rises from the sea to exact revenge in the streets of New
York. Features animation by Ray Harryhausen.
Famed RKO Radio Pictures producer Val Lewton managed to single-handedly
redefine the horror genre in the 1940s, cranking out low-budget,
high-volume box office hits that rarely disappointed audiences -- or
studio execs. This double feature of The Leopard Man (1943) and The
Ghost Ship (1943) -- two creepy tales revolving around the terror of
the living dead -- is the fourth installment of a five-DVD collection
of Lewton's work.
Multimillionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough)
has a plan for a new theme park: a secluded island where visitors can
observe dinosaurs, cloned using advanced DNA technology. But when an
employee tampers with the security system, the dinosaurs escape,
forcing the visitors to fight for their survival. Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern star, as their computer-generated co-stars chew the scenery in this action-packed thriller.
A gigantic octopus -- who's a real sourpuss -- terrorizes an atomic
submarine shuttling the Pacific. By the time the crew realizes the
monster is the nasty by-product of a hydrogen bomb experiment, the
creature is well on its way to destroying San Francisco. The octopus is
yet another example in a long line of fantastic stop-motion animation
from the technique's master, Ray Harryhausen.
In Revenge of the Creature, Gill-Man returns after surviving multiple
bullet wounds, but is captured and put on display at an aquarium. Two
scientists (John Agar and Lori Nelson) help Gill-Man, who eventually
turns on his captors. In The Creature Walks Among Us, Gill-Man's gills
are severely burned. A scientist (Jeff Morrow) finds a way to enable him to breathe oxygen, but tragedy strikes, and Gill-Man faces a monumental decision.
A pleasure caving trip turns frightful in this horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. Six girlfriends, led by thrill seeker Juno (Natalie Mendoza),
go spelunking a year after a tragic incident. But when they get trapped
under the earth, all rationale escapes them as they start to suffer
from limited oxygen and delusions -- or are they? Now, the friends must
find a way to escape the cave and the murky creatures that lie within
it.
While working for a railroad baron (Tom Wilkinson) in colonial Uganda, engineer John Patterson (Val Kilmer)
finds his construction efforts stymied by a series of lion attacks.
After more than 100 workers die, grizzled hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas) is called in to head the increasingly desperate effort to kill the animals. Based on a true story, director Stephen Hopkins's thriller recounts an archetypal case of man vs. beast.
Dr. Louis Creed's (Dale Midkiff)
family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet
cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep
in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At
first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident
forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable in director Mary Lambert's horror film based on a story by Stephen King.
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