Author: CharlesHarrison
Psycho De Mayo! Celebrate Your Independence with CREATURE FEATURES on OSI 74!
CREATURE FEATURES traditionally refers a proud history of Horror and Science Fiction movies formatted for broadcast TV on local stations throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Among the notable versions are: WNEW 5 in New York WKBG 56 in Boston–sometimes as Creature Double Feature WKBD 50 in Detroit WSJV 28 in South Bend, Indiana–also, Creature Double Feature WUTV 29 in Buffalo WKBS 48 in Philadelphia as Creature Double Feature. WGN 9 and WFLD 32 in Chicago KBSI 23 in Missouri with hostess Misty Brew WTOG 44 in Tampa with Dr. Paul Bearer WCIX 6 in Miami WQAD 8 in Quad…
by CharlesHarrison
TO ALL CREATURE FEATURES FANS: A letter from John Stanley
“TO ALL CREATURE FEATURES FANS: I have been very disturbed by what is happening on KOFY’s new Saturday midnight series, “CREATURE FEATURES.” ** Its host Jim Currie, who uses the name Al Omega to describe the TV horror host character he is portraying, is reportedly trying to trademark the title “CREATURE FEATURES,” which has been a generic title in use since the era of the horror host dating back to the 1960s and 1970s. (It was also the name of a board game that dates back to 1975.) This is extremely disturbing, given that, for one thing, “CREATURE FEATURES” was…
by CharlesHarrison
Street Trash
After a weekend spent in beautiful Crystal Lake, New Jersey (or Forest Green, as they call it now) I thought I’d take a short trip north to the Brooklyn-Queens border region for a bottle of Tenafly Viper, the booze with a bite. Yeah, it might be a little old, and there’s been reports of people melting after drinking it, but the same has been said about New Jersey’s tap water, so I’m not that worried. If you haven’t heard of Tenafly Viper, then you probably haven’t seen Street Trash, and that would mean your life is incomplete and that you…
by CharlesHarrison
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Happy Friday the 13th everybody! A day made famous by superstition, fear, and jealousy. Ok, not really jealousy, but Christopher Lee demanded I finish the quote. So whether you celebrate by crying in a corner and worrying about your lack of luck for the day, or if you’re just going to drink white wine and eat shrimp all day, I raise my glass to you, person who cares about an arbitrary date that affects nothing. Well, isn’t that all of us? Actually, there’s a thing here in Philly where you can get a specially designed tattoo for Friday the 13th.…
by CharlesHarrison
Friday the 13th Part 3
Happy Monday the 9th everybody! Right now, in some distant New Jersey shack, a machete is being sharpened, and I don’t mean that Danny Trejo is filing his nails. I mean that the boy wonder himself (he came back from the dead and can teleport, what can Robin do?! Nothing!!!) Jason Vorheez is currently probably as giddy as a kid in a candy store on christmas who is also Jesus, so, ya know, BirthdayChristmas! Actually I heard that sucks because then you only get, like, a quarter or a half more presents. Wouldn’t it be cool if your birthday was a different…
by CharlesHarrison
Lost in Time like a bug in a jar….
No matter where you go… there you are… Sorry for our absence! Where have we been? Well… that is a long story. Sometime Mid-October 2015 the crew here at Horror Host Magazine got beamed to the far reaches of space — a place governed by a coven of underground television producers. We found ourselves at OUTER SPACE INTERNATIONAL, an “off world” production colony and distribution network bringing you unusual, experimental, and entertaining programs from many different creative worlds. Now we’re thinking beyond standard television and learning from the great pioneers of UHF, Home Video, and Early Cable that we grew up with. We’re…
by CharlesHarrison