The Creature Features Movie Guide by John Stanley

What do I like and not like about the book. Interruptions of the evenings' Creature Feature, they were kept Not in the depth of Tom Weaver's interviews in numerous books The interviews are not in any great depth. He finishesĬhristopher Lee, William Castle, George Romero, and Boris Newland (the host of TV's 'One Step Beyond'). Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Vincent Price, Roger Corman, and John Several people associated with Star TrekĪnd Star Wars were his guests. ItĬovers a lot more including the history of horror hostdom goingīack to radio hosts like Raymond on 'The Inner Sanctum'.Ī little over half of the book chronicles John Stanley'sĪdventures interviewing the major names associated with mediaįantasy in the 1970s. Horror host-probably the first memoir of a horror host. As the name suggests, this is a memoir of his years as a That brings me to John Stanley's current book, I WAS A TV HORROR The kind of films he would show, JOHN STANLEY'S CREATURE FEATURES (Oddly, each looks like he has a portrait somewhereĭoing all his aging for him.) Stanley also published a guide to As far as IĬan tell John Stanley carried the Wilkins tradition of the laid-īack style. Unfortunately, I never saw John Stanley on the air. KTVU had John Stanley as the host ofĬREATURE FEATURES from 1979 to 1984 after Wilkins left. Keep America Strong.' I enjoyed Wilkins a lot when I was at Normal underplayed the horror host role with a sort of Bob Halloween costumes and doing skits, Wilkins looked relatively When horror hosts like Zacherley and Vampira were dressing up in Oakland broadcast CREATURE FEATURES with its host Bob Wilkins. The San Francisco area had a little more class. Like Ghoulardi or Svenghouli, usually in some weird costume. Stations made it a weekly program with a host who went by a name Science fiction or horror film every Saturday night. Springfield, Massachusetts the Late Show would just have a Had read about in FAMOUS MONSTER OF FILMLAND magazine. I lived from one Saturday night to the next looking forward to myįirst chance to see some film like HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN that I Horror fans got their start watching the horror film packagesĭistributed to television starting around the late 1950s. Leeper)įor those who were not around at the time, a lot of baby boomer Leeper) I WAS A TV HORROR HOST: MEMOIRS OF A CREATURE FEATURES MAN by John Stanley (copyright 2007, Creatures At Large, trade paperback, 208pp, $19.99, ISBN-13 978-1-9, ISBN-10Ġ-9400-6411-1) (a book review by Mark R. I WAS A TV HORROR HOST: MEMOIRS OF A CREATURE FEATURES MAN (a film review by Mark R.

The Creature Features Movie Guide by John Stanley