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TheCreep	WOR 9's Fright Night	Lead	[-]
Jun 6 09 11:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Didn't see any threads on this, but any of you Tri-State area folk (like me) remember this great little show? It came on at 1am Saturday\Sunday morning right after Vince McMahon's then unknown Professional Wrestling show. It had one of the most memorable openings to a horror show, with a slide-show tribute to the old Universal Monsters and some other assorted terrors. Here's the URL for the opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEvR9jZ5O6o
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Joe Karlosi		#1	[-]
Jun 7 09 6:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I sure do remember it. Good times!
Domenick Fraumeni		#2	[-]
Jun 7 09 10:56 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I do too! I watched it all the time, even down here through cable. It's how I first saw Paul Naschy's HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB and I was amazed at how intact it was!
TheCreep		#3	[-]
Jun 7 09 1:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Joe Karlosi wrote: I sure do remember it. Good times! Yeah man, you had WWF wrestling and monsters in a great 3 hour package! Also, with regard to the amount of Universal monsters that passed thru the portals of WOR movie showcases, I think that the opening to Fright Night was sort of proprietary for channel 9. Instead of being made just for scares, (like Chiller and Creature Features) the opening was a homage of sorts to the Universal monsters. And a good one too. Someone at WOR loved their monsters idols
TheCreep		#4	[-]
Jun 7 09 1:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Domenick Fraumeni wrote: I do too! I watched it all the time, even down here through cable. It's how I first saw Paul Naschy's HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB and I was amazed at how intact it was! Some other movies that played on Fright Night were "Peeping Tom", "Count Yorga:Vampire," "The Deathmaster" "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" and two little known movies called "Warlock Moon" and "The Brotherhood Of Satan." To name a few..
Saturday8pm		#5	[-]
Jun 7 09 8:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	As noted at DVD Drive-In, this show had the widest catalog of films of all the shock theatres in NYC. Personally, I discovered it late, and was not too surprised reading it started in '72 or '73 ... there was NO WAY in Hell I would've been up that late back then!
Joe Karlosi		#6	[-]
Jun 8 09 5:31 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I discovered FRIGHT NIGHT late myself, and frankly as much as I have great nostalgic memories of it, by the time I discovered it I was a bit older. My main point of reference was definitely CREATURE FEATURES and CHILLER THEATER, say 1969 - 1973. I didn't really get into FRIGHT NIGHT until 1977 or 1978, I'd guess. And I rarely was able to stay up.
CreepingBride		#7	[-]
Jun 8 09 9:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Saturday8pm wrote: As noted at DVD Drive-In, this show had the widest catalog of films of all the shock theatres in NYC. I thought that the essay on DVD Drive-In did a decent job of nailing down what was so special about "Fright Night." Recently somewhere on CHFB there was a thread about our horror movie alma maters-- WNEW's "Creature Features" and WLVI's "Creature Double Feature" were absolutely foundational for my education, but "Fright Night" was like graduate school. WPIX's "Chiller Theater" could throw you a curveball every once in a while, but "Fright Night" always had something worth staying up for. Such a cool mix of stuff from all across the spectrum... I especially remember being both scared and confused on many nights by offerings like SHOCK CORRIDOR, CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, the Mexican Nostradamus movies, WEIRD WOMAN, THE WICKER MAN, and that one about the seagulls of Snape Island or whatever it was... sneaking out of bed in the middle of the night and watching it with the lights turned off and sound turned way down so you wouldn't wake anyone else up while drifting in and out of sleep was part of the charm, I think.
Saturday8pm		#8	[-]
Jun 8 09 11:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This was the show I recall sneaking downstairs for when I was in my early teens. It had the advantage over the others, save the odd midnight "Chiller", which I didn't know could be on that late back then, for finding me alone in that room at 1 in the morning. So the fright percentages were ratcheted up many times. One of my faves they played was, "Silent Night, Bloody Night", a somewhat amateurish film that's been lambasted by Mary Woronov ever since, but a very effective and truly frightening film. WOR knew how to throw them curve balls!
Saturday8pm		#9	[-]
Jun 8 09 11:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Trivia Question: From which film is the disfigured soul who flashes between Lugosi and the Wolfman?
Dr Spyclops		#10	[-]
Jun 9 09 10:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The answer can be found on this thread... http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/20358
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Saturday8pm		#11	[-]
Jun 9 09 11:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	aHA! beat me to the punch. No peeking, peeps! ( There are several I can't Id either, but I'M gonna take a look! )
Princess Ananka		#12	[-]
Jun 15 09 8:06 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I LOVE that opening. WOR channel 9 was the best for unique programming (as well as WPIX). Wrestling (when it was more respectable) AND horror films late at night, two of my favorite things. That'd spoil me on the weekends.
clore103051		#13	[-]
Jun 15 09 9:06 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The only time that I ever saw The Man Who Reclaimed His Head was on Fright Night. Once they aired The Devil's Nightmare and I guess they didn't view the film beforehand. The next time that they aired it there were quite a few cuts. Octaman would have had me dozing, but I was too busy laughing.
Saturday8pm		#14	[-]
Jun 15 09 11:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Didn't WOR use similar if not the same audio for this show on its afternoon version, "Thriller Theatre"? Is it true that show only ran until '72 or '73? I thought it ran longer ...
kochillt		#15	[-]
Nov 9 11 6:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Here in Youngstown Ohio, we first got cable in January 1981, with New York's WOR channel 9 and their commercials for Phil Rizzuto and The Money Store, replaced in the fall of 1983 by the dull WTBS Atlanta, which offered less interesting movies and too much Braves baseball. I enjoyed FRIGHT NIGHT, and noticed that its titles often overlapped with those on Pittsburgh's CHILLER THEATER, which aired at the same time, 1:00 AM. It was a tough choice to make between the two, and by January 1984 both were no longer on the air.
TomWeaver999		#16	[-]
Nov 9 11 9:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For FRIGHT NIGHT fans: http://www.mcfarlandpub.c...php?id=978-0-7864-6678-8
joker5339		#17	[-]
Nov 14 11 6:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	the problem with Fright Night was how late it came on. as a kid i would only manage to catch the first 1/2 hour before my eyes closed.
Joe Karlosi		#18	[-]
Nov 14 11 6:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I might buy this for nostalgic reasons, having grown up in NY. However, I rarely watched FRIGHT NIGHT... I was older in the '80s and yes, it was on a little too late for me. However, there's just something about it I feel close to. "Guy named Squeamy got thrown from the fifth floor. He's deader'n a mackerel."
kochillt		#19	[-]
Nov 14 11 8:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I feel a very strong nostalgia whenever I think of FRIGHT NIGHT or CHILLER THEATER. After another dreary week of school, I had something to look forward to every weekend. Nothing on anywhere today except network shows or paid programming. NY had multiple channels trying to compete for horror audiences, while most other cities had just three, one for each network. On Saturdays at noon, channel 43 in Cleveland had The Three Stooges, followed by a double feature at 1:00, while channel 53 in Pittsburgh introduced me to such British oddities as PSYCHOMANIA (George Sanders) and HORROR EXPRESS. Those were the days when there were independent stations, both of those joined Fox or WB.
Crow T Robot		#20	[-]
Nov 14 11 9:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Fright Night was a lot of fun, and I'm sure the book will bring back a flood of fond memories.
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