![]() ![]() Ĭreature Features was another film package that was released in the early 1960s and added to in the 1970s. ![]() A "Son of Shock!" package was released in 1958. Viewers loved the package, as well as the concept, and ratings soared. This is why many of the early programs were called " Shock Theater". They encouraged the use of hosts for the broadcasts. In October 1957, Screen Gems released a bundle of old Universal horror movies to syndicated television, naming the collection "Shock!". The movies broadcast on these shows were generally classic and cult horror movies of the 1930s to 1950s, the horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s, British horror films of the 1960s, and the Japanese kaiju " giant monster" movies of the 1950s to 1970s. ![]() Chiller Theatre, Fright Night, Creature Double FeatureĬreature Features is a generic title for a genre of horror TV format shows broadcast on local American television stations throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. ![]()
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