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<p>The first comprehensive look at the horror movie programs that found their way to local TV stations in the 1950s, this book discusses how the motion picture industry initially disparaged and feared television but eventually began to embrace it, and it focuses on films grouped into the horror genre. Thousands of films that had long been gathering dust in film studio vaults gained new life with TV genre programming, and Chicago's tradition of TV horror movie shows was born in 1957.</p> <p>During my generally misspent youth, I devoted an inordinate amount of time watching the most preposterous movies ever made. I use the word preposterous advisedly, because that s the precise term to describe films involving giant scorpions, teenage werewolves, little green Martians, big alien brains, fire-breathing space turtles, 50-foot women, puppet people, humongous leeches, killer shrews, and grasshoppers as big as the Shedd Aquarium. Not that I have any regrets.<br> --Author Ted Okuda, from the Introduction</p> <p>Although the motion picture industry initially disparaged and feared television, by the late 1950s, studios saw the medium as a convenient dumping ground for thousands of films that

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Author

Ted Okuda and Mark Yurkiw

Publisher

Chicago: Lake Claremont Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781893121133

Category

history

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.85 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14