Project Terror

"Project Terror" was a hosted horror movie show with Joe Alston as "The Host" announcing (voice over) movies on KENS-TV, Channel 5 San Antonio, Texas - Friday from 1960 until 1965. The original was produced by KENS Channel 5 in San Antonio and it was voiced by Joe Alston, aka the one and only Capt Gus. Dennis "First Mate Mortimer" DuPriest has a wonderful website with tons of information and fond remembrance of Joe Alston. Thanks for listening and I hope it takes you back to those great Friday nights in San Antonio, Texas, right after the CBS Late Movie on channel 5....before we had vcr's or dvr's....and you had to stay awake if you wanted to watch whatever scary movie was coming on!

1950s Classic Movie Trailer I was a Teenage Frankenstein. Tonight, on Project Terror, San Antonio, TX.

Tonight, on Project Terror, Invisible Invaders Movie Trailer

Vintage Movie Trailer from 1953, Donovan's Brain. Tonight, On Project Terror from San Antonio, TX...

When I was a kid growing up in San Antonio in the 1970s and 1980s, I loved staying up late on Friday Nights watching KENS 5 TV broadcast of Project Terror. A late night horror show that featured a different monster movie each week. Tonight on Project Terror, The Killer Shrews. 1959 starring James Best, Ingrid Goude, and Ken Kurtis Capt. Thorne Sherman lands his ship on an isolated island to make a delivery, only to find that mad doctor Marlowe Craigis is experimenting on shrews in an attempt to shrink them. The opposite happens, and the shrews become enormous and hungry for human flesh, leaving everyone on the island in peril…

Terror Is a Man (also known as Blood Creature, Creature from Blood Island, The Gory Creatures, Island of Terror and Gore Creature) is a 1959 black-and-white Filipino/American horror film directed by Gerardo de Leon. It was the first in a series produced by Eddie Romero and Kane W. Lynn known as the Blood Island series, which also included The Brides of Blood Island (1966), The Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969) and Beast of Blood (1970). All four films took place on an island called Blood Island, named for its vivid red-hued sunsets. The film focuses on a shipwreck survivor washed ashore on a small island where a scientist is experimenting on a panther in an effort to make it human. Terror is a Man was partially based on H.G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, although Wells is uncredited in the film. Terror is a Man was theatrically released in the United States on December 12, 1959 on a double feature with another Eddie Romero film, The Scavengers. The film was subsequently re-released under several alternate titles over the years, including Creature from Blood Island, Gore Creature, The Gory Creatures, and Island of Terror. It was re-released to theaters in 1969 by distributor Sam Sherman as Blood Creature. A warning bell gimmick sounding like a telephone ringer warned the audience of impending gore during a surgical sequence.

I am lucky enough to have grown up in San Antonio, TX from the 1960s thru the 1980s. I had fun trying to stay up late on Friday Nights to catch the broadcast of our local TV station, KENS 5 TV which had a little horror show called Project Terror. They would show old horror movies. One of the most memorable shows from my childhood was Invisible Invaders from 1959. Invisible Invaders is a 1959 American science fiction film starring John Agar, Jean Byron, John Carradine and Philip Tonge. It was produced by Robert E. Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn and written by Samuel Newman. Invisible Invaders was released to US theaters on May 15, 1959. It was copyrighted on 8 May that year, a week before the film opened. Outside the US, it opened in Finland on August 12, 1960, and in Sweden on September 22, 1960. It was also exhibited in theaters in Brazil, Chile, Spain and the Soviet Union. In the UK, it received an "A" certificate from the British Board of Film Censors on June 15, 1959, which allowed it to be shown to "children accompanied by anyone over 16". To drum up domestic interest in the film, Variety said in its "Exploitips" listing that "the attention-getting title is the chief selling point - a ballyhoo man dressed in a rented space suit...will get notice from neighborhood youngsters". Whether this was actually done, or if it convinced children to attend the movie, is unknown. The movie had only a short run but became a minor cult film on television. Jacobs says it had "unprecedented success in 1962 prime-time TV showings, after low ratings as a late night movie". For example, Invisible Invaders was shown on Chicago's WFLD in 1971 as part of its well-known "Science Fiction Theater" program.

As a kid growing up in San Antonio, TX in the 1970s and 1980s, I loved trying to stay up late on Friday Nights and watch our local broadcast on KENS 5 TV for Project Terror....They would show old horror movies and I loved it. Tonight, for your viewing pleasure is a recreation of Project Terror showing The Werewolf from 1956. The Werewolf is a 1956 American horror science fiction film directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Don Megowan and Joyce Holden. Set in contemporary times (i.e. the 1950s), the storyline follows an amnesiac man who, after being injected with "irradiated wolf serum" by unscrupulous doctors, transforms into a werewolf when under emotional stress. The film "marks precisely the point in which horror, which had been a dormant genre in the early '50s, began to take over from science fiction", and is the first of only three werewolf films made in the US during that decade, preceding Daughter of Dr. Jekyll and I Was a Teenage Werewolf (both 1957). The Werewolf was released theatrically in the US as the bottom half of a double feature with Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). The film was shot on location in the San Bernardino National Forest in California. Although most modern sources agree that Mountaincrest is actually the town of Big Bear Lake, located on Big Bear Lake itself, film historian John Johnson places the location as Fawnskin, also on Big Bear Lake. Viewing the film reveals that the film was shot in many locations around the lake. There are numerous scenes shot on the south shore with Bertha Peak in the background. All of the "town" locations are in Big Bear Village, and most notably those at the old Chad’s, which was a bar on Village Drive in the location of today’s Whiskey Dave’s, though it was much smaller in 1955 than today’s establishment. The old Bear Valley Reality office and the Rexall Drug store are clearly visible in the town scenes. The scenes around the dam (Eastwood Dam) include the road (since removed) over the dam, the dam itself and the original granite dam (Brown Dam) that today is usually underwater. Many of the roadblock scenes were shot on today’s Highway 38 on the north shore between the damn and West Boat Launch, with the large home in the background of some shots, still standing. According to the American Film Institute, filming took place between December 10 and 20, 1955. Although the on-screen credits read "introducing Steven Ritch", according to AFI, he had appeared in "several films" before The Werewolf. In the US, The Werewolf premiered in Los Angeles on June 13, 1956 and went into general release in July as the second feature on a double bill with Earth vs the Flying Saucers. It was the first feature on a UK double bill with Creature with the Atom Brain. The film was given an X-certificate by the British Board of Film Censors, clearing it for distribution in the UK but prohibiting it from being exhibited to persons under age 16. After opening in UK theaters in August 1956, it was released in the Netherlands in 1957 and Argentina in 1958, then at unspecified dates in France, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Finland, the Soviet Union, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Columbia Pictures distributed the film theatrically in the US, UK and the Netherlands

When I was a kid growing up in San Antonio, TX, I loved trying to stay up late on Friday Nights watching the Late show Project Terror on KENS 5 TV. PROJECT TERROR: THE SHE CREATURE (1956) The She-Creature, or The She Creature, is a 1956 American black-and-white science fiction horror film, released by American International Pictures from a script by Lou Rusoff (brother-in-law of AIP executive Samuel Z. Arkoff). It was produced by Alex Gordon, directed by Edward L. Cahn, and stars Chester Morris, Marla English, and Tom Conway, and casting Frieda Inescort and El Brendel in smaller roles. The producers hired Marla English because they thought she bore a strong resemblance to Elizabeth Taylor. The monster costume was created by master make-up artist Paul Blaisdell and is considered one of his best. Parts of the costume were re-used in three later AIP films. Blaisdell nicknamed the monster "Cuddles". The costume was eventually destroyed in a flood that hit his Topanga Canyon home in 1979. The film was released by AIP as a double feature with It Conquered the World.

Growing up in San Antonio, TX in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s I was lucky enough to have a local station, KENS TV 5, that showed late night horror shows on Friday Nights....it was called Project Terror. One of the most memorable shows from my childhood was called "The Crawling Eye." Original Title: The Trollenberg Terror A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud. Director: Quentin Lawrence Writers: Jimmy Sangster, Peter Key, Giles Cooper Stars: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro The Trollenberg Terror (U.S. title: The Crawling Eye; also known as Creatures from Another World) is a 1958 British science fiction horror film produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman and directed by Quentin Lawrence. The film stars Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro, and Jennifer Jayne. The special effects are by Les Bowie. The story is based on a 1956 British ITV "Saturday Serial" television programme written by George F. Kerr, Jack Cross and Giles Cooper under the collective pseudonym of "Peter Key". The film was released as The Crawling Eye in the United States on 7 July 1958 by Distributors Corporation of America and as The Trollenberg Terror in the United Kingdom in October 1958 by Eros Films. It played on a double bill with the British science fiction film The Strange World of Planet X, retitled Cosmic Monsters for its American release. The Trollenberg Terror's storyline concerns United Nations troubleshooter Alan Brooks, later joined by journalist Philip Truscott, investigating unusual accidents occurring in the area of a resort hotel on the fictional Mount Trollenberg in Switzerland. Brooks suspects that these deaths are related to a series of similar incidents which occurred three years earlier in the Andes Mountains, which involved an unexplained radioactive cloud formation believed by locals to be inhabited.