"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.

Tonight, on Project Terror, The Giant Gila Monster. When I was a kid growing up in the 1970s and 1980s in San Antonio, TX, I loved staying up late on Friday Nights to watch the broadcast of the local horror show "Project Terror." They featured a different horror and/or monster movie every week. Sometimes they had double features... The Giant Gila Monster is an American 1959 monster film directed by Ray Kellogg and produced by Ken Curtis. A famous B-movie of the era, the film stars Don Sullivan, a veteran of several low budget monster and zombie films, and Lisa Simone, the French contestant for the 1957 Miss Universe, as well as comedic actor Shug Fisher and KLIF disc jockey Ken Knox. The effects included a live Mexican beaded lizard (not an actual Gila monster) filmed on a scaled-down model landscape. A gigantic, mutated Gila monster begins stalking a rural Texas community. Young couple, Pat (Grady Vaughn) and Liz (Yolanda Salas), are attacked by the creature while parked in their vehicle overlooking a ravine, sending the car crashing into the ravine below. Local sheriff (Fred Graham) launches a search for the missing couple, assisted by their friends, including Chase Winstead (Sullivan), a young mechanic and hot rod racer. Chase locates the crashed car in the ravine, the inside smeared with blood and the couple nowhere to be found. Meanwhile the creature continues its attacks, eating livestock and crashing an oil tanker, before eventually destroying a bridge, causing a major train accident. Only after this do the authorities realize that they are dealing with a giant venomous lizard. By this time, emboldened by its attacks and hungry for prey, the creature attacks the town. It heads for the local dance hall, where the town's teenagers are gathered for a sock hop. In an effort to stop the monster, Chase packs his prized hot rod with nitroglycerin and rigs it to speed straight into the Gila monster, killing it in a fiery explosion and heroically saving the town.

When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s in San Antonio, TX, our local station, KENS 5, showed Project Terror on Friday Nights. Tonight, on Project Terror: The Giant Claw. The Giant Claw is a 1957 American monster film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman, directed by Fred F. Sears, that stars Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday. Both Sears and Katzman were well known as low-budget B film genre filmmakers. The film was released as a double feature with The Night the World Exploded. Mitch MacAfee, a civil aeronautical engineer, while engaged in a radar test flight near the North Pole, spots an unidentified flying object. Three jet fighter aircraft are scrambled to pursue and identify the object but one aircraft goes missing. Officials are initially angry at MacAfee over the loss of a pilot and jet over what they believe to be a hoax. Mara Corday in The Giant Claw trailer screenshot When MacAfee and mathematician Sally Caldwell fly back to New York, their aircraft also comes under attack by a UFO. With their pilot dead, they crash-land in the Adirondacks, where Pierre Broussard, a French-Canadian farmer, comes to their rescue, and reports seeing a giant monster bird he calls La Carcagne. MacAfee's report is met with bewilderment and skepticism, but the military authorities are forced to take his story seriously after several more aircraft disappear. They discover that the gigantic bird, "as big as a battleship" and purported to come from an antimatter galaxy, is responsible for all the incidents. MacAfee, Caldwell, Dr. Karol Noymann, General Considine, and General Van Buskirk work feverishly to develop a way to defeat the seemingly invincible creature. The climactic showdown takes place in Manhattan, when the gigantic bird attacks both the Empire State Building and United Nations building. It is defeated by a special type of exotic atom, muonic atoms, deployed from the tail gun position of a B-25 bomber aircraft, which successfully collapses the creature's antimatter shield and allows missiles to hit and kill the monster. The giant bird plummets into the Atlantic Ocean outside New York City, and the last sight of it is a claw sinking beneath the ocean.

Project Terror TV Series 1960–1965 Project Terror (1960) "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. Star: Joe Alston The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) A monster that looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon" invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, widowed and estranged from the townfolk, has been secretly leaving food out for the monster for years, unaware of its bloodlust. When the monster's appetite... Read all Director: Irvin Berwick Writer: H. Haile Chace Stars: Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon

Fond memories of seeing IT! The Terror from Beyond Space on Project Terror when I was a kid in San Antonio, TX. Here is the Movie Trailer and some vintage clips of Project Terror, the late night horror show...

San Antonio's own: Project Terror...Tonight, on Project Terror, the Comic Crypt of Castle Hills is very proud to present, The Crawling Eye Movie Trailer and Opening Credits...Plus a little music video of the Misfits performing their hit single, "The Crawling Eye."

When I was a kid growing up in San Antonio, TX in the 1970s into the 1980s, one of my favorite things to do was to try to stay up late on Friday Nights and watch the local KENS 5 TV local broadcast of Project Terror which would show horror movies. One of the most intriguing sci-fi/horror movies I had ever seen was IT! The Terror from Beyond Space. Here, for your viewing pleasure is an intro by John Carpenter when he was on Turner Classic Movies, the Project Terror Intro and Outro, and the film, from 1958, IT! The Terror from Beyond Space. It! The Terror from Beyond Space is an independently made 1958 American science fiction horror film, produced by Robert Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, that stars Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith (Shirley Patterson), and Kim Spalding. The film was distributed by United Artists as a double feature with Curse of the Faceless Man. The story involves Earth's second mission to Mars to discover the fate of the Challenge 141 and its crew. Only a single survivor is found still alive from that crashed spaceship. The survivor, the expedition's former commander, claims that his crew was killed by a hostile Martian life form. No one from the rescue ship believes him until the creature, now a stowaway, begins hunting the crew on their return trip to Earth. The film's premise has been cited as an inspiration for screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's screenplay for Ridley Scott's classic 1979 film Alien. It! The Terror from Beyond Space was financed by Edward Small and was originally known as It! The Vampire from Beyond Space. Principal photography took place over a two-week period during mid-January 1958. Small kept changing his mind over whether or not he wanted plastic eyes installed in the creature's mask, causing a lot of aggravation for the film's makeup artist, Paul Blaisdell. It! was the last film of actor Ray "Crash" Corrigan. Corrigan was set to play the creature, but during pre-production, he did not want to travel over to Topanga Canyon in western Los Angeles County where Paul Blaisdell lived and operated his studio. Therefore, Blaisdell could not take exact measurements of Corrigan's head. Consequently, there were final fit problems with the creature's head prop: "[Corrigan's]...bulbous chin stuck out through the monster's mouth, so the make-up man painted his chin to look like a tongue". Blaisdell then added a bottom row of fangs that covered Corrigan's jutting chin. Blaisdell said working for United Artists wasn't nearly as happy an experience as working at AIP was for him. As filming progressed, Ray Corrigan turned up drunk on the set a few times, refused to follow certain directions from Ed Cahn and even damaged the monster suit, causing Blaisdell to be called in to do a couple of quick "patch-up" jobs. Blaisdell said it wasn't a happy set, what with Corrigan drunk on and off, and the film's female star Shawn Smith constantly in a bad mood, furious that she had been cast in a low-budget monster film. Blaisdell said only Marshall Thompson seemed to be enjoying himself.[5] The creature costume became the property of UA, and wound up a year later showing up in their 1959 John Agar opus, Invisible Invaders (without paying Blaisdell for reusing his props). More information on the production can be found on the audio commentary for Kino Lorber's 2023 Blu-ray: Blaisdell's assistant Bob Burns is on the commentary track along with Tom Weaver, Larry Blamire and David Schecter.

"You have just seen The Walking Dead." On Project Terror...what a great time to be a kid...growing up in the 1970s and 1980s in San Antonio, TX, I have fond memories of trying to stay up late on Friday Nights to watch Project Terror. Here is 1936 The Walking Dead starring Boris Karloff... The Walking Dead is a 1936 American horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Marguerite Churchill, and Barton MacLane. The film portrays a wrongly executed man who is restored to life by a scientist. The film blends elements of the horror genre with the gangster film, and also features elements of a religious morality parable. Distributed by Warner Bros., The Walking Dead premiered in the New York City on February 29, 1936. It was a commercial success for Warner Bros. domestically, though it was subject to censorship in several countries, receiving numerous cuts by film censors in the United Kingdom, as well as being banned in Finland, Switzerland, and Singapore. The film's portrayal of a physician using a mechanical heart to revive the patient is notable in that it foreshadowed modern medicine's mechanical heart used to keep patients alive during cardiac surgery. The Walking Dead's executive producer Hal Wallis wrote to the production supervisor, Lou Edelman, on August 16, 1935, that he had sent him a six-page outline for a film titled The Walking Dead. The original story for the film was written by Ewart Adamson and Joseph Fields. On November 1, director Michael Curtiz was sent the draft of the film. A few days before shooting was scheduled, actor Boris Karloff voiced problems involving his character John Ellman. These issues included Ellman's lack of speech, which he felt was too close to his role in Frankenstein (1931), and Ellman's Tarzan-like agility, which he felt would induce laughter. Wallis brought in three more writers for the film. In addition to Karloff's stunted dialogue, this film's resemblance to Universal's Frankenstein is most obvious when Edmund Gwenn's character revives Karloff, including the dramatic change in music, the pulsating lab equipment, off-kilter camera angles, and, finally, Gwenn saying, "He's alive". The Walking Dead was the first film Karloff made with Warner Bros.

When I was a kid, I loved trying to stay up late watching the local broadcast of Project Terror. Every Friday Night was our non-hosted horror show that would display horror and monster movies. One of my favorites was Screaming Skull. 1958 A newly-wed woman believes the ghost of her husband's deceased first wife is haunting her at an eerie Southern mansion. Director: Alex Nicol Writers: John Kneubuhl, Francis Marion Crawford Stars: John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway

When I was a kid, one of my favorite episodes of Project Terror was "The Vampire." A small-town doctor is unable to stop himself from taking the pills that turn him into a fanged killer. Initial release: June 1957 Director: Paul Landres Starring: John Beal; Coleen Gray; Kenneth Tobey; Lydia Reed

When I was a kid, growing up in San Antonio, TX, I loved trying to stay up late on Friday Nights to watch the local broadcast of Project Terror. A spooky film they showed was "Tormented." Tormented is a 1960 American horror film directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon for Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, and starring Richard Carlson. Jazz pianist Tom Stewart lives in a Cape Cod island community and is preparing to marry his fiancée, Meg Hubbard. Shortly before the wedding, Tom's ex-girlfriend Vi Mason visits and informs him that she will end his relationship with Meg, using blackmail if necessary. While they argue atop a lighthouse, the railing gives way, and Vi falls, managing to hang on briefly. She cries out for help, but Tom refuses and watches her fall to her death. The next day, Tom sees Vi's body floating in the water. After retrieving her, the body dissolves into seaweed. Tom tries to forget, but over the next few days, Vi's watch washes up on the beach, strange footprints appear in the sand, Vi's ghost appears and tells Tom that she will haunt him for the rest of his life and when Meg's little sister Sandy asks to see the wedding ring, a disembodied hand makes off with it. Soon afterwards, during a wedding party, Vi's disembodied head appears in a photo a guest takes of the couple. Later, Vi taunts that she will now use her voice to tell the world how Tom killed her. To add to his dilemma, a beatnik ferryman comes looking for the five dollars Vi owes for her passage to the island. Tom's haste to pay only causes the shifty man to stick around, and his attempts at blackmail lead to his death. Unbeknownst to Tom, Sandy has inadvertently witnessed the murder. Sandy, who idolizes Tom, remains silent, although she almost speaks up at the wedding when the minister asks if anyone has any objection. Before she can speak, the church's doors burst open and cause the flowers to wilt and the candles to die, bringing the ceremony to an abrupt, unpleasant halt. That night, Tom returns to the lighthouse and tells Vi that he is leaving the island. When he finds Sandy eavesdropping, he realizes that he is trapped: Sandy knows too much and could tell Meg and the community. In desperation, he leads Sandy up to the broken railing with the intent to push her over. However, Vi's ghost swoops down on him, causing him to go over the edge as Sandy watches. The islanders search for Tom's body; they find Vi's, and Tom's soon afterwards. His body placed next to Vi's, which somehow manages to turn and lay its arm across him. On Vi's hand is the wedding ring, signaling that Tom is now forever with Vi.

When I was a kid, growing up in San Antonio, TX in the 1970s and 1980s, I loved trying to stay up late and watch the local broadcast of Project Terror on Friday Nights....One night, Project Terror had a double feature....I fell asleep during the first movie and woke up after the start of the second movie. In those days, they did not say what the name of the movie was after it had started. They did not list programs in the TV Guide that started after midnight. This movie was one of the moodiest, eeriest movies I had ever seen in my young life, and I had no idea what the name of it was. It took me about 30 years before I ever saw this movie again and learned the name of the movie is... The RETURN of DRACULA... Norma Eberhardt and Francis Lederer in The Return of Dracula (1958) After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins. Director: Paul Landres Writers: Pat Fielder, Bram Stoker Stars: Francis Lederer, Norma Eberhardt, Ray Stricklyn

When I was a kid growing up in San Antonio, TX in the 1970s and 1980s, I loved trying to stay up late on Friday Nights to watch the local broadcast of the horror show Project Terror. Beast from Haunted Cave was one of the movies that haunt my childhood memories... Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) A group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster. Beast from Haunted Cave is a 1959 horror/heist film directed by Monte Hellman and starring Michael Forest, Frank Wolff and Richard Sinatra.

Tonight, on Project Terror, Attack of the Giant Leeches. When I was a kid growing up in San Antonio, TX in the 1970s and 1980s, I loved trying to stay up late on Friday Nights watching the local broadcast of old horror and monster movies. One of my favorites was Attack of the Giant Leeches. Attack of the Giant Leeches (originally to be called The Giant Leeches) is an independently made, 1959 black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced by Gene Corman and directed by Bernard L. Kowalski. It stars Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Bruno VeSota and Jan Shepard. The screenplay was written by Leo Gordon. The film was released by American International Pictures on a double bill with A Bucket of Blood, and was retitled Demons of the Swamp for its UK release. Later, in some areas in 1960, Leeches played on a double bill with the Roger Corman film House of Usher. Attack of the Giant Leeches was one of a spate of "creature features" produced during the 1950s in response to Cold War fears; a character in the film speculates that the leeches have been mutated to giant size by atomic radiation from nearby Cape Canaveral. In the Florida Everglades, a group of gigantic, intelligent leeches live secretly beneath the depths of a deep swamp. Following the violent death of a local fisherman near the swamp, game warden Steve Benton (Clark) sets out to investigate the cause, despite local authorities blaming the incident on an alligator. Only a few days after, two more locals, Liz Walker (Vickers) and Cal Moulton (Emmet) go missing near the swamp, while having an affair behind the back of her husband (VaSota), who is wrongly blamed for their deaths (eventually committing suicide while in jail). Search parties are formed throughout the surrounding area looking for the bodies but none are found, and two more men go missing. Steve, with the aid of his girlfriend, Nan Grayson (Sheppard), and her father, Doc Grayson, discover the gruesome truth, the giant leeches are not only the cause of the disappearances, but are also feeding on their victims (who are imprisoned in an underground cave), slowly draining them of blood. Steve and his friend Mike (Kelley), both divers from the war, dive to the bottom of the swamp. They find the cave’s underwater entrance, but are attacked by the leeches. With the use of spearguns and knives, they manage to kill one, but are forced to retreat before they can save a single victim, all of which are found dead.