Halloween Special
"Nightmare Halloween Special" was a hosted horror movie special with Bill Camfield as "Gorgon the Gruesome". The special showed three movies in one day - from Mystery Matinee the single feature: "The Wolf Man", shown on Saturday at 4:00 pm, then from Nightmare a double feature: "The Beast with Five Fingers" and "Bride of the Monster" on Saturday beginning at 10:00 pm on 31 October 1959. on KFJZ-TV Channel 11 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
- 1959-1959
- 1 season
- KFJZ-TV
- Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
"Nightmare Halloween Special" was a hosted horror movie special with Bill Camfield as "Gorgon the Gruesome". The special showed three movies in one day - from Mystery Matinee the single feature: "The Wolf Man", shown on Saturday at 4:00 pm, then from Nightmare a double feature: "The Beast with Five Fingers" and "Bride of the Monster" on Saturday beginning at 10:00 pm on 31 October 1959. on KFJZ-TV Channel 11 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 1959
Episode 1
Mystery Matinee: The Wolf Man
Sat, Oct 31, 1959
"Gorgon the Gruesome" presents and screens 1941 horror movie "The Wolf Man", on Saturday 31 October 1959 at 4:00 pm. "The Wolf Man" tells the tale of Larry Talbot who returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller, who has turned into a werewolf.
Episode 2
Nightmare: The Beast with Five Fingers
Sat, Oct 31, 1959
"Gorgon the Gruesome" presents and screens 1946 horror movie "The Beast with Five Fingers", on Saturday 31 October 1959 at 10:00 pm. "The Beast with Five Fingers" tells the tale of at the turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, who is a one-handed, wheelchair-bound pianist, with a strong belief in the occult, is murdered.
Episode 3
Nightmare: Bride of the Monster
Sat, Oct 31, 1959
"Gorgon the Gruesome" presents and screens 1955 horror movie "Bride of the Monster", on Saturday 31 October 1959 at around 11:45pm. "Bride of the Monster" tells the tale of when rumours abound about what may go on at a creepy mansion just out of town. The house is owned by Dr. Eric Vornoff who is conducting experiments to turn people into super-beings through the use of atomic power. Reporter Janet Lawton decides to look into what is going there and its possible connection to men that have disappeared in the area. When Vornoff takes her prisoner, he has definite plans for her.