TV Movie Staples

[stareater]

Given that we touched on this subject with the Night Stalker thread, I figured I'd add another regular face to the horror TV movie list. I just watched two very mediocre TV horror films, Scream of the Wolf and Snowbeast, and it seems veteran actor Clint Walker was another staple of '70s made-for-TV horror flicks, much like Claude "Sheriff Lobo" Aikins. He appeared in both films mentioned above, as well as Killdozer. It seemed to come in threes, as Akins was in Night Stalker, Tarantulas: Deadly Cargo, and another stinker that was about on par with a TV movie, the dreaded Tentacles. These movies always strike me as funny; usually, it's just like somebody put a monster in the middle of any given Love Boat episode.

I guess it can serve as a warning, like seeing Jack Scalia or Pauly Shore (or Kevin Costner ) on a cast list. For more useless (but ironic) trivia, did you know that in one of his earliest film appearances, Kevin Costner played a corpse getting dressed for a funeral in The Big Chill? It was on a trivia game on one of the TV monster movie discs I have.

[Xenorama ™]

an interesting idea-
does anyone remember the shot on video WEREWOLF OF WOODSTOCK? talk about a strange movie.

[Mattster]

Tarantulas: Deadly Cargo.

Scary stuff.
My cousin is scared of spiders. In fact, he hates them.

I know some other TV movies:
SAVAGE BEES
TERROR FROM THE SKY
ANTS!
THE IVORY APE (by the makers of THE LAST DINOSAUR)
BREMUDA DEPTHS (also by that same team)

[Gwangi]

I think I mentioned this in the old Night Stalker thread, but there was a Dan Curtis feature called "The Black Widow" where Patty Duke was able to transform herself into a giant spider (with the roar of Rodan!).

ABC had many of these movies in the 70s, before they eventually became disease-of-the-week or inspirational features in the 1980s.

As it stands, my two favorites are still “Trilogy of Terror” and Spielberg’s “Duel”