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THE CREEPY CLASSICS & In business since 1993 - On the web since 1996 32 Creepy Years Monday March 18 - Tuesday March 19, 2024 TODAY'S MONSTER BASH PHAN FOTO: Gloria Stuart looking a bit nervous in THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932). Get this on Blu-Ray or DVD at Creepy Classics. Get all your favorite monster movies on Blu-Ray or DVD here at Creepy Classics. Come in a shop around for all the classic horror and science fiction collectibles here at Creepy Classics. Just put the title you want in the "Search" field and go! Click HERE and start browsing the greatest store for classic horror and classic science fiction. Creepy Connections: All the Noose That's Fit To Post New! Great Vintage Comic Books For Fantastic Movie & TV Fans Here are a load of classic comics acquired from two private collections and available now, while they last: CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED: DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE (1953 edition) - Comic Book DRACULA #2 (1966 Dell) - Comic Book AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Dell 1956 Movie Tie-In) - Comic Book STAR TREK: THE ENTERPRISE LOGS (1976 Golden Press) #1 - Giant-size Comic Book FLYING NUN #2 (1968) - Comic Book NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.E.I.L.D. #1 (1983) - Comic Book ANYTHING GOES #5 - Comic Book DARK HORSE PRESENTS #36 - Comic Book Run down the street on the Internet to the Comic Book Department now to get the ones you want from Creepy Classics.
The Next Bash: MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE Information This summer we'll be back at the Pittsburgh Marriott North. Almost every vendor at our October show signed back up, the couple remaining sold in a hurry. The vendors are re-loading with super great stuff for Monster Kid shoppers from across the nation. The host hotel is sold out already! On this link you can reserve a room at the back-up sister hotel (The Courtyard) which is only 400 feet away from the host hotel -- CLICK HERE now and get the special Bash rate. The Guest List that includes...Diane Baker, Beverly Washburn (SPIDER BABY, OLD YELLER), Sharon Baird, Victoria Price, plus Jessica Rains (Claude Rains daughter) will be at MONSTER BASH JULY 2024. Plus, Daniel Roebuck said he's in....and even more -- from TOMB OF LIGEIA, Vincent Price co-star Elizabeth Shepherd. And, Monster Bash Family Guests: Special EFX Wizard-Actor-Director Tom Savini, Son of Ghoul (TV Horror Hosts), Drac & Countess Carita (more Horror Hosts!), Mr. Lobo (TV Horror Host), and who could ever forget, the one and only David "The Rock Nelson." Weddings knocked us out of all the June weekends. So MONSTER BASH will be July 19-21, 2024. If you want to get a jump on discounted admission, you can click here. Reservations at The Courtyard hotel (only 400 feet away from the Bash!) are now being taken, click here. Note from the hotel: "Please be aware that any room cancellations made after July 3rd, 2024 (cut-off date) will incur a cancellation fee." All the details on MONSTER BASH SUMMER 2024...Click Here!
Rondo Remembers - Pong, Poster Board, Marker MonstersI had one cool playground when I was between the ages of four and fourteen. A unique place to play. The difference was that the other kids around me were eighteen, or in their twenties. It was my grandfather's "building." He managed the recreation building at Grove City College in the 1960s-1970s. It had two giant basketball courts, weight rooms, swimming pool, racquet ball courts, a snack bar that served hamburgers and strawberry milkshakes...a big facility. I didn't play with those big kids, but I wonder what they must have thought seeing this little kid running around the recreation building. Many times my grandfather played "babysitter" and would take me up to "the building" with him. He could give me a can of ping pong balls, when he had work to do, and let me go find an empty racquet ball court to play. I'd throw those ping pong balls against the walls and try to dodge them on bounce backs. My imagination let me think I was Sgt. Fury dodging hand grenades. Sometimes he had to check the sub-basement below the swimming pool. I think he was adjusting pool temperature or checking some kind of pressure. All I remember is that was an ominous place with giant boilers and a narrow walk between them. Strange hissing sounds and giant metal tubes and pipes. A place for mad scientists. I'd help my grandfather set up hundreds and hundreds of metal folding chairs for occasional concerts in one of the gyms. People like Simon and Garfunkel, The Temptations, and others would play shows there. In my grandfather's office was a stack of 16mm film catalogs. Rental catalogs for student groups. I would page through these, elated when I'd find little photos and descriptions of Vincent Price or Boris Karloff movies. Also in the office were discarded poster boards announcing fundraisers and events. I guess my grandfather would take them down from walls after the event was over. He would save them for me as I could draw monsters on the backs of them. He'd hand me a bunch of metal casing magic markers. These markers, at the time, had a potent release of strong chemical ink smell. Whew. But, I sure loved being hunched over poster boards drawing on the floor in his office. One day as we entered the building. He said, "I have something to show you." In the big lobby, in front of one of the cavernous gymnasiums there were vending machines. This was the day of non-electric machines that held ten cent candy bars. You would deposit your dime and then pull a metal lever below the candy bar you wanted. Clunk, bang. The candy bar would drop to a metal bin below. One of my favorites from that machine were these caramel rings that had a dense powdered sugar in the center. But, it wasn't the candy machine, that I had seen a hundred times before, that he wanted to show me. The new "thing" was beside the candy monolith. It was a large machine with a TV in it! What was this? I had never seen anything like it in a store or building. It was a game called "Pong." There on the screen was a bouncing cursor and a line on each side that you could move up or down to try to hit that bouncing cursor. It was the first video game I had ever seen. This was probably 1972. He put a coin in and we played. I was quite lucky to have a playground like this. A stack of comic books, monster magazines, magic markers, poster boards, and 16mm film catalogs in an office at Grove City College. And, a grandfather that made it all happen. Ron Adams Ligonier, PA March 2024The carmel rings that you are referring to...I used to love these myself. They are still obtainable here at a retro candy place that sells all the old candies. Pong was actually the first video game I played too, approx 1976/77. My grandfather was into electronics and I recall he had bought the tv version of the game, probably thru Radio Shack, so that 2 players could play with one 1 person on 1 side of the screen and you on the other, ea. of you had your own joystick. You could make the blip/ball go really fast as a return shot I recall by quickly "hitting" it back as a diagonal shot from the topmost or lower most part of that movable rectangle/player thing. I remember specifically that this same TV that my grandfather had the pong game on, was downstairs in the cellar and this same TV was where I first viewed Hammer's Phantom of the Opera and then Curse of the Werewolf on WPIX Chiller in 1977/78. It was very cool as a kid when you could have your own "lair" where you could watch a monster movie on tv, on your own. -Nick Pocengal, FL Ron, Great story about your Grandfather's workplace. Must have been a thrill to hang out at such a cool place . My first experience with a video game like Pong was about 1974. About once a week or so a few of us guys would go to Shakey's Pizza on Harlem Avenue in Chicago. Pizza and a couple pitchers of beer. Sing along with the guys playing the piano and the banjo. And when they weren't performing, there would be old Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin or maybe Little Rascals playing on the movie screen. Afterwards, we would head on down North Avenue to one of the nearby suburbs to a game arcade. There was the usual pinball machines, bowling machines, Skee Ball, pool table and all. Then we all saw this new tangled contraption that looked like a TV but these funny little blips bouncing around. A couple of us played this funny looking machine and it was really fun. Some months later, my Dad got on of the early Pong games to play at home on our own TV. It was fun and all but not the same as hanging out at the arcade. But little did I suspect that in less than ten years, something called a VCR would be on the scene. Now THAT was remarkable. Getting to watch movies that seemed to be broadcast at 2 AM. Or renting out movies that never seemed to ever be shown on TV but only read about in books and magazines. Finally got to see movies like "Freaks", "White Zombie", or "Island of Lost Souls". -Don C.
New! Peter Cushing Glossy Photo Stills These glossy photo stills just unearthed from the dark chambers at Creepy Classics: PETER CUSHING (CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN Portrait) - Glossy Photo Still THE CREEPING FLESH (Peter Cushing) - Glossy 8x10 Photo CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (Foreign Poster Image) - Glossy Photo Still These are resting in peace in our Creepy Collectibles Department now at Creepy Classics for collectors like you.
Now Available! VIP Admission Memberships To the Autumn 2024 MONSTER BASH From Hammer Horror, to 1950s sci-fi, to Universal Monsters, all your favorite creatures will be featured at MONSTER BASH, November 1-3, 2024! Guests already include Caroline Munro, Martine Beswick, Valerie Leon, Victoria Vetri, writer/historian Michael Olszewski, nationally acclaimed UFO-UAP Researcher Stan Gordon, and more to come! For a limited time, MONSTER BASH November 2024 membership admission is $20 off per person: MONSTER BASH NOVEMBER 1-3, 2024 - VIP Membership Admission More details on the show, Click Here. Sign-up now and save, save, save....lock in to Bash, autumn 2024 from Creepy Classics.
New! Deluxe Blu-Ray Special Editions Two great new releases! THE CATMAN OF PARIS has not had an official release ever, on DVD or even VHS. Now it's here in a crystal clear 4K scan. And....the last GREAT Boris Karloff film, TARGETS. Again with a 4K scan. Both editions are packed with extras: THE CATMAN OF PARIS (1946 Special Edition) - Blu-Ray TARGETS (1968/Criterion Special Edition) - Blu-Ray Snatch these gems up in our New Release Department here at Creepy Classics.
Back In Shock! Great Deluxe Scripts Books The ultimate guide books to your favorite films...they all include the shooting script, plus rare photos, promotional art, commentary, production information and so much more. Get these great books for your collection: SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT#15 (THE MUMMY'S GHOST) - Book SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT #6 (DRACULA'S DAUGHTER 1936) - Book SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT #7 (THE VEIL 1958) - Book HORROR OF DRACULA - Magic Image Filmbook SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT #8 (ATOMIC SUBMARINE 1959) - Book SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT #10 (THE BRUTE MAN) - Book SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT #3 (BRIDE OF THE GORILLA 1951) - Book SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT #1 (HIDEOUS SUN DEMON 1958) - Book SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT #2 (INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN) - Book SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT #9 (SON OF DRACULA) - Book Wow! These are great books...head on into our Creepy Bookstore here on-line at Creepy Classics and pick out the ones you want.
Re-Stocked! Books On Horror Heroes Now stacked back up at Creepy Classics: BELA LUGOSI IN PERSON (Kaffenberger and Rhodes) - Softcover Book THE Z-FILES (Treasures from Horror Host Zacherley) - Softcover Book Get these batty books in our Creepy Bookstore at Creepy Classics.
New! Vintage Stickers From SCARY MONSTERS and MONSTER BASH 2011 Commemorative stickers from SCARY MONSTERS issued only at MONSTER BASH back in 2011. Miss getting them? This may be your last shot: SCARY STICKERS (MONSTER BASH 2011) - Stickers You can dig these out of our Collectibles Department right now at Creepy Classics.
Out-of-Print, But Re-Stocked! Back in Stock, THE LADY IN WHITE A nostalgic ghost movie of Halloween past....it's long out-of-print, but we have it on factory sealed DVD now: LADY IN WHITE (1988) - DVD Get it now, before it's gone like a Halloween ghost. It's in our Complete DVD Catalog on-line at Creepy Classics.
2024 BIG MONSTER BASH FESTIVALS Year 2024 is a year for big MONSTER BASH celebrations! In July it's an amazing show, CLICK HERE for details. In August, it's our film fest in a historic grand theater, CLICK HERE to unleash the details. In November, we Hammer down for another super keen expo, CLICK HERE for more. Sign-up up NOW and save on membership admissions.
It's Here NOW! MONSTER BASH Magazine #53 Subscriber copies are shipped...now, get yours...it's hot off the slab. It's available to all classic monster movie fans...MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #53. And, while you're at it, get a copy for a friend too! What a line-up in this ish: MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #53 - Magazine Get your issue, it's roaring for you, in our MONSTER BASH Magazine Department here at Creepy Classics...your fearful foundation of fright! Here's a peek inside this issue:
...and, if you missed the last issue, get it HERE! These guys below didn't miss it. They ate it up!
New! Godzilla Action Figures Stomp Into Creepy Classics Look out! The buildings are crumbling, the Godzilla and friends are here. Get the action figures you want for your collection in handsome blister packs: REACTION: BARAGON 1968 - Action Figure REACTION: ANGURUS 1955 - Action Figure REACTION: MOGUERA 1957 - Action Figure REACTION: GODZILLA 1955 - Action Figure Godzilla items sell fast, join the stompin' and get the ones you want in our Godzilla and Japanese Monsters Department here at Creepy Classics.
Back In Shock! It's the Vincent Price Action Figure This one sold out in a hurry, but we've gotten a few more in: REACTION: VINCENT PRICE - Action Figure He's just around that corner in the dark hallway in the Models, Toys, & Action Figures Department at Creepy Classics.
MONSTER BASH HOTEL SOLD OUT for July, back-up...THE COURTYARD (only 400 feet away) is Now Filling We just received word from the Marriott that the MONSTER BASH host hotel (the Marriott Pittsburgh North) is sold out for the July show. The sister hotel, The Courtyard is only 400 feet behind the host hotel and has rooms available at the reduced Bash rate ($135 a night). You can use this link to book a room at The Courtyard: CLICK HERE to book a room for the July 19-21, 2024 MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE! All the details on the show, CLICK HERE.
New on Blu! 1940s, 1960s, 1970s Titles in Shock Stock Here are three Blu-Rays now available for immediate shipping to you: ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY (THE DEVIL & DANIEL WEBSTER) (1941) - Blu-Ray ISLAND OF TERROR (1966)/NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT (1967) - Blu-Ray STAR CRASH (1978) - Blu-Ray These titles, and many more are available this instant in our Recent Additions Department at Creepy Classics.
New & Factory Sealed! DVDs at Creepy Classics Now stocked in the shelves of Creepy Classics and ready to ship to your door: JOHNNY SOKKO AND HIS FLYING ROBOT (1967-1968/Complete Series) - Four DVD Set THE LIVING DEAD (1933) - DVD Get these DVDs in our New DVD Additions Department now at Creepy Classics!
Bela Lugosi in Pittsburgh! I'd like to thank Joe Romano for sending this ad to me (above). This was from 1950, too bad we couldn't have Bela back in Pittsburgh for the MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE! But we have had his son and granddaughter. Here's a little background with Joe's email to me: Ron, I saw the attached ad online this morning and thought you might be interested in it. Bela Lugosi appeared at the Copa in Pittsburgh in1950. The Copa was located downtown on Liberty Avenue and was in business from 1949 to 1959. -Joe
Coming Summer 2024! The August MONSTER BASH FILM DINOSAUR FEST! This is the schedule for the August 16-17 MONSTER BASH FILM FEST at the grand Canton Palace Theatre in Ohio. What a monster and dinosaur lover's treat it will be to see these great movies on a giant, giant screen! FRIDAY August 16, 2024 Dealers in lobby and on mezzanine level HOURS 3PM - 12:00 Midnight 3:00 PM - MIDNIGHT: CLASSIC MONSTER VENDORS. Blu-Rays, rare DVDs, t-shirts, posters, model kits, toys, rare collectibles and more! The vendors are open from three in the afternoon until 12 Midnight. So you can shop before the movies and in between films on intermissions. Note: there is no elevator and vendors are one flight of stairs up. 5PM MOVIE: GORGO (1961). England's version of Godzilla is terrific! Too bad there weren't sequels...great effects...see Gorgo crush London (Tokyo survives!). 7PM MOVIE: JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME (1954). A group of kids raft through time and discover dinosaurs! A Czech film made in 1954 with scenes added in 1967 and released theatrically in the USA. 9PM MOVIE: THE LAND UNKNOWN (1957). On an expedition to Antarctica, explorers find the a hidden land in a plateau crater. The "land unknown" is filled with prehistoric monsters. One memorable scene has a plesiosaur in a swamp/lake after the hero and heroine. Fun stuff when you were a kid, fun stuff again on the BIG screen! 11PM MOVIE: THE VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969). Cowboys and dinosaurs. A Willis O'Brien (KING KONG) project finally realized with animator Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen's effects are outstanding. A scene with the allosaur inside a huge cathedral is a knock-out! Above: A Creature and kiddo at The Palace during a MONSTER BASH CLASSIC FILM FEST! SATURDAY August 17, 2024 Dealers in lobby and on mezzanine level HOURS 12 noon - 12 Midnight Above: Shoppers of creepy collectibles in the lobby at a past Palace Theatre fest. 12:00 NOON - MIDNIGHT: CLASSIC MONSTER VENDORS. Blu-Rays, rare DVDs, t-shirts, posters, model kits, toys, rare collectibles and more! The vendors are open from noon until 12 Midnight. So you can shop before the movies and in between films on intermissions. 3PM MOVIE: THE LOST WORLD (1925). The silent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story of Professor Challenger heading an expedition into darkest Africa to bag dinosaurs. Great effects (INCREDIBLE for the time) by Willis O'Brien, who did the stop motion for KING KONG. PLUS, this silent feature will spotlight live pipe organ accompaniment by Jay Spencer at The Palace! 5PM MOVIE: KING KONG (1933). The original 1933 classic with Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray and Bruce Cabot. An enterprising promoter (Armstrong) and a young beauty (Fay Wray) travel to Skull Island. Dinosaurs galore and the mighty ape -- KONG, preside there. Armstrong captures the giant ape and brings it back to New York. Kong escapes and knocks New York on its ear. 7PM MOVIE: GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS (1956). The granddaddy of Japanese monsters. This radioactive dynamo comes out of the box fired-up, literally! Watch him destroy Tokyo (for the first time) while Raymond Burr just looks stunned. This is the American version release in English language. 9PM MOVIE: DINOSAURUS! (1960). Stars Ward Ramsey, Kristina Hanson and Paul Lukather. A frozen Tyrannosaur, Brontosaurus and a caveman unthaw from watery depths and find themselves in the 20th century. A young boy befriends the Bronto and even gets a ride. While the Tyrannosaur is just plain nasty (as expected), and the caveman provides the humor as he tries to cope with a modern world. The unforgettable climax has the T. Rex battling a steam shovel! 11:00PM FREE PRIZE TOSS! To wrap up another great Palace Theatre MONSTER BASH with Creepy Classics, it's the free prize toss. Right after DINOSAURUS, Creepy Classics will toss from the stage free DVDs, blu-rays, monster magazines and fun monster toys to the audience as a thank you. Catch what you can. Above: The Palace Theatre's Jay Spencer fills the venue with resounding music. Classic movies on the big screen, classic monster collectible vendors, popcorn, pizza, live organ music between features and good times! Get your admission memberships now, CLICK HERE. See all the details HERE.
New! Vintage Fantastic Scholastic Books It's that time again, the excitement is growing as the teacher reads out your name to come up front and get your Scholastic Book order...your newsprint order form attached to a stack with a rubber band. Yes! Re-live those days with a few vintage Scholastic paperback for your shelf and remembering and reading. Available now: THE STORY OF DANIEL BOONE - Used Classic Scholastic Book Get the above selection, and even more in our Fantastic Scholastic Book Department here at Creepy Classics...where we remember together.
MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE is for MONSTER KIDS everywhere of every age! Make Sure You're Caught Up On Your MONSTER BASH Magazine Collection! Do you have all of these? Everyone's talking about MONSTER BASH! The ultimate classic monster movie magazine! Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Creature From the Black Lagoon, King Kong, The Phantom of the Opera, Mr. Hyde...they're all here, at home in MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE. Collect them all (or, subscribe here too)....CLICK HERE to get them right from the publisher (us!), new glossy mags shipped bagged and boarded for protection to you! All at Creepy Classics, right now!
Happy Birthday! A happy birthday to Thoma Shubilla...MONSTER BASH's Mexican movie night host and regular game show guy at BASH too!
Rondo Remembers: Driving MonstersWhen I was a kid, even a little kid, I couldn't wait to drive. The freedom of the open road..being able to drive to a newsstand and find the latest FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine or INCREDIBLE HULK comic on my own. To sail down the highway on my own time to a local record shop to flip through albums. I don't know if others have observed this, but it doesn't seem like kids now are that enthusiastic about driving. But, I sure was...from the age of about six! My maternal grandfather's name was Jim Shorts (he used to joke and sign his name "Gym" Shorts. What made that even more funny was that he managed the sports, recreation building at Grove City College. Well, he was the first to let me...well, kind of, drive. I was about seven or eight and he was always driving up to the building he managed for different things on the weekends. When there were sporting events, swimming competitions, basketball games, and so on. The road that wound up to the campus was not always busy...a small road that wound around campus dorms and buildings. He would have me slide to the middle of the front seat (one bench seat in those days) and take the steering wheel! He would maintain a very slow speed. (I'm guessing his foot was ready, hair-trigger, to hit the brake. What a thrill. He let me "drive" many times. It was about this time that I started seeing the model kits of movie monster hot rods in the local toy store and G.C. Murphy. There was Frankenstein's Flivver, Wolf Man's Wagon, Godzilla's Go-Cart, The Mummy's Chariot, and Dracula's Dragster. This stepped up my wish to drive a car even more. Fueled the fire! This was the era of "Big Daddy" Roth, custom hot rods, and the iconic "Rat Fink" character that was associated with the street machines. My grandfather bought a second car to just bum around in...a Volkswagen Beetle. I was a bit older, maybe thirteen, and he actually got me behind the wheel of that. It was only in a large empty parking lot on the college campus when the students were on break. We practiced driving weekend after weekend until I was able to drive that stick shift Beetle. So, the first car I learned to drive was a standard, not an automatic. Everything else would be easy to drive, right? No...enter my dad. It's now a couple years later...I'm getting close to being at the age where I could get a driver's permit. I was probably 15, or just turned 16 and Dad said "Time you learned to drive a truck." My dad had a big pick-up truck, also a standard transmission. For those of you old enough to know..it was a "three-in-the-tree." Three gears, and reverse on a stick that came out of the steering column. Man, that was hard to get...but, I did it. It was like being thrown out of the bird's nest and told to fly. Dad said I was doing it...and after maybe three stalls...the lurching forward of poor clutch work, I was doing it. He had me practice driving in the yard, circles around our house. Thinking back, it's a wonder he wasn't too worried about me ramming into the side of our house. Thank you, Dad! At any rate, I learned to drive, got my permit, received my license and was off driving back farm roads listening to Paul McCartney and Wings on the radio. Washing the car with hose and sponge while listening to the Beach Boys. And...those monster model hot rod kits revved-up and peeled out in my head. Ron Adams Ligonier, PA March 2024
Guests Stars Coming To Bash! Plus, More Info on the Summer 2024 MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE Check out the guests and get your admission memberships, discounted now. See the guests list, CLICK HERE. Get your admission memberships now, CLICK HERE. See all the info, CLICK HERE! See the preview video, CLICK HERE!
A Virtual Visit to Creepy Classics: Above, a recent visit to Creepy Classics!
Two videos shot by Kevin Slick from Louisville, Colorado on a visit. |
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