It's Friday night, the full moon hangs high, the Devil rides out, and the creatures of the night beckon. So huddle up by the electric glow of a tv set wasting away the wee witching hours of the night in your own personel Shock Theatre!
Shock Theater (marketed as Shock!) is a package of 52 pre-1948 classic horror films from Universal Studios released for television syndication in October 1957 by Screen Gems, the television subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. The Shock Theater package included Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man and The Wolf Man as well as a few non-horror spy and mystery films. A second package, Son of Shock, was released for television by Screen Gems in 1958, with 20 horror films from both Universal and Columbia.Shock Theater usually aired on late night television on weekends, and in many markets was introduced by a costumed horror host; a well-known example was Zacherley (John Zacherle) on Philadelphia's WCAU-TV.
