if not, at least watch for yourself! CHILLER THEATRE RETURNS TO WPIX with a Special airing of Tarantula on October 25th! CHILLLLLLER THEATRE RETURNS FROM THE DEAD! For the first time in over 25 years, Chiller Theatre is back on WPIX with the presentation of the 1955 pulp horror classic Tarantula at 8 pm on Saturday, October 25th. Zacherley, The Cool Ghoul (John Zacherle), and former host of Chiller Theatre in New York on WPIX (1963) will resurrect his alter-ego and appear in a cameo spot to open the WPIX October 25 special. Plus, the original chilling Chiller openers: The Six-Fingered Hand and the Monster Montage along with Tarantula trivia will run as interstitials. In the 1955 film, a lab experiment gone awry creates a massive 100-ft. spider that menaces a small Arizona desert town and satiates its bloodlust with cattle -- before moving on to human beings! Tarantula features an uncredited cameo by Clint Eastwood in one of his first ever on-screen appearances. Directed by Jack Arnold (It Came From Outer Space, The Incredible Shrinking Man) Tarantula is considered by many to be one of the best of its genre and even inspired composer Richard O'Brien to immortalize it in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. (From Science Fiction Double Feature: "I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel when Tarantula took to the hills!") After our successful 60th anniversary celebration in June, WPIX received hundreds of requests for the return of Chiller Theatre. We are extremely excited to resurrect Chiller for our viewers with the special airing of Tarantula, said Betty Ellen Berlamino, WPIX/CW11 President and General Manager. The original Chiller Theatre aired in all of its ghoulish glory on WPIX from 1961-1978 and again from 1980-1982. In the meantime Zach is scheduled to appear in the next presidential debate. It is being held in the swamps of New Jersey. As we understand it the other candidates are unable to find the debating site so this may be another in for the Cool Ghoul. He won the last debate in the Louisiana Bayou when the other candidates failed to find that location. Zach will be campaigning at the Chiller Theatre Expo October 24 thru the 26th. He will have a limited supply of campaign skulls and buttons for sale with his normal assortment of photos so be sure to be there and support Zacherley for President!
