Creature Features: The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) - Promo

San Francisco Examiner - January 6, 1974

The San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle's Sunday TV Week supplement had this modest promo for an episode of Creature Features featuring Hammer Film's third Frankenstein movie, 1964's The Evil of Frankenstein. This would be one of two entries in the famed company's series of Frankenstein films the was not directed by Terence Fisher. Nope, this one was helmed by Freddie Francis. The other would by the 1970 Jimmy Sangster helmed horror-comedy The Horror of Frankenstein.

This episode aired on Saturday, January 12, 1974 and, being all six or seven years old, I would not have been allowed to stay up and watch it. So it goes.

Creature Features [Night of the Living Dead (1968) / House of Horrors (1946)] - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - January 1, 1972

If I might be forgiven for making an unlearned assumption here, but I think this New Year's Day Creature Features double feature might be a tad top heavy. As Night of the Living Dead is the superior picture, by a considerable margin.

House of Horrors, which I have yet to see, is one of the last gasps of the Universal Monster movies released throughout the early 1940s. Rondo Hatton stars as a psychopathic killer known as The Creeper, who is saved from drowning by a sculptor (Martin Kosleck). Said sculptor then used The Creeper to murder those that have either displeased him or given his work harsh criticism. 

With his sharp features and cold eyes, Martin Koslek made a career out of playing the baddest of bad guys. Some of his Ghoulies, Ghosties, and Long-Leggedy Beasties appropriate villainous roles were as Hugo in The Devil Is Not Mocked segment on Night Gallery, Prof. Peter Bartell in The Flesh Eaters, Dwight Severn in She-Wolf of London, and Ragheb in The Mummy's Curse (1944). He died in 1994 at the age of 89.