KBHK-TV 44 never got involved in the local all-night movie wars. They did, however, start up an unhosted horror show on Fridays after Creature Features became a hit for KTVU 2 on Saturday nights.

The slot was at first a single feature aired at 11:00 pm or so, then a double feature starting at 10:00 pm or 10:30 pm.

The title card was a solarized graphic of Boris Karloff's character from the Wurdalak sequence in Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH.

They also used a clip from BLACK SABBATH to advertise the show throughout the week, the scene where Karloff shows his family the severed head of the Wurdalak he's killed:

	KARLOFF: I and I alone, have the proof
	that Alibek is dead!

	
	KARLOFF REACHES INTO BAG

	
	KARLOFF: Ah! And here it is!

	
	CLOSE-UP: Severed head.

	
	MUSIC: Les Baxter orchestral sting.

	
	KARLOFF'S SON: That's why the dogs were
	howling! They could smell the dead man's head!

	
	KARLOFF: Hang it on the door of the house
	for all to see!

	
	CLOSE-UP: Severed head outside the house.

	

KBHK-TV ran that promo in nearly every commercial break during their Saturday afternoon horror and Bowery Boys movies, as well as any other time they had 45 seconds to waste, forever burning it into the memories of their viewers.

KBHK-TV's horror package was entirely AIP stuff, which they showed over and over and over again. So we became very familiar with not only BLACK SABBATH, but also Roger Corman's 1950's output (A BUCKET OF BLOOD, ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES, THE UNDEAD, etc.) the impoverished Larry Buchanan quickies of the '60s (CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE, MARS NEEDS WOMEN), and AIP's Japanese pickups and co-productions (lots of Godzilla!).

For a while, KBHK-TV ran syndicated episodes of Cleveland's The Ghoul before the local double bills. The 8:00 pm and 8:30 pm listings at left are for The Ghoul's movies. The Ghoul lasted a couple of years, and the Friday night double bills a while longer, being cut down to a single film for a short while before being dropped entirely.

KBHK-TV's next regularly scheduled horror film may have been the Saturday night The Ghoulie Movie of the early 80s.