USA Saturday Nightmares
{{short description|American movie showcase series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox television
| image=
| caption =
| runtime =
| creator =
| writer =
| executive_producer =
| starring =
| country = United States
| network = USA Network
| first_aired = {{start date|1984}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1994}}
| num_seasons =
| num_episodes =
}}
USA Saturday Nightmares is an American horror and sci-fi movie showcase series that ran Saturday nights from 1984 to 1994 on the USA Network.
Overview
USA Saturday Nightmares was an unhosted weekly B movie presentation, consisting of a horror or sci-fi movie, followed by an episode of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Hitchhiker, and/or The Ray Bradbury Theater. Occasionally, the show would run a short film as filler afterward, most notably "The Dummy" and "Living Dolls".{{Cite web|url=https://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/4267/saturday-nightmares|title=Saturday Nightmares: A look back at one of the USA network's scariest shows|date=July 2013|website=Retrojunk|access-date=January 15, 2021|archive-date=June 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605060722/https://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/4267/saturday-nightmares|url-status=live}}
One of the show’s intros featured various scenes from black and white horror films with a creepy voice-over from Alan Kalter (of Late Show with David Letterman fame) followed by ominous laughter. Next, a bumper appears, showing scenes from the movie that would be shown along with bumpers from the episodes that would be shown after the movie. Another intro had the viewer going through a CGI haunted house where the paintings changed to depicted random acts of violence and horror film characters such as Dracula, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kindertrauma.com/usas-saturday-nightmares-by-john-sullivan/|title=USA’s Saturday Nightmares:: By John Sullivan|date=November 27, 2013|website=Kindertrauma|access-date=January 15, 2021|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128153449/https://www.kindertrauma.com/usas-saturday-nightmares-by-john-sullivan/|url-status=live}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKNYZ-evu2A Saturday Nightmares intro]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtMtRVVN4PI&mode=related&search= Saturday Nightmares Promo]
- {{IMDb title|4856296}}
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096364/ Vampire At Midnight description]
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065217/ The Witchmaker Description]
{{USANetwork Shows}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Usa Saturday Nightmares}}
Category:1986 American television series debuts
Category:1994 American television series endings