USA Saturday Nightmares

USA Saturday Nightmares was an unhosted show on the USA Network. The show was on at 8:00 p.m. every Saturday night and showed many B Horror and Sci-Fi films. Most movies shown also appeared on Commander USA's Groovie Movies and USA Sci-Fi Theater. They also showed episodes of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Hitchhiker, and The Ray Bradbury Theater.

Saturday Nightmares
Country of originUnited States
Release
Original networkUSA Network
Original release1984 –
1994

Intro sequence and bumpers

The most famous intro to the series had you going through a CGI haunted house (in the early days of CGI) where the paintings changed. It started outside the house and moved inward. The first painting, depicted random acts of violence and terror with a woman screaming, a gunshot, a falling body, and a hatchet swing. The second painting went from Frankenstein, Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera, Mr. Hyde, and The Wolfman. The third painting changed between The Brood, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger before showing a movie screen and the voice over would welcome you which came from Alan Kalter of Late Show with David Letterman fame. Occasionally, the show would run a short film as filler afterward, most notably "The Dummy" and "Living Dolls".

Saturday Nightmares also had bumpers that featured scenes from B horror films as well as scenes from old episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Show format

Saturday Nightmares was a show somewhat similar to TNT's MonsterVision. It was a host-less show consisting of a movie (usually B-grade) and two eerie TV show episodes from The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Hitchhiker, and The Ray Bradbury Theater.

Movies shown
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