''Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong!'' is a 2008

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

about the popular television series ''

Creature Features ''Creature Features'' is a program of horror shows broadcast on local American television stations throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The movies broadcast on these shows were generally classic and cult horror movies of the 1930s to 1950s ...

'', which was produced in

Oakland Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major West Coast port, Oakland is ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

from 1971 to 1984. Produced by independent filmmakers Tom Wyrsch and Robert Napton, the film features interviews with ''Creature Feature'' hosts

Bob Wilkins Bob Wilkins (born Robert Gene Wilkins; April 11, 1932 – January 7, 2009) was a television personality. Wilkins was the creator and host of the popular television show '' Creature Features'' that ran on KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

and John Stanley, classic clips, as well as interviews with other key figures close to the show. The film premiered in May, 2008 at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California.

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