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Creature Feature is a [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]] and {{Horror}} themed band from Southern California. The first two albums were the brainchildren of Curtis Rx and Erik X. Erik X decided to leave the band shortly after the release of the second album 'It Was A Dark And Stormy Night...' to spend more time with his family. Since then, Curtis Rx has taken over the sole writing and performing duties of Creature Feature and released two albums and various singles on his own. Front man Curtis RX also composes and releases music under the name Curtis Rx and Rufus Rex.

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\n->''"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and ghouls, step right up! Behind this curtain lies a ghastly concoction of delight, horror, fantasy, and terror! Your every wish is our command! Your every whimsical desire brought to life! But, I'm warning you, there's always a price. Welcome to the Greatest Show Unearthed!"''
-->-- "The Greatest Show Unearthed", ''The Greatest Show Unearthed''

Creature Feature is a [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]] and {{Horror}} themed band from Southern California. The first two albums were the brainchildren of Curtis Rx and Erik X. Erik X decided to leave the band shortly after the release of the second album 'It ''It Was A Dark And Stormy Night...' '' to spend more time with his family. Since then, Curtis Rx has taken over the sole writing and performing duties of Creature Feature and released two albums and various singles on his own. Front man Curtis RX also composes and releases music under the name Curtis Rx and Rufus Rex.



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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: "Primitive State" is all about a werewolf attack.

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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: "Primitive State" is all about a werewolf attack.attack, using classic horror movie portrayals with the werewolves as hungry destructive monsters that turn every full moon.

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* HideAndNoSeek: At the age of six, the narrator of "Such Horrible Things" got another boy lost in the woods while playing hide and seek with him. The other boy never came out.

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* HideAndNoSeek: At the age of six, the narrator of HideAndSeekHorror: In "Such Horrible Things" got another boy lost in Things," when the woods while playing narrator is six, he plays hide and seek with him. The other the neighbor boy and gets him lost in the forest, never came out. to be found.
-->''When I was six''
-->''I used to trick''
-->''The next door neighbor's son''
-->''In the woods we would run''
-->''Time for fun''
-->''Hide-and-seek has a cost''
-->''He would be forever lost!''
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Not to be confused with the album of the same name by Creator/SeananMcGuire.

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Not to be confused with the album of the same name by Creator/SeananMcGuire.
Creator/SeananMcGuire, or the animal segments from ''Series/SesameStreet''.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth" is an homage to the movie ''Film/{{Them}}''.
* BigDamnHeroes: At the end of ''The Unearthly Ones'' an angry mob with TorchesAndPitchforks appears to chase the Unearthly Ones away.
* BlackComedy / CrossesTheLineTwice: Both the song "A Gorey Demise" itself and the Youtube comments on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyQjQ6iR1I this lyrical video]], in which the commentators use the letters of the song for their name [[TheManyDeathsOfYou to spell out the various ways they die]], often writing a sentence or two of commentary on their deaths after their list. True, the deaths are horrifying, but with the formats and comments it's bound to provoke some giggles.

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* BigCreepyCrawlies: "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth" is an homage to ''Film/{{Them}}'', a film where giant ants become a national threat. The song talks of hidden underground creatures climbing up to terrorise humanity, and there's a spoken broadcast segment stating that they've established a nest in the movie ''Film/{{Them}}''.
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* BigDamnHeroes: At the end of ''The "The Unearthly Ones'' Ones" an angry mob with TorchesAndPitchforks appears to chase [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight the Unearthly Ones away.
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Ones]] away after the song beasts approach and threaten the children.
* BlackComedy:
"A Gorey Demise" itself and [[AlphabetSong spells out the Youtube comments on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyQjQ6iR1I this lyrical video]], in which alphabet]]... with each letter for the commentators use name  of a child who died. The singers treat it as a [[LyricalDissonance joyful reciting of obituaries]], including the letters of the song for their name [[TheManyDeathsOfYou to spell out the various ways they die]], often writing a sentence or two causes of commentary on their deaths after their list. True, the deaths are horrifying, but with the formats and comments it's bound to provoke some giggles.death]].
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* CircusOfFear: "The Greatest Show Unearthed" and its sequel "The Greatest Show Unearthed" is about a travelling carnival of fantasy and terror, where your every wish can come true (for a deadly price) and the sights will drive you to insanity.

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* CircusOfFear: "The Greatest Show Unearthed" and its sequel "The Greatest Show Unearthed" Unearthed Returns" is about a travelling carnival of fantasy and terror, where your every wish can come true (for a deadly price) and the sights will drive you to insanity.

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* AmusementParkOfDoom / CircusOfFear: "The Greatest Show Unearthed" is about one. Same goes for "The Greatest Show Unearthed Returns".


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* CircusOfFear: "The Greatest Show Unearthed" and its sequel "The Greatest Show Unearthed" is about a travelling carnival of fantasy and terror, where your every wish can come true (for a deadly price) and the sights will drive you to insanity.
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Creature Feature is Halloween and Horror themed band from Southern California. The first two albums were the brainchildren of Curtis Rx and Erik X. Erik X decided to leave the band shortly after the release of the second album 'It Was A Dark And Stormy Night...' to spend more time with his family. Since then, Curtis Rx has taken over the sole writing and performing duties of Creature Feature and released two albums and various singles on his own. Front man Curtis RX also composes and releases music under the name Curtis Rx and Rufus Rex.

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Creature Feature is Halloween a [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]] and Horror {{Horror}} themed band from Southern California. The first two albums were the brainchildren of Curtis Rx and Erik X. Erik X decided to leave the band shortly after the release of the second album 'It Was A Dark And Stormy Night...' to spend more time with his family. Since then, Curtis Rx has taken over the sole writing and performing duties of Creature Feature and released two albums and various singles on his own. Front man Curtis RX also composes and releases music under the name Curtis Rx and Rufus Rex.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator's crimes include getting another boy lost in the woods where he died, burying his brother alive, throwing his sister down a well, and pretending to drown so he could laugh at people when they came to rescue him.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
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** "A Gorey Demise" lists various gruesome deaths, like "Greg, who died in the womb," "Larry, who bled and bled," and "Zack, who simply went insane."
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** The song "A Gorey Demise" is mentioned in the album's description as "an alphabetical list of children who met their untimely demise", and is a reference to "''[[Literature/TheGashlycrumbTinies The Gashlycrumb Tinies]]''" by Edward Gorey, an alphabetical book detailing the deaths of a group of children. The lyric that's the most blatant about this is 'G is for Greg who died in the womb'.

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** The song "A Gorey Demise" is mentioned in the album's description as "an alphabetical list of children who met their untimely demise", and is a reference to "''[[Literature/TheGashlycrumbTinies The Gashlycrumb Tinies]]''" by Edward Gorey, an alphabetical book detailing the deaths of a group of children. The lyric that's the most blatant about this is 'G is for Greg about letter G, Greg, who died in the womb'.was miscarried.
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* CardCarryingVillain: In the chorus of "Such Horrible Things", the narrator tries to deny that he's a bad person who does awful things until he gives up and says, "Ah, hell...it's exactly what it seems!"

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* CardCarryingVillain: In the chorus of "Such Horrible Things", the narrator tries to deny that he's a bad person who does awful things things, until he gives up and says, "Ah, hell...it's exactly what it seems!"
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Not to be confused with the album of the same name by Creator/SeananMcGuire.
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* CardCarryingVillain: In the chorus of "Such Horrible Things", the narrator tries to deny that he's a bad person who does awful things until he gives up and says, "Ah, hell...it's exactly what it seems!"
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* AdultsAreUseless: In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator's parents don't seem to do anything about him doing things like shoving his sister down a well and burning the house down.
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** The song "A Gorey Demise" is mentioned in the album's description as "an alphabetical list of children who met their untimely demise", and is a reference to "''[[Literatuer/TheGashlycrumbTinies The Gashlycrumb Tinies]]''" by Edward Gorey, an alphabetical book detailing the deaths of a group of children. The lyric that's the most blatant about this is 'G is for Greg who died in the womb'.

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** The song "A Gorey Demise" is mentioned in the album's description as "an alphabetical list of children who met their untimely demise", and is a reference to "''[[Literatuer/TheGashlycrumbTinies "''[[Literature/TheGashlycrumbTinies The Gashlycrumb Tinies]]''" by Edward Gorey, an alphabetical book detailing the deaths of a group of children. The lyric that's the most blatant about this is 'G is for Greg who died in the womb'.
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** The song "A Gorey Demise" is mentioned in the album's description as "an alphabetical list of children who met their untimely demise", and is a reference to "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" by Edward Gorey, an alphabetical book detailing the deaths of a group of children. The lyric that's the most blatant about this is 'G is for Greg who died in the womb'.

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** The song "A Gorey Demise" is mentioned in the album's description as "an alphabetical list of children who met their untimely demise", and is a reference to "The "''[[Literatuer/TheGashlycrumbTinies The Gashlycrumb Tinies" Tinies]]''" by Edward Gorey, an alphabetical book detailing the deaths of a group of children. The lyric that's the most blatant about this is 'G is for Greg who died in the womb'.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator's crimes include getting another boy lost in the woods where he died, burying his brother alive, throwing his sister down a well, and pretending to drown so he could laugh at people when they came to rescue him.
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** In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator gleefully recounts when he was six and playing hide-and-seek with the neighbor boy. He deliberately got him lost in the woods, where he presumably starved to death.

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** In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator gleefully recounts when he was six and playing hide-and-seek with the neighbor boy. He deliberately got him lost in the woods, where he presumably starved to death.death or was eaten by a wild animal.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator terrorizes everyone in his life starting from the moment of his birth and keeps getting away with it, until he's 16, finally gets caught after trying to bury his brother alive, and is sentenced to life in an insane asylum.

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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator terrorizes everyone in his life starting from the moment of his birth and keeps getting away with it, until he's 16, it. Until, at 16 years old, he finally gets caught after trying to bury burying his brother alive, alive and is sentenced to life in an insane asylum.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator terrorizes everyone in his life starting from the moment of his birth and keeps getting away with it, until he's finally caught after trying to bury his brother alive and sentenced to life in an insane asylum.

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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator terrorizes everyone in his life starting from the moment of his birth and keeps getting away with it, until he's 16, finally gets caught after trying to bury his brother alive alive, and is sentenced to life in an insane asylum.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator terrorizes everyone in his life starting from the moment of his birth and keeps getting away with it, until he's finally caught after trying to bury his brother alive and sentenced to life in an insane asylum.
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* GoryDiscretionShot / NoodleIncident: In "Such Horrible Things", the singer mentions cryptically "that one time" when he was 14. This goes directly into a guitar interlude under which screaming can be heard and which ends with the singer chuckling happily, implying that the events of age 14 were too graphic to describe in words.

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* GoryDiscretionShot / NoodleIncident: GoryDiscretionShot: In "Such Horrible Things", the singer mentions cryptically "that one time" when he was 14. This goes directly into a guitar interlude under which screaming can be heard and which ends with the singer chuckling happily, implying that the events of age 14 were too graphic to describe in words.

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** In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator gleefully recounts when he was seven and playing hide-and-seek with the neighbor boy. He deliberately got him lost in the woods, where he presumably starved to death.

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** In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator gleefully recounts when he was seven six and playing hide-and-seek with the neighbor boy. He deliberately got him lost in the woods, where he presumably starved to death.


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* EarlyPersonalitySigns: The narrator of "Such Horrible Things" boasts of being a terror since he was born, biting the nurse as a baby, putting superglue in his father's hair when he was two, and stabbing the mailman when he was four.


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* HideAndNoSeek: At the age of six, the narrator of "Such Horrible Things" got another boy lost in the woods while playing hide and seek with him. The other boy never came out.


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* NoodleIncident: According to the narrator of "Such Horrible Things", nothing happened when he was fourteen...except "that one time", followed by the sounds of people screaming and a car crash.

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* DeathOfAChild: The song "A Gorey Demise" is mentioned in the album's description as "an alphabetical list of children who met their untimely demise", and is a reference to "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" by Edward Gorey, an alphabetical book detailing the deaths of a group of children. The lyric that's the most blatant about this is 'G is for Greg who died in the womb'.

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** In "Such Horrible Things", the narrator gleefully recounts when he was seven and playing hide-and-seek with the neighbor boy. He deliberately got him lost in the woods, where he presumably starved to death.
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** Music/BillieEilish's "bury a friend" is heavily inspired by the singer's experience with sleep paralysis, and has the line "I wanna end me." [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning The Creature Feature version]], however, uses a more jaunty performance with the line changed to "I wanna end you," giving this vibe.
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* PunBasedTitle: "The Greatest Show Unearthed," for the song and the first album.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "A Gorey Demise". R is for... is it Reina, Reyna, Raina, Rayna, or Rena?

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