Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Horror Hosts

The Boy and I had gone down to Knott's for a daytime tour of the Halloween Haunt, and since the park is right next to the Korean movie theater, I had planned to see and review The Devil in the Lake for you all. But as happens occasionally—actually, I think it may have happened last on Halloween—there were no English subtitles for the film yet.

But Knott's was more-or-less the birthplace of the modern horror "switchover" that so many theme parks do these days, and on this tour, I was surprised to learn that the guy who got the ball rolling was none other than Larry Vincent, the local Los Angeles horror host for about five years back in the '70s. He had a show called Seymour Presents, and some of my earliest TV memories are being trapped in a snowy cabin in Lake Arrowhead and watching Little Shop of Horrors with "Sinister Seymour" as the host.

Larry got the idea to take his show live one year, so he went up to Magic Mountain. The show was apparently a hit, marred only by the constant sound of roller coasters. So he took the idea to Walter Knott, who had just built a theater that would be far more suitable for spooky hijinks. Knott liked the idea but insisted they do it up big, with a three-day celebration the weekend before Halloween 1973. The rest, as the say is history.

And the tour we took was very interesting, but not what I wanted to talk about. The remembrance of "Seymour" and the appearance of Cassandra Peterson on Joe Bob Brigg's Halloween special last weekend got me thinking about horror hosts and the nature of commentary-based, or "meta" entertainment.

That waist is impossible. She makes Lisa Marie look thick.

The Horror Host

Home video technology has gone through multiple iterations with each succeeding wave of technology repeating almost fractally. As TV became commonplace, but content limited, many larger metropolitan areas needed content, they needed it fast and they needed it cheap. Network consolidation happened gradually and never comprehensively, and then cable came along and instead of geographical lines, we saw demands geared toward genres (The Comedy Channel and the original American Movie Classics, e.g.) and demographics (MTV and the Cartoon Network). More bandwidth brought more specialization (although never an ESPN 8, talk about a missed opportunity) which the old conglomerates are still struggling to absorb (like Disney and WB).

And of course the Internet blew the demand into millions of tiny hyper-specialized pieces. And while YouTube has too much control this, too, shall pass.

One of the odder manifestations of this expanding need for content is the rise of the horror host. Television stations with limited film libraries (not always legitimately sourced, as in the early days of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" on KTMA) needed to entice people to watch, and they did it with commentary on the movie itself, or at least thematically appropriate schtick.

Vampira and Zacherle

Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi, better known as Maila Nurmi, and even better known as Vampira was the first. She had a short run in '54 on the local (L.A.) ABC station followed by an even shorter run (maybe?) in '56 on KHJ a local (L.A.) independent station. From what I can tell, while the popularity wasn't enough to sustain a long run, it was intense, and Vampira became burned into the public consciousness. In later generations, perhaps ironically, it would be her brief appearance in Plan 9 From Outer Space that kept the image and character alive.

Sort of Garbo-esque without her Vampira makeup.

In Philadelphia in 1957, John Zacherle debuted the character of Roland on "Shock Theater", a ghoulish horror host who broadcast from a crypt with his lab assistant Igor and his entombed wife. At the final movie intro for "The Last Drive-In" which Joe Bob Briggs presumed would be his last intro on his last show (for the movie Pieces of all things), he gave a lovely tribute to the recently deceased host (d. 2016 at the age of 98!) as well as a brief (insofar that anything JB does is "brief") horror host history.

Briggs makes the distinction that Vampira hosted in the sense of appearing in the interstices to tell corny jokes that weren't particularly related to the film, whereas the films were central to Zacherle's performance who did things like cut his own reaction shots (the Kuleshov effect) into the film. I'm not sure that these two branches of hosting are cleanly separable, since I think Vampira did do some movie commentary, and Elvira certainly has over her various iterations. (And Briggs is certainly in the Zacherle camp but he also traditionally begins his shows with an off-topic commentary.)

However, Zacherle's injection of his own material directly into the existing stuff (mostly cheaply licensable RKO pictures) is significant as a major progenitor to all the hosts who came after, as well as "Mystery Science Theater 3000" in the '90s, and to wide swaths of YouTube accounts today.

Unlike Vampira, Zacherle kept his character alive for decades in a variety of different formats: Besides guesting on many other horror hosts' shows, he filled in on "American Bandstand" (!), recorded a number of songs including a minor hit in the "Monster Mash" era ("Dinner with Drac"), and edited a couple of collections of horror short stories. His last credited "Roland" appearance on IMDB was for a "last" show not unlike the Briggs marathon in 2018, though he kept playing the ghoul into the 2000s—into his 90s, in other words, and was definitely the inspiration for the flood of horror hosts to come.

Dubbed "The Cool Ghoul" by Dick Clark.

Svengoolie and the Locals

Tarantula Ghoul: The rare hostess without cleavage. And with a snake.

In much the same way there were local kiddie show hosts, a thousand late night horror hosts blossomed, all with their own stories and bits. In Fort Worth, Bill Camfield played kid show host Icky Twerp by day and Gorgon, host of "Nightmare" after dark. In Cleveland, Sir Graves Ghastly had a show that ran from the '60s to the '80s. In Portland, Suzanne Waldron played Tarantula Ghoul, and had an intense short run ended by a scandalous pregnancy. In Brazil, an aspiring horror filmmaker creates a character called Coffin Joe who ends up escaping the confines of the movies to become his own character. "Moona Lisa", the alter ego of a San Diego-based newscaster (and a brief bit as a Siamese twin in Saboteur!) had a show through the '60s and briefly took over for the ailing Larry Vincent in L.A. and even appeared with him at Knott's for one year.

Almost all of Moona Lisa's stuff is gone and even good pics are rare as hen's teeth, but I think we can see here she managed to combine cleavage with...leggage.

Meanwhile, Ghoulardi out of Clevelandwas a breakout hit who might have achieved national prominence had Ernie Anderson not wearied of portraying him (lured out only one before his untimely death to appear on Drive-In Theater in the '90s).

Svengoolie, out of Chicago, deserves special mention. Originally created by Jerry Bishop, the character was taken over by Rich Koz (original "Son of Svengoolie"), it's sort of "the show that wouldn't die", running initially from 1970-1973, brought back in 1979 with Koz until '86, brought back again in the '90s, '00s and currently runs today on MeTV.

The mythos/community of Svengoolie reminds me of "The Simpsons" with jokes and characters and memes built up over decades, but I view it as a kind of cultural artifact: the horror host gig is "postmodern vaudeville" as Briggs would say, and to watch Svengoolie is like holding up a fun-house mirror that reflects somehow back to the 19th century.

Svengoolie The Immortal

Elvira

The greatest of all these—"great" meaning "large or immense"—was certainly Elvira. In the early '80s, after Sinister Seymour had passed and "Fright Night" petered out, KHJ wanted to bring back Vampira. They invited Maila Nurmi back who quit when the producers rejected her idea of getting Lola Falana to play the part. (Falana was pulling down $100K/week in Vegas; I'm not sure how Nurmi thought KHJ was going to entice her away with a cheap horror host gig. But Nurmi seems to me to have been highly unstable.)

Enter former go-go-girl, pin-up girl, showgirl, starlet and someone you totally wouldn't expect to fall for the old "just take off your clothes for a test shoot, honey" bit Cassandra Peterson. Peterson was also a Groundling and had created a "Valley Girl" character that would serve as the basis for the new Vampira. Since Nurmi had withdrawn her support, Peterson decided to model her new character after Sharon Tate's in Fearless Vampire Killers which would've been quite different from anything in the horror host world before (or since!).

Left: Sharon Tate in "Fearless Vampire Killers". Middle: Cassandra Peterson. Right: Elvira.

But the suits said, no, all black. And although they had no notes on the unfathomable depths of her plunging neckline, they did tell her to make the slit in the leg higher. The 70-something Peterson, who has now retired the wig (not for the first, but possibly for the last time), has a memoir out called Yours Cruelly for those interested in more details. Elvira's Movie Macabre ran from 1981-1986, but the character lived on and on and on in movies, video releases, merchandising, and—to tie this back to the beginning—became the face of Knott's Halloween Haunt for decades.

The Boy and I saw her retirement show at Knott's 2001—and then (with the Flower in tow this time) her most recent retirement show in 2017. It was a fun, polished act, being performed by a sexagenarian in six-inch-heels, which probably impressed me more than anything. In last week's appearance on "The Last Drive-In" she talked about how much work it was as part of the reason for retiring—and I cannot quibble with that.

Why did Elvira take off and go national where others failed to break out? Was it the boobs? It was probably the boobs. Except boobs were prominent in most hostesses going back to Vampira. No, I think it was a mix of things: Syndication was getting to be a huge factor. Elvira's character dovetailed perfectly with Frank Zappa's (only) hit song: "Valley Girl". Elvira was sexy but dealt in pretty safe double-entendres rather than overt crudeness. And Peterson's dedication to performance (even while she felt Elvira would be a short-term gig) came through. Also: Boobs.

The Cable Guys

Cable created a whole new world for hosts, as well as new libraries for them to exploit. The horror host had expanded into a "general schlock" host. USA's "Up All Night" (primarily hosted by the buxom Rhonda Shear and the late, great Gilbert Gottfried) seemed entirely focused on teasing the audience. From Shear's provocative outfits to her guest players (b-movie starlets like Michelle Bauer, Darcy DeMoss, Monique Gabrielle, etc.) to the movies, which were insanely varied and might be a Spielberg or Woody Allen movie one week but might just as well be a (heavily edited) Marilyn Chambers erotic anthology or the latest entry in the "Bikini Beach Squad Car Wash Ninjas".

Front row (L-R): Darcy DeMoss, Shear, notorious madam Jody "Babydol" Gibson and Monique Gabrielle. Back row: Debra Lamb, Linnea Quigley and Ray Hesselink. (And if I'm wrong, who's gonna know?)

An honorable mention here to Pat Prescott of "Night Flight" who, even as a voice only, was a constant companion through that new iteration of content creation: All manner of public domain movies, shorts, music videos, comedy bits, etc., stretching out over long nights, suitable for whether you were partying or studying or just staying up because your parents were out of town.

This same era saw the concept of riffing a movie in the movie—remember Zacherle's Kuleshov effect back in the '50s!)—continuously integrated into the film itself in the form of "Mystery Science Theater 3000". The movie was practically incidental to the experience. So even when John Bloom's drive-in film critic persona Joe Bob Briggs who would introduce his show with, "You know what? Just go ahead and switch over to Rhonda Shear because we've got nothing but dogs tonight," you stayed tuned in—or at least switched back for his closing commentary.

The Joy of Idiosyncracy

While the oft-cited Joe Bob and aforementioned Ghoulardi are with us today, and MST3K and Rifftrax thrive, future hosts are, without a doubt, being founded on YouTube. My own kids, who are not big fans of any of the hosts of the past, watch commentators like Danny Gonzalez and of course Red Letter Media. And there are literal horror hosts as well, in the exact same mold as Vampira or Zacherle. And that's cool.

The thing about horror hosts—or any of these "meta" commentary characters—is that they are touchstones in our lives much the way other elements of popular culture are: Wherever you are now, if you were a kid in Miami 50 years ago, the name M.T. Graves will take you back, or the opening to "Creature Feature" if you were a Bay Area kid in the '70s. If "House of Wax" is on, you might remember the 3D frenzy of the '80s, and Elvira throwing popcorn at you.

You might even remember the movie itself, but it's not necessary.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:10 PM

Comments

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1 "I'll write a short piece on horror hosts", he said. "A few hundred words", he said.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:00 PM (asXVI)

2 Margins are blonde already but no matter on my tablet

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2022 08:03 PM (xhxe8)

3 I remember Dr Shock when I was a kid

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2022 08:04 PM (xhxe8)

4 Remember "Jeepers creepers" host as a kid.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 29, 2022 08:06 PM (rYrOO)

5 Elvira lost all desirability when she went Lesbo, she was over the bill when she announced so not that big of a deal.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 08:06 PM (hg4Xf)

6 WTH with the margins? Is it just me?

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:08 PM (Ur3ox)

7 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2022 08:08 PM (WFaF3)

8 Uhhhh...

Ghoulardi was CLEVELAND.

Please to correct!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 08:08 PM (BgMrQ)

9 Dang.
*reads.content*
* googles Elvira*
*checks.images*
Dang. Not first!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2022 08:08 PM (anj39)

10 Cool it with the boom booms!

Posted by: Zombie Ghoulardi at October 29, 2022 08:09 PM (Xrfse)

11 Officers arrived at the house, knocked on the front door and were let inside by an unknown person.

The Pelosi story getting funky!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:09 PM (BRHaw)

12 10 Cool it with the boom booms!
Posted by: Zombie Ghoulardi at October 29, 2022 08:09 PM (Xrfse)

Turn Blue...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 08:11 PM (BgMrQ)

13 I'm not a fan of horror so most of these people are unfamiliar to me.

I do like movies like The Others . More suspense than horror.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 08:11 PM (hg4Xf)

14 Ghoulardi was CLEVELAND.

This is true. Turn blue.

Posted by: Zombie Ghoulardi at October 29, 2022 08:11 PM (Xrfse)

15 I'm not seeing a margin issue. I'll check again.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:11 PM (asXVI)

16 Count Yorba is on Svengoolie. A host makes watching the movie easier. A lot of them would be unbearable otherwise. That's why Mrs fd doesn't like watching movies with me unless I zip my lip.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 08:13 PM (sn5EN)

17 Comments box is half the comment width

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2022 08:14 PM (xhxe8)

18 Has to be the creepy pic with the snake. I opened and same thing.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:14 PM (Ur3ox)

19 Sorry about the Ghoulardi thing. I always get him mixed up with Svengoolie.

||Count Yorba is on Svengoolie. A host makes watching the movie easier. A lot of them would be unbearable otherwise.||

Oh, for sure. I can hardly imagine watching "THINGS" without frequent interruptions from Joe Bob.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:14 PM (asXVI)

20 I think it was the Tarantula Ghoul image that blew the margins.

Posted by: Zombie Ghoulardi at October 29, 2022 08:14 PM (Xrfse)

21 Up in OKC we lived for a while. We had a Death in hood with sickle for late night movie.

It freaked my little sis out every time. She would go hide under bed!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:14 PM (BRHaw)

22 Bewbage!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 29, 2022 08:14 PM (5rCWs)

23 opened a new tab.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:15 PM (Ur3ox)

24 Mucho better. Must have been me.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:16 PM (Ur3ox)

25 OK, thanks guys. I don't usually put up this many pix.

I figured a lot of folks would have their own horror host reminiscences...

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:16 PM (asXVI)

26 Who remembers Trilogy of Terror as a kid ? The one with Karen Black and the head hunter doll was really good.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 08:17 PM (hg4Xf)

27 She looks modular...

Posted by: Sven at October 29, 2022 08:17 PM (Lzpvj)

28 Didn't watch much horror as a kid. Mostly Twilight Zone and another similar one, forget the name.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:18 PM (Ur3ox)

29 28 Didn't watch much horror as a kid. Mostly Twilight Zone and another similar one, forget the name.
Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:18 PM (Ur3ox)

Twilight Zone?

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:19 PM (BRHaw)

30 "Oh, for sure. I can hardly imagine watching "THINGS" without frequent interruptions from Joe Bob.
Posted by: moviegique

Would you sit thru "Plan 9" without the bots? Probably not more than once.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 08:19 PM (sn5EN)

31 Oh, Outer limits.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:19 PM (Ur3ox)

32 Outer Limits

Posted by: DB at October 29, 2022 08:19 PM (geLO8)

33 Dorothy Fuldheim was hawt.

Posted by: Zombie Ghoulardi at October 29, 2022 08:20 PM (Xrfse)

34 I like horror films

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2022 08:20 PM (xhxe8)

35 Tonight's Movie Roulette selection:

The Prophecy II

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2022 08:20 PM (WFaF3)

36 rhennigantx-

https://www.imdb.com/
title/tt0052520/

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:21 PM (Ur3ox)

37 ||Would you sit thru "Plan 9" without the bots? Probably not more than once.

I have, actually. Many times. But Ed Wood is a special case.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:21 PM (asXVI)

38 I loved the Night Stalker!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:21 PM (BRHaw)

39 METV running ads for "spawn of Svengoolie", send in your reel to try out as the next host. Guess you have to live near Chicago?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 29, 2022 08:22 PM (rYrOO)

40 An old story, but I enjoy re-telling it...in memory of my dad and brother.

My father was an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, and had the pleasure of treating Ernie Anderson during his heyday.

Ernie had a fondness for cigars, and my dad had chided him for smoking on air...not so much for being a bad example for the kids, but more that he wasn't listening to his physician.

Well, one Friday night, my brothers and I were ensconced in front of the tube watching Ernie blow various objects to smitheens (hence, "cool it with the boom booms").

Of course he was lighting the fireworks with his cigar. My middle brother yelled out to my dad (who was down stairs) "hey Ernie's smoking again...

As a lark, my dad called the station, and asked to have a message passed to Ernie: Cool it with the Cigars.

The message was passed on the Ernie, who had a cigar in mouth wile reading said message. As he finished he simply looked up, and let the cigar fall to the floor.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 08:22 PM (BgMrQ)

41 "I have, actually. Many times"

Oh geez. That's hardcore man.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 08:22 PM (sn5EN)

42 Dayton had doctor creep...

https://tinyurl.com/4ss8kvyv

She was cuter

Posted by: Sven at October 29, 2022 08:22 PM (Lzpvj)

43 33 Dorothy Fuldheim was hawt.
Posted by: Zombie Ghoulardi at October 29, 2022 08:20 PM (Xrfse)

Heh...

and for all you who don't know, Dorothy made Helen Thomas look like Helen Locklear.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 08:23 PM (BgMrQ)

44 But Ed Wood is a special case.

Yes, in California they named an air force base after him, Ed Woods Air Force Base.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 29, 2022 08:23 PM (rYrOO)

45 ||Oh geez. That's hardcore man.

Tim Burton's movie didn't do that well, but around that time I got the idea that making an opera based on Ed Wood's life using only words that he had written for the libretto--I thought that could be amazing.

But even if I wrote it, I can't imagine anyone wanting to be in it.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:24 PM (asXVI)

46 Tonight's Movie Roulette selection:
The Prophecy II
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2022 08:20 PM (WFaF3)

Haven't seen II, but The Prophesy has one of the best and creepiest representations of Satan.

Only the Satan in the movie, "Constantine is better."

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 08:25 PM (KLPy8)

47 No opinion on horror films because I don't watch them. I'll just sit back here and read along.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2022 08:25 PM (A+4GV)

48 Dr. Tongue's Evil House of Pancakes with Count Floyd was pretty spooky.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2022 08:25 PM (qH6FZ)

49 Properly done, yhe divine comedy or paradise lost would be a great horror flick

Posted by: Sven at October 29, 2022 08:26 PM (Lzpvj)

50 "Otter Limits".

A horror movie filmed in Seattle? No?

Well, someone oughta produce it, y'think?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2022 08:26 PM (e6UQI)

51 50 Jim,

Imagine a superhero parody-the possum....

Posted by: Sven at October 29, 2022 08:27 PM (Lzpvj)

52 The Village of the Damned

The Thing (old one)

Phantasm (ho lee fook)

Second Thing

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:27 PM (BRHaw)

53 Seeing expansive boobage is comforting during a horror fest binge.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2022 08:28 PM (4I/2K)

54 I heard that Elvira had gone to the dark side, er, the isle of Lesbos (as Joe Bob said in his more daring years), and I admit I'm wondering how that fits in with the groupie/starf*cker years (her words).

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:28 PM (asXVI)

55 When a kid watched all the spooky shows, Night Gallery, Outer Limits

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2022 08:28 PM (xhxe8)

56 The used to be a late night horror movie host on the local channel a long time ago. I think he was also the weather man. It was pretty lame, I don't even remember the guy's name. Dr Bubba or something like that.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 08:28 PM (sn5EN)

57 Jim, SND, that would be a horror. They got a hold of something radioactive and grew gigantic.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:28 PM (Ur3ox)

58 Every Awful House at about 3 AM!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:28 PM (BRHaw)

59 Linnea Quigly. There's a name I haven't heard in a long time and a body I haven't seen in a long time.

She got nekkid in a bunch of men's magazines back in the '70s and '80s.

She was prime.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2022 08:29 PM (bW8dp)

60 When I was a wee tad, one night while the folks were holding a party, I was allowed to stay up as late as I wanted, and saw "nightmare theater" hosted by Icky Twerp/Gorgon.

The movie was "The Cape Canaveral Monsters".

Scared the crap outta me. I kept trying to wake up my siblings so they would stay awake with me.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 08:30 PM (KLPy8)

61 I watched Dracula (Bela Lugosi) for the first time last night. It’s the earliest of the 8 horror movies in a collection I picked up the night before, and I’ve decided to watch them chronologically.

To drive home how culturally impoverished I am, I just about jumped off the couch right in the opening credits.

Renfield … Dwight Frye

“The Ballad of Dwight Frye” is a very good Alice Cooper song. I had no idea it was anything other than a dorky name. (Sorry Dwight.)

Great movie.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 29, 2022 08:31 PM (EXyHK)

62 So we lived in Little Rock AR when I was about 10 to 13.

The late show was the Charles McRaven Ford Show.

It was an amateur hour with the movie.

Best was a guy with a donkey he would climb on, hang on, sit on, etc.

The donkey never moved!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:32 PM (BRHaw)

63 ..Jim, SND, that would be a horror. They got a hold of something radioactive and grew gigantic. Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:28 PM (Ur3ox)

The movie would of course, include a Suprise! ending.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2022 08:32 PM (e6UQI)

64 ||Dr Bubba or something like that.

What part of the country?

||She got nekkid in a bunch of men's magazines back in the '70s and '80s.

She holds the record for nude scenes, I believe, in different horror movies. (Something like 60?)

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:33 PM (asXVI)

65 At a sleepover / birthday party, we stayed up and watched one or more of the Mummy movies. A double feature I think it was. His mom kept the popcorn and snacks coming. It was great!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2022 08:33 PM (4I/2K)

66 Dr Bubba or something like that.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 08:28 PM (sn5EN)

I see a zombie in jorts and a half shirt!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:34 PM (BRHaw)

67 Guillermo del Toro is doing a good job reviving the Horror Host on Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix.

Though he's certainly got the moons for it, he isn't displaying his cleavage on that show.

Thank God.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 08:34 PM (KLPy8)

68 Watching The Good Nurse (about serial killer Charles Cullen)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 29, 2022 08:34 PM (5rCWs)

69 "Linnea Quigly. There's a name I haven't heard in a long time and a body I haven't seen in a long time."

Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer and Brinke Stevens, the Holy Trinity of horror schlock.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2022 08:34 PM (qH6FZ)

70 moons = moobs

Thanks, Ac, you joke spoiling fucker!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 08:35 PM (KLPy8)

71 There I reclaimed my keyboard...

so yeah "The Possum" not the hero Bludhaven wants, probably not the one it needs but likely the one it deserves....

you play it as straight as possible not even letting the crew in on it being a parody....

What are you going to do hero?

"I am going to have an involuntary seizure approximating death, and froth at the orifices with a rancid smell."

Coming soon to a horde theater near you.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:35 PM (Lzpvj)

72 "Renfield … Dwight Frye
“The Ballad of Dwight Frye” is a very good Alice Cooper song. I had no idea it was anything other than a dorky name. (Sorry Dwight.)
Great movie.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair"

I didn't know where that name came from either. Thank you for expanding my conceptual continuity.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 08:35 PM (sn5EN)

73 lol, Jim.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:36 PM (Ur3ox)

74 Watching Gaslight on HBO Max. Including a young Angela Lansbury!

Posted by: goodluckduck at October 29, 2022 08:37 PM (pCXlW)

75 Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer and Brinke Stevens, the Holy Trinity of horror schlock.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2022 08:34 PM (qH6FZ)

Don't forget Gloria Talbott

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 08:37 PM (BgMrQ)

76 68 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 29, 2022 08:34 PM (5rCWs)

Sounds a lot more fun than the interrogation of "the bad nurse"

https://youtu.be/Z_j8s7m4dag

Elizabeth Wettlaufer-the end game of socialized medicine

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:37 PM (Lzpvj)

77 Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer and Brinke Stevens

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"Nightmare Sisters" (198

Dave DeCoteau

(I think they teamed up again much later, too, but this was the original.)

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:37 PM (asXVI)

78 Caroline Munro needs to be mentioned here too.

Sadly, she never got nekkid as far as I know.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 29, 2022 08:39 PM (bW8dp)

79 56 The used to be a late night horror movie host on the local channel a long time ago. I think he was also the weather man. It was pretty lame, I don't even remember the guy's name. Dr Bubba or something like that.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 08:28 PM (sn5EN)

Same here, Dr Fantastic hosted Fantastic Theater.

The weatherman on the other channel played Bozo.

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2022 08:39 PM (oTZbj)

80 I've never liked horror. The most frightening I for me is Count Floyd.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 29, 2022 08:40 PM (eGTCV)

81 On a more serious note, I am starting the prelims to running a pen and paper campaign, yes I know "novie thread"....

here's the thing, the lad and I were having a discussion about the differences between horror, suspense, and gorefests....

I think part of where we are societally is our desensitization to stimulation rendering the art of classic suspense moot.

A poster noted they had watched the Lugosi dracula for the first time-classical horror films that still carried suspense may as well all be foreign films these days the culture they were birthed for and from is gone.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:40 PM (Lzpvj)

82 "||Dr Bubba or something like that.
What part of the country?"

Georgia. He was supposed to be a Vampire, I think. Like a cross between a vampire and a TV preacher.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 08:40 PM (sn5EN)

83 Gaslight is a good movie.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:40 PM (Ur3ox)

84 ||Gloria Talbott||

Born in Glendale. Died in Glendale.

I have a running gag about b-list stars: Wherever they're born, they die in Woodland Hills (which is my home town, and the location of the SAG old folks' home). It's almost funny to see someone NOT die there.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:40 PM (asXVI)

85 In Cincinnati, we had The Cool Ghoul on Channel 19. He was not a horror host, but the great Bob Shreve hosted the all night SAT night-SUN morning Past Prime Playhouse. The PPP was awesome!

Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg-Political Hack Without Peer at October 29, 2022 08:41 PM (JHdcT)

86 Yall ever heard about Z Channel?

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:42 PM (BRHaw)

87 We had "The Late Great Horror Show" with Jim Cook in Erie.....my dad loved old horror movies...great memories of watching with him!

Posted by: UDM at October 29, 2022 08:42 PM (NtJ8s)

88 Moona Lisa was the love of my early teen life.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 29, 2022 08:42 PM (AiZBA)

89 Bestoink Dooley in "The Big Movie Shocker"?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12565172/reference/

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:42 PM (asXVI)

90 85 Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg-Political Hack Without Peer at October 29, 2022 08:41 PM (JHdcT)

Doctor Creep started his show right around the time I was being born and he was always part of my Ohio childhood.

Horror never really did it for me, the world is bad enough no need to revel in it.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:43 PM (Lzpvj)

91 *UP*... All Night.

Posted by: Ms Shearer at October 29, 2022 08:43 PM (oTZbj)

92 BTW, Rick McGinnis has a nice overview of The Night Stalker on SteynOnline. Link in nic if it works.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 29, 2022 08:44 PM (EXyHK)

93 86 Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:42 PM (BRHaw)

It was for Hollywood Royalty or so Lesser Ed Driscoll says this weekend over and over again.

Pretty funny that even their CCTV is overwrought and self-important.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:44 PM (Lzpvj)

94 "83 Gaslight is a good movie."

I am half-way through. Good movie, but this looks like a narrow aspect version.

Posted by: goodluckduck at October 29, 2022 08:44 PM (pCXlW)

95 Ah, the memories. Watching Svengoolie over at my friends house because where we lived in Northern Indiana, we couldn't get much of a signal from the UHF (WFLD #32) station but my friend's father had built a much better antenna that could bring in all the Chicago independent UHF stations.

The Svengoolie's appearances that I remember still shots with him doing a voice-over. Too cheap for even live action, might increased the kid appeal for some reason.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at October 29, 2022 08:44 PM (a/7LW)

96 ||Moona Lisa was the love of my early teen life.

She was possessed of abundant charms, to be sure.

||great memories of watching with him!

Yeah, I missed my dad this weekend. He loved Sinister Seymour.

||Yall ever heard about Z Channel?

Yeah, precursor to cable, Pay TV. Never had it but we had something called "On TV".

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:45 PM (asXVI)

97 Why did Elvira take off and go national where others failed to break out? Was it the boobs? It was probably the boobs."

I think that's an easy question - she was funny! At her peak, she was just as good or better than the MST crowd. She only broke in from time to time, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 08:45 PM (r46W7)

98 This is really scary, boys and girls,,,all right it's not scary at all.
That right there is my speed.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 29, 2022 08:45 PM (eGTCV)

99 67 Guillermo del Toro is doing a good job reviving the Horror Host on Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix.

**

Watched the first ep - scary!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 29, 2022 08:45 PM (5rCWs)

100 S in 4th grade 9 on school nights.
No rules on Fri and Sat.

10th grade I could watch first 30 of Carson so 11 CST.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:45 PM (BRHaw)

101

Indianapolis had Sammy Terry

wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Terry

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2022 08:45 PM (63Dwl)

102 84 Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:40 PM (asXVI)

I am friends with a contract employee who has 13 credits under his belt I have wondered at times whether he will wind up there.

He is a card carrier.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:46 PM (Lzpvj)

103 Better turn this off before I turn into a pumpkin
Have a great evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 29, 2022 08:47 PM (xhxe8)

104 ||I am half-way through. Good movie, but this looks like a narrow aspect version.

Gaslight was filmed in 1944 so it would've been 4:3 (or 1.37:1, technically). Widescreen didn't come around for another decade.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:47 PM (asXVI)

105 97 Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 08:45 PM (r46W7)

Charisma, comeliness, and technique most likely.

Her going full-time play kitty does not shock me a lot like Savannah the super groupies get pretty burnt out on malekind pretty quick and go bi mostly lesbian or just lesbian.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:48 PM (Lzpvj)

106 First horror host I remember was on Chicago Saturday night tv -- Marvin, hosting Shock Theater, running the old Universal horror classics. Late 50s I think. The only clear thing about him I recall was a game he did one night called "Your Number Is Up." He had a roulette wheel, but with weapons showing instead of numbers. Spun the wheel, and it came up with an ax. Opened his trunk, pulled out an ax. Then he opened a Chicago phone book to some random page and pointed to a name. Read off the name and address. Shouted to someone offscreen and a Frankenstein hand came into the frame and took the ax. Marvin says "Go!" and then looks at the screen, repeats the name from the phone book, and says "Your Number Is Up." A top schoolyard conversation topic for days and days.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2022 08:48 PM (a/4+U)

107 It was for Hollywood Royalty or so Lesser Ed Driscoll says this weekend over and over again.

Pretty funny that even their CCTV is overwrought and self-important.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:44 PM (Lzpvj)

It was 20 bucks a month. Supposedly invented directors cuts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:48 PM (BRHaw)

108 Sharon Tate in "Fearless Vampire Killers

I recall watching that movie for the first time on TCM quite a few years ago. I missed the very beginning so didn't know the name of the movie. I saw the main guy who looked like Roman Polanski (go figure) and then this red headed goddess appeared, and I was in love. The movie was late 60s and odd but I liked it. The red headed goddess helped a lot. I looked her up afterwards online and realized I fell in love with Sharon Tate. Then I was sad. What a beauty. What a loss.

Posted by: Puddleglum at October 29, 2022 08:49 PM (sAmhv)

109 Grades and micro reviews for the Cabinet of Curiosities episodes:

"Lot 36" - C+ -lame old trope of white, racist conservative getting his comeuppance.
"Graveyard Rats" -C- Kinda of a ripoff of "Graveyard Shift", not engaging at all
"The Autopsy" - A+ -best episode of the series, grisly, gory, horrible monster unstoppable but for extreme sacrifice
"The Outside" - D- a pile of poo, poor writing, confused feminist fable that doesn't know what to think
"Pickman's Model" - A lots of add-ons and chocolate sprinkles topping this HP Lovecraft story but they get the tone right, slowly but surely creeping doom will make itself known
"Dreams of the Witch House" - D- another pile of poo, bad writing, bad directing, bad acting, HP Lovecraft was a victim of necro-rape with this one
"The Viewing" A far-out baby! An LSD drenched tale of alien invasion.
"The Murmuring" B sweet-natured therapeutic ghost story. The climax makes you think it's better than it is.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 08:49 PM (KLPy8)

110 106 First horror host I remember was on Chicago Saturday night tv -- Marvin, hosting Shock Theater, running the old Universal horror classics. Late 50s I think. The only clear thing about him I recall was a game he did one night called "Your Number Is Up." He had a roulette wheel, but with weapons showing instead of numbers. Spun the wheel, and it came up with an ax. Opened his trunk, pulled out an ax. Then he opened a Chicago phone book to some random page and pointed to a name. Read off the name and address. Shouted to someone offscreen and a Frankenstein hand came into the frame and took the ax. Marvin says "Go!" and then looks at the screen, repeats the name from the phone book, and says "Your Number Is Up." A top schoolyard conversation topic for days and days.

Posted by: Just Some Guy

Then the wheel landed on Hammer.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at October 29, 2022 08:50 PM (oTZbj)

111 So another person opened the door.

Not Paul and not the dude in his panties!

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:51 PM (BRHaw)

112 "hey Ernie's smoking again...

Heh. Great story.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 29, 2022 08:51 PM (Xrfse)

113 Then the wheel landed on Hammer.
Posted by: Paul Pelosi at October 29, 2022 08:50 PM (oTZbj)

111 So another person opened the door.

Not Paul and not the dude in his panties!

ha
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:51 PM (BRHaw)

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:51 PM (BRHaw)

114 speaking of TCM, they've gone downhill since Robert Osbourne died, but I gotta give them credit for running one of the All Time Movie Classics right now -
Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 08:52 PM (r46W7)

115 Just stumbled on a docu of ZZTop on kidlets pirated netflix.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 08:52 PM (Ur3ox)

116 107 Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:48 PM (BRHaw)

Yeah, kind of puts it all in perspective. To see their shit at the same time you had to buy basic cable for 30 bucks and then 20 bucks a month for HBO.

Meanwhile the "chosen" were seeing better versions for 20 bucks a month.

Ladies and gents your eegalitarian for the little guy wokerati.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:52 PM (Lzpvj)

117 Then the wheel landed on Hammer.
Posted by: Paul Pelosi at October 29, 2022 08:50 PM (oTZbj)

duh duh duh duh dhuh dhuh dhuh duh duhd

Hammertime

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:52 PM (BRHaw)

118 WTBS (Ted Turner's Superstation) had Dead Ernest.

Posted by: Minuteman at October 29, 2022 08:54 PM (LaNzR)

119 OT: Red wave alert:

Washington Senate - Smiley vs. Murray Trafalgar Group (R) Murray 49, Smiley 48 Murray +1

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 29, 2022 08:54 PM (lzd36)

120 Meanwhile the "chosen" were seeing better versions for 20 bucks a month.

Ladies and gents your eegalitarian for the little guy wokerati.
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:52 PM (Lzpvj)

well duh!

Name 1 Dem you have ever talked to that when pointed out that all Dem leaders are elites and their peoples are dirt ass poor??

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:55 PM (BRHaw)

121 ||I have wondered at times whether he will wind up there.

A family friend (an award-winning screenwriter/director!) who has gone blind and is refusing to go there. Apparently, it's really nice.

||I think that's an easy question - she was funny! At her peak, she was just as good or better than the MST crowd

Bold statements. I mean, her humor was pretty much the same campy, cheesy, corny vaudeville style as the other hosts. But, yeah, she probably was funnier than most.

Funnier than MST3K, though?

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:56 PM (asXVI)

122 120 Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:55 PM (BRHaw)

I almost caused a riot back in 2016 in Yellow Springs pointing out BARNEY ZANDERS had been bought off with a dacha just like a good commie.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:56 PM (Lzpvj)

123 I didn't know where that name came from either.

Just queued up Frankenstein, also from 1931. He’s in this, too, as “Fritz”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 29, 2022 08:57 PM (EXyHK)

124 I dont want to live in a country where a 82 YO man cant fuck a 40 YO dude and then have a hammer fight.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:57 PM (BRHaw)

125 We had that theater queen Sir Graves Ghastly when I was a kid, and as a teen we transitioned to The Ghoul (Parma!). I saw many a B horror and sci fi movie with our good hosts.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 29, 2022 08:58 PM (Dc2NZ)

126 121 Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:56 PM (asXVI)

I am contrarian by nature and to a degree so is he, we have an odd respect driven friendship.

Elvira could probably suck start a J79 at peak....

that buys a lot of tolerance from station owners I would imagine.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:58 PM (Lzpvj)

127 Just queued up Frankenstein, also from 1931. He’s in this, too, as “Fritz”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 29, 2022 08:57 PM (EXyHK)

You are hitting the classics aren't you.

Wolfman next?

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 08:59 PM (BgMrQ)

128 Joe Bob was okay, but I really wanted to stick my wiener in Elvira.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 29, 2022 08:59 PM (geVLo)

129 124 Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 08:57 PM (BRHaw)

You meann "can't have a hammer fight"...look post carnal lethal melees are not my thing...but in my defense and in fairness to California it does seem to be a Golden State democrat thing.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:59 PM (Lzpvj)

130 95 Ah, the memories. Watching Svengoolie over at my friends house because where we lived in Northern Indiana, we couldn't get much of a signal from the UHF (WFLD #32) station but my friend's father had built a much better antenna that could bring in all the Chicago independent UHF stations."

I had cousins who lived on a farm in southern Wisconsin back then, (my mother's family) and we would do a big trip in the summer from Phoenix to go stay with them for a week. My uncle had built a huge Antennae for the farm, so some of my best memories are laying awake all night with my cousins watching the Chicago UHF stations, and all the wild stuff they would have on.

(I remember his antennae had this electric motor on it so you could physically rotate it to fine tune the reception)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 08:59 PM (r46W7)

131 Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:56 PM (Lzpvj)

His wife, with whom he honeymooned in the USSR, committed massive loan fraud acquiring land for a college she was running. The college went bankrupt. She grossly overstated enrollment and revenues, but there were, of course, no consequences to her.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 29, 2022 08:59 PM (lzd36)

132 125 We had that theater queen Sir Graves Ghastly when I was a kid, and as a teen we transitioned to The Ghoul (Parma!). I saw many a B horror and sci fi movie with our good hosts.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 29, 2022 08:58 PM (Dc2NZ)

He gave Parma such a hard time...I still laugh to think about it.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:00 PM (BgMrQ)

133 someone you totally wouldn't expect to fall for the old "just take off your clothes for a test shoot, honey" bit

and to mankind's benefit that she did

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 29, 2022 09:00 PM (MxRrv)

134 130 Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 08:59 PM (r46W7)

We had to share "antenna duties" to get WXIX for mom on weekends...one of us literally had to charge the antenna with our bodies.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:00 PM (Lzpvj)

135 127 Just queued up Frankenstein, also from 1931. He’s in this, too, as “Fritz”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 29, 2022 08:57 PM (EXyHK)

Watch Frankenstein, then Bride of Frankenstein, and THEN Young Frankenstein. It's astounding how much of the latter is just a straight scene by scene remake of the first two. (mostly Bride) It also points up just how much dark humor is hidden in the two originals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 09:01 PM (r46W7)

136 131 Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 29, 2022 08:59 PM (lzd36)

I think the country actually went covert soviet in the 90s.

I am not kidding.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:01 PM (Lzpvj)

137 128 Joe Bob was okay, but I really wanted to stick my wiener in Elvira.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 29, 2022 08:59 PM (geVLo)

Just damnnnn...

Can't fault you though.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:02 PM (BgMrQ)

138 Elvira, Ah-oom-Bop, Ah-oom-Bop, Ah-oom-Bop, Ah-Mau-Mau...

Posted by: The Oak Ridge Boys at October 29, 2022 09:02 PM (oTZbj)

139 After they built the Sears Tower, we could barely get 32 and 44. There were shadows, like double images of everything. Was common in the suburbs until cable.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 29, 2022 09:02 PM (lzd36)

140 The Ghoul (Parma!). I saw many a B horror and sci fi movie with our good hosts.

Yep. It was must-see-late-TV on the weekends. Ah, to be young again...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 29, 2022 09:02 PM (Xrfse)

141 Mr Green Jeans and that creepy Captain Kangaroo scared me at a young age.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:03 PM (u82oZ)

142 Where were you when they blew up Mr. Froggy?!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 29, 2022 09:03 PM (Dc2NZ)

143 ..You are hitting the classics aren't you. Wolfman next?
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 08:59 PM (BgMrQ)

Wolfman Jack, comin' atcha baby, from the hundred-thousand watt blowtorch just South of the Border. OwwooOOO!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2022 09:03 PM (e6UQI)

144 138 Posted by: The Oak Ridge Boys at October 29, 2022 09:02 PM (oTZbj)

Yeah not the same gal, *or* she looked hot in Daisy Dukes you make the call.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:03 PM (Lzpvj)

145 Funnier than MST3K, though?
Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:56 PM (asXVI)

no, of course not overall, and the sheer volume of their riffs is what makes their show. Tell 10 jokes a minute, and it doesn't matter if 3/4 of them are duds.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 09:04 PM (r46W7)

146 140 The Ghoul (Parma!). I saw many a B horror and sci fi movie with our good hosts.

Yep. It was must-see-late-TV on the weekends. Ah, to be young again...
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 29, 2022 09:02 PM (Xrfse)

We (the Horde) went off on a Ghoulardi tangent a few years back, and it turned out that one of Ernie's kids was in the crowd that night.

Haven't seen him pop up since...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:04 PM (BgMrQ)

147 I just checked Amazon and Reanimator is available again on dvd. It had been unavailable for quite a long time.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2022 09:04 PM (4I/2K)

148 I'm more Uncle Floyd for late night hosts

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 29, 2022 09:04 PM (EZebt)

149 Elvira as you probably never saw her. This link is soooo not work friendly that you'll get fired, killed, and stuffed in the company dumpster.

https://www.boobpedia.com/boobs/File:Elvira03.jpg

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2022 09:05 PM (VwHCD)

150 I loved Wolfman Jack.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 09:05 PM (Ur3ox)

151 Cassandra Peterson was born and raised in the nearby city. Manhattan... Kansas.

I think her cleavage was just good genes and a lack of modesty, but people are invited to tour the local University to study the possibility, for science.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:05 PM (u82oZ)

152 MST3K watched the movie about 20 or 30 X

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:06 PM (BRHaw)

153 150 I loved Wolfman Jack.
Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 09:05 PM (Ur3ox)

clap for the wolfman

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:06 PM (BRHaw)

154 126 121 Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 08:56 PM (asXVI)

I am contrarian by nature and to a degree so is he, we have an odd respect driven friendship.

Elvira could probably suck start a J79 at peak....

that buys a lot of tolerance from station owners I would imagine.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:58 PM (Lzpvj)

Her cleavage and long legs in black nylons attracted both station managers and a lot of late night teen aged male viewers. The age-old marketing maxim: Tease the customer with what he wants!

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2022 09:07 PM (AMIL/)

155
The Shrimpenstein Show: With Gene Moss, Jim Thurman. A hosted horror kids show from KHJ Channel 9, Los Angeles, California, USA screened from 1967-1968; with Gene Moss as Dr. Rudolph Von Schtick and Shrimpenstein voiced by Jim Thurman.

Gene seemed a genuinely good fellow, I got to watch from the sidelines where pops worked.
Hormel hot dogs was one sponsor, live ads would be done off the cuff with Thurman as Wilfred the wiener wolf. Wilfred: "I was down at the plant chasing rats" Dr: "oh no, Wilfred, there's no rats at that factory!" Wilfred: "yeah not anymore, they fell into the vat". Moss looked horrified thinking "there goes the sponsor"

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 29, 2022 09:08 PM (hgO+8)

156 141 Mr Green Jeans and that creepy Captain Kangaroo scared me at a young age.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:03 PM (u82oZ)

The good Captain is a Marine, and has a Doctor of Humane letters from Dartmouth.

#goindians

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:08 PM (BgMrQ)

157 Kansas City area in the 1980s: Hostess was Crematia Mortem. No idea who she was in real life.

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 29, 2022 09:08 PM (Om/di)

158
I'm more Uncle Floyd for late night hosts
Posted by: San Franpsycho

3D House of Stewardesses

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2022 09:08 PM (63Dwl)

159 Elizabeth Wettlaufer-the end game of socialized medicine
Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 08:37 PM (Lzpvj)

So the scariest part of the movie is finding out all 9 hospitals covered up for the killer coz they didn't want to be liable

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 29, 2022 09:09 PM (5rCWs)

160 ||Tell 10 jokes a minute, and it doesn't matter if 3/4 of them are duds.

Yeah, but even if you only count the interstitials, is there anything in any horror host's canon that can match the sublime majesty of "A Patrick Swayze Christmas", a phone call from Megaweapon (who's currently staying with his sister down in Florida), or Torgo's Pizza?

I would say, with some caution, that certain Joe Bob bits make it: The law of Entropy and unravelling the timelines of Back To The Future II, tracing the subway path The Warriors took to get back to Coney Island, and I'll even go so far to say his recent "deep dive" into the Van Patten family was better than the remarkably similar bit MST3K did in the '90s.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:09 PM (asXVI)

161 Recently watched movie:

Black Adam - A-/B+ - much better than expected. Perfect popcorn muncher and finally a DC supers movie that "gets" the lead character as he is in the comics. Black Adam isn't a hero, and he's not a hero in this movie. And Dr Fate and Hawkman are perfect. The movie has problems, but for once, the problems are not trying to screw up with the characters.

Inspector General (1949 Danny Kaye) - B - Danny Kaye is the superior broadway musical version of Jim Carrey. He is an artist in this movie. When he's on screen, the movie sings. When he's not, it snores. But a good old school movie, which takes a LOT of liberties with its source material but still keeps the character concept and plot idea/message mostly intact.

Posted by: Nova local at October 29, 2022 09:09 PM (exHjb)

162 I am making $90 an hour working at my friend Paul's home. I never imagined that it was honest to goodness yet my closest companion is earning $16,000 a month by working with only a hammer, that was truly astounding for me, Nancy prescribed for me to attempt it simply.
Posted by: Sarah-David Depape at October 29, 2022 10:28 AM (SP4pi)
___

LOL!

Posted by: SMH at October 29, 2022 09:10 PM (RU4sa)

163 sven

2008, the Communists won the cold war in America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:10 PM (u82oZ)

164 "Mr Green Jeans and that creepy Captain Kangaroo scared me at a young age.
Posted by: NaCly Dog "

That lady on Romper Room with the Magic Spy Mirror freaked me out.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 09:10 PM (sn5EN)

165 159 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 29, 2022 09:09 PM (5rCWs)

and the mounties were likely indifferent because "she is saving the state money eh?"

Like I said a real horror film and she is not and never was "hot."

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:11 PM (Lzpvj)

166 That lady on Romper Room with the Magic Spy Mirror freaked me out.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 09:10 PM (sn5EN)

Not my Miss Barbara...

***crushes***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:12 PM (BgMrQ)

167 Hey Salty!
Hey fd and sven!

Posted by: SMH at October 29, 2022 09:12 PM (IPpg0)

168 Chiller Theatre with Fritz the Night Owl in Columbus Ohio was how we found old horror movies.

Posted by: Megthered at October 29, 2022 09:12 PM (ebOhT)

169 Saw the new remake of "Hellraiser" on HULU cuz I read a review praising it.

Slow at the beginning, but it does get its splatter on during the last third or so of the movie.
The basic problem with it as a "Hellraiser" movie is that they've turned Pinhead into a baroque Michael Myers.
The basis of "Hellraiser", its philosophy such as it wass, is that jaded individuals seeking the ultimate experience purposely solve the puzzle box only to find that it's opened the gates of Hell and they have called the Cenobites to themselves.
In this Hellraiser anybody who happens to get a cut from the box whether intentional or not, gets a visit from the Cenobites with the attendant torture and damnation. This conversation happens a lot:
Pinhead: "You have called us."
Victim: "Whoa. No! Hold on there hoss. This stupid box thingy cut me. I didn't call you.
PH: "You must keep your bargain. Such sights we will show you."
V: Yeah, no. I didn't make a bargain. I'm leaving."
PH: "Well, look, chum, here's the deal. We got a drop of your blood now we get to torture you.
*hellchain drags victim off*
If you like "Hellraiser", you'll probably think this one's okay.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 09:12 PM (KLPy8)

170 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2022 09:08 PM (63Dwl)

Ohh that's scary kids. Alright it wasn't really that scary,,, but did you get a load of those chicks?

Posted by: Count Floyd at October 29, 2022 09:12 PM (lzd36)

171 163 Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:10 PM (u82oZ)

That is what "undercover soviet" means...

I think 2008 was the football spike as the 4th quarter ran out...

so much evil slipped in during Beijing Bill it was a foregone conclusion.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:12 PM (Lzpvj)

172 He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake.

Posted by: An Elf at October 29, 2022 09:13 PM (oTZbj)

173 {{{SMH}}}
* Respectful tip of the hat to Ex-Ex. *

Sure wish I had had more time to talk with you and Ex-Ex.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:13 PM (u82oZ)

174 That lady on Romper Room with the Magic Spy Mirror freaked me out.

One of our very own.

Posted by: The EffBeeEye at October 29, 2022 09:13 PM (Xrfse)

175 or Torgo's Pizza?"

oh gawd, I couldn't stop laughing the first time I saw that one! That was so perfect. I'm glad Joe Bob is making a comeback of sorts, after being invisible for a couple decades. I was an old old fan of his from the days when he wrote a weekend column for the long defunct Dallas Times Herald.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 09:13 PM (r46W7)

176 167 Posted by: SMH at October 29, 2022 09:12 PM (IPpg0)

evening

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:13 PM (Lzpvj)

177 Hey SMH!

browndog, Miss Barbara could see you in your underwear you know.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 09:14 PM (sn5EN)

178 That lady on Romper Room with the Magic Spy Mirror freaked me out.
Posted by: fd
___

Me too!

Posted by: SMH at October 29, 2022 09:14 PM (IPpg0)

179 Inspector General (1949 Danny Kaye) - B - Danny Kaye is the superior broadway musical version of Jim Carrey. He is an artist in this movie. When he's on screen, the movie sings. When he's not, it snores. But a good old school movie, which takes a LOT of liberties with its source material but still keeps the character concept and plot idea/message mostly intact.
Posted by: Nova local at October 29, 2022 09:09 PM (exHjb)

We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:14 PM (BRHaw)

180 177 Hey SMH!

browndog, Miss Barbara could see you in your underwear you know.
Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 09:14 PM (sn5EN)

....uhhh, I was not...you know...touching it.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:15 PM (BgMrQ)

181 oh gawd, I couldn't stop laughing the first time I saw that one! That was so perfect. I'm glad Joe Bob is making a comeback of sorts, after being invisible for a couple decades. I was an old old fan of his from the days when he wrote a weekend column for the long defunct Dallas Times Herald.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 09:13 PM (r46W7)

chain saw fu
2 by 4 fu
tire tool fu

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:15 PM (BRHaw)

182 Wolfman next?

Nope. The Mummy from 1932. Wolfman will be toward the end.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 29, 2022 09:15 PM (EXyHK)

183 I am watching the original "Gone in 60 Seconds" on DVD. Quite a time capsule of early/mid Seventies cars, Playboy-recommended 'hip' male clothing, and street signs and street "feel." The film is forty-eight years old and the cars and street scenes seem like yesterday to me while watching it; I'll bet it would look like another planet to everyone born in 1990 and later.

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2022 09:16 PM (AMIL/)

184 ||Hostess was Crematia Mortem. No idea who she was in real life.

Oh, I came across her in researching this. Roberta Solomon, a voice actress/singer.

||Elvira as you probably never saw her.

For those interested in such scandalous material, I discovered something else interesting in my research. On Brave, searching for "Cassandra Peterson" turned up the usual nice head shots. Searching for "Cassandra Peterson redhead" turned up ALLLLL the pictures.

(I vastly prefer CP as a redhead.)

|| Wolfman Jack

Another Knott's Haunt regular back in the '70s!

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:17 PM (asXVI)

185 183 I am watching the original "Gone in 60 Seconds" on DVD. Quite a time capsule of early/mid Seventies cars, Playboy-recommended 'hip' male clothing, and street signs and street "feel." The film is forty-eight years old and the cars and street scenes seem like yesterday to me while watching it; I'll bet it would look like another planet to everyone born in 1990 and later.
Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2022 09:16 PM (AMIL/)

I get that same feeling! Another movie from the same era with great cars and the same kind of feel is Vanishing Point.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 09:18 PM (r46W7)

186 182 Wolfman next?

Nope. The Mummy from 1932. Wolfman will be toward the end.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 29, 2022 09:15 PM (EXyHK)

Ah I forgot about The Mummy...not one of my favorites TBH.

I had all the Revell Monster models when I was a kid, and The Mummy just didn't do it for me. The Creature from the Black Lagoon however....eeesh.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:18 PM (BgMrQ)

187 That lady on Romper Room with the Magic Spy Mirror freaked me out.
Posted by: fd
___
Me too!
Posted by: SMH "

It was like that "Your Number Is Up" game. You just prayed that she wouldn't say your name.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2022 09:18 PM (sn5EN)

188 Hey browndog!

How are you doing?

Posted by: SMH at October 29, 2022 09:19 PM (IPpg0)

189 If you are an Elvira/Cassandra Peterson fan, look for the 70s B-movie "The Working Girls."

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2022 09:20 PM (AMIL/)

190 @81 --

Hitchcock distinguished between shock and suspense.

Shock: Bomb in room goes boom.

Suspense: Audience sees bad guy hiding bomb in room, then other people go into room -- will they get out before boom?

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 29, 2022 09:21 PM (Om/di)

191 For those interested in such scandalous material, I discovered something else interesting in my research. On Brave, searching for "Cassandra Peterson" turned up the usual nice head shots. Searching for "Cassandra Peterson redhead" turned up ALLLLL the pictures.
...
Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:17 PM (asXVI)

Yeah, for Google, use yours and add naked...

Regardless, she's very pretty when not in Elvira mode.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:21 PM (BgMrQ)

192 Ah, Joe Bob. Saw him on TNT Monstervision, and loved the book (from his review columns?) Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In.

"You got yer kung fu, you got yer bimbo fu which is yer kung fu movies starring women, and then you got yer deja fu which is the feeling that you've been kicked in the head like this before."
-- Joe Bob Briggs on Monstervision on some date I don't remember.

These days I get a feeling of deja fu every time I look at the news.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2022 09:21 PM (a/4+U)

193 Happy Death Day was a pretty good comedy horror take off of Groundhog Day.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 09:21 PM (hg4Xf)

194 Intermission

So far it's been incredible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2022 09:22 PM (WJUvy)

195 188 Hey browndog!

How are you doing?
Posted by: SMH at October 29, 2022 09:19 PM (IPpg0)

{{{SMH}}}

All recovered from the non stop drive-a-thon.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:22 PM (BgMrQ)

196 If you like "Hellraiser", you'll probably think this one's okay.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 09:12 PM (KLPy

---
Eh, probably not...The first two were excellent because they explored *desire* not just because they were splatterfests. In the first one, Frank summons the Cenobites because he's so far down the path of debauchery, there's nothing left for him to explore in the human world. In the second, the doctor tries to use a proxy to avoid his fate, but it doesn't work because its his *desires* that summon the Cenobites, not the autistic girl.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2022 09:22 PM (WFaF3)

197 190 Posted by: Weak Geek at October 29, 2022 09:21 PM (Om/di)

Quite, his departure from the crime-espionage drama to "horror" suspense was interesting....kind of like a mid movie genre shift.

Current "story tellers" can't hold his jock strap.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:23 PM (Lzpvj)

198 15 worst Halloween costumes:

1. A Holocaust victim (now do uhigurs)

2. Anything involving blackface (now do pinkface)

3. Transphobic costumes (now do reading time)

4. The COVID-19 pandemic (ha)

5. Body-shaming and objectifying costumes (now do big tit shop treacher).

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:23 PM (BRHaw)

199 194 Intermission

So far it's been incredible.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 29, 2022 09:22 PM (WJUvy)

what are you watching?

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 09:23 PM (r46W7)

200 ||I was an old old fan of his from the days when he wrote a weekend column for the long defunct Dallas Times Herald.

I believe that was one of the many venues he got canceled from for his "We Are The World" parody.

He wrote "We are the Weird", and I quote, ''for the benefit of minority groups in Africa and the United Negro College Fund in the United States, cause I think we should be sending as many Negroes to college as we can, specially the stupid Negroes.''

We have Darcy the Mail Girl to thank for his return. She worked her ass off to make it happen. His attitude was "People don't need me. They have Google."

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:24 PM (asXVI)

201 Elvira gave off a Mae West vibe. That is, if you ever paid attention to Mae West's dialogue.

Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2022 09:24 PM (2subk)

202 Intermission

Let's all got to the lobby.

Posted by: That guy who always sings... at October 29, 2022 09:24 PM (Xrfse)

203 196 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2022 09:22 PM (WFaF3)

You have to understand that the original hellraisers were about over-satiated hedonists chasing feeling...

kind of like my sex worker chased me with a hammer...

//Paul Pelosi

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:24 PM (Lzpvj)

204 201 Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2022 09:24 PM (2subk)

Indeed, she is still hot for 6 dozen years....

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:25 PM (Lzpvj)

205 The Bay Area had Bob Wilkins on KTVU's Creature Feature. Wilkins fell into the gig and sorta played himself. The set was all creepy, and in the middle of it was this normally dressed (for the 70s) nerdy guy. His only noticeable concession to schtick was he'd smoke a big ol' cigar. He'd tell you if the movie was a stinker, provide background on the production, and was pretty low-key. And he'd bring on guests. Once he had Ray Harryhausen on. He was cool by being anti-cool.

Posted by: Rork at October 29, 2022 09:25 PM (NVVMD)

206 I'm grateful for the opportunity to meet Cassandra Peterson. She purty.

Posted by: Eromero at October 29, 2022 09:26 PM (0OP+5)

207 Joe Bob Briggs' Breast Count.

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2022 09:26 PM (oTZbj)

208 In the second, the doctor tries to use a proxy to avoid his fate, but it doesn't work because its his *desires* that summon the Cenobites, not the autistic girl.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2022 09:22 PM (WFaF3)

They sorta go this route as it starts with a super-billionaire summoning the Cenobites with a proxy.

The movie really doesn't wake up again until he reappears and wants to reverse his "bargain".
His story is the most interesting.
The drug-addict Mary Sue's...meh.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 09:26 PM (KLPy8)

209 He wrote "We are the Weird", and I quote, ''for the benefit of minority groups in Africa and the United Negro College Fund in the United States, cause I think we should be sending as many Negroes to college as we can, specially the stupid Negroes.''

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:24 PM (asXVI)

Now do Harvard admissions policy!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:27 PM (BRHaw)

210 Rick and Morty had a Hellraiser episode. Not one of their best.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 09:27 PM (hg4Xf)

211 sven

To think, Ross Perot nailed it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:28 PM (u82oZ)

212
Joe Bob Briggs' Breast Count.
Posted by: davidt

How many does he have?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2022 09:28 PM (63Dwl)

213 First horror movie I remember seeing was The House on Haunted Hill. Scared the crap out of me.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 29, 2022 09:28 PM (nxdel)

214 I think all my local TV stations were so conservative they might have run "Topper" and its sequels around Halloween.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2022 09:29 PM (qH6FZ)

215 201 Elvira gave off a Mae West vibe. That is, if you ever paid attention to Mae West's dialogue.
Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2022 09:24 PM (2subk)

I bet Mae took a bat to the bleachers a time or 2!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:29 PM (BRHaw)

216 212
Joe Bob Briggs' Breast Count.
Posted by: davidt

How many does he have?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

They can only count up to two.

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2022 09:29 PM (oTZbj)

217 211 Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:28 PM (u82oZ)

I'd argue he enabled it by functionally electing Clinton twice, but I digress.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:30 PM (Lzpvj)

218 First horror movie I remember seeing was The House on Haunted Hill. Scared the crap out of me.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 29, 2022 09:28 PM (nxdel)
---
I think the first one I can remember seeing is "The Watcher in the Woods." It's a Disney flick and genuinely creepy. It's also very short (less than 90 minutes).

Worth a watch...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2022 09:31 PM (WFaF3)

219 I'm grateful for the opportunity to meet Cassandra Peterson. She purty.
Posted by: Eromero
___

Meh.

She's aiight.

Posted by: SMH at October 29, 2022 09:31 PM (IPpg0)

220 213 First horror movie I remember seeing was The House on Haunted Hill. Scared the crap out of me.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 29, 2022 09:28 PM (nxdel)

Is that the one with the acid pit?

If so, I agree...I think I saw it when I was seven.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:31 PM (BgMrQ)

221 {{{ jewells45 }}}

Good luck on the 7th.

Just completed preventative maintenance on the entire prayer wheel and clutch assembly. We are still all throttles up and going at maximum military power.

And FUCK CANCER!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:32 PM (u82oZ)

222 221 Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:32 PM (u82oZ)

Amen.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:33 PM (Lzpvj)

223 Jewells!

You got this.

Posted by: SMH at October 29, 2022 09:33 PM (IPpg0)

224 Psycho must have been really scary at the time. My mom stopped taking showers. Only baths.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 09:33 PM (hg4Xf)

225 First scary movie I saw as a child was The Haunting.

Nightmares for weeks.

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2022 09:35 PM (oTZbj)

226 Psycho must have been really scary at the time. My mom stopped taking showers. Only baths.
Posted by: polynikes

Same here.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 09:35 PM (Ur3ox)

227 Frankenstein (the man, not the monster) looks a lot like Niedermeyer from Animal House when he puts a suit on.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 29, 2022 09:35 PM (EXyHK)

228 224 Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 09:33 PM (hg4Xf)

I can freak the wife out by doing the "duh duh duh" bit...

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:35 PM (Lzpvj)

229 @175 --
Tom, one of the J-school professors at KU (Rock Chalk!) had Joe Bob columns taped to his office door. I made a point to stop there often. One made me laugh so hard I nearly collapsed in the hallway. Wish I could remember what the joke was.

Boy, the DTH had great layout.

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 29, 2022 09:36 PM (Om/di)

230 Amen, Salty.

Posted by: SMH at October 29, 2022 09:36 PM (IPpg0)

231 I can remember a gigantic octopus tearing sown the Golden Gate Bridge when I was a kid. Creeped me out the next time I traveled over that bridge with my Dad.

But living through the Cold War (one example--being led to fallout shelters in Japan during the Cuban Missile Crisis) was my real-life horror show. So horror movies, after the age of 10, bored me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:36 PM (u82oZ)

232 ..Psycho must have been really scary at the time. My mom stopped taking showers. Only baths. Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 09:33 PM (hg4Xf)

Play the DVD of Psycho on movie night.

Blend a tablespoon of Food & Drug Red Dye #4 into your Mrs' shampoo bottle.

Enjoy the screams. Enjoy writing that huge check to your divorce attorney.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2022 09:36 PM (e6UQI)

233 I think the country actually went covert soviet in the 90s.

--

Yep. The big tell was the PATRIOT Act, although it was clearly years before that because it was sitting in the drawer just waiting for 9/11 to play out.

It's neat to realize the USSR won. When they collapsed, our spies turned inward. Very soviet-ly.

Posted by: Gray Man - PAUL PELOSI FOR SENATE at October 29, 2022 09:38 PM (oNEHE)

234 Leave us not forget Morgus the Magnificent in New Orleans in the '60s and off-and-on-again onward. Sid Noel, the radio personality who created and played the character, just died a year or so ago. His Morgus was the stereotypical mad scientist, but he was very much a part of his milieu. His lab was supposed to be just above the "Old City Ice House," he often had local celebrities visit (and even Frankie Laine once!), and the spin-off movie from 1962, The Wacky World of Dr. Morgus, was set and filmed in the city.

In the late '60s a local channel even had him hosting Star Trek reruns on Sat. afternoons.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2022 09:38 PM (c6xtn)

235 The first movie is saw in the theater was Hitchcocks Psycho. My parents didn't think it was too scary for us. I still remember the feelings I had.

Posted by: Megthered at October 29, 2022 09:38 PM (uvFkq)

236 The first time I was scared from a movie was when I was about 4 years old. The Wizard of Oz flying monkeys scared the crap out of me.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 09:38 PM (hg4Xf)

237 Psycho must have been really scary at the time. My mom stopped taking showers. Only baths.

I STILL think about that stupid movie when I shower.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 29, 2022 09:38 PM (nxdel)

238 I was in high school and watched Serpent and the Rainbow with friends. I pretended that I was sleeping through most of it. Still do not like scary movies.

Posted by: Quirky bookworm at October 29, 2022 09:38 PM (gBvlU)

239 224 Psycho must have been really scary at the time. My mom stopped taking showers. Only baths.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 09:33 PM (hg4Xf)

Mom and Dad went to see Psycho. Daddy had to take the babysitter home. Mom sat in the exact center of the house, with her back against the wall, where she could see most of the doors until he came home.

Posted by: sal at October 29, 2022 09:39 PM (y40tE)

240 Every time I see Jewells45 pop up I think of Jewel Shepard. Most people would know her from "Return of the Living Dead" as not-Linnea Quigley, or "the blue-haired girl who doesn't get naked."

She put together a very good (if sloppily edited) book called "Invasion of the B Girls", which contains interviews with Kitten Natividad, Monique Gabrielle, Michelle Bauer, etc.

She seems to have an antagonistic relationship with female exploitation, even though (especially because?) it kept her working for decades.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:39 PM (asXVI)

241 I know who these people are but never watched them. Sophisticated, I am not.

Posted by: Eromero at October 29, 2022 09:39 PM (0OP+5)

242 237 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 29, 2022 09:38 PM (nxdel)

He was a master....

I convinced the wife there were alternate shower stabbings possible...she calmed down eventually.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:39 PM (Lzpvj)

243 231 I can remember a gigantic octopus tearing sown the Golden Gate Bridge when I was a kid. Creeped me out the next time I traveled over that bridge with my Dad.

...
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:36 PM (u82oZ)

Yeah, that one got me too.

The first time I visited San Francisco, and crossed the bridge, it was the first thing that popped into my mind...decades later

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:40 PM (BgMrQ)

244 Early 70's in South Florida we had 'Creature Feature' on Saturday nights....fond memories!

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at October 29, 2022 09:40 PM (7SwmH)

245 Jim
Sunk New Dawn

Thank you for that tasteful and doubtlessly valuable t-shirt. It is an instant heirloom that I modeled for our local pragmatic group Wednesday.

They wanted explanations. Ha!

Hope you lost no money on your worderful gift.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:40 PM (u82oZ)

246 236 The first time I was scared from a movie was when I was about 4 years old. The Wizard of Oz flying monkeys scared the crap out of me.
Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 09:38 PM (hg4Xf)

#getinline

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:41 PM (BgMrQ)

247 ||I was in high school and watched Serpent and the Rainbow with friends.

"Don't let them bury me. I'm not dead."

You know, if you have to TELL people that...

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:41 PM (asXVI)

248

On Monday, September 19th,1966 CBS announced it was postponing its broadcast of Psycho due to concerns raised by some of its affiliates in the Midwest regarding the appropriateness of airing the movie following the murder of 21-year-old Valerie Jeanne Percy in Chicago the day before. She was killed at her family’s Chicago home in Kenilworth, Illinois on Sunday, September 18th. Her father, Charles H. Percy, was in the middle of a campaign for the United States Senate (he would go on to win and served in the Senate until 1985).

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 29, 2022 09:41 PM (63Dwl)

249 Thanks NaCly. My husband finished his second novena today. He said it's so peaceful when he says it sometimes he falls asleep! LOL.. you fall asleep while you're praying for me!?

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 29, 2022 09:42 PM (nxdel)

250 First scary movie I saw as a child was The Haunting.
Nightmares for weeks.
Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2022 09:35 PM (oTZbj)

"The Haunting" is an excellent movie. And can bring the chills even as an adult.

Turn off the lights, sit down and watch.
If you're in the right mood, it'll getcha!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 09:42 PM (KLPy8)

251 The first time I was scared from a movie was when I was about 4 years old. The Wizard of Oz flying monkeys scared the crap out of me.

Meh. Pikers.

Posted by: The Lollipop Guild at October 29, 2022 09:42 PM (Xrfse)

252 247 Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:41 PM (asXVI)

EH, I think a film where the hero tells the villain at the conclusion:

"I've had a chat with Pete, Gabe, and Mike...Lucifer agreed I can stay here as long as it takes to take you to them."

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2022 09:43 PM (Lzpvj)

253 Very late to the party but for NE Ohio kids in the late 60's - there was only Ghoulardi.

His schtick is an integral part of all of us.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2022 09:43 PM (F7cJA)

254 I had all the Revell Monster models when I was a kid, and The Mummy just didn't do it for me. The Creature from the Black Lagoon however....eeesh.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022

***
Aurora was the one with the classic Universal monster models like the Mummy and the Wolf Man. Revell was really more into cars, sailing ships, modern naval vessels, and airplanes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2022 09:44 PM (c6xtn)

255 Posted by: sal at October 29, 2022 09:39 PM (y40tE)

lol. My poor mom had to endure my father's night shift at Ellsworth AFB and then being gone for a month for temp duty at Minot.

Posted by: polynikes at October 29, 2022 09:44 PM (hg4Xf)

256 Wonderful gift. Sheesh.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:44 PM (u82oZ)

257 flying monkeys scared the crap out of me.
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They are back.

See: AntiFa, BLM

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2022 09:44 PM (O8Vti)

258 The Blob

freaked me out

Went and got Dad to watch it with me!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:44 PM (BRHaw)

259 The Golden Gate Bridge has been destroyed cinematically so many times, I know people who are convinced it is actually not safe to drive over.

Harryhausen's Giant Octopus "It Came From Beneath The Sea":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5fOzuoFDqU

TTRPG from company sponsoring season 13 of MST3K, "They Came From Beneath The Sea!" where you role-play your own B-movie:

https://tinyurl.com/w7wyfv64

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:44 PM (asXVI)

260 Jason and the Argonauts is the scariest movie ever

Posted by: REDACTED at October 29, 2022 09:44 PM (us2H3)

261 My husband finished his second novena today. He said it's so peaceful when he says it sometimes he falls asleep! LOL.. you fall asleep while you're praying for me!?

That may be God's way of telling him that everything will turn out alright.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 29, 2022 09:45 PM (Xrfse)

262 Most terrifying thing as a kid?
The "normies" in Twilight Zone's "Eye of the Beholder".
Didn't sleep well for like three days.

Not a horror fan at all- except for Nosferatu.
Seeing it with the live orchestra was great.

Posted by: sal at October 29, 2022 09:45 PM (y40tE)

263 jewells45 fuck cancer

So incentivize his reactions! You have the power.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:46 PM (u82oZ)

264 Thanks NaCly. My husband finished his second novena today. He said it's so peaceful when he says it sometimes he falls asleep! LOL.. you fall asleep while you're praying for me!?
Posted by: jewells45

I routinely fall asleep when praying the Rosary for my varied, and Horde related, intensions.

Funny thing is, my fingers keep going and move along the beads.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2022 09:46 PM (F7cJA)

265 Salty. I'm glad you're enjoying the shirt. Wear it in good health, amigo!

Costs-wise, I recouped about half of the investment. I'll count that a near-win. Donation price was the exact unit cost, ea.

More can be ordered, but I'll have to strike the "Corsicana, TX 2022" lower-rocker, and think up a suitable alternative. (min. qty. new order=80 shirts)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2022 09:46 PM (e6UQI)

266 Was coffin joe a latin Spanish language thing? Those "coffin joe" movies I recall were creepy. Remember him basically stalking women.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 29, 2022 09:46 PM (hgO+8)

267 The Blob

Oh shit yeah.. that's another one that freaked me out.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 29, 2022 09:46 PM (nxdel)

268 On Monday, October 31st, 2022 CBS announced it was postponing its broadcast of Tool Time due to concerns raised by some of its affiliates in California regarding the appropriateness of airing the movie following the assault of 82 year old Paul Pelosi Percy in San Fransisco the week before.

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2022 09:46 PM (oTZbj)

269 253 Very late to the party but for NE Ohio kids in the late 60's - there was only Ghoulardi.

His schtick is an integral part of all of us.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2022 09:43 PM (F7cJA)

To quote John MccLain: Welcome to the party pal

I was left with only a few other to provide back up support as to the Ghoul's legend.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:46 PM (BgMrQ)

270 On Monday, September 19th,1966 CBS announced it was postponing its broadcast of Psycho due to concerns raised by some of its affiliates in the Midwest regarding the appropriateness of airing the movie following the murder of 21-year-old Valerie Jeanne Percy in Chicago the day before.
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Presumably 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' will no longer be aired.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2022 09:47 PM (O8Vti)

271 Who made the very cool Ace of Spades leather flask?

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 29, 2022 09:47 PM (nxdel)

272 just finished watching La Ceremonie

pretty funny movie

and the bad guys die in the end

Posted by: REDACTED at October 29, 2022 09:48 PM (us2H3)

273 260 Jason and the Argonauts is the scariest movie ever
Posted by: REDACTED at October 29, 2022 09:44 PM (us2H3)

Yeah, skeletons wielding swords will do that to a person.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:48 PM (BgMrQ)

274
Harryhausen's Giant Octopus "It Came From Beneath The Sea":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5fOzuoFDqU

I remember seeing an interview with Harryhausen a while back where he related that on the set, they called it a Pentapus, because they only had enough of a budget to build 5 arms. They used creative camera angles to cover that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 09:48 PM (r46W7)

275 || Was coffin joe a latin Spanish language thing?

Brazilian. So presumably Portuguese. (I have them in my library but I don't recall the dialogue.)

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:48 PM (asXVI)

276 God, does this post take me back. I grew up (mostly) in Cincinnati and have very fond memories of watching Shock Theater on Saturday nights, hosted by the Cool Ghoul (Dick Von Hoene) on WXIX TV, the local independent station. He had a very Svengoolie vibe, for those who never heard of him. I actually met Von Hoene a couple of times through a mutual friend in High School. He had a mini theater set up in his basement and would screen upcoming movies there. I got to see a couple that way. Good times.

Posted by: grendel688 at October 29, 2022 09:48 PM (OA3Zb)

277 moviegique

Biology gave me info on scaling on invertebrates.

Haven't worried about them since.

But Man-- the most dangerous and deadly animal on the planet? That is why I may have cordless hole punchers and knives. Lots of knives.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:48 PM (u82oZ)

278 Presumably 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' will no longer be aired.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I guess "Hammer Time" is right out.
-- M. C. Hammer

Posted by: Tonypete at October 29, 2022 09:48 PM (F7cJA)

279 I was an old old fan of his from the days when he wrote a weekend column for the long defunct Dallas Times Herald.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 09:13 PM (r46W7)

Never missed it. "Anybody can die at any time!"

I have sewing patterns traced on old Dallas Times Heralds, from when the kids were babies...

Posted by: sal at October 29, 2022 09:49 PM (y40tE)

280 The remake of "The Blob" like Cronenberg's remake of "The Fly"

was just a good movie and superior to the original.

It took everything you liked about "The Blob" and turned it up to 11.

On the other hand, the remake of "The Haunting" was just awful. A true pile of poo. The writer and director should've never been allowed to work on another movie ever after that one.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 09:50 PM (KLPy8)

281 Jim
Sunk New Dawn

So sorry you were not made whole. I did my part.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:50 PM (u82oZ)

282 I was never into slasher type movies, but I love the macabre stuff from Price, Lee and Cushing. Obviously Karloff had a few fine moments.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 29, 2022 09:50 PM (geVLo)

283 On the other hand, the remake of "The Haunting" was just awful. A true pile of poo. The writer and director should've never been allowed to work on another movie ever after that one.

Posted by: naturalfake

Not even Catherine Zeta-Jones presence could save that dreck.

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2022 09:52 PM (oTZbj)

284 **don't recall the dialogue**
AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 29, 2022 09:52 PM (hgO+8)

285 Aurora was the one with the classic Universal monster models like the Mummy and the Wolf Man. Revell was really more into cars, sailing ships, modern naval vessels, and airplanes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2022 09:44 PM (c6xtn)

Hey, I'm old...ok

That and I was making the Rat Fink series, and dragsters, so I got confuzzled.

But yes, you are correct...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022 09:52 PM (BgMrQ)

286 Grew up on horror movies. The Tingler, Black Sunday, The Haunting, Pit & the Pendulum, Eyes Without a Face (under a ridiculous alternate title) at the theaters (The Colony & The Marquette in Chicago Lawn, long gone now...). But the first things I remember really creeping me out to the point where I almost didn't want to turn the lights out later were Twilight Zone's "The New Exhibit" (the moment when the wax figures step off their pedestals) and Thriller's "The Hungry Glass." And they still do it for me...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2022 09:52 PM (a/4+U)

287 moviegique and Tom Servo

Thank you for that information. It shored up a almost forgotten childhood memory.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:53 PM (u82oZ)

288 Hmmm, no mention of Count Cool Rider....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 29, 2022 09:53 PM (7bRMQ)

289 Cronenberg's remake of "The Fly"

Loved the BMW motorcycle cylinders as the transport pods.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 29, 2022 09:54 PM (hgO+8)

290 "Gaslight is a good movie."
*
I am half-way through. Good movie, but this looks like a narrow aspect version.
Posted by: goodluckduck at October 29, 2022

***
Trivia: Vincent Price played the husband originally on stage in the play Angel Street, with Leo G. Carroll as the police agent. As I recall reading, it opened on Broadway like 2 *days* before Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2022 09:55 PM (c6xtn)

291 I liked Karloff in "The Body Snatcher"

also had Henry Daniell, who is always good

Posted by: REDACTED at October 29, 2022 09:55 PM (us2H3)

292 Vincent Price in Theater of Blood was very fulfilling.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 29, 2022 09:55 PM (u82oZ)

293 Ah, "Hellhound: Hellraiser ii" is on shudder.

I think I'll watch that.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2022 09:56 PM (KLPy8)

294 ||On the other hand, the remake of "The Haunting" was just awful. A true pile of poo. The writer and director should've never been allowed to work on another movie ever after that one.||

Legendary cinematographer Jan de Bont who lensed such classics as "Die Hard", "The Hunt For Red October", "Basic Instinct", "Roar", "Who's That Girl" and "Leonard Part 6", directed a total of five features:

Speed (Good!)
Twister (Dumb, but okay!)
Speed 2 (Uhhh)
The Haunting (Ugh)
Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life (yeesh)

So he did get one shot after The Haunting.

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:56 PM (asXVI)

295 This is Your Dish!

Posted by: davidt at October 29, 2022 09:57 PM (oTZbj)

296 Obama says Walker cant fly a plane!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:58 PM (BRHaw)

297 ||AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL!

What's that in Portuguese?

||Thank you for that information. It shored up a almost forgotten childhood memory.

It's fun nostalgia night on the movie thread!

Hope everyone enjoyed!

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 09:58 PM (asXVI)

298 ONT is up

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 29, 2022 09:58 PM (4I/2K)

299
Hey, I'm old...ok

That and I was making the Rat Fink series, and dragsters, so I got confuzzled.

But yes, you are correct...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 29, 2022

***
Yes, Revell had the Rat Fink models and the custom dragsters like Big Daddy Ed Roth's. Though didn't Airfix (or maybe it was Lindberg) have a series of monstrous though comic creatures driving whacked-out dragsters?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 29, 2022 09:58 PM (c6xtn)

300 The Haunting remake could not be redeemed even by the presence of Catherine Zeta Jones, it's true, but if memory serves Owen Wilson's character got killed off so it has that going for it. Which is nice.

If you like the remake of The Blob, check out a mid-1960s sf novel called The Clone, by Kate Wilhem and Theodore Thomas. I'd be amazed if the filmmakers hadn't read it at some time or another; I'm pretty sure that the scene in the diner's kitchen where the guy tries clearing the drain echoes a scene in the book.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 29, 2022 09:59 PM (a/4+U)

301 OT again, I had no idea that ZZ Top was the only band together for 50 yrs with the same original members.

Posted by: Infidel at October 29, 2022 10:00 PM (Ur3ox)

302 Obama says Walker cant fly a plane!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 29, 2022 09:58 PM (BRHaw)

And Obama can? I fucking doubt it. I can't, either. Never took lessons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 29, 2022 10:02 PM (1paLu)

303 @151 --

Lots of hot women were born in Kansas: Cassandra Peterson, Kirstie Alley, 90 percent of the women in my high school ...

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 29, 2022 10:07 PM (Om/di)

304 It's fun nostalgia night on the movie thread! Hope everyone enjoyed!

Indeed, I did. Thank you.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 29, 2022 10:10 PM (Xrfse)

305 @265 --

So that was your doing, Jim.

I wore mine today.

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 29, 2022 10:15 PM (Om/di)

306 * chirp chirp *

Posted by: crickets at October 29, 2022 10:21 PM (Om/di)

307 I loved RatFink in 7th grade.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 29, 2022 10:27 PM (r46W7)

308 In Cleveland, Sir Graves Ghastly had a show that ran from the '60s to the '80s.

The dude lived in CLE when he had a show in the Detroit and DC markets. He did NOT have a show in CLE.

If you're going to mention Andersen and Ghoulardi, then you really outta mention The Ghoul (Ron Sweed).

Now, Sweed, at age 13 got picked up by Andersen to get up on stage at a live appearance event (Sweed was in a gorilla suit) and then Andersen had him be a production assistant. Kid got air time in the suit.

The Ghoul was very much a copy of Ghoulardi and was done with Andersen's blessing. Sweed was doing that schtick into the late 90s in both the CLE and DET markets. Andersen created it, but Sweed ran the distance with it. The beatnik vibe was very funny to me as a kid (it was dated then, kinda like Maynard Krebs)

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at October 29, 2022 10:59 PM (8C7+r)

309 I've been reading this blog for I have no idea how long. Pre GWB, at least. This is one of the best articles I have ever read here. Cheers.

Posted by: Svenghouli at October 29, 2022 11:23 PM (kYW+l)

310 Thanks, Svenghouli!

Iron Mike, you're right! My bad!

Posted by: moviegique at October 29, 2022 11:35 PM (asXVI)

311 I guess my husband is kinky fruit...who knew?

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at October 29, 2022 11:54 PM (z9V4B)

312 The waist is not impossible. I wear a size 9 glove and I could almost encircle the waist.of a.girlfriend - somewhere around a 17", with 35" hips. Not much on top, but, to quote George, "she was hotter than a 2 dollar pistol", which more than made up for it.

You left out Bill Cardille, Chilly Billy in Pittsburgh for 20 years. Not at all in the schlock tradition, but at least memorable for playing himself in _Night of the Living Dead_

Posted by: buddhaha at October 30, 2022 12:06 AM (Zqgqw)

313 I don’t need horror movies; I have history.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at October 30, 2022 01:53 AM (e0dkU)

314 Let's not forget Dick Dyszel, the one-man show at Washington D.C.'s Channel 20, WDCA, in the '70s and '80s. He was Bozo in the morning hosting cartoons, Captain 20 in the afternoon with Ultraman and Speed Racer and Jonny Sokko, then Count Gore de Vol at night and on Saturdays with "Creature Feature." The dude is still operating at countgore.com, hosting a different film in his Count Gore persona every two weeks.

Posted by: Sage Grouch at October 30, 2022 01:58 AM (Uee8Y)

315 fag has taken control.

thunderbird 1.

this could be our only hope.

Posted by: no nuts at October 30, 2022 03:06 AM (JPzcW)

316 your'e never going to believe me anyways.
I miss my pets'.
May you live up to your potential.

Posted by: star dust at October 30, 2022 03:14 AM (JPzcW)

317 Creature Features Bay Area style can still be had! Search Creature Features Friday on YT. They do a different show for Saturday so search that too. Friday show is scarier movies, Saturday is more cliche. Join us!

Way back circa 1970 I lived in Tennesse and we had a Creature Feature show, with a grey ghoulish host but I cannot remember other details.

Posted by: Jacques Endabocks at October 30, 2022 03:15 AM (JcnFx)

318 Arrgh night terrors. Not often but at the moment, arrgh!

And Saturday night live isn't funny.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 30, 2022 03:29 AM (hgO+8)

319 That top picture would be amazing as a .gif or .mpeg file.

Posted by: Fox2! at October 30, 2022 03:30 AM (qyH+l)

320 Minot

Why not?

Posted by: Fox2! at October 30, 2022 03:39 AM (qyH+l)

321 I did two years at Boring eh, I mean Loring, in Maine.

I could blame autocorrect, but I won't.

Posted by: Fox2! at October 30, 2022 03:40 AM (qyH+l)

322 I am making $90 an hour working from home. I never imagined that it was honest to goodness yet my closest companion is earning $16,000 a month by working on a laptop, that was truly astounding for me, she prescribed for me to attempt it simply.
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Posted by: Tom at October 30, 2022 04:18 AM (XOhJ1)

323 And then there was The Creep who hosted "Creature Features" at WNEW in NYC; he was actually one of the station's announcers (Lew Steele, of "It's ten o'clock..." fame) in dark glasses. There wasn't anything especially ghoulish about him, but he did have a sort of Gen. Jack D. Ripper vibe about him, especially when he got philosophical.

Posted by: Golem14 at October 30, 2022 08:22 AM (CpvH6)

324 I am making $90 an hour working from home. I never imagined that it was honest to goodness yet my closest companion is earning $16,000 a month by working on a laptop, that was truly astounding for me, she prescribed for me to attempt it simply.
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Posted by: Tom at October 30, 2022 03:52 PM (7PopD)

325 Dr. Sanguinary's Creature Feature on KMTV in Omaha started in 1971

Posted by: JJ at October 30, 2022 05:25 PM (kY7D6)

326 I loved "Creature Features" with Bob Wilkins on KTVU? channel 2 Oakland Ca in the mid 70s, he was replaced by a guy who looked like Roger Ebert, that's about all i can remember.

Posted by: Edwin at October 30, 2022 11:52 PM (0kK0h)

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