The Caretaker from The Graveyard Show blog has done another of his excellent interviews with a horror host. This time it's Helena, the Hussy of Horror.
The theme song to Ghoul A-Go-Go is now available on the new CD by Johnny Chan and the New Dynasty Six called I Hate You Baby!. Along with the opening theme, it includes some of the songs the band played in the early episodes of the show and actual audio of their Ghoul A-Go-Go appearances and Vlad's interview with them. Also included is their unreleased album. as well as live tracks and rarities. The two CD set is available for $12 from Johnny at his Facebook page, just send him a message.
Here is Johnny performing two songs on Ghoul A-Go-Go:
On June 27, 2009 the Count Gore De Vol documentary Every Other Day Is Halloween had its world premiere at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland.
This is a news report about the movie:
Here are some video highlights of the event:
This is the post screening Q&A with Count Gore and director C.W. Prather:
In episode nine of Dr. Cadaver's Monster Horror Theatre, Dr. Cadaver hosts the movie Horror Hotel while Igor is away at Bigfoot's wedding. This show originally aired in October 1998.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 ran from 1988 to 1999, first starring Joel Hodgson, then Mike Nelson. They both played men stuck on a space station and forced to watch bad movies. The only companions were robots her made, Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, Gypsy, and Cambot.
The movie Manos: The Hands of Fate was shown on episode 24 from season 5, originally broadcast on January 30, 1993. Watch the first five minutes here and follow the links in the video to see the full episode with the movie:
The DVD Nonstop Movie Party: Zombies! is an almost hour long compilation of clips and trailers from zombie movies throughout the years. The movies go from White Zombie through the George Romero classics and Lucio Fulci Italian versions, as well as many others, including some obscure specimens. In between the footage, Cinema Insomnia's Mr. Lobo background information on the films that are featured. The DVD inludes a loop option to put the clips on continuous play. The other extras are trailers for other Cinema Insomnia and Apprehensive Films DVDs. You can get Nonstop Movie Party: Zombies! at: http://thegrindhouse.net/
Episode 2 of Carbuncle Speaks is called Tricked and Trapped and in it Carbuncle continues to explain why he is stuck in a barrel in the basement of Ghoulie Manor.
Ohio based Tales From The Other Side started putting their horror host show on the internet in January 2008. The show has a rotating group of hosts that include Hybrid, I.M. Balm, Mark Cutimup MD, Nonek the Crimenyan, and Pastor Z.
Here is episode 2 featuring the movie First Spaceship on Venus hosted by Hybrid:
The November 21, 1992 edition of the Big Chuck and Lil' John Show was a special Ghoulardi Night, where they celebrated Ghoulardi with classic clips and an interview with Ernie Anderson.
Episode 113 of Midnite Mausoleum is the first full length episode and in it Marlena Midnite presents the movie The Undertaker and His Pals. This also features the first appearance of Robyn Graves, The Midnite Mailgirl, who delivers viewer mail to the mausoleum.
Nashville's Dr. Gangrene continues producing his Dr. Gangrene's Recommended Movie of the Week every week. The shorts feature his views of various horror movies.
See a few of them below:
Episode 7 featuring the movie Slither:
Episode 8 featuring the movie Creepshow:
Episode 9 featuring the movie The Monster Club:
Episode 10 featuring the DVD Monster Kid Home Movies:
In September of 2009, Penny Dreadful and Garou begin broadcasting season seven of Shilling Shockers. It will have seven episodes and many of them will feature a continuing storyline running through them.
Dr. ZinGRR hosted a show in the Seattle, Washington area from 1971 to 1976 on KTVW-TV channel 13. He also recorded two songs, Sinister Lunchmeat and Twilight Gallery 2176, in 1976.
You can hear Sinister Lunchmeat in the video clip:
Carbuncle, from Horror Incorporated, has just started his own series of internet shows called Carbuncle Speaks. In the series, all the residents of Ghoulie Manor have left Carbuncle at home to go on a vacation and his videos explain his thoughts and what he is doing while they are gone.
On Halloween 2008, North Carlolina TV station WRAL Channel 5 did a special report on Monster Creature Feature. It features an summary of the show and includes behind the scenes footage and an interview of the show's creator.
Watch it here, after the ad, courtesy of WRAL.com:
The newest episode of The Host's Screaming Horror Theater is called The Flu, episode 14. In it, Remmy returns home after spending the night in the cemetery with a slight case of spirit possession... or maybe it's just the flu...
In 2004, WTOG Channel 44 in St. Petersburg, Florida tried to revive Dr. Paul Bearer's old Creature Feature show with a new host, Prof. Paul Bearer II. Prof. Bearer is a nephew of Dr. Bearer who was very much in his image. The show only lasted a few episodes, as the station decided to not pick it up for another run. Here are a few of the hosting segements from the October 16, 2004 episode of Creature Feature:
This is a minute of Prof. Bearer hosting Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare:
Robert A. Scott is a Rondo Award nominated horror and monster artist who specialises in black and white portraits of classic horror icons. Among the excellent reproductions of classic monsters and madmen, he also includes some horror hosts. So far he has featured Sir Graves Ghastly, Zacherley, Vampira, and The Ghoul in the selection of prints of varying sizes that are available on his website. To purchase prints, visit his website at:http://www.scottra.com/ From now until July 14, 2009 he is having a buy one get one free sale.
Jebediah Buzzard once again lets us into his Fright Time FunHouse and shows us the movie Track of the Moonbeast, which he says is "Damn near one of the worst movie ever made."
Watch the first 5 minutes below and follow the links in the video to see the full episode with the movie:
The paperback short story compilation Zacherley’s Midnight Snacks was published in March of 1960 by Ballantine Books. It originally cost 35¢ and contained 157 pages of these nine horror stories:
Sorry, Right Number by Richard Matheson Share Alike by Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean Talent by Theodore Sturgeon Listen, Children, Listen by Wallace West The Whispering Gallery by William F. Temple The Piping Death by Robert Moore Williams The Ghost by A. E. van Vogt Carillon of Skulls by Philip James Pile of Trouble [Hogben] by Henry Kuttner
Dr. Gangrene loves his fans and many of them send him things or write him letters. Here are some videos of Dr. Gangrene talking about his some of the mail he has received:
The now defunct High Definition horror channel Monsters HD showed a series of short documentaries in between their movies. Each one was hosted by Elvira and included segments on toys, masks, and the men who created some of the famous movie monsters, among many other subjects. Monsterama: A Tribute to Horror Hosts was one of these that focused on horror hosts. It was written by Daniel Roebuck, who also directed many of the Monsterama segments, and began airing in 2004. Dan also appears in this one as his Dr. Shock tribute character, Doctor Shocker. Among the hosts interviewed in the piece are John Zacherle, Maila Nurmi, and Cassandra Peterson and focuses on the history of their characters Zacherley, Vampira, and Elvira, as well as an overview of hosting in general. Watch the full edition of Monsterama here:
Chicago, Illinois area horror fan Dead Wood is the host of Dead Man Cinema. He stars in the show with critic Stinko Stinkowitz and Skullie. The show started in 2007 and has completed two seasons so far. Watch part of one of his episodes in which he presented the serial The Phantom Creeps here:
