Dr. Gangrene, of Dr. Gangrene's Chiller Cinema, has continued his award winning Go Green With Dr. Gangrene Public Service Announcements with a new batch of clips for 2011.
The online talk show This Week in Horror recently interviewed Cassandra Peterson, who plays Elvira, about how the character came about and what she is currently doing.
In an episode of the Big Chuck and Lil' John Show, Chuck Schodowski and John Rinaldi were joined by the Cuyahoga Kaiju Club when they presented the movie Godzilla vs Monster Zero and some classic skits.
The Langley Punks, a group of amateur filmmakers from the Washington D.C. area, visited Count Gore De Vol on the set of Creature Feature showed seven of their short films.
Baron Mondo Von Doren and El Sappo de Tempesto have to deal with Mittens not keeping his hands to himself when they present the movie Hands of a Stranger on the 13h episode of Nightmare Theatre.
Uncle Eerie Shiver and Dr. Z decide to slack off from presenting a movie to go out and have some summer fun on a special mini episode of Uncle Eerie's Shiver Show.
On June 22, 1970, The Bowman Body, first appeared hosting movies in a special week long Shock Film Festival on channel WXEX in Richmond, Virginia. This eventually became an ongoing show called Shock Theatre, which lasted until 1976. Bowman started up again in 1977, this time hosting Cobweb Theatre on Charlottesville, Virginia's WVIR channel 29, which lasted until 1979. He reemerged in 1983 on WNVC-TV channel 56 in Fairfax, Virginia in a show called Monsterpiece Theater.
Watch clips from a few Cobweb Theatre episodes here:
John Stanley Meets Jack the Ripper is a two DVD set of the Minimovies that John Stanley used to make and star in, which were shown on Creature Features. The short films very often had a celebrity guest star or spoofed a movie or genre and became very popular with the fans.
Many of the horror hosts' sets are built in their own house, not a TV studio. Dr. Gangrene is no exception. He currently films his Dr. Gangrene's Chiller Cinema in a shed behind his house.
After Dr. Shock's X-Ray Chiller Theatre, which started in 1989 in the Ohio and Michigan areas, left the air, Dr. Shock began hosting anthology movies on VHS and DVD. One of these, Dr. Shock's Tales of Terror, came out in 2002 and features Dr. Shock hosting the short horror films Bullet for a Vampire, The Town That Loved Pizza, The Garden Tool Murders, and Demons Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FveT4B5riM8 Count Gregula, from Count Gregula's Crypt, interviewed Marlena Midnite, from Midnite Mausoleum, while they were both appearing at Dr. Destruction's Dorian Gray Art Show on April 30, 2011.
The book Creatures of the Night That We Loved So Well is an in depth examination of the horror hosts that aired in the Southern California area. The author, James M. Fetters, has created the definitive volume on those hosts. The book includes interviews with some of the hosts, the people involved in the show, and people who grew up watching the shows. Their behind the scenes information provides insight into what went into producing a show in the various eras covered. All of that is put into perspective by the author's background information on the period they were shown in and how the ways viewers went about watching the programs.
Highlights of what makes this is an indispensable book to host fans are the large amount of rare photos and ads for the shows, as well as the complete as possible movie and date listings from each show, and the script excerpts. Many of the hosts' shows shooting scripts are reprinted in full, giving us a taste of what these lost shows were like and are truly an amazing find.
Vampira, Dr. Diablo, The Old Woman, Jeepers, Ghoulita, Cosmosina, Moona Lisa, Jeeper' Keeper, The Creeper, Sinister Seymour, Arach and Nid, Famous Morris, Grimsley, and Elvira are covered in the book, a few of whom were relatively unknown before now. The Shock! and Son of Shock movie packages also get lengthy coverage, which makes the book a great primer for horror hosting's early days as well.
This is a must have book for fans of horror hosts, monster movies, and early television.
For more information, and to order the book, visit: trc4u.com
The author has also produced a limited edition promotional trading card set tied into the book featuring the hosts covered in the book. Watch a pair of trailers for the book below:
A. Ghastlee Ghoul continues to be the first of the rotating hosts of Weird Web Theater for it's second episode, in which the movie The Thing From Another World is presented.
In an episode of Chiller Drive-In, Wolfman Mac and Boney Bob get involved in an old fashioned detective film, while they present the movie Gamera Vs Barugon.
In episode 5 of Fright Night Theater, The Pumpkin Man is getting more irate with the quality of guests that Bubba has been bringing him and insists on an improvement for when he presents the movie The Amazing Transparent Man.
On March 19, 2011, Lord Blood-Rah hosted his Lord Blood-Rah's Nerve Wrackin' Theatre at the Historic Bal Theatre in San Leandro, California, and this time, instead of hosting a pair of horror movies, he presented a tribute to Creature Features. He was joined on stage by John Stanley and Tom Wyrsch, who discussed both Bob Wilkins and John's time on the show. They also screened the documentary Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong! and The Bob Wilkins Super Horror Show.
Justy Ghost gets spring fever and is in the mood to present an actually scary movie on an episode Shocking Theater, so he chooses the movie The Messiah of Evil
Dr. Destruction continues his experimenting, this time as a matchmaker for his newly created co-hostess, on an episode of Dr. Destruction's Crimson Theatre in which he presented the movie Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster.
Dr. Villhelm McNasty attempts to take over Roxsy Tyler's Carnival of Horrors by tying up Roxsy Tyler and Johnnie 13 and changing the show into the way he wants it to be, during which he presents the movie The Monster Maker.
In episode #401 of Midnite Mausoleum, Marlena Midnite is planning for a zombie apocalypse, Robyn Graves brings the viewer mail, and they all get a visit for the Blind Dead, when they present the movie Horror of the Zombies.
One of the popular segments on Ghoulardi's show was when he showed what was sent to him by the fans. Sometimes he would read their letters or blow up an object they sent in with firecrackers. Other times he would show off their artwork or read from their other creations.
Weird Web Theater is a new project that combines YouTube and Facebook. Every Friday at 8:00 PM EST, there are links posted on Tingler TV to YouTube videos, including a movie, to make it flow like a horror host show, while the members of the group chat along in a Facebook group chat. The pilot episode ran on June 3, 2011, with A. Ghastlee Ghoul presenting the movie The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
