Spook Shows

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1. Wayne W says:

   June 12, 2016 at 9:13 PM

   I remember “Chiller Theater” that came on late Saturday nights in St Louis when I was a kid. I remember being freaked out by the “Giant Crab Monsters” when I was about six; saw the movie somewhere after I’d grown up and noticed the prop man’s tennis shoes underneath the cardboard and paper mach’e “monster” and rolled.

   My wife doesn’t get it – I love those old schlocky movies; just watched “The Monster from the Haunted Cave” I DVRed off TMC; not quite as good (bad) as Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space” but the monster is a hoot.

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   • admin says:

     June 12, 2016 at 10:29 PM

     We used to have a theater when I was growing up that would on a Sunday have a triple monster movies. It was fun.

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2. bill nevins says:

   June 13, 2016 at 4:26 AM

   Chiller Theater! Wasn’t that with Zacerle as the host?
   Here in NYC there are dozen of colleges and lots of them held all night monster movie marathons with projectors set up in gyms. Fordham did a lot of those
   The Abbot & Costello series of “Meet Frankenstein”, ” Meet The Wolfman”, etc was a favorite. Sleeping bags, beer, munchies, assorted substances and perhaps a co-ed to share the evening with. Ahhh…good times!
   I remember watching the entire catalog of Marx Brothers movies while snowed in at Boston College. We went to visit a buddy and ended up stranded for 5 days.

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   • admin says:

     June 13, 2016 at 12:29 PM

     The Abbott and Costello monster movies are meet Frankenstein, meet the Mummy, meet the Invisible Man, meet Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and meet the killer Boris Karloff. Wolfman was part Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein along with Dracula and invisible man cameo (voiced by Vincent Price.)

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3. Wayne W says:

   June 13, 2016 at 11:28 AM

   Could have been, Bill; I remember a couple versions with different hosts. Some great memories, and straight out of MST3K often the intros and interludes were as good (too often – better) than the movies.

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   • admin says:

     June 13, 2016 at 12:23 PM

     Zacherley was one of many horror hosts who came around in the 50’s with the release of the Universal monster movies to television. He was first Roland in Philadelphia. He used to be a guest at Chiller where when we attended the show we stop and say hello. He has retired from doing the show. He is in the 90’s.
     Another horror host I met at a science fiction convention in New Orleans was Morgus the Magnificent. He was dressed as a mad scientist. I had my photo taken with him and I would pass his photo off with my students as teacher I study with. LOL

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4. Jack Gibbons says:

   June 13, 2016 at 4:27 PM

   Those cheesy films eventually made it to late Friday and Saturday night local tv with a usual campy “scary” guest host. Usually filled with bad props, clunky one-liners, and often mocking the movie. The current version is on MeTV if you have cut the cable and use the digital antennae. I often find myself once again watching these films on the Svengoolie show on Saturday nights.

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5. Greg Liska says:

   June 13, 2016 at 5:36 PM

   I remember Creature Feature, Chiller Theater, and then there was Elvira making fun of the very worst of them. My son and I just watch one of my ridiculous Sci-Fi films that I picked up on an overseas bootleg disc set that has about 90 of these Grade Z movies. I was surprised he asked to see them, but we had a blast making fun of them as we watched. The worst part was the really terrible music to it STUCK in our HEADS and we kept making up stupid lyrics for it to match the film’s high level of crappitude.

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   • Len Hardt says:

     June 13, 2016 at 6:43 PM

     Several couples get together with us for our BMC (Bad Movie Club). Over the years we have laughed at the best of the worst cheezy movies. Lugosi’s “Monogram 9” are up there with some of the “best.”

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