I as other youngsters way back when, of phila/south jersey fans of fright ,loved horror movies and of course still do!We grew up with Dr.Shock for years and he was great!Of cours!And of course Dr.Shocks been gone for years God Bless him
And thinking of his daughter Bubbles.We watch Svengoolie at times but he's certainly no Dr.shock !Who's been you're favorite horror host over the years or now?

Back in the day, I never missed The Ghoul and Sir Graves Ghastly. Now my only option is Svengoolie. A few years back I would watch Wolfman Mac but he went off the air here. The Ghoul was my favorite.

Sounds like they might be better then Svengoolie lol.But of course he's the only one we know of currently.

Elvira

Night Gallery use to scare me as a kid lol. I watch Svengoolie sometimes.

The Oakridge Boys?

growing up in the suburbs east of Cleveland Ohio we had:
GHOULARDI until '66 (too young for his show) followed by HOOLIHAN & BIG CHUCK thru the '70s + (CBS 8 late night Friday)
SUPERHOST in the '70s + (WUAB 43 Saturday afternoons)
the GHOUL in the '70s (WKBF 61 late night Saturday)

Elvira mistrerss of the dark

Watching svengoolie return of dracula

Great stuff everyone keep em coming!We're gonna watch return of the vampire tomorrow night,taping it tonight,atleast we can buzz through so of the bad svengoolie stuff.Somw stuffs cool other stuff,well it's surtainly not Dr.shock or others lol!Does anyone remember creatur double feature?The hand used to come out of the grave in front of the tomb stone with lights and screaming?Lol!

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Night gallery that was one of the best!Creepy,disturbing and scary and man he had a voice!Excellent my friend thank you!

Night Gallery hands down!

I had some Night gallery on DVD very cool!

We had Elvira and Svengoolie. The Rich Koz took over as Son of Svengoolie. He's been doing it so ling they just let him be Svengoolie. I am not a huge fan of his extended show now. Most of the space filler is ignorant.

Tales from the crypt was also pretty good in

in the '90s (before I got here) Las Vegas had "Count Cool Rider" (reference to Elvis' C.C.Rider) ..... some might recognize him, he's a car guy



Svengoolie is on over the air channel 21.1 Saturdays at 8

https://egorschamber.com/tvhorrorhosts/hostsa.html (list of HORROR TV hosts)

That was my absolute favorite! The Elvira and also Rhonda Shear stuff was great as well!

Great stuff!I never knew their were so many horror hosts.

I still have a Ghoul t-shirt and a best of The Ghoul video I bought about 30 years ago.

Rhonda Shear did low budget "B" movies. But she was fun to watch on"Up all night". She gained quite a few pounds since those days. Elvira still looks good.

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pittsburghers had "chilly" billy cardille hosting chiller theater

I remember Ghoulardi (EIrnie Anderson) very well.Friday night at 11.He was just crazy funny.He had a run in with a news woman named Dorthy Fuildheim from channel 5 and it was all over for him.Last I heard was he did television in California.Maybe Rocky will chime in,I'm sure he remembers him.

i was gonna say the same, but got treed again !
my brother and i used to watch him while eating pizza. i think he was on channel 11.

carnival of souls.. scared me straight

Danny "The Count" Koker.

From the lannd of Cleve myself, just missed Ghoulardi, but did grow up with Big Chuck and Little John, Elvira, and the Ghoul. Superhost wasn't really late night, more Saturday afternoon.

I used to like Mystery Science Theater..

We haven't seen much of recent movies, basically all awful now. Mostly just startling moments and blood, nothing like old stuff that made one think. The shower scene in Psycho is well known, you never actually saw a stabbing, just a knife in the air and blood in the drain.

same here to wasnt born yet for ghoulardi , but watched all others and big chuck and lil john

the long haired guy in this one is daffy dan t-shirt designs and stuff

If it doesn't have a double D on the sleeve, it's only underwear!

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Growing up in Detroit in the early '70's...my siblings and I
watched The Ghoul... (Channel 20) and of course, the one and only Sir Graves Ghastly! (Channel 2)
His skits with the singing face on his chin upside down ( the GLOB)....would always freak me out as a kid..
He always showed pictures and drawings, of monsters that kids would mail in to the studio.
HAPPY HAUNTING!

Plunk your magic twanger froggy.

Rod Sterling had more talent than 99.99% of the present day TV show writers who just got a new contract.

Sad he died young.

back many years ago , The Cool Ghoul in Cincinnatti Ohio was IT

More recent years it has to be Elvira,

https://www.google.com/search?sca_e...p;bih=932&dpr=1#imgrc=AZmeAnU3IATLqM

Of all of them it seems Elvira was the only one to go national.. all the rest were local or regional.

It isn't a surprise that she did... considering her costume and her cleavage
sticking out of that costume.

What no mention of Sir Hitchcock? 😱

Another one I remember vaguely from when I was a kid was a guy called Morgus. All I remember was him wearing a lab coat and having a skull he talked to that always said "yes master" or something like that. Does anyone else remember hm?

Just found this. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10603104/

Does he really qualify as a host though?

I'm quite partial to his movies.

You just did

Dr Morgus on the prior posted "HORROR HOSTS" link -- WOW! an early player for sure

Join the hunt.
Ask around your town and circle of friends if anyone has some old movie reels.

Hitchcock’s very first movie titled “The Mountain Eagle” is missing.

Many copies of this movie were mailed from theatre to theatre in the USA.
In those days if a movie was not a hit,
the last movie house to show it was told “It is not worth the shipping cost to send it back to Hollywood CA so you can keep it or throw it away.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain_Eagle

I forgot about Count Scary! This was a character made up by Detroit area
radio disc jockey (WOMC) Tom Ryan. He hosted horror movies from the early 80's until the 1990's.
Him and the Ghoul teamed up in the mid 90's for a TV show special.
"OOOoohhh That's SCARY!!!!!". Loved his campy comedy!

In Pittsburgh now, chiller theater has returned with wpxi's scott harbaugh resurrecting in spirt chilly Billy. 11:30 Saturday nights on 11-4 or wpxi-now.com

Sounds cool I thought all we had was svengoolie!

I forgot about Count Scary too. I actually have the Count Scary/Ghoul show featuring Night of the Living Dead recorded on VHS. I don't think I've watched it since I recorded it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9kbH57b8AI

I remember him well. After Detroit, he moved and became Morgus the Magnificent at the New Orleans local station. He and his side kicks, Chopsley and Eric the skull, hosts the “B” Sci-Fy movies on Saturday nights. The actor’s name was Sid Noel. Chopsley was a motorcycle cop and always wore a hood with his outfit. In between the movie, they were always cooking up some scientific tomfoolery, which would always go south by the end of the show. Fond memories from my childhood.
Ron

Watching
About and Costello meet Frankenstein recorded off svengoolie..Hes very informative about past horror movie actors.very,very cool!

And speaking of Alfred Hitchcock I used to think of him as a horror genius until I heard of Tipi Hedrin God bless her still alive at 93 yo.And her own harrowing experience where Alfred Hitchcock made her shoot for 5 days in a upstairs filled with real seagulls ,crows etc..She was attacked by these birds that all wound up and tossed in the room so some of the blood scene's in those shots may have been real!

Svengoolie.... I see him and think.... "buck buck buck buuuuuck! Chicken Maaaan! He's everywhere! He's everywhere!" Hence the rubber chickens, of course. His trivia is fun.

It is ...his jokes and singing are well . ....my jokes are better lol just ask Butch Patrick!Lol

2 pages, and still no mention of Fritz the NightOwl?

Out of Columbus Ohio, and still active after 40-50 yrs

Indianapolis viewing area had a legend for decades. Whenever we traveled and caufsome local channel scary movie host, they were always lame and could be.

None of these hacks could hold a candle to Sammy Terry. ( a play on cemetery).

https://youtu.be/hRhTH3M576U?si=9nTUnxUadIDdutiO

I looked up Fritz the night owl.Very very cool creative guy!7 emmiys 88 yo great shows..man and those crazy Elton John owl looking glasses.

My first thoughts were;

Peter Vincent

Count Floyd

and then, I remembered Rhonda Shear from USA Up all Night!

JS

Wasn't "Peter Vincent" a character played by Roddy McDowell, from the Fright Night film?

I was thinking Peter Vincent myself lol!

Vincent? There's only one Vincent for horror movies.

Masque of the RedDeath, Hound of the Baskerville, abominable Dr Phibes and the list goes on. Heck even the Scooby-Doo episode was fun. Not to mention his voice over in Thriller.

Are we talking the King of horror Vincent Price?He did host in his horror movies..

The Tingler etc...

Or The Fly 1958 with David Hedison nice guy to me and my daughter years ago God bless him.

Can't forget about Vincent Price as the evil professor, in the Brady Bunch...
episode of the haunted tiki, in the spooky Hawaiian caves!

Holy cow!I wasn't even thinking about that!

We're watching Svengoolie tonight!The movie is The kingdom of the spiders!My wife is hiding under a blanket .By the way it stars William Shatner

OK anybody here of...Dr.Creep or Coffin Joe?

Not so much a host but just the intro..pretty scary for early 70's claymation and young kids...anyone growing up in the tri-state area should remember this...turn your speakers on...Chiller

An intro to Fright night in black and white popped up on my phone,not the movie.Showed different movie monsters faces which eventually turned into a skull.

I remember seeing the Twilight Zone movie circa 84. I remember the scene with Aykroyd and Lithgow in an Olds on a back country road.

"Hey, wanna see something scary?"

lithgow did a good passenger I Gremlins

When I think of that twilight zone movie that scene has stuck in my head for years !

Chilly Billy Cardilly had a young horror make up artist named..Tom Savini great make up artist and actor for movies like Dusk till Dawn,Planit Terror..

Caught Svengoolie this weekend showed The Ravin starred Vincent Price ,Boris Karloff and Peter Vincent and..a young Jack Nicholson and speaking of Boris Karloff he was the narrating voice in the original The Grinch cartoon Christmas Classic

On svengoolies show he's added a few other hosts.A vampire looking chick named Gwengooli a guy with wings and horns named Imp a bad looking Nasferato. And I'm watching The Ray with Bella Lagosi and Boris Karloff.

He added 1/2 hour to the show last year so he "could air longer movies". So far it's just been a lot of filler crap. I'm good with Gwengooli, the others not so much.

I agree he went overboard with the other 2 I'm watching the original Old Dark House with Boris Karloff

Growing up in N.E. Ohio it was Goulardi and then Houlihan and Big Chuck. But dang I had the hots for Elvira.

Was it Goulardi that used to blow up model cars?

Very cool!Who didn't think Elvira wasn't sexyLol

The Ghoul used to blow up models.

I remember in the early 70s older kids used to blow up car models on the sidewalk.

Ghoulardi was the Ghouls inspiration. And I think his boss at one point.

Elvira is still good looking, even when not in costume.

We had "Creature Features" hosted by Bob Wilkins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWtLdrevDW4

Cool stuff!This ast weekend Svengoolie sowed a remastered version of the 1932 movie Old Darkhouse with Boris Karloff in it.Great old horror movie with some great actors/actresses.Tonight the movie Willard..horror movie with rats..hmmm

Bad part is the movie is a touch over 90 minutes. Lots of the filler crap tonight.

Don't forget Super Host from the 70's.

Wow alot of stars in this movie Wilard including his mother who was in alot of movies including playing Frankensteins wife in The Bride of Frankenstein...And the great actor Ernest Borgnine.,just to name a few

Is that the rat movie?

Yes it's Willard..1971 release we saw 1 hour of it maybe we'll finish it up today.Alot of scenes in it where he treated the rats like pets even my wife liked it the next hour might be a little rough so we'll see.

It was the first time I'd seen the movie. Not a horrible movie, but yes, the last half is where all the action is, and the setup for 'Ben'.

I believe it all started with Ernie Anderson as Ghoulardi on CH 8 (CBS) in Cleveland. I saw a video about him. In the early 60's Ch 8 (CBS) didn't have any late night programming like the Tonight Show and they would sign off the air after the news. Someone at Ch 8 scored a deal on some B rated B/W horror films. Ernie was selected to put together some kind of program around these films for after the news on Friday night. Ernie asked what his budget was and they laughed. He had zero dollars since Management saw this a a gamble. Ernie was a very talented “voice over” guy at Ch 8.

Ernie created the Ghoulardi character and did voice overs during the films to make things interesting. He had to take the furniture from the Ch 8 lobby to use as props for the set. It was crazy. By the mid 60's Ghoulardi was making good ratings and he opened the studio up to a small audience. Among the early audience regulars was a guy name Ron Sweed (wearing a gorilla suit). Ron would eventually end up on Ernie's staff.

Ernie ended up following his friend Tim Conway, who also worked at Ch 8 in the early 60's, to the West Coast. Tim went to the Carol Burnett show and Ernie did voice over work and would eventually be hired by ABC as their voice of the network during the 80's.

Channel 8 replaced Ghoulardi creating the Hoolahan and Big Chuck show. They did comedy skits etc. One of them was Mission: Ridiculous. I'm watching Mission: Impossible reruns as I write this.

Ron Sweed would revive the Ghoulardi character as The Ghoul and get a show on Cleveland's Ch 61. Ernie gave Ron his permission to clone his character. The Ghoul eventually moved to Detroit.

Drew Carey was often seen in a Ghoulardi shirt on his TV show.

Cool stuff thanks!I'm watching Peter Cushing in a Hammers film ...The Evil of Frankenstein

Mostly true on the Goulardi history but I'm not sure he was first in the nation. Cleveland yes but I'm betting someone west coast beat him to it.

And Dorothy baby had something to do with his leaving channel 8, not just Tim Conway. Don't pizz off the boss's wife!

Just watched some Gulardi funny cool stuff!He was quite a caracter.Thanks for sharing info about him,very cool!This weekend on Svengoolie is the 2nd movie from Creature from the black lagoon

The creatures revenge!!!

Coming on Svengoolie next Saturday...The Monster That Challenged The World!!!! Came out in 1957

I was looking up other horror hosts that might be on tv now I came across The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob.Briggs,I heard of it but never watched it.Anybody watch it?What do you think?

Couldn't watch it you need Joe Bob or Shudder station ,we pay enough now with comcast,we're not paying for extra stations. we also have Netflix,so if we want something we can just look for it. I watched the monster that challenged the world pretty cool except the real life snail scenes showing thier teeth Now that's a real horror show!My wife hates snails so she didn't watch the movie.The monster looked pretty good.Itll be the Bride of Frankenstein.

Elsa Lanchaster who played The Bride was in alot of movies like..Mary Poppins and That Darn Cat!As well as tv shows.This weekend..How to Make A Monster!!!

Came across a couple horror hosts I don't think were mentioned...Anybody hear of Count Gore De Val or Zachery?

The bigger the cigar he had, the more the movie stunk!

I never knew that!

Recorded How to make a Monster this week a true horror classic! It stars a evil make up artist seeking revenge on studio executives ! my wife's been a good egg she's sat through some bad horror movies Ike the Mole People I think twice over the years So with Revenge of the Invisible Man coming on Svengoolie this weekend maybe I can bribe her to sit through it!I will work on my honey do list!

We had the bonus of Jim Cornett doing the Sven burger challenge at the SquareCircle Cafe in Chicago.

I found some pics of the sven competition with him.Thanks Slantzilla very cool!

At the end of How to make a Monster I finally saw the svengoolie burger completion was pretty funny.The I saw Sven meeting Robert England ...Freddy Krueger as most of us know from The original Nightmare on Elm Street. lol!As a regular guy he's very nice and has a big fan base.

Great show bigdad!Just watched videos of it.Thanks!

Well my wife I started to watch Revenge of the Invisible Man and I started to fall asleep 😴 after she told me i wanted to see this dont fall asleep lol!This Saturday is the original 13 Ghosts Today we are catching up with our daughter who does horror paintings,she's working on a guys album cover who used to be in the MiFits rock band We are meeting with her to meet ZomBie Bunny ,and her friends in Smithville, NJ should be a nice day!

Sounds like fun!

Thanks!I finally watched Revenge of the Invisible Man.I remember watching it years our daughter got me the whole Universal Monster DVD movie set Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy etc..it was a good goofy episode with a nice tribute to Gilbert Godfrey with included a look back on The Three Stooges.

13 Ghosts tonight. Was a decent watch.

I remember the 'UP All Night' show.

We're up watching it now.It does seem pretty cool!And you can get the the blue/red glasses like the ones they gave out .9.95 on ebay.

This Saturday A Comedy of Terrors will be on. Up all night looked pretty cool. I just found out about Nightmare Cafe It was produced by Wes Craven and having Robert England in it.

Finally finished watching ..The Invisible Ray with Boris Karloff and Bella Lagosi Spooky stuff!Cool movie.

In my area, we didn't have a horror host. We did have the after the 10:00 news, late night horror show on Friday nights called Shock Theatre, but it wasn't hosted. It wasn't even the original '50s era monster movie series but just some cheesy titles they posted on screen before and after commercial breaks.

Casandra Peterson grew up here in town where I live. Her parents owned a huge costume rental store that was active from the mid '60s until the early '90s. She left the area in the late '60s to pursue her acting career. She occasionally drops back in to visit friends, but not frequently.

I hear she's actually a pretty down to earth person. Ever met her personally?