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!