Who is Your Favorite Horror Movie Host  | | | |  It's Friday night. Many years ago for me, I used to watch horror movies on Friday nights and weekends. It started in the middle sixties when, while in grade school, a friend named Ronnie hipped me to a show that came on every Friday night. After coming home from the high school football games, I'd watch Shock Theater with its host Ghoulardi. He showed monster movies. At first, he was scary with special effects. Then I started noticing that he was funny. I first saw the movie King Kong on his show. During the show Ghoulardi would use special effects to make him appear like he was in the movie. I remember the scene where the ship's crew was running through the forest searching for King Kong and Fay Wray. All of a sudden Ghoulardi got on the screen, ran to one end, and said, "She's over here," then ran to the other end and said, "no, she's over here." He was quite a character who blew up things, made fun of a local commentator,and played cool jazz music. He also played the song Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow while showing an old toothless man chewing something.
As I got older, I enjoyed many other television hosts. I faintly remember seeing Vampira. I've also seen the Ghoul, Elvira of Movie Macabre, Sir Graves of Sir Graves Ghastly, Superhost of Saturday Mad Theater, Chilly Billy of Chiller Theater, Big Chuck and Hoolihan/Little John, and Commander USA while I lived in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. My most favorite of all was Ghoulardi. Who was your most favorite horror movie host? I'd be interested to see if people of other countries had horror movie hosts on television.
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| 1.  WiseReptiles (539)
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3 years ago
| |  I would have to say the Crypt Keeper from Tales From The Crypt
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 RobtheRock (1837)
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3 years ago
| | Thank you for your response WiseReptiles. I forgot the Crypt Keeper. He was a very scary looking little fellow. | | | |
| WiseReptiles (539)
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3 years ago
| | yes he was but the shows that followed were usually good. Did you notice watching them that there was actually really famous actors and actresses that stared on there. | | | | | | | Horror Film Looking For Horror Film? Find It Nearby With Local.com! Local.com | add comment | | | |
| | 2. JoyfulOne (5049)
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3 years ago
| |  Back in the 60's and 70's, favorite horror show host was "Ghoulardi". He was my absolute favorite, as well as my friends fave back then. Gosh, it was fun reading your post, and I remember everything you mentioned. Lol, I think I drove my Dad nuts with Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow-Mow. I figured you must have lived in Ohio with the mention of Big Chuck and Little John (and who can ever forget Hoolihan!) I got to meet Little John once when my kids were little, I think it was at the home and flower show, or maybe the car show? Anyways, one of our little towns was having an ox-roast and he was on a float and waved. Imagine my surprise when he remembered me from the show and came over to yak for a while. He was really a cool guy lol.
Elvira, forgot about her! Geez, I miss her show too. Too bad they don't have this kind of stuff anymore, I'd much rather watch that kind of stuff than these reality shows we're bombarded with!! It will be interesting to keep reading this discussion to see what other's get mentioned that I forgot about. (Havin' a crs moment here...can't remember * haha)
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| RobtheRock (1837)
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3 years ago
| | Thanks JoyfulOne for responding. LOL Those are great memories Ghoulardi left us with. I've been hoping someone had a film of that King Kong movie. That was a classic with him fooling around like that. Yes, Cedar Point was my stomping grounds. Big Bad Blue Streaks. Yeah, Hoolihan was quite a character. You met Little John. I can understand the feeling and since he remembered you. While working at Cedar Point I saw Big Chuck and Little John at a stand eating Kielbasi. I was tempted to go up to them.
I don't have a television. I watch some movies on Justin.tv. It's nice seeing someone else who watched Ghoulardi. Boy was Elvira sexy. LOL It will be interesting to see what others say. | | | | | | | Now: Funny Games -63% Incredible deals on Funny Games! Compare prices and save up to 63%. www.best-deal.com/Funny-Games | add comment | | | |
| | 3. JenInTN (10152)
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3 years ago
| |  I liked Elvira..lol..I also like the one mentioned above..the CryptKeeper. I was a big fan of Tales from the Crypt.
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| RobtheRock (1837)
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3 years ago
| | The Tales from the Crypt music is still floating around in my mind. LOL Thanks JenInTn for answering. :) | | | | | | | Great Funny Games -57% Compare prices now and pay up to 57% less on quality Funny Games! www.Funny-Games.news72.com | add comment | | | |
| | 4. truckergirl (55)
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2 years ago
| |  Hi,
I loved reading your article !! My favorite was Rod Sterling. The Twilight Zone! I still watch it. On the 4th of July it was the marathon. I watched it all day like I have never seen it before. One of my favorite episodes was when this bus couldn't get over the bridge in this snow storm and all the passengers had to go to this diner. One of them was a alien. As it turned out, the owner of the diner was a alien and so was one of the passengers. Then the one when this little boys grandmother died and she was still calling him on the toy telephone she had given him. I could list more but, I think you got it. Those shows like Shock Theater, Twilight Zone were true classics. They could not do that now. Its all about special effects, Which makes me laugh. Don't get me wrong, they had special effects then, but, just not over the top like it is now.
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| RobtheRock (1837)
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2 years ago
| | Thanks truckergirl. Yes, Rod was the man. I loved Twilight Zone too. Somone shows old reruns on Justin.tv. Just recently my uncle got an episode that mentioned a pool hall in my hometown. My favorite episode is the one with the stewardess who says, "room for one more honey." That one almost freaks me out. And Rod is so cool when he invites us to enter -- "the Twilight Zone". Thanks for responding. | | | | | | | Funny Games In Download and Play Free Games. Download All Games now! gamesdownloadpro.com/FreeDownload | add comment | | | |
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