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Author | : Elena M. Watson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2013-05-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476611602 |
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Midnight, 1954. A striking woman in a torn black dress slinks down a cobwebbed, candelabra'd corridor. She stops, shrieks hysterically into the camera, then solemnly says, "Good evening, I am Vampira." Her real name is Maila Nurmi and she was the first in a long line of television horror movie hosts, commonly seen on independent stations' late-night "grade Z" offerings dressed as some zany ghoul or mad scientist. This book covers the major hosts in detail, along with styles and show themes. Merchandise tie-in and fan reactions are also chronicled. The appendices list film and record credits.
Author | : Bruce Markusen |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2021-07-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476684618 |
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In October 1957, Screen Gems made numerous horror movies available to local television stations around the country as part of a package of films called Shock Theater. These movies became a huge sensation with TV viewers, as did the horror hosts who introduced the films and offered insight--often humorous--into the plots, the actors, and the directors. This history of hosted horror walks readers through the best TV horror films, beginning with the 1930s black-and-white classics from Universal Studios and ending with the grislier color films of the early 1970s. It also covers and explores the horror hosts who presented them, some of whom faded into obscurity while others became iconic within the genre.
Author | : Ted Okuda |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809335387 |
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Originally published: Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2007.
Author | : John Stanley |
Publisher | : Creatures at Large |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Creature features (Television program) |
ISBN | : 9780940064119 |
Download I was a TV Horror Host, Or, Memoirs of a Creature Features Man Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
John Stanley, who hosted Creature Features in the San Francisco-Bay Area for six years (1979-84) introduced old horror and science fiction movies on late-night programming. This title provides 559 photos, Stanley's exclusive interview material to describe such leading players as Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner and Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek.
Author | : Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2017-01-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476626561 |
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From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television. Broadcast on local stations and cable access channels, characters such as Moona Lisa, Stella, Crematia Mortem and Tarantula Ghoul brought an entertaining blend of macabre camp and after-prime-time sexuality to American living rooms in the 1950s through 1990s. Despite a near total lack of local programming today, the tradition continues on the Internet and Roku and other modern media. Featuring exclusive interviews and rare photographs, this book covers dozens of “dream ghouls” with alphabetical entries, from Aunt Gertie to Veronique Von Venom.
Author | : Donald F. Glut |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2012-08-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786489715 |
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From December 1957 through October 1959, Chicago TV viewers were held in thrall by "Marvin," the ghoulishly hilarious host of WBKB-TV's late-night horror film series Shock Theatre. Marvin and his lady friend "Dear" (her face ever hidden from the camera) introduced thousands of Chicagoland youngsters to such classic Universal chillers as Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man. This history of Shock Theatre focuses on the series and its creator, Marvin himself--in real life, the multi-talented Terry Bennett, whose wife Joy played "Dear." Terry's son Kerry Bennett provides an affectionate foreword, while celebrated horror host Count Gore De Vol (Dick Dyszel) supplies the afterword. Included are dozens of photos and vintage advertisement reproductions, as well as two appendices featuring a resume of Terry Bennett's career and a list of films telecast during his two-year Shock Theatre run.
Author | : David Dastmalchian |
Publisher | : Dark Horse Comics |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2020-06-09 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1506713475 |
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Lock your doors and gather close . . . if you dare! Once a rising TV journalist, Jerri Bartman has returned to her small Midwest hometown station. Demoted to hosting the nightly Creature Feature, Jerri's professional humiliation is eclipsed by the discovery that her new job comes with a secret, supernatural duty. Her missing predecessor, Count Crowley, was one of the last "Appointed" hunters of monsters. Yes. Monsters. They're real and they're hell bent on controlling the news and information consumed by humans. Everything we've ever been taught about monsters is a lie and Jerri's only possible advisor is a senile male chauvinist. It's 1983 and the outlook for humanity is getting . . . gnarly and their only hope is an alcoholic, acerbic horror host from Missouri. David Dastmalchian's authorial comics debut with artist Lukas Ketner--this terrifying trade collects issues #1-#4 of the Dark Horse Comics series Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter!
Author | : Sandra Niemi |
Publisher | : Feral House |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1627311068 |
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Maila Nurmi, the beautiful and sheltered daughter of Finnish immigrants, stepped off the bus in 1941 Los Angeles intent on finding fame and fortune. She found men eager to take advantage of her innocence and beauty but was determined to find success and love. Her inspired design and portrayal of a vampire won a costume contest that lead to a small role on the Red Skelton show which grew into a persona that brought her the notoriety she desired yet trapped her in a character she could never truly escape. This is Malia’s story. Her diaries, notes, and ephemera and family stories bring new insights to her relationships with Orson Welles, James Dean, and Marlon Brando. Sandra Niemi—Malia’s niece—fills in the nuances of her life prior to fame and her struggles after the limelight faded and she found a new community within the burgeoning Los Angeles punk scene who embraced her as their own. , Includes rare photographs.
Author | : Lorna Jowett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Horror television programs |
ISBN | : 9780755698431 |
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Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Horror Begins at Home -- 1. The TV in TV Horror: Production and Broadcast Contexts -- 2. Mainstreaming Horror -- 3. Shaping Horror: From Single Play to Serial Drama -- 4. Adaptation: Translating Horror Tales -- 5. The Horror Auteur -- 6. Revising the Gothic -- 7. The Excess of TV Horror -- 8. Horror, Art and Disruption -- 9. TV as Horror -- 10. The Monster in Our Living Room: From Barnabas Collins to Dexter Morgan -- Conclusion: The Road So Far -- Notes -- Work Cited TV and Filmography -- Index.
Author | : James Fetters |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2015-06-11 |
Genre | : Horror films |
ISBN | : 9781511859097 |
Download Creatures of the Night That We Loved So Well Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Second Edition offers so much more - More of Southern California's historic horrorhosts - Including a newly discovered undocumented horror host, over 20 full scripts, morephotos along with more newspaper press releases and articles - 550 pages of SouthernCalifornia horror host history and all in a larger format.Jeepers Creepers Theatre in 1962 ignited a love of horror hosts that was the beginning of alife-long addiction for the author and many fans. But as much as the audience loved theshows, they never knew the horror that occurred off-screen -- live adult stage performances,lawsuits and cutthroat competition. What started off as risqué and sexy by 1954 standardsended as risqué and sexy by 1984 standards. Horror hosts affected 30 years of SouthernCalifornia television history... a phenomenon that is not known by today's generation butwell remembered by the "Baby Boomers" and now chronicled for future generationsInside this Second Edition, you will find over 300 images, many never published before -studio and behind the scenes photos, TV Guide ads, movie listings by date, scans of fullscripts, interviews with the hosts and writers and identities of the hosts revealed for thefirst time. Many you've seen on other TV series and movies and didn't even know.