Television Horror Movie Hosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Television Horror Movie Hosts write by Elena M. Watson. This book was released on 2013-05-03. Television Horror Movie Hosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Hosted Horror on Television
Hosted Horror on Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hosted Horror on Television write by Bruce Markusen. This book was released on 2021-07-16. Hosted Horror on Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows
Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows write by Ted Okuda. This book was released on 2016-02-09. Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the last 1950s, studios saw television as a convenient dumping ground for thousands of films that had been gathering dust in their vaults. Distributors grouped them by genre-- and Chicago's tradition of TV horror movie shows was born. From giant grasshoppers to Dracula epics, Okuda and Yurkiw take a comprehensive look at these programs, with career profiles of the "horror hosts," a look at the politics behind the shows, and broadcast histories, as well as guides to many of the films themselves.
I was a TV Horror Host, Or, Memoirs of a Creature Features Man
I was a TV Horror Host, Or, Memoirs of a Creature Features Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I was a TV Horror Host, Or, Memoirs of a Creature Features Man write by John Stanley. This book was released on 2007. I was a TV Horror Host, Or, Memoirs of a Creature Features Man available 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.
Vampira and Her Daughters
Vampira and Her Daughters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vampira and Her Daughters write by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter. This book was released on 2017-01-25. Vampira and Her Daughters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
