HORROR MOVIES 101

"I Bid You Welcome..."

   "Enter freely and of your own will..."

  This group is for all who love Horror Movies.   Please feel free to discuss any and all things 'Horror' within these walls.

   My name is Dr. Gor and I will be your host here... I have been watching and studying 'Horror Movies' for over 40 years... so, if you have any questions regarding VINTAGE Horror Movies, I will do my best to answer them for you.

   ALL are welcome here... please let me know your favorite Horror Films and anything else you might want to share...

   Sincerely,   Dr. Gor

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Dr_Gor,

Thank you for your most generous invitation. You can include me aboard!  I look forward to all posts posted!

I wish I could resurrect the crappy show  I grew up on in Miami with M.T. Graves as the Host, set in a prison cell, with his cell mate, a dummy, named Reginald. Man, I wish I still had my membership card.

There was a continuing skit on SCTV with John Candy and Joe Flaherty that was hilarious to me...But I am sure you have more on your mind than that!

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 Hello, Puhnner!   Good to have you here, my friend!

  Yes, I remember the hilarious SCTV skits which featured Joe Flaherty as the 'vampiric' host of a very poorly produced weekly 'Horror Movie' show...   very funny indeed!

  For me, growing up in Denver, it was 'Creature Features'... on Friday nights, I believe, and 'hosted' by a faceless figure called 'Mr. Firstnighter'  (!) ... no shit...  (I even joined the 'fan club' !!! wish I still had THAT card... damn!) ... He was not much of a 'host', however... they showed a 'shadowy figure' dressed in a black 'cloak' and a wide-brimmed black hat and a black walking stick, roaming through a cemetary with lots of fog....  meanwhile, the voice-over guy, in a creepy voice, is saying "...I'm Mr. Firstnighter... welcome to Creature Features..." ... but what was COOL about it, is they showed ALL of the really cool old UNIVERSAL MOVIES from the 30's- the 40's ... some of these were, quite simply, some of THE BEST HORROR MOVIES EVER MADE... "FRANKENSTEIN" for one...

  Then came my exposure to a TRUE 'Horror Movie Host' in the person of 'Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark' and her weekly 'Movie Macabre' ....   needless to say, it was love at first sight... for me...

   there is more of this story to come, if you are interested...

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Ah yes, the classics.  The program in Miami was 'the Dungeon'. I think the guy who played M.T. was the sports guy or weather guy. He used to slip in the top hits of Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan too. I don't know why, but of the 4, Dracula, Frankenstein, Werewolf, and the Mummy,  the Mummy was the one that I found especially creepy.

Then many years later, along came Elvira, wound so tight in her get-up and go, that I wondered if she could breathe at all. Then how/why could it matter???

Are there any programs out there now that are scaring the living beezjesus out of kids?

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Thanks for the invite.  I was thinking that there is nothing on tv that could possibly scare kids now if the premium channels are blocked.  Everything is too homogenized to be really all that scary on cable, unless you count real-life footage of botched plastic surgeries.  R.L. Stein used to have that Goosebumps series but I don't know if that counts either... 

That usually featured some kind of silly crap.

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Don't lose faith. There are still some of us out there!