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Pages: 389
Authors: Elena M. Watson
Categories: Performing Arts
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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 sol
Hosted Horror on Television
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Bruce Markusen
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-16 - Publisher: McFarland

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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 Th
Vampira and Her Daughters
Language: en
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Authors: Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
Categories: Performing Arts
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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
Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows
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Pages: 271
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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 group
I was a TV Horror Host, Or, Memoirs of a Creature Features Man
Language: en
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Categories: Creature features (Television program)
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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