Original title
Svengoolie
Released
1/7/1995
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
31
Number of episodes
518
The host Svengoolie talks about various horror movies while showing the movies, one per episode, and gives an introduction to them and performs an act during the commercial breaks. One of the constant tropes is that he will ask a question, then cut back to the movie in a way that looks like the character is answering that question. He also does a deep dive on the early careers of the major actors, and also what has happened to them since then.
A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.
Two tabloid reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster - or get fired. They are laughed at there, but something suspicious is going on.
A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.
A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt.
Molly, a high schooler, secretly earns her living as Angel, a street prostitute whose only family and friends are the ones she works with on the streets. She has to survive against a serial killer who is targeting people of her profession.
A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.
Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor.
Professor Groves, an expert in prehistoric life, proves his theories with an extract that'll regress a cat to a saber-tooth tiger and man to a Neanderthal.
An American scientist is able to contact and communicate with Mars with shattering political, economic, and spiritual repercussions.
An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock.
After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
The Office of Scientific Investigation sends A-Men agents to investigate reports of unusual magnetic activity in various communities.
A scholarly type is asked to investigate the possible island site for a large resort hotel--an island rumored to be infested with zombies.
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting; reviving the dead.
As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim.
A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.
The best of Svengoolie featuring Sven riffing movie clips in his iconic Svensurround!
A doctor finds a jungle laboratory, complete with mad scientist and genetic engineering experiments.
Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being held prisoner at a top secret military facility. The couple then decide to liberate the extraterrestrial castaways and help them make a rendezvous with a rescue ship sent from the alien home planet.
Interviews and documentary footage combine with the fictional story of an air-force pilot who encounters aliens.
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!
A newlywed sheriff tries to stop a shambling monster that has emerged from a spaceship to eat people.
When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion, her relations suspect murder. They little suspect he's turning her into a zombie, to join the army of living dead he hopes to devote to the Nazi cause. Lila, though dead, has developed a will of her own. Meanwhile, Lila's brother Scott and his friends are increasingly alarmed by the eerie events.
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.
Dar, is the son of a king, who is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, which leads him on his quest for revenge against his father's killers.
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse.
Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently - with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he's using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks...
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
A young boy sees his father killed by a toy that was anonymously delivered to his house. After that, he is too traumatized to speak, and his mother must deal with both him and the loss of her husband. Meanwhile, a toy maker named Joe Peto builds some suspicious-looking toys, and a mysterious man creeps around both the toy store and the boy's house...but who is responsible for the killer toys?
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Herbert West once again revives the dead. This time, he brings Dan's ex-girlfriend's heart back inside a 'perfect' body. Dr. Hill returns as the evil nemesis who lost his head.
"Meat is meat, and man's gotta eat!" That was always granny's philosophy. And that's the way folks still think over at the Motel Hello where Farmer Vincent mixes up his special blend of smoke meats. Heck, everybody in the county just loves Farmer Vincent's sausages and hams -- there's nothin' quite like 'em. But pray tell, what's that we've heard about strangers just disappearing after passing by Vincent's motel? And what are those odd things planted in Vincent's "secret garden" that he tends to only at night?
Special looks at the antics of the Three Stooges over the years.
Mary Lou, the prom queen burned to death by her boyfriend back in the fifties, has escaped from hell and is once again walking the hallways of Hamilton High School, looking for blood. She chooses as her escort in world of the living Alex, an average depressed student with dreams of one day becoming a doctor. As Mary Lou begins to get back into form, the body count starts climbing and the graduating class of Hamilton High is once again smaller than expected.
Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay that was murdered by the couple. Their intention is not to conquest Earth but to stop mankind from developing the powerful bomb “Solobonite” that would threaten the universe. When the population of Hollywood and Washington DC sees flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife and a policeman try to stop the aliens.
A space ship crash lands on the third planet of a distant solar system, killing all hands except for a young boy named Tang. The rescue ship arrives some 20 years later. One of the crew, a girl named Linda meets Tang and falls in love with him. They are attacked by the native humanoids of the planet and many of them are killed off. Also, the crew encounters many strange beasts on this strange, but somewhat familiar world.
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
An evil alien brain, bent on world domination, takes over the body of an atomic scientist, while a "good" alien brain inhabits the body of the scientist's dog and waits for an opportunity to defeat the evil brain.
A young girl is killed at the beach in Malibu. Professor Otto Lindsay suspects that it is some form of mutated fish. However, his son Richard, who was a good friend of the girl, thinks that it is a madman who has a grudge against Richard and his friends. Soon the list of victims grows.
A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben does his best to control the situation, but when the murderous zombies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic.
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.
'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.
Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans....
People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all.
Ro-Man, an alien robot who greatly resembles a gorilla in a diving helmet, is sent to earth to destroy all human life. Ro-Man falls in love with one of the last six remaining humans, and struggles to understand how his programming can instruct him to kill her while his heart demands that he can't.
Reports of strange activities out by the Old Willow's place signal new adventures for Kelton the Cop & Co. An apparent mystic, Dr. Acula is engaging in rituals designed to raise the dead. But he may get more than he bargained for...
Jesse has returned to this old family mansion after his parents were murdered when he was a baby. While going through old things in the basement, Jesse finds a picture of his great-great grandfather in front of a Mayan temple holding a crystal skull with jewels in the eyes. In the background is a man Jesse learns is Slim Razor, a former partner of his great-great grandfather turned bitter enemy after a disagreement over who would get to keep the skull.
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he is on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a killer kills a certain number of people, drains them of their blood and then disappears into the night. Kolchak is on his trail, but can he stop him?
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hordes of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of townsfolk in a remote hotel.
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
Martians fear their children have become lazy and joyless due to their newfound obsession with Earth TV shows. After ancient Martian leader Chochem suggests that the children of Mars need more fun—including their own Santa Claus—supreme leader Lord Kimar assembles an expedition to Earth. Once there, they kidnap two children who lead them to the North Pole, then capture the real Santa Claus, taking all three back to Mars in an attempt to bring the Martian children happiness.
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect.
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr Van Helsing is already on his way.
A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.
After escaping from the asylum, the deranged Dr. Niemann and his loyal hunchback assistant, Daniel, revive not only the evil Count Dracula, but the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster as well. All in order to exact revenge upon their many enemies.
A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved. *** ERROR *** This is not in this season or episode, and not this air date. IMDB shows as 12x49, ep guides shows as 12x15; I know not what source is accurate.
A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
Cast & crew User reviews Trivia FAQ IMDbPro The Mummy's Hand 1940 Approved 1h 7m IMDb RATING YOUR RATING Dick Foran and Peggy Moran in The Mummy's Hand (1940) Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess. Play trailer1:37 Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess.
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Doctors are forced to transplant the head of terminally ill, arthritic surgeon Maxwell Kirshner onto the body of African American Death Row inmate Jack Moss because there is no other donor.
Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist, hoping to free herself of a mysterious evil influence.
The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.
When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.
"The Invisible Man Returns" is featured.
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Two bumbling Americans stumble on the discovery of a lifetime when their search for a mummy leads them to a sacred medallion that holds the key to buried treasure.
After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.
"Dr. Cyclops" is featured.
The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.
Two bumbling Americans stumble on the discovery of a lifetime when their search for a mummy leads them to a sacred medallion that holds the key to buried treasure.
After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.
Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist, hoping to free herself of a mysterious evil influence.
The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.
The evil Dr. Who captures King Kong to dig for Element X when his robot duplicate, Mechani-Kong, is unable to do the job, but Kong soon escapes and battles his doppelganger.
A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
An illusionist becomes homicidal when his best kept magic secrets are stolen by his rival.
A deadly entity from space crash-lands near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. Panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature.
In 1918, an English family are terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
A scientist discovers a formula enabling him to pass through solid surfaces, but he also rapidly ages, which forces him to kill humans in order to reverse the aging process by absorbing his victims' energies.
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Cole Hillman's Arizona ranch is plagued with 'mongrel' rabbits, and he wants to employ an ecologically sound control method. As a favor to college benefactor Hillman, college president Elgin Clark calls in zoologist Roy Bennett to help. Bennett immediately begins injecting rabbits with hormones and genetically mutated blood in an effort to develop a method of disrupting rabbit reproduction. One of the test subjects escapes, resulting in a race of bloodthirsty, wolf-sized, man-, horse-, and cow-eating bunnies. Eventually the National Guard is called in for a final showdown with the terrorizing rabbits.
As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rhedosaurus" to paleontologist Thurgood Elson. All doubts disappear, however, when Elson is swallowed whole during an oceanic bathysphere excursion to search for the creature. Soon thereafter the rhedosaurus emerges from the sea and lays waste to Manhattan Island until Nesbitt comes up with a plan to try to stop the seemingly indestructible beast.
When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly reanimates the monster by removing the stake from his heart
Svengoolie presents 'The Leech Woman'. An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.
In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered.
A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
Svengoolie presents Devil Doll (1964): an evil hypnotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress's millions.
Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain a heiress' millions.
A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.
Eight people are invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?
A beautiful woman is sent back in time via hypnosis to the Middle Ages where she finds she is suspected of being a witch, and subject to being executed.
After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter - until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.
A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.
The evil Dr. Who captures King Kong to dig for Element X when his robot duplicate, Mechani-Kong, is unable to do the job, but Kong soon escapes and battles his doppelganger.
A stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum.
American G.I.s who trespass on a Hindu ceremony are hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to transform herself into a cobra.
When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
An alien, buried in King Tut's tomb, terrorizes a college campus.
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
Teenagers Libby and Kit innocently spend an evening making random prank calls that lead to murderous consequences.
In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
In a post holocaust society, robots take it on their own to help the dying human race by giving them android bodies.
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.
Two bumbling American cops hunt for the mysterious Mr. Hyde in London, England.
In a girl's boarding school, science teacher Miss Branding tests her theory that there is power within the human potential that is beyond that of the atom. Using hypnosis and a special amulet, a new and troubled student named Nancy Perkins becomes the subject of her experiments, which result in a series of full moon murders.
Svengoolie shows the horror comedy film from 1948. It includes not only Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, but also Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and the Wolfman.
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Dr. Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.
A Martian princess and a doctor replace the women on Mars, destroyed by atomic war, by raiding Puerto Rico while a shot down android terrorizes all.
The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.
A brutal death row inmate double-crossed by his crooked lawyer gets his chance for revenge when, following his execution, a bizarre experiment brings him back to life and deadlier than ever.
The advertising director of a pharmaceutical company seeks to boost the ratings of their sponsored TV program by capturing the legendary monster King Kong just as Godzilla re-emerges.
A satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
A beautiful woman is sent back in time via hypnosis to the Middle Ages where she finds she is suspected of being a witch, and subject to being executed.
Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.
A mission sent to rescue the first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain a heiress' millions.
When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur that lead Dr. Von Helsing to believe that the Countess must be a vampire.
When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.
An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered.
After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.
Upon his return to his father's estate, aristocrat Larry Talbot meets a beautiful woman, attends a mystical carnival and uncovers a horrifying curse.
Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.
The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
Needing money, the last member of the Frankenstein family leases his family's castle out to a film company as he tries to continue his ancestor's gruesome experiments to create life.
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter - until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.
A satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.
While awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.
When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.
Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.
On an isolated island, a small group of people is terrorized by giant voracious shrews during a hurricane.
A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.
A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.
The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.
An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
A mission sent to rescue the first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
A couple invites a Count from Hungary, who recently immigrated to America, to conduct a seance for the woman's recently deceased mother, oblivious to the fact that he is actually a vampire.
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
An ambitious scientist invents an eye drop formula that grants him X-ray vision, but his new powers have disastrous consequences.
A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.
An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return to power.
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.
Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.
The sorcerer Craven learns from fellow magician Dr. Bedlo that his supposedly dead wife is alive and living at the castle of master sorcerer Dr. Scarabus.
Claude Rains delivers a remarkable performance in his screen debut as a mysterious doctor who discovers a serum that makes him invisible. Covered by bandages and dark glasses, Rains arrives at a small English village and attempts to hide his amazing discovery. But the same drug that renders him invisible slowly drives him to commit acts of unspeakable terror. Based on H.G. Wells' classic novel and directed by the master of macabre James Whale, The Invisible Man not only fueled a host of sequels, but also features some special effects that are still imitated today.
When car trouble strands a honeymooning couple in a small Southern European village, an aristocratic family in the area reaches out to help them with sinister consequences.
A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
Scientists track a prehistoric monster in the South American jungle while it tracks them.
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
When the headlights of a truck become the eyes of a psychopath.
Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein’s monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira’s Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.
In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
Scientist returns from Africa with a growth serum and injects a chimpanzee which grows into a gorilla He then sends it out to kill anyone who interferes with his plans. An overdose causes the gorilla to grow into a 30-foot monster.
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
When the murder of an archaeologist puts a valuable medallion into their hands, Abbott and Costello waste little time in trying to sell it, only to find themselves pursued by police, a slinky adventuress, an Egyptian high priest, and the mummy himself.
Svengoolie presents the 1932 classic "The Old Dark House" starring Boris Karloff . Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
In 1999, a race of she-aliens, the Kilaaks, brainwash Earth's monsters into attacking major cities, prompting a team of astronauts to stop the invaders while the monsters battle Ghidorah.
An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
To win a reporting job, a young man must spend the night in a haunted house.
Tonight on MeTV - we HEAD back to the early 70s for a confusing fusion of a bigoted doctor and a Death Row convict- who happens to be black- when, in order to save the doctor’s life- his living head must be transplanted onto the convict’s body (which unfortunately already HAS a noggin of its own)! This uneasy alliance puts the combined duo on the run, and the police searching for “The Thing with Two Heads”!
A disparate group are trapped on a remote island by a hurricane. On the island, a doctor works to make humans twice as small as we already are. This, apparently, will help prevent over population. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created some giant shrews. As the shrews run out of smaller animals to eat, they move in on the people in the house.
A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Tonight on MeTV, we travel to England with a skeptical psychologist who plans to debunk reports of a Satanic cult using supernatural powers to destroy their enemies- only to find more than he bargained for when he becomes the target of the “Curse of the Demon”!
A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters
A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.
This week on MeTV, we have something ’fraidy from the 80s- in which the descendent of a powerful warlock finds himself getting caught up in dangerous supernatural rituals that end up releasing some major evil- aided by some tiny terrors known as – “Ghoulies”!
This week on MeTV- hurry, hurry, hurry! Step right up for the big show- with the little monsters! It’s mayhem on the midway- when the diminutive occult creatures who plagued a young couple and their friends last week on our show-become a part of a carnival and cause chaos! Take in the sinister sideshow of a sequel- “Ghoulies II!”
A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.
A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
Scientist returns from Africa with a growth serum and injects a chimpanzee which grows into a gorilla He then sends it out to kill anyone who interferes with his plans. An overdose causes the gorilla to grow into a 30-foot monster.
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.
Dr. Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
A giant, cannibalistic humanoid's rampage through Tokyo is halted by his more docile twin, but neither their reunion nor their scientist caretakers can prevent their eventual duel.
A mysterious and cruel Baron, whose face has become frozen in a horrifying grin, demands that a prominent London physician apply experimental treatments on him to restore his face.
When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly reanimates the monster by removing the stake from his heart
Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
An American reporter visiting Tokyo becomes a witness to the city's destruction by a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing.
1973’s “The Night Strangler” finds Kolchak- as well as his beleaguered boss Tony Vincenzo- both run out of Las Vegas after the “Night Stalker” case, and now in Seattle. Tony reluctantly hires Carl to work at his current newspaper, run by a crusty old gentleman (John Carradine!). Tony assigns Kolchak to cover a series of exotic dancer murders-figuring this would be right up his alley ( and a dark alley it is).Each victim has been strangled, with their necks crushed- and a small amount of blood drained form them. It could be the work of a twisted serial killer- but Kolchak begins to think differently when he hears that each victim also had traces of rotting flesh on their necks!
A 1975 American made-for-television horror film. It consists of three distinct segments, each based on unrelated short stories by Richard Matheson featuring Karen Black in each.
In rural Arizona, countless killer tarantulas are migrating through a farm town, killing every living thing in their path. The town's veterinarian will do everything in his power to survive the onslaught.
The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.
Tonight on METV- Joan Collins has some real estate she wants to sell you-until it’s discovered that it is already in the possession of some oversized pests who have plans for movin’ on up to take over new territory and claim it as the “Empire of the Ants”! This 1977 film is yet another produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon- whose initials- “B-I-G” – are an immediate tip-off to the size of the six-legged menaces in this film. Based very loosely on an H.G. Wells story, we begin with a brief lecture about ants (pay attention- some facts in this tutorial will be important later)- then, we shift to a tableau of illegal activity- with barrels of radioactive waste being dumped into the ocean. One barrel washes up on a beach, and some of its oozing contents become a feast for …you guessed it- ants!
A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
A magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.
A lawyer advises a blind man's rich widow tormented by nightmares.
Elderly Henrietta Winslow lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death.
A psychic researcher uses hypnosis to send a young woman back in time, where she's accused of witchcraft due to a real witch's meddling.
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
A doctor obtains raw materials for his experiments. With an assistant's help, he tries reviving a heart. A suspicious priest interrupts, forcing them to flee abandoned experiments.
In our home base of Chicago, there’s been a lot of interest lately in the “Rat Hole”- the impression of what appears to be the outline of a rat in a sidewalk’s concrete - but, tonight on MeTV- a young man is tired of being under the thumb of a big cheese- and decides to fight back through an army of rats that he has learned to communicate with and control! It’s a riot of rodent revenge lead by “Willard”!
Explores a worthy sequel to the first film in the Gill Man saga, taking "King Kong" approach- bringing the monster back to civilization in a different unfamiliar environment.
We’ve shown you various watery threats like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, giant octopi, and a piranha or fifty- but tonight on MeTV, it’s a unique sort of subsea prehistoric menace that emerges from the deep to find food- and you can probably guess what item is at the top of its menu- as mankind faces “The Monster That Challenged the World”!
Burning windmill where the monster battles his maker. Henry, thrown from the windmill's heights, is carried home by witnesses who mourn. Maria's father remains to ensure the monster's demise but the monster lives.
Pete, make-up artist for 25 years, angered that the studio's new regime discounts his work . Recalling a past accidental discovery allowing him to control actors, Pete formulates special makeup to render them to his commands.
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
A family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.
Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.
Dan Curtis' made-for-tv version of Bram Stoker's Dracula from 1974, starring Jack Palance as the Count, who pursues a woman in England who resembles his long dead wife.
An anthropologist and his daughter are traveling through the southwestern U.S. when they encounter a mysterious skeleton of a large creature with wings and horns at Uncle Willie’s Desert Museum. Initially dismissing it as a hoax, they soon find themselves entangled in a supernatural mystery, pursued by a group of living, breathing gargoyles.
A freak accident transforms a wall-mounted flatscreen TV into a portal to a post-apocalyptic future where fierce mutants roam a decimated earth and humanity struggles to survive.
On an isolated island, a secret lab's experiments to cure a deadly disease go terribly wrong, unleashing horrific creatures. A doctor's call for help, but the visitors become trapped as the relentless creatures multiply.
In “The Wolf Man” (1941), Larry Talbot returns to his father’s castle in Wales and encounters a beautiful woman. During a visit to a local carnival, he meets a mysterious gypsy fortune teller who recites a chilling verse: “Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms and the moon is full and bright.”
Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
A horrific house party brings together the original Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man, a hunchback, and other Universal monsters in this ultimate monster rally.
The vampire Mamuwalde (a.k.a. Blacula) is resurrected by voodoo and forced to kill again.
In 1999, a race of she-aliens, the Kilaaks, brainwash Earth's monsters into attacking major cities, prompting a team of astronauts to stop the invaders while the monsters battle Ghidorah.
An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.
A beautiful woman is sent back in time via hypnosis to the Middle Ages where she finds she is suspected of being a witch, and subject to being executed.
Shortly after their rocket reaches the mysterious red planet, the band of brave space explorers discovers monstrous yet highly intelligent alien life forms, which first attack, then deliver a haunting word of warning intended for all mankind.
Herman inherits Munster Hall in England
The dashing, mysterious Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), after hypnotizing a British soldier, Renfield (Dwight Frye), into his mindless slave, travels to London and takes up residence in an old castle. Soon Dracula begins to wreak havoc, sucking the blood of young women and turning them into vampires. When he sets his sights on Mina (Helen Chandler), the daughter of a prominent doctor, vampire-hunter Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) is enlisted to put a stop to the count's never-ending bloodlust.
A disparate group are trapped on a remote island by a hurricane. On the island, a doctor works to make humans twice as small as we already are. This, apparently, will help prevent over population. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created some giant shrews. As the shrews run out of smaller animals to eat, they move in on the people in the house.
American servicemen are targeted by a beautiful woman who can transform into a cobra after they interfere in a ceremony
An 1880s magician (Vincent Price) creates illusions of mayhem that work.
A giant octopus from the nether reaches of Mindanao Deep has been awakened by nearby nuclear testing. Radioactive and monstrously huge, the rampaging leviathan is heading toward the North American Pacific Coast.
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
(Sequel to "The Amazing Colossal Man") Manning is a gigantic behemoth, a victim of overexposure to radiation who has gone insane due to his freakish size.
When teenagers see a comet crash outside their small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns.
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall.
movie that predates the TV show After several high-profile newspapers fire him for his difficult attitude, investigative journalist Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) finds a job following the police beat for a small Las Vegas publication. When Carl discovers a series of dead showgirls drained of blood with bite marks on their necks, the police hesitate to take the case any further, and his boss (Simon Oakland) wants nothing to do with the story, leading Carl to believe there may be a real vampire prowling the city streets.
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) is determined to prove the legitimacy of his father's scientific work, thus rescuing the family name from disgrace. With the help of Ygor (Bela Lugosi), a grave robber, Wolf successfully reanimates the monster (Boris Karloff) his father originally brought back from the dead.
(Second episode of the night as part of Svengoolie's Halloween BOO-Nanza) An earthquake awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails are gobbling up anyone who sets foot in the water. And when the creatures move on to land in search of wider hunting grounds, they launch a reign of terror that threatens to spread across the whole country.
To win a reporting job, a young man must spend the night in a haunted house.
(Second episode of the night as part of Svengoolie's Halloween BOO-Nanza) A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters
A scarred sculptor (Vincent Price) re-populates his ravaged wax museum with human corpses.
House of Svengoolie, primarily hosted by the characters IMP, Gwengoolie, and Nostalgiaferatoo. second episode of the night as part of October's Boonanza A teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King (David Bowie). Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers.
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
House of Svengoolie, primarily hosted by the characters IMP, Gwengoolie, and Nostalgiaferatoo. second episode of the night as part of October's Boonanza On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and to restore order to his world.
Tonight on MeTV- as the weather turns colder, it seems like a good time to get wrapped up-and join one of Universal’s iconic monsters as he goes "for a little walk"... and begins a marathon of evil and death, thanks to a curse from ancient Egypt that brings danger to all who come into contact with- "The Mummy"!
Tonight on MeTV- we present Vincent Price in possibly his most memorable role of the 1970s-as a man thought to be dead who is not only alive, but on a mission- to get revenge on the physicians who failed to save his wife’s life- by killing them off one by one! There are equal measures of dark hilarity and horror in the campy classic from 1971- “The Abominable Dr. Phibes”!
Tonight on MeTV-find out what gets a rise out of Vincent Price’s disfigured “dead-again/live-again” villain- as we pick up where last week’s movie left off- only a few years later- when the killer keyboardist is restored to life- and sets out on a quest to return his beloved wife to the realm of the living- while racing against an anxious adversary to a certain spot in Egypt that promises eternal life- as “Dr. Phibes Rises Again”!
We’re showing what may be the most requested film in our library-that our viewers demand to see at least annually! While Universal’s perennial top comedy team- had lost some of their box office power- this film teamed them up with some of Universal’s classic monsters, who had also been declining in popularity (at least in the opinion of the studio heads). Two of the classic monsters are played by the men who established them as horror legends- Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man- with the Monster portrayed by Glenn Strange- for the comedic and creepy encounter “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”!
Tonight on MeTV- “Black Friday” gives way to a “Black and White Saturday” Sven feature- as we learn about a snowy mountain peak surrounded by a mysterious mist that conceals a deadly menace to mankind! Anyone who dares to climb into it risks certain death- and a major threat looms to local residents when the mist moves downwards towards their town! Inside the mist lies the terror of “The Crawling Eye”!
Tonight on MeTV, we reprise a horror comedy with an all-star cast of the genre’s legends that mixes dark humor and deadly deeds. It’s another memorable team-up of Vincent Price and Peter Lorre, with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone along for the (hearse wagon) ride- in the “Comedy of Terrors”!
Tonight on MeTV- while you might be getting in the holiday mood roasting chestnuts on an open fire- some less-than-holiday heat from lightning will be thawing out prehistoric creatures on a tropical island-where the nasty local town boss is actually more savage than a newly- awakened Neanderthal- as both the good and evil islanders face the destructive might of- “Dinosaurus!”
Tonight on MeTV, we have a pre-Christmas present for you- with a character who was part of the Universal roster of horror even before the advent of talkies! This time he is portrayed by a distinguished actor who can perfectly embody the heartbreak, fury, and insanity of- “The Phantom of the Opera”! This is the 1943 Technicolor version based on the oft-remade story written by Gaston Leroux about brilliant musician/composer Erique Claudin...
Tonight, on MeTV- we end the year by bringing back an American International 1950s offering that takes its place among the teenage monster films like “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein” and “I Was a Teenage Werewolf”- but this film puts a twist on the formula by making the terror- a female! Should old acquaintance be forgot-but not the old savage murders in “Blood of Dracula”?!
Tonight on MeTV- we bring back a different take on a classic Robert Louis Stevenson horror novel – which boasts not only one of the greatest stars of Universal horror- but also the studio’s longtime top comedy team. It’s been a while since we’ve run this movie- so we are prescribing a new appointment for you with "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"- featuring Boris Karloff as the tormented doctor!
Tonight, on MeTV- we shake a sinister family tree to harvest an early Universal horror classic. considered to be the first sequel to the original Bela Lugosi “Dracula” film. We meet the previously unknown female child of the infamous count, who is set in her father’s ways, which she wants desperately to leave behind- yet is unable to drop her corpuscle addiction- and must deal with the irresistible thirst she has inherited by virtue of being- “Dracula’s Daughter”!
Tonight on MeTV-we go from frightful fruit to nasty nightlife- as we present a favorite cult classic fresh from the ghastly garden, followed by two horror greats sharing sinister stories at a gathering place of supernatural creatures of various kinds! We begin with the 1978 fan favorite “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”
Nostalgiaferatoo returns with the rest of our Sven squad, Gwengoolie and the Imp, to present the 1981 musical monster mash-up “The Monster Club”. This movie is loaded with rock and roll, as Vincent Price and John Carradine share supernatural stories in a special night club for creatures of the night. (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
Tonight, on MeTV, we are very happy to again present the English-language version of the famed Toho Studios film that started the reign of the most famous Japanese kaiju (giant monster) in motion picture history! It’s a far cry from some of the later films, much more serious and tragic. Added for the American version, the future “Perry Mason” ( cue that theme music!) Raymond Burr became a part of movie history- as he witnesses the origin of "Godzilla- King of the Monsters"!
Tonight on MeTV- we go from last week’s huge scaly creature to another- whose origin is even more far out-created by the artistry of Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion magic! A spaceship returns from a mission to Venus, holding injured astronauts and a strange menace that gets bigger and more destructive after travelling “20 Million Miles to Earth”!
Tonight on MeTV, it’s some singular Hammer horror, featuring the famed studio’s only werewolf film of its classic era- in which a young Oliver Reed progresses from strange childhood maladies to an adulthood plagued by the "Curse of the Werewolf"!
Tonight on MeTV- it’s more two-for-one frightful fun as we present a double feature- starting off with some mysterious experiments that give a scholar scales. It’s “Sssssss”
and then- it’s adolescent aliens arriving on earth to either protect or destroy humanity- thanks to a scheme to raise giant lobster-like creatures as livestock! “Teenagers from Outer Space” (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
Tonight on MeTV- it’s not a double feature, but it DOES feature double danger from a couple gigantic kaiju creatures- one originally raised by humanity, and the other raising its anger against humanity! Authorities refuse to believe that both of them are not out to cause destruction due to their differing origins, fearful that, unless they kill them both, mankind will be the loser in the “War of the Gargantuas”!
Tonight on MeTV- you’ve thrilled to the amazing horrors brought to us by Dan Curtis, from “Trilogy of Terror” to “Dark Shadows” and ‘The Night Stalker”-and this time, we witness his take on the classic novel that began the tale of the most famous vampire of all- in “Dan Curtis’ ‘Dracula’!” Note: this 1974 made-for-TV production, starring Jack Palance, was originally called “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
Tonight, on MeTV – if you toss a coin, we’re calling heads-because our menace- a disembodied head that has survived for centuries- is unearthed and uses its amazing mental powers to control others in order to conqueror the modern world- all orchestrated by " The Thing That Couldn’t Die”!
Tonight on MeTV- it’s a classic science fiction adventure, penned by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle- in which an explorer, convinced there is an island where dinosaurs still exist, leads an expedition to a place where time has stood still- and his theory unfortunately is proven right- when Claude Rains enters the savage land of “The Lost World”!
After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel where they are stalked by a group of murderous puppets. (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
Tonight on MeTV- We travel to a place that legend says no man has ever returned from- and discover that the deadly species known as Gill Man is the reason why! It’s the classic original introduction to Universal Studios’ greatest monster of the 1950s, and a personal favorite of yours truly- the “Creature from the Black Lagoon”!
Tonight on MeTV- a hidden planet plans to recruit two of the Earth's mightiest players to team up against a deadly beast that's destroying their world! Toho Studios presents the final four- minus one- it’s Rodan and - "Godzilla VS Monster Zero"! Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Tonight on MeTV, we not only prove that the song was right- “Big Girls Don’t Cry”- but that one really big girl, in particular, could make people die! An unhappy wife of normal size has a close encounter of the alien kind- resulting in a transformation from being the object of the townspeople’s pity to becoming a big woman in town-literally! Beware the beautiful behemoth out for vengeance on her horrible hubby-it’s the “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman”!
Tonight on MeTV- with summertime only a couple months away, we thought it’d be a good idea to remind you that’s when insects again become an annoyance- but not to the extent of the man-eating menace that defrosts and creates a one-bug infestation- as an actor we know from a certain classic legal drama tries to win the case against- "The Deadly Mantis!"
Tonight on Me-TV, we have twice as many goodies to add to your pre-Easter basket- with this month’s double feature! Beware of the deceptive duplicates spawned when “It Came from Outer Space”
...followed by the multiple monsters known as “Munchies”!! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
Tonight on MeTV- a young man who is tired of being under the thumb of a big cheese decides to fight back-with an army of rats! It’s vengeance in the form of vicious vermin lead by “Willard”!
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
In rural Arizona, countless killer tarantulas are migrating through a farm town, killing every living thing in their path. The town's veterinarian will do everything in his power to survive the onslaught.
Tonight, on MeTV-it’s this month’s double feature- starting with yet another chapter in the classic Frankenstein saga- Meet the “Ghost of Frankenstein”
....followed by the Sven Squad on a haunting hunt that ends in disaster!... witness the “Blair Witch Project”! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
Tonight, on MeTV- Christopher Lee steps into the role of yet another classic creature- and Peter Cushing again is the man who must try to stop him! It’s Hammer Studios take on the familiar story of the search for the lost tomb of Princess Ananka- which leads to the resurrection of “The Mummy”!
Tonight on MeTV- it’s horror icon Boris Karloff taking on the task of proving the innocence of a man who was executed for murder. The search for answers becomes far too personal, bringing a devastating and frightening effect upon him-which leads to more murder and a tragic transformation when citizens must fear “The Haunted Strangler” !
Tonight! is Joan Crawford a real swinger (with an axe) - once released from her "Strait-Jacket"?
Tonight on MeTV- before we celebrate Father’s Day, we take a moment to acknowledge a son- who doesn’t go OUT in the sun! He does, however, go America’s bayou country, where his plan is to inflict the curse of the undead first upon a member of an unsuspecting family- and then the nation! A young woman with a fascination for the dark side falls under his hypnotic spell, as Lon Chaney Jr. takes on the role of yet another famous horror name-as the “Son of Dracula”!
(a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
(a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
(a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
(a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
(a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
(a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
(a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)
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