The Late Night Horror Show

[The_Conqueror_Worm]

For me in early 70s L.A. it was Fright Night with Larry “Seymour” Vincent on KHJ Channel 9. Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson replaced him 6 years after his death. She tickled my funny bone as well as my… erm… never mind.

[FriarTed]

@The_Conqueror_Worm

For me in early 70s L.A. it was Fright Night with Larry “Seymour” Vincent on KHJ Channel 9. Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson replaced him 6 years after his death. She tickled my funny bone as well as my… erm… never mind.

I’m pretty sure that Seymour was syndicated on the Louisville KY ABC affiliate at the time (mid-70s)- Channel 32. Also, on Saturday evenings, WDRB-TV 41 in Louisville had “Fright Night” hosted by a deep-voiced green-underlit face that introduced the movies- local actor Charles Kissinger.

WDRB

Btw, here is Sammy Terry, the original (the role is now being done in live appearances & TV specials by Bob Carter’s son Mark)-

http://www.sammyterrynightmares.com/classic.html

and while he was not exclusively a horror host. how could I forget Cincinatti’s Bob Shreve & his “Past Prime Playhouse”?

http://bobshreve.com/

[aruvqan]

@Rodgers01

If you’re interested, there’s a documentary called “American Scary” that’s a history of late night horror show hosts which is available for streaming on Netflix. It’s a bit long and meandering, but kind of fun if you enjoy that stuff.

I love the old movies on streaming netflix, I just did 3 days of Noir, I think in honor of the weekend I might do a horror weekend =) I preset up the schedule on my queue and watch on my tablet

@FriarTed

The entire Universal Classic Monsters line;
The Hammer Dracula & Frankenstein lines along with other random Hammer & Amicus productions;
The AIP Corman-Price-Poe (& occasionally Lovecraft) line;
Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (Mask of the Demon) starring Barbara Steele;

Great memories of all of these! And the silent coach scene in Black Sunday is still one of my absolute favorite chilling make your spine crawl when seen in a silent dark room at midnight scenes!

@salinqmind

Hootenany was a show featuring folk music performed in front of enthusiastic audiences, filmed at college campuses in 1963-64. There was a lot of controversy over just who would be featured - lefties like Pete Seeger were banned, and Peter Paul and Mary and other popular folk acts boycotted the show in solidarity. Then the Beatles and other British bands invaded the U.S. and that was the end of Hootenany.

There is a series of recordings of hootenanies on Smithsonian Folkways Records.