Rich Koz as "Svengoolie" and Morton Downey Jr host a "Munsters" marathon between 9:00 am. until 6:00 pm on WCIU-TV Channel 26 Chicago, Illinois. This was the return of Svengoolie (formerly Son of Svengoolie) before the return of his weekly show.
Midnight on New Years 1995, Svengoolie (formerly Son of Svengoolie) returned to the airwaves hosting an all night marathon of classic TV shows such as Leave it to Beaver, The Munsters and Hogan's Heroes.
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter the sensitive Wolfman, the horny Vampiress Odette and a whole cast of other weirdos.
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.
Roger Cobb is an author who has just separated from his wife. He moves into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little things at first, but as they become more frequent, Cobb becomes aware that the house resents his presence.
15 year-old Molly Stewart is a prep school honor student who moonlights as a Hollywood prostitute. After a serial killer begins stalking and murdering some of her street friends, she becomes a target herself.
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.
Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
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 Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
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.
Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) moves with his family into the home of the lone survivor from a series of attacks by dream-stalking monster Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). There, Jesse is bedeviled by nightmares and inexplicably violent impulses. It turns out Freddy needs a host body to carry out his gruesome vendetta against the youth of Springwood, Ohio. While Freddy gains influence, Jesse and his girlfriend, Lisa (Kim Myers), race against the clock trying to figure out what's going on. Note: This episode of Svengoolie was never shown on Me-TV.
A giant octopus surfaces from the depths and terrorizes a city.
A millionaire and his fourth wife invite five guests to spend a night with them in a mansion on Haunted Hill. Those who stay the entire night in this 'haunted house party' will each be given $10,000 in the morning.
The daughter of Count Dracula, herself a vampire, struggles with her thirst for blood and a remedy for a cure.
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
Svengoolie presents 'Creature From the Black Lagoon'. 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.
After meeting and falling under his spell in Hungary, Katherine invites the mysterious Count Alucard (yes...Alucard) her Louisiana estate. Upon his arrival horrors begin to happen to Katherine's family and neighbors as Alucard unleashes his wrath.
Svengoolie presents 'The Incredible Shrinking Man'. When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, the son of Frankenstein, returns to his father's castle seeking to clear his father's name by proving the validity of his scientific work. Baron Wolf gives the monster renewed strength, but once again death begins surrounding its presence.
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
Svengooglie presents the third of the "Abbott and Costello Meet" series. Abbott and Costello play two bumbling private detective graduates that take the case of a prize fighter accused of killing his manger. When the fighter injects himself with invisibility serum, well, things just become a laugh riot.
Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.
A classic tale of father and son go camping, werewolf bites father, father becomes werewolf, wife divorces werewolf, son traumatized by...not sure if it's divorce or werewolf...and child psychologist gives REALLY bad advice. This 1973 offering is brought to you by the director and star of the stop-action classic The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Enjoy.
This Universal classic gives us the iconic character, the iconic hairstyle and the universal reference for a female train-wreck, regardless the reason. The Frankenstein saga continues as Dr. Frankenstein is visited by an even eviler genius, Dr. Pretorius. After displaying his accomplishments in creation of life, he coerces Dr. Frankenstein to create a mate for the monster (Karloff), only thought to be kill in the windmill fire at the end of the first picture.
Svengoolie presents the 1933 Universal classic "The Invisible Man". Claude Rains stars as Dr. Jack Griffin, a scientist that discovers how to become invisible but is driven insane by the process. Based on the 1897 H. G. Wells weekly serial and novel of the same title.
Abbott and Costello are two American policemen who while visiting in London meet Dr. Jekyll and his alternate personality Mr. Hyde.
A scientist tries to speed up evolution by surgically transforming animals into people. Based on a story by H.G. Wells
An accused murderer uses the secret of invisibility to track down his brother's killer. Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Vincent Price star in this classic thriller!
Svengoolie presents 'The Ghost of Frankenstein'. Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.
In the second of the "Abbot and Costello Meet" series, a prominent attorney is murdered (I know...Hooray!) and his body discovered by bumbling bell-boy Freddie (Lou Costello). The house detective Casey (Bud Abbot) attempts to clear Freddie by investigating former clients of the attorney including Swami Talpur played by Boris Karloff. The slap-stick high jinks ensues and leads to an unexpected though slightly contrived finish.
In 1895, three British archaeologists in Egypt discover the tomb of Princess Ananka, the high priestess of the god Karnak. One of the men discovers “The Scroll of Life” and reads it with dire consequences. Three years later, back in England, Mehemet Bey, a devoted worshiper of Karnak, has come seeking revenge on those that desecrated Ananka’s tomb.
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.
A giant avaricious arachnid is making desert out of desert denizens and it's up to a devoted doctor and his scientist sweetie to stop the menace that's leaving bones and broken homes. This '50s sci-fi / monster classic.stars John Agar as the doctor, Mara Corday as the scientist and features an un-credited appearance from Clint Eastwood.
Two teenagers, bored while babysitting, decide to have some entertainment by making prank phone calls to complete strangers. They tell the person on the other end of the line, "I saw what you did, and I know who you are!" Its all-in good fun until they happen to call a man who just murdered his wife. The latter has an immediate need to find out who they are and eliminate this new problem.
Svengoolie presents 'Werewolf of London'. 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.
An American archaeological expedition meets with disaster when they ignore warnings not to desecrate an Egyptian tomb.
Explorers uncover an ancient, subterranean civilization in the mountains of Asia.
Seriously if you need a plot on this one, you're watching the wrong show BUT...Svenoolie presents an original Universal horror classic featuring the original "Bat-Man". Bela Lugosi stars as Count Dracula. Arriving in England from his native Translyvania he begins preying on the natives with particular interest in the virtuous young Mina Seward played by Helen Chandler.
Svengoolie presents 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'. The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
UK's Hammer Films presents this werewolf tale their typical Gothic style. A child borne by a mute servant girl following a rape by a bestial madman grows to become a cursed monster by the full moon's light. A worthy offering by Hammer, known for outstanding effects for the time and somewhat complicated and depressing story lines.
Svengoolie presents 'Dr. Cyclops'. A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.
Svengoolie presents 'Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman'. The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.
Don Knots channels his inner Barney Fife in this comedy-horror classic as Luther Heggs, a newspaper typesetter aspiring to become an ace reporter. Hegss gets his break when the editor assigns him to spend the night in a supposed haunted house. At midnight, strange things are happening, but are the what they seem?
In yet another Universal horror classic, the mummy cult high priest role is transferred to a new fez wearing fiend who bring the living mummy Kharis (Chaney) to America. Here he revives him to exact revenge on those who foiled their plans before. Thus begins the foot-dragging action that has become the standard for the '40's mummy movies.
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located on Black Island near the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
(in Svensurround)
The calving of an Arctic iceberg releases a giant praying mantis, trapped in suspended animation since prehistoric times. It first attacks military outposts to eat their occupants, then makes its way to the warmer latitudes of Washington and New York. A paleontologist works together with military units to try to kill it.
Dr. Gustav Niemann escapes from prison seeking revenge on those he deems responsible for his incarceration. On his quest to fulfill his vendetta, he ends up bringing Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and even the Wolf Man back to life.
Sven introduces the 1953 classic, "Abbott and Costello Go To Mars". In it, two workmen accidentally launch a space rocket intended for Mars, and find mistakenly landing in New Orleans just the beginning of their misadventures.
Classic TV's first family of funny fright receive word that family patriarch Herman Munster has inherited an English manor and the title Lord Munster (assumed to be referring to the hall and not the cheese). In England, the English Munsters hatch a scheme to scare off their American cousins as they are impediment to their illegal activities in the basement of Muster Hall. Failing this, the story culminates in a road race that Herman is participating in as the English Musters plot to settle the Munster problem once and for all.
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly brewed up a serum that can transform any man into a King Cobra snake-and he plans to use it on David.
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Men capture the creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction. He evidentially escapes, first stalking Helen who the Gill-man has taken an interest in, and then abducing her from a seaside restaurant.
After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.
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 Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
Six American soldiers who happen to trespass on a Hindu ceremony are later hunted down by a strange and beautiful woman who has the ability to transform herself into a cobra.
Svengoolie presents 'The Wolf Man'. Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter who in no way wants him. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
A scientist, Dr. Who, creates a mechanical King Kong to excavate a precious mineral. However, his design does not work out as planned and he becomes intent on securing the real deal. Problems continue and the two mighty giants ultimately face a showdown.
In this horror movie icon vehicle, Dr. Rukh (Boris Karloff) creates a wonder healing ray (which is conspicuously visible) from the newly discovered element radium X. This ray also has the effect of causing Karloff to glow, gives him the touch of death, and drives him quite mad. The insane doctor is convinced his associate Dr. Benet (Bela Lugosi) has stolen his work and begins a plan to destroy the members of the expedition that discovered radium X.
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
A mad professor discovers an ancient Mayan gas places it's victim in a zombie like state (No, not Indiana). In an evil plot to steal his assistants fiance, the professor uses the gas on his him. However, to keep his zombie alive-dead, he must feed him fresh human hearts (with secret herbs and spices) resulting in a story to chill the blood. In the GOOD part of this episode, Svengoolie recaps the design and creation of his new coffin, seen here for the first time.
In this late '50s SciFi horror, a college research professor bombards the blood of a primitive fish with gamma rays producing a de-evolution serum As these things always go, he winds up injecting himself with the serum becoming the B.M.O.C. (Big Monster on Campus) and killing more that just the curve.
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.
The classic 1931 horror film, telling "the story of Frankenstein, a man of science who sought to create a man after his own image ..." only to see his creation wreak devastation.
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
London in the early 20th century is shaken by a series of grisly murders. Suspicion falls on an attractive young woman who due to the Allenby Curse is rumored to have werewolves in her family tree. When she shuns her fiancé, he decides to investigate this curse of lycanthropy more closely.
A frightening sci-fi tale from the fabulous ’50s- as an amateur astronomer and author fights to convince the locals that there is danger nearby- and that “It Came from Outer Space”! (In shocking 2-D)
A remote island with no contact with the mainland- which wouldn’t be so bad if a deadly creation wasn’t threatening the population- as Peter Cushing struggles to save humanity on the “Island of Terror”!
Navy Commander Hal Roberts leads an expedition to investigate reports of a mysterious warm water inland lake in Antartica. His small party, including beautiful reporter Maggie Hathaway, is forced into a volcanic crater where they find themselves trapped in a lush tropical environment that has survived from the Mesozoic Era. Fighting carnivorous plants and dinosaurs, they are both helped and hindered by Dr. Carl Hunter, a megalomaniac survivor of an earlier expedition, as they struggle to survive and escape this hostile environment.
Svengoolie presents this abnormally good ghost story movie which carries the distinction of being the first movie to present haunting as a serious supernatural event. In a lesson in real estate diligence, composer Rick Fitzgerald and sister Ruth find that the overly reasonable sale price of their new dream estate by the sea is due to the ghosts haunting the property. Note, the movie has been edited for time considerations.
Tonight marks the 3rd anniversary of the Svengoolie show being beamed to a national audience via the Me-TV network- but we're giving YOU the gift! After a long absence on our program, we are so happy to be able to present, once again, another landmark Universal horror film- one in which the title "creature" appears only briefly, but is still one of the most memorable characters in the studio's horror gallery- it's the 1935 sequel to the original "Frankenstein"- "Bride of Frankenstein"- as the first entry in this month's theme- "Rotten Relatives Reunion"!
Tonight on Me-TV, the "Summertime BOOS" draw cheers from the fans, as the tag team of terror face off in a "no howls barred" bout that pits the Big Green Machine against the Were-warrior- the classic "Frankenstein Meet the Wolf Man"!
Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count
A sculptor seeking revenge on those individuals who criticized and rejected his work manipulates a disfigured criminal he saved from drowning to kill them.
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Paula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish)
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
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...
When an artist is blinded, his fiancée's father offers an operation to restore his sight. When the benefactor suddenly dies, the artist becomes a suspect.
Terror strikes the London Opera House as a new opera is disrupted by the actions of a deformed specter of the show's past
Revolutionary war ghosts Horatio (Bud Abbott) and Melody (Marjorie Reynolds) haunt the look-alike descendant of the owner of an estate where they are cursed to haunt until their innocence of treason during the war can be proven.
A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.
A doctor is not sure if he murdered his beautiful but wicked wife, and he has his attractive nurse try to find the truth by hypnotizing him.
Sven brings us the 1945 Lon Chaney, Jr. feature, "Pillow of Death". Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary are having an affair, so when Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
The original, never-aired "Star Trek" pilot!
Tonight on MeTV- it’s time for a road trip- but this one is hardly enjoyable for the driver! Motoring down a dangerous desert highway, a traveling salesman finds himself tailed by a mysterious mass of moving metal - a terrifying tanker truck- as it seemingly targets his vehicle! This bumper-bashing behemoth takes on Dennis Weaver in a pedal-to-the-metal one-sided demolition derby- in a deadly “Duel”!
Svengoolie presents 'The Ghost of Frankenstein'. Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.
Svengoolie presents 'The Land of the Unknown'.
Svengoolie presents 'The Black Cat'. American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
Svengoolie presents 'The Night Walker'. A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Svengoolie presents 'Weird Woman'. While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being.
Svengoolie presents 'The Brides of Dracula'. Vampire hunter Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on beautiful young schoolteacher Marianne.
Svengoolie presents 'The Cat and the Canary'. When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
Svengoolie presents 'The Shadow of the Cat'. A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.
Svengoolie presents 'The Invisible Man Returns'. The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Awakened by nuclear weapons testing, a 400 foot mutated dinosaur inexplicably attacks the only country actually attacked with said nuclear weapons.
A new and better Godzilla battles an irradiated Anguirus destroying Osaka in the process.
Mutant Dinosaurs, giant insects and tiny Japanese girls. In this classic Godzilla battles the insect monsters Battra and Mothra with the tiny twins Cosmo explaining the mission of the monsters.
In possibly the worst Godzilla movie released, Ichiro and Minilla (son of Godzilla) are inspired by Godzilla's battles to confront their own nemesis.
Svengoolie presents 'Werewolf of London'. 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.
Svengoolie presents 'Phantom of the Opera'. An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career.
Svengoolie presents 'The Uninvited'. 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.
Svengoolie presents 'Dracula'. After a naive real estate agent succumbs to the will of Count Dracula, the two head to London where the vampire sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
Svengoolie presents 'Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man'. Two bumbling private eyes help a man wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible to help clear his name.
Two pteranodons emerge from what can only be a bleak existence underground to terrorize Japan.
Svengoolie presents 'The Mad Ghoul'. A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul.
Svengoolie presents 'Munster, Go Home!'. The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
Godzilla vs. a mutant hybrid of Monster Energy Drink and Coke Zero? No. But as the newly discovered Planet X is explored, the inhabitants are found hiding underground from "Monster Zero" (aka Ghidorrah, The Three-headed Monster). Deals are made with Earth to use Godzilla and Rodan to free the inhabitants from the menace of Monster Zero but it would seem our newly found allies have ulterior motives.
Svengoolie presents 'Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer'. Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect.
Svengoolie presents 'The Mummy's Tomb'. 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.
Svengoolie presents 'The Car'. 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.
Svengoolie presents 'Curse of the Undead'. B-grade western with a twist: mysterious gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire, and it's up to Preacher Dan to save the town and girlfriend Dolores Carter.
A movie unlike anything you've seen on this show...Svengoolie presents the 1963 "Sword and Sandal"..um...classic from Italy. Richard Harrison stars as Perseus the fabled son of Hercules who battles horrible monsters including Medusa and her army of stone warriors. This feature has been edited for time and has english dialog dubbed. Enjoy!
Svengoolie presents 'It Came From Outer Space'. 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.
Svengoolie presents 'The Wolf Man'. Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.
Svengoolie presents 'The Ghost of Mr. Chicken'. 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.
It's the final chapter that wraps up the original Universal series of Mummy movies ( if you don't count "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy")- with Kharis' beloved and oft-reincarnated true love reappearing - and the undying embalmed one bringing death to the bayou- in "The Mummy's Curse"!
A creepy real estate broker checks into the old fashioned Lakewood Manor, intent on fleecing the owner out of the property to replace it with a casino. His plans are foiled when several hundred thousand uninvited guests arrive (without reservations) in the form of poisonous ants disturbed by the casino construction. Guests and employees are trapped in the hotel and pushed floor by floor upwards by the ants' unrelenting march.
In this arachnoram from the '70s, a plane carrying coffee beans and deadly tarantulas crash-lands near a California orange growing town. Having finished their morning coffee, the spiders set out for their juice (as part of a balanced breakfast) and descend on the towns orange processing factory, killing several towns people on the way. The town folk are forced to come up with some lame pseudo-scientific way to rid the plant of poisonous arachnids and save their town.
Talk about your "Fantasy Island"...A group of men are forced to make an emergency landing on an uncharted island inhabited by beautiful warrior women. Their lovely but crazy-eyed leader gets her guidance from an unseen advisor whose first commandment is "Do Not Trust Men".
The buzz this week is a tale of terror as savage killer bees invade experimental colonies at the "National Bee Center" (?) and are inadvertently shipped out to an unsuspecting world. Our heroes must find the killer bees and save the world and marching bands from The Terror Out of the Sky.
Baron Frankenstein joins forces with small town German doctor in his latest and most terrifying experiment. They create a monster out of bits and pieces of several bodies, including the brain of a dwarf. Something goes amiss as the monster turns into a cannibal and must be destroyed.
A young boy travels to an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
A master magician murders his greedy employer, who legally owns every trick he can invent, and finds himself having to kill again.
An american construction engineer, building a new harbor on an isolated tropical island, unwittingly blasts a brontosaurus, a tyrannosaurus rex, and a prehistoric cave man up from the depths. The island is almost wiped out by the two monsters, but all ends well.
The 3 Stooges are cleaners at a spaceport when they accidentally take off and land on Venus. The boys encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula and an alien computer that creates three evil duplicates of the Stooges.
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds…
Flying saucers and their alien inhabitants are determined to demolish planet Earth.
Svengoolie presents 'The Blob'. An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Tonight on MeTV, we’re recruiting you to join the underground – with some archeological explorers who start by heading upwards- only to end up further down, deep in the realm of an underground civilization – surrounded by its pale population, as well as-the "Mole People"!
All right- we originally had tonight’s MeTV feature planned to air earlier this year- but some confusion about when it was actually available to us had us postpone its airing. Fortunately, everything is straightened out, and we are very happy to finally be able to bring you one of my all-time favorite monsters- the Gill Man- making the journey ( not by his own choice!) from the Black Lagoon along the Amazon to the Sunshine State of Florida, land of Everglades and theme parks- the perfect place to inspire the "Revenge of the Creature"!
Svengoolie presents 'The Return of the Vampire'. 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
A family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.
This imaginative thriller from William Castle follows a scientist who believes screaming releases tensions that would otherwise kill people. When a deaf mute theater operator dies, Price discovers that the cause of her death was an insect that attaches itself to a person's spinal cord and can only be killed if the victim screams.
Dracula's Daughter tells the story of Countess Marya Zaleska, the daughter of Count Dracula and herself a vampire. Following Dracula's death, she believes that by destroying his body, she will be free of his influence and live normally. When this fails, she turns to a psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffrey Garth (Kruger). The Countess kidnaps Dr. Garth's assistant, Janet (Marguerite Churchill), and takes her to Transylvania, leading to a battle between Dr. Garth and the Countess in an attempt by him to save Janet.
Two brothers, scientists Scott and Tony Nelson, develop an amplifier which enables a person to enter a 4th dimensional state, allowing him to pass through any object. Scott experiments on himself and discovers that each time he passes through something he ages rapidly. He begins killing people, sucking out their life energies and regaining his youth as a result.
Sven presents Vincent Price in the 1953 production of "House of Wax". An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner (Price) inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Svengoolie brings us Columbia Pictures' 1951 feature, "The Son of Dr. Jekyll". Edward Jekyll, ignorant of how his father had brought forth death and destruction with his experiments, is pursuing a chemist career despite the fact that he has been discharged from school or his unorthodox experimentations. When the time comes for his father's estate, which had been put in trust, Edward first learns of his father's actions and rather than ignore the matter, sets out to prove that human personality can be changed by certain chemical stimulations.
Svengoolie presents 'Valley of the Dragon'. In 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.
When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
Svengoolie presents 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms'. A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Tonight on MeTV, the welcome mat is out again at to our house- there's already quite a crowd in attendance, though Count Dracula himself doesn’t take up much room, since he appears in the slender form of John Carradine! Other houseguests include Larry Talbot-the Wolf Man- as well as a tragic doctor, and even the Frankenstein Monster! The vampire count has a sinister agenda, as he flips this house- both the sanitarium and laboratory wings- into bat wings as the “House of Dracula”!
British archaeologists and their American investor ship an Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus to London but someone has the amulet to revive the mummy that will then kill all those who disturbed its tomb.
A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has.
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.
Svengoolie presents 'The Giant Claw'. Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Svengoolie presents Universal's 1932 horror classic, "The Mummy", with Boris Karloff. A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
Our month with mummies continues tonight on MeTV- as the first sequel to the original "Mummy" unwinds- when a couple down-on-their luck archeologists stumble on a clue to the whereabouts of the tomb of ancient Egyptian Princess of Ananka- not realizing that it is protected by an evil high priest and the living mummy who loved the Princess in her lifetime! Danger and death will be dealt to all infidels by “The Mummy’s Hand”!
Svengoolie presents the William Castle production of "The Old Dark House". An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
Svengoolie brings us the hastily released sequel to "King Kong", "The Son of Kong". In it, the showman who brought Kong to New York returns to Skull Island and finds Kong's son, a spunky 12-footer with a winning personality and his dad's awesome strength.
Jonathan Harker begets the ire of Count Dracula after he accepts a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, forcing his colleague Dr. Van Helsing to destroy the predatory villain when he targets Harker's loved ones.
After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population. Freed from his watery tomb, as well, is a very friendly Neanderthal man who proceeds to befriend a local orphan boy. The boy, Neanderthal and irritated dinosaur make for an interesting dramatic climax.
If you’ve been hoping for a Mummy movie that’s wrapped up in a bunch of bonus Svengoolie content, you’re in for a treat! We present the final chapter in the original Universal series of Mummy movies ( if you don't count "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy")- in which Kharis' beloved (and oft-reincarnated) true love reappears - and the undying embalmed one again brings death to the bayou- in "The Mummy's Curse"!
A genius in the field of "frozen therapy" is found frozen by his own methods. Revived by his successor to his research, he begins a plot to use his rescuers as guinea pigs to finish his work and unlock the key to frozen therapy.
The dauntless Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) heads to the island of Colossa, where only the egg of a giant bird can restore a pea-sized princess (Kathryn Grant) to normal size. The evil magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) accompanies him -- with ulterior motives to retrieve a lamp and genie (Richard Eyer) he once lost. But before the group can return home, they must conquer a landscape of fantastic beasts, including a Cyclops that hungers for human flesh.
Svengoolie presents 'Billy the Kid vs Dracula'. Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Svengoolie presents 'The Brides of Dracula'. Vampire hunter Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on beautiful young schoolteacher Marianne.
Svengoolie presents 'The Wolf Man'. Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.
Svengoolie presents 'The Land Unknown'. Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.
Svengoolie presents 'Werewolf of London'. 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.
An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return to power.
Svengoolie presents 'Night Monster'. 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.
Svengoolie presents 'The Curse of Frankenstein'. 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.
Svengoolie presents 'The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'. British archaeologists and their American investor ship an Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus to London but someone has the amulet to revive the mummy that will then kill all those who disturbed its tomb.
Svengoolie presents 'The Blob'. An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Svengoolie presents 'Night of the Lepus'. Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.
Svengoolie presents 'Dr. Cyclops'. A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.
Svengoolie presents 'Son of Dracula'. 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.
Svengoolie presents 'Island of Terror'. An isolated remote island community is threatened by an attack by tentacled silicates which liquefy and digest bone and tissue.
Svengoolie presents 'Tarantula'. A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.
A girl who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune. Seriously, what could go wrong?
Svengoolie presents 'Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman'. The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.
It's a battle for the earth between man and radiation mutated giant ants!
Svengoolie presents 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms'. A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Svengoolie presents 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'. The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Svengoolie presents 'The Revenge of Frankenstein'. Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the effectiveness of the process and the secret of his identity soon begin to unravel.
Svengoolie presents 'The Return of the Vampire'. 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 Invisible Woman'. An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.
Svengoolie presents 'Valley of the Dragon'. In 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.
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 one-handed, wheelchair-bound pianist, with a strong belief in the occult, is murdered.
Svengoolie presents 'Man Made Monster'. A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
The earth (or at least a small rural town) battle an enormous mutant tarantula with the fate of mankind in the balance.
A volcano eruption turns prehistoric giant scorpions loose on Mexico. Can Hank and Arturo save the world? Find out in this classic 50's B sci-horror flick.
Svengoolie presents 'The Invisible Man'. A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Svengoolie presents 'The Invisible Man Returns'. The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Svengoolie presents Devil Doll (1964): an evil hypnotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress's millions.
Svengoolie presents 'The Thing That Couldn't Die'. 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.
Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill) is the sculptor at a famous wax museum in London. When his partner, Joe Worth (Edwin Maxwell), burns down the museum for the insurance money, Igor is trapped inside. Years later he re-emerges in New York as the curator of a new wax museum, which boasts incredibly lifelike statues. When model Joan Gale (Monica Bannister) goes missing, however, reporter Florence Dempsey (Glenda Farrell) follows the clues to Igor's museum, where she discovers a terrible secret.
A house cat sees her owner murdered by two servants under orders from her husband, and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.
When big-game hunter Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) invites a group of people to stay at his estate, they expect a relaxing weekend. Instead, they arrive to learn he thinks one of them is a werewolf and that no one can leave until that person is exposed. Among the suspects are a piano player (Michael Gambon) and his girlfriend (Ciaran Madden), an archaeologist (Peter Cushing), a diplomat (Charles Gray) and an artist (Tom Chadbon), all of whom are subjected to a series of werewolf tests.
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.
Svengoolie presents 'The Incredible Shrinking Man'. When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
Svengoolie presents 'The Crawling Eye'. A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
An anthropologist and his daughter travel through the southwestern US, and while doing so stumble upon a colony of live gargoyles.
Svengoolie presents 'The Ghost of Mr. Chicken'. 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 group of scientists flee from a tribal prince, back from the dead as a walking tree stump.
In the wilds of Manitoba near an air force base something is killing the locals and drinking their brains. Most of the populace are convinced that radiation leaks from the radar installation's nuclear-power experiments are the cause of the mysterious deaths.
A scientist, Dr. Who, creates a mechanical King Kong to excavate a precious mineral. However, his design does not work out as planned and he becomes intent on securing the real deal. Problems continue and the two mighty giants ultimately face a showdown.
Lon Chaney stars as a stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death who ends up in leaving his profession to work instead at an eerie wax museum. A discredited plastic surgeon is also employed at the museum as a sculptor and it isn’t long before a mysterious plot thickens.
Six American soldiers who happen to trespass on a Hindu ceremony are later hunted down by a strange and beautiful woman who has the ability to transform herself into a cobra.
When a gifted monster make-up artist is let go by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his talents to exact revenge.
Drake Robey, a sinister western gunslinger-for-hire, comes to town and suddenly the lives of young women are dying of a mysterious illness. Drake is far more than he seems and it is soon up to the town’s preacher to remedy the situation.
A mummified alien unearthed at King Tut's tomb is revived when a university professor exposes it to radiation.
London in the early 20th century is shaken by a series of grisly murders. Suspicion falls on an attractive young woman who due to the Allenby Curse is rumored to have werewolves in her family tree. When she shuns her fiancé, he decides to investigate this curse of lycanthropy more closely.
Two teenagers, bored while babysitting, decide to have some entertainment by making prank phone calls to complete strangers. They tell the person on the other end of the line, "I saw what you did, and I know who you are!" Its all-in good fun until they happen to call a man who just murdered his wife. The latter has an immediate need to find out who they are and eliminate this new problem.
In 1895, three British archaeologists in Egypt discover the tomb of Princess Ananka, the high priestess of the god Karnak. One of the men discovers “The Scroll of Life” and reads it with dire consequences. Three years later, back in England, Mehemet Bey, a devoted worshiper of Karnak, has come seeking revenge on those that desecrated Ananka’s tomb.
American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
Following a nuclear war which devastates the human population, mankind relies on robots to meet the needs of its society. However, one organization believes this dependency could be a threat to their future existence.
In order to save the life of his friend, Professor Kingsley, Dr. Sovac performs a dangerous brain surgery operation. Only the brain came from the notorious gangster Red Cannon and the resulting side effects are another Jeckll and Hyde.
A millionaire and his fourth wife invite five guests to spend a night with them in a mansion on Haunted Hill. Those who stay the entire night in this 'haunted house party' will each be given $10,000 in the morning.
A sculptor seeking revenge on those individuals who criticized and rejected his work manipulates a disfigured criminal he saved from drowning to kill them.
After a series of delivery trucks are sidelined and destroyed in rural Mexico, Joyce fears her brother, Lt. Col. Glenn Manning, is the responsible. Manning having been over exposed to radiation, now is gigantic in size.
Abbott and Costello are two American policemen who while visiting in London meet Dr. Jekyll and his alternate personality Mr. Hyde.
After a naïve real estate agent succumbs to the will of Count Dracula, the two head to London where the vampire sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
A young woman at a boarding school for girls becomes the object of an experiment at the hands of one of her teachers and through hypnosis techniques and ancient black magic becomes a vicious vampire.
Svengoolie presents 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'. The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
A scientist creates a living being from body parts, only too learn to late its brain came from the body of a madman.
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, the son of Frankenstein, returns to his father's castle seeking to clear his father's name by proving the validity of his scientific work. Baron Wolf gives the monster renewed strength, but once again death begins surrounding its presence.
Dr. Gustav Niemann escapes from prison seeking revenge on those he deems responsible for his incarceration. On his quest to fulfill his vendetta, he ends up bringing Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and even the Wolf Man back to life.
An android robot, whose face was damaged in a crash, (now looking like Frankenstein's monster) fights alien invaders who seek all of the women on Earth to maintain their Martian race.
The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.
After his execution, Death row inmate Charles `The Butcher' Bentona, through a bizarre experiment, is brought back to life and seeks revenge on his crooked lawyer who double-crossed him.
King Kong and Godzilla meet in the battle of the beast when Kong escapes from captivity in Japan and faces Godzilla, who himself was recently released from a frozen iceberg.
A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He in turn vows to come back alive 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.
It may seem to many of us fighting the chill of winter that a visit to the warmth of Florida might be welcome- but perhaps not, if it’s about to become the battleground between humans and amphibians, reptiles, and various other creatures, out for revenge against the polluting ways of man- heralded by the arrival of- “Frogs”!
The spirt of the long-dead Haymarket Strangler takes possession of the man bent on clearing the killer's name.
A rescue team arrives on Mars to take Col. Edward Carruthers back home to be executed for apparently murdering his entire crew. Soon mysterious killings aboard ship give reason to doubt his guilt.
A lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
In this camp horror film, a man who was disfigured in a car wreck seeks revenge on those he believes are responsible for the death of his wife, the surgical team that operated on her. Each slaying is patterned after the plagues brought down on Ramses in ancient Egypt, from killer locusts to blood-sucking bats.
In this sequel to "The Abominable Dr. Phibes," the disfigured Dr. Anton Phibes sets out for Egypt to find the secret elixir of life so that he may resurrect his dead wife, who was killed through alleged medical incompetence.
Needing money, the last of the Frankensteins leases his castle out to a film company as he tries to complete his ancestor's gruesome experiments at creating life.
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.
An anthropologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern US, stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
Three bizarre horror stories all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women.
In this contemporary version of the Count Dracula tale, a sophisticated and clever vampire establishes a coven in Los Angeles and terrorizes the local teenagers.
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
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 immitated today.
Tonight on MeTV- though it may be too late for Christmas mistletoe and too early for Valentine’s Day, it’s still the perfect time to kiss up to this hot-blooded tale from the British Hammer studios, in which a young couple makes the acquaintance of an aristocratic family that is much more than it seems- ready to deliver the “Kiss of the Vampire”!
A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
Svengoolie presents 'Creature From the Black Lagoon'. 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.
This Saturday on Svengoolie is the cult classic KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. This movie is a 1988 American science fiction horror comedy film written, directed and produced by the Chiodo Brothers, and starring Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson and John Vernon. It is the only movie written and directed by the Chiodo Brothers, who also created the practical effects and makeup. It concerns a clan of evil extraterrestrials who resemble clowns. They arrive on Earth and invade a small town in order to capture, kill and harvest the human inhabitants to use as sustenance.
Tonight on MeTV- we face danger from two towering terrors- with opposing attitudes- but equal capability for destruction! It’s a threat more warm-blooded than Godzilla- but cold-blooded enough to devastate cities! Humankind finds itself caught in the middle of the “War of the Gargantuas”!
Tonight, we start off a month with a majority of fuzzy frights-with England’s fabled Hammer Studios’ solitary lycanthrope tale - in which young Oliver Reed progresses from a strange childhood to an adult life tainted by- the "Curse of the Werewolf"!
Tonight on MeTV- it’s an early Paramount classic- the original screen version of an H.G.Wells science fiction tale, featuring some famed actors- one of which is barely recognizable! It’s the story of how a castaway becomes a prisoner in a bizarre island compound featuring monstrous mutations and a maniacal mad man-in the 1932 presentation of "Island of Lost Souls"! This film was part of a major acquisition by Universal from Paramount, as part of a deal to form a package of films to run on TV.
Tonight on MeTV- we are in for a crash course in belligerent botany and bigger-than-life biology- as a scientist/teacher returns from the jungle with rare plants and a chimp companion- and proceeds to turn they all into large lethal weapons! Find out what could go wrong-a when he experiments on “Konga”! A London botany professor returns from Africa with a small chimpanzee called Konga he injects the animal with a serum extracted from a carnivorous plant, which turns it into a gorilla monster that goes on a rampage throughout London.
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.
Tonight on MeTV-fans of the giant Japanese monsters get to see an all-star roster of the biggest and baddest Kaiju creatures that ever came from the Toho Studios! This time out- the people of Earth, who thought they had the behemoths under control- find out the hard way that an alien race has taken control of the creatures- leading the authorities to have no choice but to- “Destroy All Monsters”!
Tonight on MeTV- it’s an American International early ‘70s update on a classic character (who actually is responsible for the whole plot!)- as America encounters the first black vampire in horror film history- “Blacula”!
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”!
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”!
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!”
Tonight on MeTV, the made-for-TV movie that introduced us to the beloved- and somewhat disheveled- reporter Carl Kolchak, who can’t avoid the supernatural. The very first Kolchak story- which viewers have been asking to see for a long time- has the reporter covering the news in Las Vegas- when some mysterious deaths occur- in which the young female victims have been drained of their blood!
Tonight on MeTV, 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-
This week on MeTV- you’ll see a familiar face from our “Super Sci Fi Saturday Night” in a different environment- instead of going where no man has gone before, William Shatner must battle terrestrial terror that somehow has ended up where no tarantulas had been before! These fuzzy freaks prove to be a much greater danger than Tribbles- as they establish the “Kingdom of the Spiders”!
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!
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”!
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”!
Tonight on Svengoolie-it’s an all-star cast of horror legends- a mix of humor and horror with mirthful morticians who decide to take it upon themselves to create new customers -and a corpse that just won’t stay dead! It’s the scream team of Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone-making the curtain rise-and bodies fall- in the “Comedy of Terrors”!
This 1974 made-for-TV production, starring Jack Palance, was originally called “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”- but is now identified with the Dan Curtis monicker to avoid confusion with the Francis Ford Coppola 1992 film- and also because Coppola actually bought the exclusive rights to the title “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”! Regardless, this was really the first version of the Dracula story to touch upon the Vlad the Impaler history of the Count, and to adhere more closely- but not entirely- to the original novel.
Tonight on MeTV- a 1964 film foretells the future with a wall-mounted flatscreen TV- but a freak accident turns the screen into a path to a frightening future on a decimated earth- overrun by fierce mutants and the struggling survivors of humanity! It looks like existence could run out of time for “The Time Travelers”!
Tonight on MeTV- we head back in time- and then, head even FURTHER back in time- when a World War I submarine holding two enemy groups finds itself lost- only to discover a hidden uncharted subcontinent where dinosaurs co-exist with prehistoric men- and life evolves in a totally different way. Stand by to submerge yourself in “The Land That Time Forgot”!
After 43 years in his warm and cozy dungeon, master horror host, Svengoolie leaves on an epic journey filled with celebrity encounters; long lost archives; a search for lost memorabilia and a celebration that could only take place in Berwyn, Illinois.
