An American hosted horror movie television program.
From the MeTV website… “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.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 12/23/2023: The Black Cat (1941)
From the MeTV website… “A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 12/16/2023: The Night Walker
From the MeTV website… “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.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 12/9/2023: The Raven (1963)
From the MeTV website… “The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.” No poster this week because most of them are Pre-Code, if you know what I mean. Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 12/2/2023: Mystery of the Wax Museum
From the MeTV website… “A millionaire offers ten thousand dollars to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 11/25/2023: House On Haunted Hill (1959)
From the MeTV website… “Vacationers on an isolated island find themselves at the mercy of voracious ants that have become giant mutants after feasting on a leaking barrel of radioactive waste. From a story by H.G. Wells.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 11/18/2023: Empire of the Ants
From the MeTV website… “Herman discovers he’s the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Freddie Munster, who throws tantrums because he wasn’t named Lord … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 11/11/2023: Munster, Go Home
From the MeTV website… “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.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 11/4/2023: Kingdom of the Spiders
From the MeTV website… “A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.” BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! “Three bizarre horror stories all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women.” … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 10/21/2023: The Night Strangler AND Trilogy of Terror
From the MeTV website… “An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.” BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! “A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 10/21/2023: The Night Stalker AND Godzilla, King of the Monsters
From the MeTV website… “The Wolfman tries to help foil Dracula’s attempts to transfer Lou’s brain into the ailing Frankenstein monster.” BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! “A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 10/14/2023: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein AND Invaders From Mars (1986)
From the MeTV website… “One-of-a-kind alien invasion sci-fi featuring blood drinking alien clowns harvesting a small city.” BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! “A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.” AND THEN … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 10/7/2023: Killer Klowns From Outer Space AND The Crawling Eye
From the MeTV website… “Three bizarre horror stories all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 9/30/2023: Trilogy of Terror
From the MeTV website… “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.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 9/23/2023: Return of the Vampire
From the MeTV website… “From the director William Castle comes Mr. Sardonicus, the story of a reclusive count with a hideous grin frozen onto his face. The count lures his wife’s boyfriend, a doctor, to his castle to cure him. … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 9/16/2023: Mr. Sardonicus
From the MeTV website… “An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at the … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 9/9/2023: The War of the Gargantuas
From the MeTV website… “Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) wants to build a man in his own image, using the body of a dead man. He and his assistent Fritz (Dwight Frye) dig up a freshly burried coffin and steal … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 9/2/2023: Frankenstein
From the MeTV website… “A mysterious series of food truck robberies makes government officials doubt that the 60-foot tall Colossal Man is dead. He is discovered in a desolate mountain range in Mexico, insane and horribly disfigured. The military drugs … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 8/26/2023: War of the Colossal Beast
FYI, the Konga comic that some guy named Steve Ditko worked on is public domain. From the MeTV website… “A London botany professor returns from Africa with a small chimpanzee called Konga. He injects the animal with a serum extracted … Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 8/19/2023: Konga
From the MeTV website… “Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 8/12/2023: The Black Scorpion
From the MeTV website… “A female house cat sees her mistress murdered by her husband and two servants, and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.” Enjoy the movie! Continue reading Svengoolie Discussion Thread 8/5/2023: The Shadow of the Cat
