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Jan 21 13 1:44 PM
Jan 21 13 3:25 PM
When Elvira did a 10th anniversary special in 1991 at her former Channel 9 station where MOVIE MACABRE was born, she showed one of the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films.
Jan 22 13 4:57 PM
Jan 22 13 5:07 PM
doktorgoulfinger wrote:Also why do these films always have to be so old. Throw in a slasher every now and then.Slasher movies actually contributed to the demise of the horror host. Of course it was corporate control of the airwaves that led to the death of 99.9% of local programming, but the slasher films were an early outlier. It was impossible for a traditional host to maintain the proper tone of macabre humor when they had to come back from a guy getting a machete in the face. Graphic mayhem just took all the fun out of it. For the horror hosts, monsters were always preferable to a bucket of guts. It makes sense that "the entire horror host format is stuck in the 60s and 70s" because that's pretty much when they died out. You had some shows run into the 80s - some even born in the 80s - but the genre was effectively gone by the mid-80s. We did have a few cases of more modern hosted horror/slasher films. Commander USA would occasionally air a FRIDAY THE 13th movie or some such. Our own local Creature Features even ran one or two toward th end of its run, but the host made it clear he wasn't happy about it. Now, sadly, KOFY-TV 20 has JUST discontinued the late-night retro Svengoolie shows. We're still getting the new program on the MeTV sub-station. But the class reruns are kaput. They were great while they lasted.
Also why do these films always have to be so old. Throw in a slasher every now and then.
Jan 22 13 10:04 PM
I could just as easily say what killed the horror hosts was they never updated and relied too heavily on the same 30 PD films.
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