is there anybody here who lived in the Cincinnati area in the early '70s and watched the Cool Ghoul on channel 19 on Saturday nights?
where i lived at that time was about 80-100 miles west of Cincinnati. of course, there was no cable tv or dishes, so what we watched was whatever the antenna could pick up. if the wind wasn't blowing hard out of the west, we could usually get Cincinnati tv stations. one saturday night in probably 1971 i turned on channel 19 and discovered "Scream In". i can remember that the movie that night was Dementia 13. D-13 is NOT a good movie to try to watch with commercial interruptions, not if you want to understand the plot at all. but even if you can't follow the plot well, it has enough general all-around creepiness to keep you involved.
but what was engaging was this Cool Ghoul nut who kept popping up between commercials. he was so awful you couldn't look away. Corny and goofy beyond belief. i was hooked. every saturday night for the next year or so, i was right there with channel 19.
anybody else know the Cool Ghoul? real name Dick Von Hoene.
where i lived at that time was about 80-100 miles west of Cincinnati. of course, there was no cable tv or dishes, so what we watched was whatever the antenna could pick up. if the wind wasn't blowing hard out of the west, we could usually get Cincinnati tv stations. one saturday night in probably 1971 i turned on channel 19 and discovered "Scream In". i can remember that the movie that night was Dementia 13. D-13 is NOT a good movie to try to watch with commercial interruptions, not if you want to understand the plot at all. but even if you can't follow the plot well, it has enough general all-around creepiness to keep you involved.
but what was engaging was this Cool Ghoul nut who kept popping up between commercials. he was so awful you couldn't look away. Corny and goofy beyond belief. i was hooked. every saturday night for the next year or so, i was right there with channel 19.
anybody else know the Cool Ghoul? real name Dick Von Hoene.
