Svengoolie

Tonight on MeTV- when many people are preparing for a holiday road trip- we bring you one that is definitely not over the river and through the woods, but set on a dangerous desert highway, where a traveling salesman finds himself tailed by a tanker truck. This mysterious semi seemingly targets his vehicle and aims to end his road trip permanently-as this bumper-bashing behemoth takes on Dennis Weaver in a pedal-to-the-metal one-sided demolition derby- in a deadly “Duel”!

Tonight on MeTV- with the holidays coming up, we get into wrapping early- when we pay rapt attention to a well-wrapped Egyptian in this continuation of the series from Universal's original classic period- as a thought-to-be dead menace is exported to the U.S. to get revenge on those who defiled his beloved's burial crypt. As is often the case online- a foreign pyramid scheme causes major problems in this country- now emanating from "The Mummy's Tomb"!

Then, kick off your holiday season with the Sven Squad with the story…of a lovely yuletide. It’s the double feature on nobody’s wish list of the “Devil Doll” and “A Very Brady Christmas” (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight on MeTV- take a break from those leftovers and football-and watch as a sinister hypnotist/ventriloquist puts a beautiful young woman under his spell- with nefarious purposes- while his wooden wing man, a bizarre living dummy, carries out his master’s schemes!

Tonight on MeTV- we head out west- where ranchers are busy with more than cattle- as they battle a local bully and his cronies, out to take over what belongs to others- and the added threat of a newly arrived gunslinger who’s quick on the draw- and quick to draw blood! The wild west gets wilder thanks to the "Curse of the Undead"!

Tonight on MeTV-the Hammer saga of the vampire count continues- as Sir Christopher Lee once again puts on the fangs to create the revival of his classic character- out to get vengeance against those who have tried to seal his demise- as a freak accident provides the reason that “Dracula Has Risen From the Grave”!

Tonight on MeTV, for the first time, we bring you the final dinosaur film from the great master of stop motion animation, Ray Harryhausen- that combines early 20th century Mexico with- dinosaurs?! It’s the amazing tale of a forgotten valley where prehistoric creatures dwell- which is invaded by rodeo people looking for a new main attraction- and end up finding much more in the “Valley of Gwangi”!

Tonight on MeTV- it’s the one you’ve been clamoring for- as the perfect follow-up to our month-long “BOO-nanza”- Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man- we also get Glenn Strange as the Monster- set against the legendary comedy duo for creepy encounter “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”!

the Sven Squad wings in to present the sequel to our movie- 1959’s “Return of the Fly”! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight, on MeTV- the “Svengoolie’s BOO-nanza” double feature requires a No-Pest strip of film- as the Sven Squad and I proudly present another 1950s legendary classic and its sequel- with Vincent Price taking on the transformative terror of “The Fly” and the “Return of the Fly”!

the Sven Squad go back to the beginning of a horror franchise- as they present the first Universal “Frankenstein” film! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

I’ll start off the evening with an expanded show-our premiere of a film for which we have gotten many requests- Mel Brooks’ 1974 homage to the classic Universal films- “Young Frankenstein”!

followed by the spider-filled 1990 horror comedy “Arachnophobia”! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight on MeTV- the “Svengoolie’s BOO-nanza” double features two creepy crawly classics to infest your TV- first, the 1954 giant insect thriller “THEM!”

followed by the Sven Squad baby-sitting “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”? (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Let the creepy celebration of Halloween month begin- as we kick off the third annual “Svengoolie’s BOO-nanza” with the first of the weekly double features featuring the Sven Squad and yours truly! Yes, every Saturday this month- we’ll have two terrifying films, including some MeTV premieres- starting off tonight with the ever-popular “Ghost and Mr. Chicken”

Then, our Sven Squad hosts a chilling house party with “Amityville 3-D!” (No special glasses are necessary- it will be presented in regular 2-D!) (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Twas the week before the BOO-Nanza- and all through tonight- that darn Carl Kolchak has found a new fright! Yes, for those of you who have been missing Kolchak’s adventures during his hiatus from “Super Sci Fi Saturday Nights” here on MeTV, we’ve got an extra helping of our hapless hero in another creepy classic from TV horror legend, producer/director Dan Curtis –1973’s “The Night Strangler”!

Tonight on MeTV- we have another creature spawned by atomic science- escaping into the hot climate of a small desert town-where a monstrous mélange of deformed mutants and mutilated cattle are the first signs of the sinister existence of one giant-sized hairy horror -beware of the "Tarantula"!

Make sure you tune in to MeTV tonight one hour earlier than usual when we present one of Warner Bros. Studios’ biggest hits of 1956- and an iconic film which had several Academy Awards nominations. It’s the story of a young girl who is all sweetness and curtsies but is revealed to be a dangerous psychopath- who falls under the category of being “The Bad Seed”!

Tonight on MeTV- we kick off September with a film we haven’t run in a while-the final part of the Universal Gill Man trilogy! This conclusion to the saga of the strange amphibian missing link takes him several steps further up the evolutionary scale- as the aquatic terror unwillingly becomes an air-breathing denizen, dwelling on land, in "The Creature Walks Among Us"!

Tonight on MeTV- we add some chills to your Labor Day weekend with the product of the labors of renowned director/producer Dan Curtis- and writer Richard Matheson. It’s a triple-dip into fantasy and horror, with the feel of both “The Twilight Zone” and “Trilogy of Terror”- with stories that build tension well into the “Dead of Night”!

and then the Sven Squad wishes you the luck o’ the squeamish as they present the cult classic “Leprechaun”! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight on MeTV- it’s the monster-creating baron-and the evil imp from Erin- as we first bring you the Hammer version of the classic horror tale in which a brilliant scientist is obsessed with creating life in “Curse of Frankenstein”!

Tonight, on MeTV- it’s an iconic take on the beginnings of the king of the vampires- as portrayed for the very first time by the great Christopher Lee! Witness his first face off against his archenemy Van Helsing (played by the other half of Hammer’s dynamic duo- Peter Cushing!) in the full-color tale of the “Horror of Dracula”!

Tonight, on MeTV we present the very first Universal Studios’ wolf man- who imports terror to England via Tibet- as the victim of a bizarre attack that triggers a hideous transformation when he is exposed to moonlight- transforming him into the "Werewolf of London"!

Tonight on MeTV, when we say we’re serving up a stinger- it’s not that cocktail drink! It’s a stop-motion menace whose creation was supervised by the man who brought us “King Kong”, taking us south of the border- and below its surface- where lurks the massive menace of the “Black Scorpion”!

Tonight on MeTV- instead of their usual second half of a double feature status- I’ll be stepping aside so that the Sven Squad can hit prime time for a very special screening of an ‘80s sci-fi comedy with big name stars and even musical numbers! Based on a song by comedienne (not Downtown) Julie Brown, it’s the story of a trio of fuzzy aliens who are attracted to the earth after seeing our planet’s women- and crash land their spaceship into the pool of a young woman who’s just suffered heartbreak! The aliens become her house guests and attempt to blend in with human society- as they get the idea that “Earth Girls are Easy”! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight on MeTV- we bring back an early and eerie Universal offering that has two of horror’s greatest stars-Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff facing off in a complicated story of post-war pain, lost love, and even devil worship- with an innocent young couple caught up in the proceedings as victims- in 1934's “The Black Cat”!

Keep your eyes on the skies-and on MeTV tonight-as we present a truly creepy science fiction classic from the ‘50s- in which a young boy sees that aliens are taking over earth people- but no one will believe him! It’s the eerie original 1953 version of “Invaders from Mars”!

Tonight on MeTV, after the July 4th blasts, we get some very different blasts- that are responsible for the disinterment and restoration of a dangerous vampire thought to have been dealt with years ago! This is the movie that ostensibly returned the great Bela Lugosi to the familiar role of an undead caped menace the grave could not imprison. This time he is seeking revenge against the family that tried to end his practice of making unauthorized transfusions a generation ago in the 1943 chiller “Return of the Vampire”

Tonight on MeTV- it’s monstermania- both domestic and interplanetary– as we are introduced to a different kind of Frankenstein. This Frankenstein, like the monster we are most familiar with, is indeed put together from human parts, but is quite different from Universal’s Monster- as you will see when “Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster”!

Then, we turn it over to Gwengoolie, Imp, and Nostalgiaferatoo for a real shocker- the third entry in George Romero’s “Living Dead” series- “Day of the Dead”! This 1985 film picks up the story after the shopping mall zombie fest “Dawn of the Dead”-with survivors of the zombie apocalypse now holed up in an underground bunker-where scientists and the military are at odds over how to handle the zombies... (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

This famed 1960 movie, based on John Wyndham’s novel “The Midwich Cuckoos”, is truly frightening- and was so successful, it spawned a sequel-“Children of the Damned”.

Tonight on MeTV- before we celebrate Father’s Day, we take a moment to acknowledge a son- who doesn’t go OUT in the sun! He does, however, go America’s bayou country, where his plan is to inflict the curse of the undead first upon a member of an unsuspecting family- and then the nation! A young woman with a fascination for the dark side falls under his hypnotic spell, as Lon Chaney Jr. takes on the role of yet another famous horror name-as the “Son of Dracula”!

Tonight! is Joan Crawford a real swinger (with an axe) - once released from her "Strait-Jacket"?

Tonight on MeTV- it’s horror icon Boris Karloff taking on the task of proving the innocence of a man who was executed for murder. The search for answers becomes far too personal, bringing a devastating and frightening effect upon him-which leads to more murder and a tragic transformation when citizens must fear “The Haunted Strangler” !

Tonight, on MeTV- Christopher Lee steps into the role of yet another classic creature- and Peter Cushing again is the man who must try to stop him! It’s Hammer Studios take on the familiar story of the search for the lost tomb of Princess Ananka- which leads to the resurrection of “The Mummy”!

....followed by the Sven Squad on a haunting hunt that ends in disaster!... witness the “Blair Witch Project”! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight, on MeTV-it’s this month’s double feature- starting with yet another chapter in the classic Frankenstein saga- Meet the “Ghost of Frankenstein”

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.

During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.

Tonight on MeTV- a young man who is tired of being under the thumb of a big cheese decides to fight back-with an army of rats! It’s vengeance in the form of vicious vermin lead by “Willard”!

...followed by the multiple monsters known as “Munchies”!! (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight on Me-TV, we have twice as many goodies to add to your pre-Easter basket- with this month’s double feature! Beware of the deceptive duplicates spawned when “It Came from Outer Space”

Tonight on MeTV- with summertime only a couple months away, we thought it’d be a good idea to remind you that’s when insects again become an annoyance- but not to the extent of the man-eating menace that defrosts and creates a one-bug infestation- as an actor we know from a certain classic legal drama tries to win the case against- "The Deadly Mantis!"

Tonight on MeTV, we not only prove that the song was right- “Big Girls Don’t Cry”- but that one really big girl, in particular, could make people die! An unhappy wife of normal size has a close encounter of the alien kind- resulting in a transformation from being the object of the townspeople’s pity to becoming a big woman in town-literally! Beware the beautiful behemoth out for vengeance on her horrible hubby-it’s the “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman”!

Tonight on MeTV- a hidden planet plans to recruit two of the Earth's mightiest players to team up against a deadly beast that's destroying their world! Toho Studios presents the final four- minus one- it’s Rodan and - "Godzilla VS Monster Zero"! Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

Tonight on MeTV- We travel to a place that legend says no man has ever returned from- and discover that the deadly species known as Gill Man is the reason why! It’s the classic original introduction to Universal Studios’ greatest monster of the 1950s, and a personal favorite of yours truly- the “Creature from the Black Lagoon”!

After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel where they are stalked by a group of murderous puppets. (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight on MeTV- it’s a classic science fiction adventure, penned by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle- in which an explorer, convinced there is an island where dinosaurs still exist, leads an expedition to a place where time has stood still- and his theory unfortunately is proven right- when Claude Rains enters the savage land of “The Lost World”!

Tonight, on MeTV – if you toss a coin, we’re calling heads-because our menace- a disembodied head that has survived for centuries- is unearthed and uses its amazing mental powers to control others in order to conqueror the modern world- all orchestrated by " The Thing That Couldn’t Die”!

Tonight on MeTV- you’ve thrilled to the amazing horrors brought to us by Dan Curtis, from “Trilogy of Terror” to “Dark Shadows” and ‘The Night Stalker”-and this time, we witness his take on the classic novel that began the tale of the most famous vampire of all- in “Dan Curtis’ ‘Dracula’!” Note: this 1974 made-for-TV production, starring Jack Palance, was originally called “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”

Tonight on MeTV- it’s not a double feature, but it DOES feature double danger from a couple gigantic kaiju creatures- one originally raised by humanity, and the other raising its anger against humanity! Authorities refuse to believe that both of them are not out to cause destruction due to their differing origins, fearful that, unless they kill them both, mankind will be the loser in the “War of the Gargantuas”!

and then- it’s adolescent aliens arriving on earth to either protect or destroy humanity- thanks to a scheme to raise giant lobster-like creatures as livestock! “Teenagers from Outer Space” (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight on MeTV- it’s more two-for-one frightful fun as we present a double feature- starting off with some mysterious experiments that give a scholar scales. It’s “Sssssss”

Tonight on MeTV, it’s some singular Hammer horror, featuring the famed studio’s only werewolf film of its classic era- in which a young Oliver Reed progresses from strange childhood maladies to an adulthood plagued by the "Curse of the Werewolf"!

Tonight on MeTV- we go from last week’s huge scaly creature to another- whose origin is even more far out-created by the artistry of Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion magic! A spaceship returns from a mission to Venus, holding injured astronauts and a strange menace that gets bigger and more destructive after travelling “20 Million Miles to Earth”!

Tonight, on MeTV, we are very happy to again present the English-language version of the famed Toho Studios film that started the reign of the most famous Japanese kaiju (giant monster) in motion picture history! It’s a far cry from some of the later films, much more serious and tragic. Added for the American version, the future “Perry Mason” ( cue that theme music!) Raymond Burr became a part of movie history- as he witnesses the origin of "Godzilla- King of the Monsters"!

Nostalgiaferatoo returns with the rest of our Sven squad, Gwengoolie and the Imp, to present the 1981 musical monster mash-up “The Monster Club”. This movie is loaded with rock and roll, as Vincent Price and John Carradine share supernatural stories in a special night club for creatures of the night. (a House of Svengoolie presentation hosted by the Sven Squad)

Tonight on MeTV-we go from frightful fruit to nasty nightlife- as we present a favorite cult classic fresh from the ghastly garden, followed by two horror greats sharing sinister stories at a gathering place of supernatural creatures of various kinds! We begin with the 1978 fan favorite “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”

Tonight, on MeTV- we shake a sinister family tree to harvest an early Universal horror classic. considered to be the first sequel to the original Bela Lugosi “Dracula” film. We meet the previously unknown female child of the infamous count, who is set in her father’s ways, which she wants desperately to leave behind- yet is unable to drop her corpuscle addiction- and must deal with the irresistible thirst she has inherited by virtue of being- “Dracula’s Daughter”!

Tonight on MeTV- we bring back a different take on a classic Robert Louis Stevenson horror novel – which boasts not only one of the greatest stars of Universal horror- but also the studio’s longtime top comedy team. It’s been a while since we’ve run this movie- so we are prescribing a new appointment for you with "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"- featuring Boris Karloff as the tormented doctor!

Tonight on MeTV- “Black Friday” gives way to a “Black and White Saturday” Sven feature- as we learn about a snowy mountain peak surrounded by a mysterious mist that conceals a deadly menace to mankind! Anyone who dares to climb into it risks certain death- and a major threat looms to local residents when the mist moves downwards towards their town! Inside the mist lies the terror of “The Crawling Eye”!

We’re showing what may be the most requested film in our library-that our viewers demand to see at least annually! While Universal’s perennial top comedy team- had lost some of their box office power- this film teamed them up with some of Universal’s classic monsters, who had also been declining in popularity (at least in the opinion of the studio heads). Two of the classic monsters are played by the men who established them as horror legends- Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man- with the Monster portrayed by Glenn Strange- for the comedic and creepy encounter “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”!

Tonight on MeTV-find out what gets a rise out of Vincent Price’s disfigured “dead-again/live-again” villain- as we pick up where last week’s movie left off- only a few years later- when the killer keyboardist is restored to life- and sets out on a quest to return his beloved wife to the realm of the living- while racing against an anxious adversary to a certain spot in Egypt that promises eternal life- as “Dr. Phibes Rises Again”!

Tonight on MeTV- we present Vincent Price in possibly his most memorable role of the 1970s-as a man thought to be dead who is not only alive, but on a mission- to get revenge on the physicians who failed to save his wife’s life- by killing them off one by one! There are equal measures of dark hilarity and horror in the campy classic from 1971- “The Abominable Dr. Phibes”!

Tonight on MeTV- as the weather turns colder, it seems like a good time to get wrapped up-and join one of Universal’s iconic monsters as he goes "for a little walk"... and begins a marathon of evil and death, thanks to a curse from ancient Egypt that brings danger to all who come into contact with- "The Mummy"!

House of Svengoolie, primarily hosted by the characters IMP, Gwengoolie, and Nostalgiaferatoo. second episode of the night as part of October's Boonanza On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and to restore order to his world.

A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.

House of Svengoolie, primarily hosted by the characters IMP, Gwengoolie, and Nostalgiaferatoo. second episode of the night as part of October's Boonanza A teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King (David Bowie). Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers.

A scarred sculptor (Vincent Price) re-populates his ravaged wax museum with human corpses.

(Second episode of the night as part of Svengoolie's Halloween BOO-Nanza) A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters

To win a reporting job, a young man must spend the night in a haunted house.

(Second episode of the night as part of Svengoolie's Halloween BOO-Nanza) An earthquake awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails are gobbling up anyone who sets foot in the water. And when the creatures move on to land in search of wider hunting grounds, they launch a reign of terror that threatens to spread across the whole country.

Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) is determined to prove the legitimacy of his father's scientific work, thus rescuing the family name from disgrace. With the help of Ygor (Bela Lugosi), a grave robber, Wolf successfully reanimates the monster (Boris Karloff) his father originally brought back from the dead.

movie that predates the TV show After several high-profile newspapers fire him for his difficult attitude, investigative journalist Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) finds a job following the police beat for a small Las Vegas publication. When Carl discovers a series of dead showgirls drained of blood with bite marks on their necks, the police hesitate to take the case any further, and his boss (Simon Oakland) wants nothing to do with the story, leading Carl to believe there may be a real vampire prowling the city streets.

A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall.

When teenagers see a comet crash outside their small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns.

(Sequel to "The Amazing Colossal Man") Manning is a gigantic behemoth, a victim of overexposure to radiation who has gone insane due to his freakish size.

Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.

A giant octopus from the nether reaches of Mindanao Deep has been awakened by nearby nuclear testing. Radioactive and monstrously huge, the rampaging leviathan is heading toward the North American Pacific Coast.

An 1880s magician (Vincent Price) creates illusions of mayhem that work.

American servicemen are targeted by a beautiful woman who can transform into a cobra after they interfere in a ceremony

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.

The dashing, mysterious Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), after hypnotizing a British soldier, Renfield (Dwight Frye), into his mindless slave, travels to London and takes up residence in an old castle. Soon Dracula begins to wreak havoc, sucking the blood of young women and turning them into vampires. When he sets his sights on Mina (Helen Chandler), the daughter of a prominent doctor, vampire-hunter Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) is enlisted to put a stop to the count's never-ending bloodlust.

Herman inherits Munster Hall in England

Shortly after their rocket reaches the mysterious red planet, the band of brave space explorers discovers monstrous yet highly intelligent alien life forms, which first attack, then deliver a haunting word of warning intended for all mankind.

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.

An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.

In 1999, a race of she-aliens, the Kilaaks, brainwash Earth's monsters into attacking major cities, prompting a team of astronauts to stop the invaders while the monsters battle Ghidorah.

The vampire Mamuwalde (a.k.a. Blacula) is resurrected by voodoo and forced to kill again.

A horrific house party brings together the original Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man, a hunchback, and other Universal monsters in this ultimate monster rally.

During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

In “The Wolf Man” (1941), Larry Talbot returns to his father’s castle in Wales and encounters a beautiful woman. During a visit to a local carnival, he meets a mysterious gypsy fortune teller who recites a chilling verse: “Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms and the moon is full and bright.”

On an isolated island, a secret lab's experiments to cure a deadly disease go terribly wrong, unleashing horrific creatures. A doctor's call for help, but the visitors become trapped as the relentless creatures multiply.

A freak accident transforms a wall-mounted flatscreen TV into a portal to a post-apocalyptic future where fierce mutants roam a decimated earth and humanity struggles to survive.

An anthropologist and his daughter are traveling through the southwestern U.S. when they encounter a mysterious skeleton of a large creature with wings and horns at Uncle Willie’s Desert Museum. Initially dismissing it as a hoax, they soon find themselves entangled in a supernatural mystery, pursued by a group of living, breathing gargoyles.

Dan Curtis' made-for-tv version of Bram Stoker's Dracula from 1974, starring Jack Palance as the Count, who pursues a woman in England who resembles his long dead wife.

Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.

A family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.

An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.

Pete, make-up artist for 25 years, angered that the studio's new regime discounts his work . Recalling a past accidental discovery allowing him to control actors, Pete formulates special makeup to render them to his commands.

Burning windmill where the monster battles his maker. Henry, thrown from the windmill's heights, is carried home by witnesses who mourn. Maria's father remains to ensure the monster's demise but the monster lives.

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”!

Explores a worthy sequel to the first film in the Gill Man saga, taking "King Kong" approach- bringing the monster back to civilization in a different unfamiliar environment.

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”!

A doctor obtains raw materials for his experiments. With an assistant's help, he tries reviving a heart. A suspicious priest interrupts, forcing them to flee abandoned experiments.

Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.

A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

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!

The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.

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.

A 1975 American made-for-television horror film. It consists of three distinct segments, each based on unrelated short stories by Richard Matheson featuring Karen Black in each.

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- but Kolchak begins to think differently when he hears that each victim also had traces of rotting flesh on their necks!

An American reporter visiting Tokyo becomes a witness to the city's destruction by a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing.

An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.

A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.

Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

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 mysterious and cruel Baron, whose face has become frozen in a horrifying grin, demands that a prominent London physician apply experimental treatments on him to restore his face.

A giant, cannibalistic humanoid's rampage through Tokyo is halted by his more docile twin, but neither their reunion nor their scientist caretakers can prevent their eventual duel.

Dr. Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.

Scientist returns from Africa with a growth serum and injects a chimpanzee which grows into a gorilla He then sends it out to kill anyone who interferes with his plans. An overdose causes the gorilla to grow into a 30-foot monster.

Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.

A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.

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.

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!”

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”!

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.

A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters

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”!

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.

A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

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.

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”!

To win a reporting job, a young man must spend the night in a haunted house.

An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.

In 1999, a race of she-aliens, the Kilaaks, brainwash Earth's monsters into attacking major cities, prompting a team of astronauts to stop the invaders while the monsters battle Ghidorah.

A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

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.

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 crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.

Scientist returns from Africa with a growth serum and injects a chimpanzee which grows into a gorilla He then sends it out to kill anyone who interferes with his plans. An overdose causes the gorilla to grow into a 30-foot monster.

A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.

In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.

Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein’s monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira’s Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.

When the headlights of a truck become the eyes of a psychopath.

Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

Scientists track a prehistoric monster in the South American jungle while it tracks them.

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

When car trouble strands a honeymooning couple in a small Southern European village, an aristocratic family in the area reaches out to help them with sinister consequences.

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 imitated today.

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.

A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.

A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.

A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.

An ambitious scientist invents an eye drop formula that grants him X-ray vision, but his new powers have disastrous consequences.

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

A couple invites a Count from Hungary, who recently immigrated to America, to conduct a seance for the woman's recently deceased mother, oblivious to the fact that he is actually a vampire.

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.

A mission sent to rescue the first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.

The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.

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.

A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.

On an isolated island, a small group of people is terrorized by giant voracious shrews during a hurricane.

Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.

When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.

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.

A satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back 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.

Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.

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 giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.

Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.

When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.

Needing money, the last member of the Frankenstein family leases his family's castle out to a film company as he tries to continue his ancestor's gruesome experiments to create life.

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.