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Tonight on MeTV- we wind up our macabre March with a real favorite- centered on a mysterious mansion that contains a gaggle of ghosts- some domestic tension between the couple in residence- and a group of needy subjects who are given the chance to gain wealth- IF they can avoid losing their lives! It’s the original 1959 William Castle version of “House on Haunted Hill”-starring Vincent Price!

Tonight on MeTV- it’s an iconic 1981 horror movie from director John Landis-featuring groundbreaking make-up and special effects by Rick Baker that won him an Oscar- in the story of two young men who end up out on the moors- and have an encounter with a werewolf that leaves one of them ready to assume the title of “An American Werewolf in London”!

Tonight on MeTV- buckle up for a ride with a violent vehicle that gives citizens of a small desert town a hellish hit-and-run -it’s the deadly and devilish driverless destruction of- "The Car"!

April showers bring … cannibalistic parents living in the 1950s California suburbs with their only son? Yes, you read that right! Spring is in the air and tonight, on MeTV - The Sven Squad – are premiering 1989’s “Parents” on House of Svengoolie.

Tonight on MeTV-for those who have been missing good old 1950s American International monster mayhem-we’re bringing back a film that gave an encore to the studio’s Teenage Frankenstein and Teenage Werewolf! Our viewers always request another look at how a master of creature creations decides to strike back at the heartless studio heads who have decided to show him the door- by bringing his monsters back, but with a twist-this time, it isn’t fear film fantasy- it’s for real, as he demonstrates “How to Make a Monster”!

It’s a film that marked the end of an era- actually, two eras- tonight on MeTV when we present what was not only the last film in Hammer’s original Frankenstein series- but also the final time that the great Peter Cushing played Baron Frankenstein! A young doctor who idolizes the work of the original “body-builder” (you know what I mean) finds himself joining forces with the Baron to conduct new experiments in an asylum-where it sometimes seems like the inmates are running things. There are many challenges to one’s sanity when you encounter “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell”!

Tonight on MeTV- after viewing the excitement of a real-life moon mission just last month- we launch an H.G. Wells tale of another journey to the moon- a previously unknown event that occurred years before the advent of NASA! We flashback to the late 1800s to learn the truth about the original lunar landing of the “First Men in The Moon”!

It’s May! Spring is in full bloom … and a bunch of people in New York living in The Dakota but calling it “The Bramford” are preparing to welcome Satan’s son into the world. Terrifying, right?! Tonight, on MeTV - The Sven Squad – Gwengoolie, Nostalgiaferatoo and IMP aka Ignatius Malvolio Prankenstein – are premiering 1968’s “Rosemary’s Baby” on House of Svengoolie. Instead of May flowers, you’ll be smelling something a little more fire and brimstone.

Tonight on MeTV- we bring back a Technicolor favorite with ground-breaking special effects for the time it was produced-as members of a scientific expedition are honored to be summoned to assist a legendary scientist- only to become victims of a process he has invented that makes them shrink! They must survive the near-sighted nastiness of the enemy they call- "Dr. Cyclops"!

Tonight, on MeTV- if you are confused and thought THIS weekend should be Memorial Day weekend, don’t worry- you may have missed your first chance of grilling last weekend, but this weekend we’ll provide you with the webber (yes, lame stretch joke playing off the Weber grill). We’re bringing back another massive monster provided by Bert I. Gordon (notice his initials)- in his 1958 feature which has a small town endangered by a big (yes, like the initials) arachnid! Local teens try to warn the authorities that a deadly battle is eminent- that main event being “Earth VS the Spider”!

Tonight on MeTV, we bring you to England with a skeptical psychologist who plans to debunk reports of a Satanic cult using supernatural powers to destroy their enemies. His skepticism disappears when he finds more than he bargained for- and becomes the target of the “Curse of the Demon”!

Summertime … and the living’s easy. But the dying is even easier! Average American teenager Anton seems to have it all: 2 loving parents, 2 best friends and his crush Molly living right across the street. But he wakes up on Halloween morning with one small problem: a whole lot of people around him are dead or dying. Fast. And gruesomely. And Anton is increasingly losing control of his own right hand. Throw in a druidic high priestess, some local cops, his monster-truck driving neighbor Randy and more late-90s cameos than Being John Malkovich. Tonight, on MeTV - The Sven Squad along with The Man In The Hat himself – Svengoolie – are premiering 1999’s “Idle Hands” on House of Svengoolie.

Tonight on MeTV- we bring back a hilarious haunting that many viewers have been requesting for quite a while- an Abbott and Costello vehicle, but NOT the one with Frankenstein! It’s also unique, with the boys not as a pair, but in separate roles. It all begins during the Revolutionary War and ends with ghosts plaguing a mansion in modern day (if your modern day is 1946) in an attempt to free their spirits from this earthly realm. This ghost story sets Lou Costello, as one of the earthbound spirits, against an ancestor of a colonial rat (both played by Bud Abbott) who's partially responsible for his fate- guaranteeing both the “Time of Their Lives”!

Tonight on MeTV- an alien race has taken control of the biggest and baddest Kaiju creatures that ever came from the Toho Studios! Earth thought they had them safely under control- but the alien takeover gives them no choice but to- “Destroy All Monsters”!

Tonight on MeTV- before the rockets’ red glare of the traditional fireworks shows- we have a title character who serves the nation without needing fame- or-uh- clothes! You've heard of untold stories of World War II- tonight, we have an unSEEN story- with its major player unseen- as we meet yet another member of the Griffin family who opts for transparency- this time, in the defense of his country-as the “Invisible Agent”!

Tonight on MeTV- it’s a super-sized summer sensation -as we bring back a sort of “beach party” movie- minus the beach- featuring some MeTV actors, a favorite singer pal of ours, some colossal cuties and super-sized studs- in a crazy sci fi dramedy from the mind of Bert I. Gordon, king of oversized menace movies! It all begins when a familiar–looking boy genius cooks up a formula transferring a small town into BIG trouble by converting it into the “Village of the Giants”!

Swamp Thing … you make Adrienne Barbeau’s heart sing! Dr. Alec Holland is just your run of the mill scientist working on bio-engineering a new animal plant hybrid in his lab which happens to be set up in a swamp. Alice Cable is the government worker, new to the swamp to replace the mysteriously disappeared previous scientist. Dr. Holland accidentally spills an experimental formula on himself and turns into a half man/half plant named… Swamp Thing! An opportunist named Arcane wants the formula and will stop at nothing to get it. Swamp Thing will do anything to protect the swamp and the lovely Alice Cable. Tonight, on MeTV - The Sven Squad – Gwengoolie, Nostalgiaferatoo and IMP aka Ignatius Malvolio Prankenstein along with The Man In The Hat himself – Svengoolie – are premiering 1982’s “Swamp Thing” on House of Svengoolie.

Hardly a week goes by that, at the very least, one viewer will sadly admit that they miss the beloved series that aired weekly late night on our “Super Sci Fi Saturday Night” featuring the intrepid and somewhat rumbled reporter whose beat was the supernatural. There is reason to rejoice for all those fans who feel the same way-because tonight on MeTV- we have the origin story of that favorite reporter character who somehow always ends up pursuing the truth about something deadly from the realm of the unbelievable. It’s the made-for-TV movie that introduced us to Carl Kolchak, who’s out to convince authorities that they are dealing with a Vegas vampire- “The Night Stalker”!

Tonight on MeTV- get a look at a new hero walking in the footsteps of Dr. Van Helsing- that Hammer originally thought would begin a new series of adventures of “Captain Kronos- Vampire Hunter”!

This Saturday night on MeTV- we’re bringing back a one-man dynamo, used as the prototype for a mindless electrical army. A carnival performer becomes a deadly menace in what is considered to be Lon Chaney Jr.’s very first entry into true horror films. See how a cruel and devious scientist uses Lon’s incredible tolerance for electrical current to transform him into the “Man-Made Monster”!

This land is your land this land is … dino’s land?! Commander Alan Roberts is just your average US Navy commander taking his small helicopter crew on an exploratory mission into Antarctica to study oddly warm waters for the region. Pilot and geophysicist Lt. Jack Carmen is at the helm … or yoke … or whatever they use to fly a helicopter along with trusty machinist Steve Miller (the machinist one, not the musician one). Margaret Hathaway is the intrepid reporter along for the ride and hoping to get the story of her life. Ask and you shall receive Maragaret! Because your helicopter takes an unplanned trip to an unknown land right there in Antarctica that’s full of prehistoric dinosaurs, tropical plants, and a mad scientist named Hunter (not the Fred Dryer one) who hasn’t seen people in a really, really long time. Tonight, on MeTV - The Sven Squad are premiering 1957’s “The Land Unknown” on House of Svengoolie.

Tonight on MeTV-we've brought back a 1930s classic that has not aired in a while- featuring Universal's two top horror stars of the era- as Bela Lugosi forces the hand of Boris Karloff to aid him in his horrible acts in "The Raven"!

Tonight on MeTV- we bring back a triple-play of terror in the legendary Dan Curtis production that stars Karen Black-playing the lead character in each segment of the anxiety-filled anthology that many have called the most frightening made-for-TV movie of all time- “Trilogy of Terror”! This 1975 film is a tour de frightening force, based on three stories by horror master Richard Matheson, with the final segment reaching true cult status for its overly effective effigy of a warrior!

Tonight on MeTV-it’s beyond belief when alien forces take over human earthling hosts as slaves to help accomplish their secret mission- with only one man immune to their control who can battle their mission of conquest! Discover the truth behind why “They Came from Beyond Space”!

Tonight on MeTV- we bring back a landmark science fiction film of the 1950s- with “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” star David Hedison becoming the victim of his amazing scientific breakthrough- with Vincent Price trying to uncover the truth about “The Fly”!

Yes, it’s back again tonight on MeTV- and, for those of you asking, “why again?”- this is the horror/comedy that comes in, neck and neck, with “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” as perhaps the most requested movie our viewers demand to see. The man known for playing one of Mayberry’s best-known public servants plays the nervous hero who must endure a night in a house where a notorious murder took place and that is now labelled as haunted! Solving the mystery of the horrific event that took place requires him to stay there overnight– which could either land him his dream job as a newspaper reporter – and win him the lovely woman of his dreams- or land him in the middle of a real nightmare- caught between ghost troubles and legal woes. Don Knotts shivers his way through the 1966 classic- "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken"!

Hmmm, I feel like I’ve seen this movie somewhere before … That’s because tonight’s film is a remake of George Romero’s 1968 groundbreaking horror film “Night Of The Living Dead”! Barbara and her brother are just trying to visit their deceased mother’s grave when they discover … the undead! Barbara ends up seeking shelter in a farmhouse with gentle giant Ben, a well to do family of 3, a teenage couple, and more zombies than you can shake a pitchfork at. As the living attempt to fend off the dead, they discover what brings out the worst in both. Who will make it until sunrise when hopefully the authorities can arrive? Tune and find out tonight, on MeTV as The Sven Squad – Gwengoolie, Nostalgiaferatoo and IMP aka Ignatius Malvolio Prankenstein along with The Man In The Hat himself – Svengoolie – are premiering 1990’s “Night Of The Living Dead” on House of Svengoolie.

The Sven Squad and I travel somewhere over that rainbow for “The Wizard of Oz” Do I really need to sum up the great 1939 classic story of a young girl who finds herself transported by a twister to a faraway land inhabited by little people, witches good and bad, and three loyal companions? We meet Dorothy Gale and her farm-hand friends, as well as her uncle and Auntie Em- but they have a run-in with the nasty Miss Gultch, who’s out to have Dorthy’s little dog Toto put away!

The Sven Squad takes a crack at a movie I’ve shown before- “The Invisible Man Returns”! Vincent Price is an innocent man framed for murder- who turns to the brother of Griffin, the original Invisible Man and begs him to make him invisible so he can escape and prove his innocence. This 1940 film costars Cedric Hardwicke as the evil head of a mining operation who has had a deadly hand in what has transpired.

Our Halloween BOO-Nanza double feature this week brings us to England- once for an insane inheritance- and once for big top terror- as we go from that clown of a creature Herman Munster to murderous mayhem for ringmistress Joan Crawford- it’s “Munster Go Home” followed by “Berserk!”

Our Halloween BOO-Nanza double feature this week brings us to England- once for an insane inheritance- and once for big top terror- as we go from that clown of a creature Herman Munster to murderous mayhem for ringmistress Joan Crawford- it’s “Munster Go Home” followed by “Berserk!”

Tonight’s "BOO-nanza" double feature involves alien take-overs in both movies- one through some perilous pods, and the other from large-forehead potential conquerors! It’s the thrilling combination of the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "This Island Earth"!

Right after that- the Sven Squad takes over with their take of a science fiction classic that I have previously shown- "This Island Earth"! This 1955 film begins with a strange green ray saving a disabled aircraft- and its pilot, atomic scientist Cal Meacham getting some electronic parts that are unbelievably advanced- and like nothing ever seen before! Then comes a mysterious set of plans to build a communication device- that picks up a message that Cal is requested to join an elite scientific group.

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