About this season
The host Svengoolie talks about various horror movies while showing the movies, one per episode, and gives an introduction to them and performs an act during the commercial breaks. One of the constant tropes is that he will ask a question, then cut back to the movie in a way that looks like the character is answering that question. He also does a deep dive on the early careers of the major actors, and also what has happened to them since then.
Episodes (56)
1. The Raven (1963)
Aired 7 January 2023 • 150 min
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.
2. The Invisible Man (1933)
Aired 14 January 2023 • 150 min
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.
3. The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
Aired 21 January 2023 • 150 min
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.
4. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956)
Aired 28 January 2023
A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
5. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Aired 4 February 2023 • 150 min
Scientists track a prehistoric monster in the South American jungle while it tracks them.
6. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Aired 11 February 2023 • 116 min
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
7. Duel (1971)
Aired 18 February 2023 • 150 min
When the headlights of a truck become the eyes of a psychopath.
8. The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Aired 25 February 2023 • 150 min
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.
9. The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Aired 4 March 2023 • 150 min
In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.
10. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Aired 11 March 2023 • 150 min
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.
11. Konga (1961)
Aired 18 March 2023 • 150 min
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.
12. Blood of Dracula (1957)
Aired 25 March 2023 • 150 min
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.
13. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Aired 1 April 2023 • 150 min
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.
14. The Old Dark House (1932)
Aired 8 April 2023 • 150 min
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.
15. This Island Earth (1955)
Aired 15 April 2023 • 150 min
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
16. The Mole People (1956)
Aired 22 April 2023 • 150 min
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
17. Destroy All Monsters (1968)
Aired 29 April 2024 • 150 min
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.
18. Blacula (1972)
Aired 6 May 2023 • 150 min
An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
19. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Aired 13 May 2023 • 150 min
To win a reporting job, a young man must spend the night in a haunted house.
20. The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
Aired 20 May 2023 • 150 min
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”!
21. The Killer Shrews (1959)
Aired 27 May 2023 • 150 min
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.
22. Man Made Monster (1941)
Aired 3 June 2023 • 150 min
A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
23. Night Monster (1942)
Aired 10 June 2023 • 150 min
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.
24. Curse of the Demon (1957)
Aired 17 June 2023 • 150 min
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”!
25. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Aired 24 June 2023 • 150 min
A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters
26. The Car (1977)
Aired 1 July 2023 • 150 min
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.
27. Ghoulies (1985)
Aired 8 July 2023 • 150 min
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”!
28. Ghoulies II (1988)
Aired 15 July 2023 • 150 min
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!”
29. The Uninvited (1944)
Aired 22 July 2023 • 150 min
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.
30. The Haunted Strangler (1958)
Aired 29 July 2023 • 150 min
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.
31. The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Aired 5 August 2023 • 150 min
A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.
32. The Black Scorpion (1957)
Aired 12 August 2023 • 150 min
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
33. Konga (1961)
Aired 19 August 2023 • 150 min
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.
34. War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
Aired 26 August 2023 • 150 min
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.
35. Frankenstein (1931)
Aired 9 September 2023 • 150 min
Dr. Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
36. The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Aired 9 September 2023 • 150 min
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.
37. Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
Aired 16 September 2023 • 150 min
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.
38. The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Aired 23 September 2023 • 150 min
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
39. Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Aired 30 September 2023 • 150 min
Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
40. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Aired 7 October 2023 • 150 min
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
41. The Crawling Eye (1958)
Aired 7 October 2023 • 150 min
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
42. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Aired 14 October 2023 • 150 min
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
43. Invaders from Mars (1986)
Aired 14 October 2023 • 150 min
A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
44. The Night Stalker (1972)
Aired 21 October 2023 • 150 min
An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
45. Godzilla King of the Monsters! (1956)
Aired 21 October 2023 • 150 min
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.
46. The Night Strangler (1973)
Aired 28 October 2023 • 150 min
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!
47. Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Aired 28 October 2023 • 150 min
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.
48. The Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Aired 4 November 2023 • 150 min
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.
49. Munster, Go Home! (1966)
Aired 11 November 2023 • 150 min
The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.
50. Empire of the Ants (1977)
Aired 18 November 2023 • 150 min
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!
51. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Aired 25 November 2023 • 150 min
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.
52. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Aired 2 December 2023 • 150 min
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
53. The Raven (1963)
Aired 9 December 2023 • 150 min
A magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.
54. The Night Walker (1964)
Aired 16 December 2023 • 150 min
A lawyer advises a blind man's rich widow tormented by nightmares.
55. The Black Cat (1941)
Aired 23 December 2023 • 150 min
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.
56. The Undead (1957)
Aired 30 December 2023 • 150 min
A psychic researcher uses hypnosis to send a young woman back in time, where she's accused of witchcraft due to a real witch's meddling.