This week on SVENGOOLIE...

[Swithin]

[Allhallowsday]

Her mother is invited to dinner...

[Allhallowsday]

I've seen a lot of Vampire movies, but THE NIGHT STALKER (1972) is the best of them all. It's on Saturday night. Next week it will be the worthy successor THE NIGHT STRANGLER (1973). The TV show was meh at best.

[TikiSoo]

I snoozed through it. I think Svengoolie's longer time slot is just to add more commercials. I just can't get involved in the story with so many breaks.

[Detective Jim McLeod]

I saw The Night Stalker (1972) last night and I think it still holds up. I like it more than the TV series which relied too much on comedy rather than horror. The original movie is short on comedy but has great suspense and shocks and the vampire is actually scary. It has the usual things like the cross and the stake, but adds superhuman strength to the vampire. There are a couple of great fight/action scenes with hospital orderlies and police.

I always like to hear Sven's trivia about the cast, though I would like to add some things and correct one.

Darren McGavin never became a top star in theatrical films but in the 1970s was the king of TV movies. He was in my favorite TV movie of all time Tribes (1970) where he played the short tempered Marine DI who has to deal with drafted hippie Jan Michael Vincent. In 1972 alone he was in another horror film Something Evil directed by Steven Spielberg, the pilot film for the The Rookies and co starred with Susan Hayward in her last movie Say Goodbye Maggie Cole.

Carol Lynley has a standard girlfriend role but she looks great. Sven does not mention a good horror film she made in 1967-The Shuttered Room.

Sven talks about Claude Akins playing Aldo in Planet Of The Apes, he did play Aldo but not in the original film. it was in the 5th film in the series Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1975).

I am glad Sven spoke of Barry Atwater who played the vampire Janos Skorzeny. He mentions his Twilight Zone episode, the classic "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" but does not say that Claude Akins was in that also, Night Stalker was a reunion for them.

And the director John Llewellyn Moxey made one of my favorite horror films City Of The Dead aka Horror Hotel (1960).

[jamesjazzguitar]

I saw The Night Stalker (1972) last night and I think it still holds up. I like it more than the TV series which relied too much on comedy rather than horror. The original movie is short on comedy but has great suspense and shocks and the vampire is actually scary. It has the usual things like the cross and the stake, but adds superhuman strength to the vampire. There are a couple of great fight/action scenes with hospital orderlies and police.

I always like to hear Sven's trivia about the cast, though I would like to add some things and correct one.

Darren McGavin never became a top star in theatrical films but in the 1970s was the king of TV movies. He was in my favorite TV movie of all time Tribes (1970) where he played the short tempered Marine DI who has to deal with drafted hippie Jan Michael Vincent. In 1972 alone he was in another horror film Something Evil directed by Steven Spielberg, the pilot film for the The Rookies and co starred with Susan Hayward in her last movie Say Goodbye Maggie Cole.

Carol Lynley has a standard girlfriend role but she looks great. Sven does not mention a good horror film she made in 1967-The Shuttered Room.

Sven talks about Claude Akins playing Aldo in Planet Of The Apes, he did play Aldo but not in the original film. it was in the 5th film in the series Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1975).

I am glad Sven spoke of Barry Atwater who played the vampire Janos Skorzeny. He mentions his Twilight Zone episode, the classic "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" but does not say that Claude Akins was in that also, Night Stalker was a reunion for them.

And the director John Llewellyn Moxey made one of my favorite horror films City Of The Dead aka Horror Hotel (1960).

I forgot how many classic movie actors, especially those featured in noir films, there were in The Night Stalker, Kent Smith, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles McGraw, and Ralph Meeker.

[Allhallowsday]

I snoozed through it. I think Svengoolie's longer time slot is just to add more commercials. I just can't get involved in the story with so many breaks.

Agreed. Here it is on YouTube:

[LiamCasey]

This month on Svengoolie...

11/4: Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) w/ William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode and Altovise Davis. Plus Marcy Lafferty. And directed by John 'Bud' Cardos.

11/11: Munster, Go Home! (1966) w/ Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick, Debbie Watson, Terry-Thomas and Hermione Gingold. Plus Robert Pine, John Carradine, Bernard Fox and Richard Dawson. And directed by Earl Bellamy.

11/18: Empire of the Ants (1977) w/ Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott, Pamela Susan Shoop, Robert Pine and Edward Power. Plus Brooke Palance and Tom Fadden. And directed by Bert I. Gordon.

11/25: House on Haunted Hill (1959) w/ Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long and Alan Marshal. Plus Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jr. and Julie Mitchum. And directed by William Castle.

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[TikiSoo]

I was so looking forward to seeing a movie with William Shatner I haven't seen before. I fell asleep after the second commercial break.
WAH!
At least I got to see him in tight jeans riding a horse. His jumping to mount technique was pretty agile, impressive.
I wanted to see him battle the spiders! Let's hope there will be a repeat.

[TikiSoo]

Yay! I searched and found KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS streaming as a Rifftrax on Pluto! It was actually preferable, the movie is such a stinker, it needed snarky commentary.

The doomed ending actually came as a complete surprise.

This movie doesn't deserve to survive, although the poster rules-

[txfilmfan]

Yay! I searched and found KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS streaming as a Rifftrax on Pluto! It was actually preferable, the movie is such a stinker, it needed snarky commentary.

The doomed ending actually came as a complete surprise.

This movie doesn't deserve to survive, although the poster rules-

Powerful overacting transcends the moving image - it comes through clearly in still images...

[jamesjazzguitar]

Yay! I searched and found KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS streaming as a Rifftrax on Pluto! It was actually preferable, the movie is such a stinker, it needed snarky commentary.

The doomed ending actually came as a complete surprise.

This movie doesn't deserve to survive, although the poster rules-

Powerful overacting transcends the moving image - it comes through clearly in still images...

Hey, that is pose #4 that William learned in the Ron Steiger drama school.

[TikiSoo]

Powerful overacting transcends the moving image - it comes through clearly in still images...
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Am I the only one who thinks the angle/juxtaposition of the huge flaming torch is funny? Especially funny coupled with with his hands & facial expression.

[LiamCasey]

Yay! I searched and found KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS streaming as a Rifftrax on Pluto! It was actually preferable, the movie is such a stinker, it needed snarky commentary.

The doomed ending actually came as a complete surprise.

This movie doesn't deserve to survive, although the poster rules-

Powerful overacting transcends the moving image - it comes through clearly in still images...

"KHAAANNNN!"