This Halloween, we ponder the passing of John Zacherle, one of the greatest and funniest TV horror hosts ever, on October 27.
The horror host's recorda, "82 Tombstones," "Dummy Doll" and "Dinner With Drac" actually precede Bobby "Boris" Pickett's hit The Monster Mash. That is appropriate, given that Zacherley rose out of a coffin to introduce the Grateful Dead at Fillmore East.
Must tip that battered top hat worn by John Carradine in countless low-budget movies to Zacherley.
Joining Zacherley in today's Halloween post will be current horror host Mr. Lobo of Cinema Insomnia.
We'll raise that, and the dead, with Halloween blackouts from The Ernie Kovacs Show and Take A Good Look.
And, of course, the one, the only Auntie Gruesome, with a version of Cinderella this writer prefers to both Disney's Cinderella and Jerry Lewis' Cinderfella.
We finish today's post off, appropriately, as the great John Candy's birthday was on October 31, with an episode of Count Floyd's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre. OWOOOOOOOOO!!!
We wish all the readers of Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog a Happy Halloween! As Tallulah Bankhead, chain smoking and hoisting a shot while wearing a designer witch costume would say, Happy Halloween, dahhhlings!
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