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Before folks sat around the TV watching American Horror Story or classic movies like The Shining and Friday the 13th, they gathered around the radio to listen to their favorite weekly programs. Many of them were comedies or dramas, just like today?s television programs, but there were also shows dedicated to the creepy crawly ? that made goosebumps rise and sent shivers down the spine. It?s often said that what you can?t see is scarier than what you can, and radio programs can sweep you up and create a whole spooky world in your imagination. Here are a few of the best! Tur n Lig ht s Of f t hen Cl ick t o List en Dr acul a This was the very first episode of The Mercury Theater on the Air. Although it aired in July, it?s horror is fit for Halloween. Orson Welles plays the roles of both Dr. Seward and Count Dracula. Hear the tale of Jonathan Harker being imprisoned in the Dracula?s decrepit castle. Then follow the cast as they travel to England and try to solve the mystery of this unusual count from Transylvania.1938 The Thing on t he Four bl e Fl oor This episode of Quite Please aired in August of 1948 is widely regarded as the finest piece of radio horror to ever hit the airwaves. It starts fairly slowly, with a man, Porky, describing working on an oil derrick. His friend comes to join him for some pork chops, and they discover ? something ? that?s come up from a mile below the earth. I listened to this during the very middle of the day, and I still got goosebumps. It features perhaps the most chilling ?voice? you?ll ever hear. 1948 The Devil Doct or Created by Alonzo Deen Cole, The Witch?s Tale was the first radio show devoted to horror and the supernatural. Its tales often had a Gothic feel to them, probing into a fantastic past when sorcerers and spirits roamed the earth and made mere mortals their playthings. 1934



Cl assics of British TV horror The Exo r cism - BBC Dead o f Night 1972

Myst er y & Imaginat io n The Open Do o r 1968

The St o ne Tapes by Nigel Kneal 1970


Leg ion of Sl eepy Hol l ow A TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. 1980

The Haunt ed 1991 When t he Smurl f amil y moves int o a dupl ex, t hey f ind out it s haunt ed.


Nearly 50 years after its debut, there?s still never been a television series quite like Dark Shadows. The ABC daytime soap opera, which aired from 1966 to 1971, was a charmingly under-budgeted Gothic melodrama about a spooky seaside town in Maine that blended the supernatural (werewolves, witchcraft, and zombies) with parallel universes and time travel; angst-ridden vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) emerged as the show?s breakout star. General Hospital it wasn?t. Usually airing in late afternoons, Dark Shadows acquired a large teenage fan base. Here are fun facts about the show. 1.BARNABAS COLLINS WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT. Creator Dan Curtis originally had in mind a dramatic series about the strange residents of Collinsport, Maine, as viewed from the perspective of newly-arrived governess Victoria Winters. Though mystical elements? like ghosts? were present, they were subtle and slow to materialize. 2.THE SPECIAL EFFECTS CONSISTED OF SARAN WRAP AND VASELINE. With a roughly $70,000 budget to shoot its five weekly episodes, Dark Shadows had to approach its special effects conservatively. Camera operator Stuart Goodman found that covering his lens with plastic wrap and then dabbing Vaseline at the edges to create a hazy, dreamlike visual was surprisingly effective. To emulate actors being trapped in a blaze, Goodman would simply put a bucket in front of himself and light it on fire. 3.THERE WAS NO TIME TO GO BACK AND FIX MISTAKES. Dark Shadows was live and had to maintain a standard soap schedule that allowed episodes to air daily. Because of the compressed production, actor flubs, focus mistakes, and other gaffes that would normally be re-shot had to remain in the show.


4. BARNABAS DIDN?T TALK MUCH WHILE FANGED. Dampened vocally by the fangs he had to wear, Frid would spit out the fangs, deliver the dialogue, then stuff them back in when the camera returned to him. 5. IT WAS ABC?S FIRST COLOR SOAP. Though soaps had experimented with color before, Dark Shadows became the first daytime serial on ABC to switch to the format in 1967. (It had spent its first year in black and white.) 6. IT?S THE ONLY SOAP TO SPAWN THREE FEATURE FILMS. It?s a testament to Dark Shadows' rabid following that the series birthed two feature films with the original cast? virtually unheard of for a soap opera of any era . Curtis directed 1970?s House of Dark Shadows, which covered much of the same ground as the series and in 1971, Curtis wanted to continue the story with another film. Night of Dark Shadows was released that same year. 7. THERE WAS A COMIC STRIP.


A DOCUMENTARY FEATURES INTERVIEWS WITH CAST MEMBERS AND CLIPS FROM THE SHOW.

Dark Shadows Episode 1 Remember, this was a live TV Show.(All episodes included in Scifi Horror Collection)


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HORROR COMEDY movies M ost h or r or m ovies ar e in h er en t ly m ade t o k eep u s n er vou sly on t h e edge of ou r seat s w ait in g f or t h e t h r ill of bein g scar ed ou t of ou r m in d. M ost of t h e t im e t h ese m ovies ask u s t o believe in t h in gs t h at ar en?t possible, t h at f lou t t h e r u les of r ealit y, an d t o becom e so in vest ed in t h ese f ict ion al w or lds t h at w e f eel legit im at e f ear over w h at h appen s. Bu t t h er e is a h or r or m ovie gen er a t h at em br aces t h e r idicu lou s an d at t h e sam e t im e is a f u n exper ien ce. Th er e?s a lot of r oom t o m ove ar ou n d on t h e h or r or com edy spect r u m , slidin g bet w een lau gh s an d scar es, an d t h er e ar e m an y m ovies t h at w ill sh ow t h e f u ll r an ge of possibilit ies w it h in t h is f or m . Hor r or com edy com bin es som e of ou r m ost beloved com edic act or s in t h e w or ld of Hor r or . Below is ju st a sm all sam ple, h ave f u n w at ch in g! Click On t h e Im ages To Wat ch .


We watch movies in order to experience a roller-coaster ride of emotional responses. Horror movies aim to evoke fear, whose family of tertiary emotions consist of shock, alarm, mortification, panic, hysteria, horror, terror and fright. Whether or not a horror movie is good or bad is subjective. This short article explores those movies which are commonly regarded as the top horror movies; the movies that - for one reason or another - most potently engaged our fears. Lets remember those double features that we looked forward each week with our friends and remembered late at night. The following are just a few of the best horror movies but not inclusive. 1) House On Haunt ed Hil l (1959) Eccentric multimillionaire and his wife invite five unrelated strangers to a huge, isolated mansion. They offer 10,000 dollars to each guest if they make it through the night (12 hours). All five arrive by hearse and in the morning all five will be leaving by hearse, one-way or the other. Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long.


2) 13 Ghost s (1960) Out of all the top horror movies this ghost movie is one of the best. Uncle Zorba, an occultist, wills a huge unusual house to his needy nephew Cyrus and his family. This house came with three surprises; treasure, thirteen ghosts and special goggles to see these ghosts. Starring: Charles Herbert, Donald Woods, Jo Morrow.

3) Dracul a (1931) 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. . Starring:Bela Lagosi, Dwight Frye,Helen Chandler.

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4) Frankenst ein (1931) This iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) as he attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster (Boris Karloff), but, confused and traumatized, it escapes into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc. Frankenstein searches for the elusive being, and eventually must confront his tormented creation. Starring Boris Karlof, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Solan

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5)The Mummy (1958)

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The Martians intend to invade Earth, but cannot strike until they possess the plans for inventor Cyrus Layton's (James Craven) long-range "jet plane" spaceship. The advance scout for the invasion is a strangely garbed being called the Purple Monster (Roy Barcroft), who can take over the identity of any earth man. If Layton's niece Sheila (Linda Sterling) and criminologist Craig Foster (Dennis Moore) fail to stop the threat of the Purple Monster, it's the end of the human race! (1945 - Republic Pictures)


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