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Dead of Night (1977)

Writing:
  • Rich Koz
Stars:
Release Date: Sat, Jan 07, 1995

Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 120
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Rich Koz
Svengoolie
Doug Scharf
Doug Graves/Man in Other Hat

Season 30:

The Invisible Ray (1935)
Episode 1: The Invisible Ray (1935) (Jan 06, 2024)
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
The Old Dark House (1932)
Episode 2: The Old Dark House (1932) (Jan 13, 2024)
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Episode 3: The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) (Jan 20, 2024)
A doctor obtains raw materials for his experiments. With an assistant's help, he tries reviving a heart. A suspicious priest interrupts, forcing them to flee abandoned experiments.
Willard (1971)
Episode 4: Willard (1971) (Jan 27, 2024)
In our home base of Chicago, there’s been a lot of interest lately in the “Rat Hole”- the impression of what appears to be the outline of a rat in a sidewalk’s concrete - but, tonight on MeTV- a young man is tired of being under the thumb of a big cheese- and decides to fight back through an army of rats that he has learned to communicate with and control! It’s a riot of rodent revenge lead by “Willard”!
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Episode 5: Revenge of the Creature (1955) (Feb 03, 2024)
Explores a worthy sequel to the first film in the Gill Man saga, taking "King Kong" approach- bringing the monster back to civilization in a different unfamiliar environment.
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
Episode 6: The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) (Feb 10, 2024)
We’ve shown you various watery threats like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, giant octopi, and a piranha or fifty- but tonight on MeTV, it’s a unique sort of subsea prehistoric menace that emerges from the deep to find food- and you can probably guess what item is at the top of its menu- as mankind faces “The Monster That Challenged the World”!
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Episode 7: Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (Feb 17, 2024)
Burning windmill where the monster battles his maker. Henry, thrown from the windmill's heights, is carried home by witnesses who mourn. Maria's father remains to ensure the monster's demise but the monster lives.
How to Make a Monster (1958)
Episode 8: How to Make a Monster (1958) (Feb 24, 2024)
Pete, make-up artist for 25 years, angered that the studio's new regime discounts his work . Recalling a past accidental discovery allowing him to control actors, Pete formulates special makeup to render them to his commands.
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
Episode 9: The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) (Mar 02, 2024)
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
13 Ghosts (1960)
Episode 10: 13 Ghosts (1960) (Mar 09, 2024)
A family inherits what proves to be a haunted house, but a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors.
The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Episode 11: The Comedy of Terrors (1963) (Mar 16, 2024)
Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.
Dan Curtis' 'Dracula' (1974)
Episode 12: Dan Curtis' 'Dracula' (1974) (Mar 23, 2024)
Dan Curtis' made-for-tv version of Bram Stoker's Dracula from 1974, starring Jack Palance as the Count, who pursues a woman in England who resembles his long dead wife.
Gargoyles (1972)
Episode 13: Gargoyles (1972) (Mar 30, 2024)
An anthropologist and his daughter are traveling through the southwestern U.S. when they encounter a mysterious skeleton of a large creature with wings and horns at Uncle Willie’s Desert Museum. Initially dismissing it as a hoax, they soon find themselves entangled in a supernatural mystery, pursued by a group of living, breathing gargoyles.
The Time Travelers (1964)
Episode 14: The Time Travelers (1964) (Apr 06, 2024)
A freak accident transforms a wall-mounted flatscreen TV into a portal to a post-apocalyptic future where fierce mutants roam a decimated earth and humanity struggles to survive.
Island of Terror (1966)
Episode 15: Island of Terror (1966) (Apr 13, 2024)
On an isolated island, a secret lab's experiments to cure a deadly disease go terribly wrong, unleashing horrific creatures. A doctor's call for help, but the visitors become trapped as the relentless creatures multiply.
The Wolf Man (1941)
Episode 16: The Wolf Man (1941) (Apr 20, 2024)
In “The Wolf Man” (1941), Larry Talbot returns to his father’s castle in Wales and encounters a beautiful woman. During a visit to a local carnival, he meets a mysterious gypsy fortune teller who recites a chilling verse: “Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms and the moon is full and bright.”
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Episode 17: Trilogy of Terror (1975) (Apr 27, 2024)
Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
The Land that Time Forgot (1974)
Episode 18: The Land that Time Forgot (1974) (May 04, 2024)
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
House of Frankenstein (1944)
Episode 19: House of Frankenstein (1944) (May 11, 2024)
A horrific house party brings together the original Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man, a hunchback, and other Universal monsters in this ultimate monster rally.
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
Episode 20: Scream Blacula Scream (1973) (May 18, 2024)
The vampire Mamuwalde (a.k.a. Blacula) is resurrected by voodoo and forced to kill again.
Destroy All Monsters (1968)
Episode 21: Destroy All Monsters (1968) (May 25, 2024)
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.
The Tingler (1959)
Episode 22: The Tingler (1959) (Jun 01, 2024)
An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Episode 23: The Monolith Monsters (1957) (Jun 08, 2024)
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Episode 24: The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) (Jun 15, 2024)
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
The Leech Woman (1960)
Episode 25: The Leech Woman (1960) (Jun 22, 2024)
An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.
The Undead (1957)
Episode 26: The Undead (1957) (Jun 29, 2024)
A beautiful woman is sent back in time via hypnosis to the Middle Ages where she finds she is suspected of being a witch, and subject to being executed.
The Angry Red Planet (1959)
Episode 27: The Angry Red Planet (1959) (Jul 06, 2024)
Shortly after their rocket reaches the mysterious red planet, the band of brave space explorers discovers monstrous yet highly intelligent alien life forms, which first attack, then deliver a haunting word of warning intended for all mankind.
Munster Go Home (1966)
Episode 28: Munster Go Home (1966) (Jul 13, 2024)
Herman inherits Munster Hall in England
Dracula (1931)
Episode 29: Dracula (1931) (Jul 20, 2024)
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.
The Killer Shrews (1959)
Episode 30: The Killer Shrews (1959) (Jul 27, 2024)
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.
Cult of the Cobra (1955)
Episode 31: Cult of the Cobra (1955) (Aug 03, 2024)
American servicemen are targeted by a beautiful woman who can transform into a cobra after they interfere in a ceremony
The Mad Magician (1954)
Episode 32: The Mad Magician (1954) (Aug 10, 2024)
An 1880s magician (Vincent Price) creates illusions of mayhem that work.
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Episode 33: It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) (Aug 17, 2024)
A giant octopus from the nether reaches of Mindanao Deep has been awakened by nearby nuclear testing. Radioactive and monstrously huge, the rampaging leviathan is heading toward the North American Pacific Coast.
Black Friday (1940)
Episode 34: Black Friday (1940) (Aug 24, 2024)
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
Episode 35: War of the Colossal Beast (1958) (Aug 31, 2024)
(Sequel to "The Amazing Colossal Man") Manning is a gigantic behemoth, a victim of overexposure to radiation who has gone insane due to his freakish size.
KIller Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Episode 36: KIller Klowns from Outer Space (1988) (Sep 07, 2024)
When teenagers see a comet crash outside their small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Episode 37: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) (Sep 14, 2024)
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall.
The Night Stalker (1972)
Episode 38: The Night Stalker (1972) (Sep 21, 2024)
movie that predates the TV show After several high-profile newspapers fire him for his difficult attitude, investigative journalist Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) finds a job following the police beat for a small Las Vegas publication. When Carl discovers a series of dead showgirls drained of blood with bite marks on their necks, the police hesitate to take the case any further, and his boss (Simon Oakland) wants nothing to do with the story, leading Carl to believe there may be a real vampire prowling the city streets.
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Episode 40: Son of Frankenstein (1939) (Oct 05, 2024)
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone) is determined to prove the legitimacy of his father's scientific work, thus rescuing the family name from disgrace. With the help of Ygor (Bela Lugosi), a grave robber, Wolf successfully reanimates the monster (Boris Karloff) his father originally brought back from the dead.
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
Episode 41: The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) (Oct 05, 2024)
(Second episode of the night as part of Svengoolie's Halloween BOO-Nanza) An earthquake awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails are gobbling up anyone who sets foot in the water. And when the creatures move on to land in search of wider hunting grounds, they launch a reign of terror that threatens to spread across the whole country.
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Episode 42: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) (Oct 12, 2024)
To win a reporting job, a young man must spend the night in a haunted house.
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Episode 43: Fiend Without a Face (1958) (Oct 12, 2024)
(Second episode of the night as part of Svengoolie's Halloween BOO-Nanza) A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters
House of Wax (1953)
Episode 44: House of Wax (1953) (Oct 19, 2024)
A scarred sculptor (Vincent Price) re-populates his ravaged wax museum with human corpses.
Labyrinth (1986)
Episode 45: Labyrinth (1986) (Oct 19, 2024)
House of Svengoolie, primarily hosted by the characters IMP, Gwengoolie, and Nostalgiaferatoo. second episode of the night as part of October's Boonanza A teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King (David Bowie). Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers.
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Episode 46: Invaders from Mars (1953) (Oct 26, 2024)
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Episode 47: The Dark Crystal (1982) (Oct 26, 2024)
House of Svengoolie, primarily hosted by the characters IMP, Gwengoolie, and Nostalgiaferatoo. second episode of the night as part of October's Boonanza On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and to restore order to his world.
The Mummy (1932)
Episode 48: The Mummy (1932) (Nov 02, 2024)
Tonight on MeTV- as the weather turns colder, it seems like a good time to get wrapped up-and join one of Universal’s iconic monsters as he goes "for a little walk"... and begins a marathon of evil and death, thanks to a curse from ancient Egypt that brings danger to all who come into contact with- "The Mummy"!
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Episode 49: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) (Nov 09, 2024)
Tonight on MeTV- we present Vincent Price in possibly his most memorable role of the 1970s-as a man thought to be dead who is not only alive, but on a mission- to get revenge on the physicians who failed to save his wife’s life- by killing them off one by one! There are equal measures of dark hilarity and horror in the campy classic from 1971- “The Abominable Dr. Phibes”!
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Episode 50: Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) (Nov 16, 2024)
Tonight on MeTV-find out what gets a rise out of Vincent Price’s disfigured “dead-again/live-again” villain- as we pick up where last week’s movie left off- only a few years later- when the killer keyboardist is restored to life- and sets out on a quest to return his beloved wife to the realm of the living- while racing against an anxious adversary to a certain spot in Egypt that promises eternal life- as “Dr. Phibes Rises Again”!
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Episode 51: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) (Nov 23, 2024)
We’re showing what may be the most requested film in our library-that our viewers demand to see at least annually! While Universal’s perennial top comedy team- had lost some of their box office power- this film teamed them up with some of Universal’s classic monsters, who had also been declining in popularity (at least in the opinion of the studio heads). Two of the classic monsters are played by the men who established them as horror legends- Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man- with the Monster portrayed by Glenn Strange- for the comedic and creepy encounter “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”!
The Crawling Eye (1958)
Episode 52: The Crawling Eye (1958) (Nov 30, 2024)
Tonight on MeTV- “Black Friday” gives way to a “Black and White Saturday” Sven feature- as we learn about a snowy mountain peak surrounded by a mysterious mist that conceals a deadly menace to mankind! Anyone who dares to climb into it risks certain death- and a major threat looms to local residents when the mist moves downwards towards their town! Inside the mist lies the terror of “The Crawling Eye”!
The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Episode 53: The Comedy of Terrors (1963) (Dec 07, 2024)
Tonight on MeTV, we reprise a horror comedy with an all-star cast of the genre’s legends that mixes dark humor and deadly deeds. It’s another memorable team-up of Vincent Price and Peter Lorre, with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone along for the (hearse wagon) ride- in the “Comedy of Terrors”!


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