Monster of the Day #3389

Updated on April 26, 2022 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

Man, *I* want to go to a mid-nite spook frolic.

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  • KeithB

    “Ghosts may even sit on your lap!”
    I wonder if this is where they got the idea for the Disney Haunted Mansion to show the ghost in the “doom buggies” with you. “A ghost will follow you home!”

  • Gamera977

    Not sure the actual show could live up to what the poster is promising but still they’ve got my forty cents!

  • I’m still trying to wrap my brain around Bela Lugosi’s Dracula being anywhere near Horrible. Not even close, my friends. Not even close. In fact, most Dracula’s aren’t. The only one I can think of that almost fits the bill is Horror of Dracula. If only they’d dropped the -or and put in a -ible. Still, it’s probably for the best. Horrible of Dracula might be an accurate description of his actions, but it makes a lousy movie title.

    …

    …

    Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking here, either.

  • Rock Baker

    In my second volume of Cartoon Cuties short stories I included an episode which involved one of these shows. The Baxter sisters went to the local drive-in to see a showing of THE CRAWLING EYE (despite it giving Beverly nightmares the first time she saw it) and found the picture to be part of a spook show.

  • Eric Hinkle

    This show sounds like it must have been an utter delight to see. When did the theaters stop running these ‘midnight spook shows’ anyway?

  • thunderclancat

    Because then not every screen would be devoted to the latest lousy reboot, overblown drama, “woke” superhero saga, or otherwise meagerly creative blockbuster coming out of Hollywood. Also the country seems much more litigious now.

    I’m sorry I’m a tad bitter.

    These screenings do sound like fun.

  • Gamera977

    Amen ThunderClanCat!

  • Gamera977

    Reminds me of the ‘Ghost Adventures’ episode where Zac Baggins claimed a ghost had touched the crotch of his jeans. And then added it was a female ghost.

    Aaron asked him ‘How do you know it was a female ghost?’

    Zac replied ‘IT WAS A FEMALE GHOST, DON’T ARGUE WITH ME!!!’

  • Eric Hinkle

    I checked online and apparently these shows died out by 1977 at the latest. The new wave in horror as typified by films like The Exorcist and the coming slasher genre seem to be what finished them off.