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B-MOVIE HOSTESS: SALLY THE ZOMBIE CHEERLEADER (2005-2007, 2009-present)
SALLY THE ZOMBIE CHEERLEADER – This horror hostess is portrayed by Nicole Galeano aka Nicole M. King aka Nicole M. Brooks. The Zombie Cheerleader started appearing on Public Access Cable around 2001,...
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FILM REVIEW: I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED (1998)
I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED (1998) – Directed by Aris Iliopulos, this is the film that was made based on that notorious unproduced script written by THE Ed Wood, the master of badfilm behind Glen or...
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B-MOVIE HOST SCORPIO (1976-1977)
SCORPIO (1976-1977) – From September 18th, 1976 to August or September of 1977 Scorpio (actor name unknown) hosted Thing Theatre at 1:00pm on Saturday afternoons. Thing Theatre aired on Pittsburgh,...
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B-MOVIE HOSTESS PENNY DREADFUL (1962-1964)
PENNY DREADFUL – Rose Marie Earp starred as the cleverly named Penny Dreadful on KMBC in Kansas City, MO. In the 1960s, KMBC aired two Movie Host shows on Saturdays. Chiller was broadcast at 10:30pm...
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B-MOVIE HOSTS MOLDY, UNCLE GORY, KRANDAL THE MARTIAN AND DR. LAMAR DRAGO...
EDDIE L. DRISCOLL played several different Movie Host characters during his THIRTY-THREE years working at the same television station – WLBZ Channel 2 in Bangor, Maine. That Maine location made...
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JOHNNY COOL (1963) UNDERRATED GANGSTER FILM
JOHNNY COOL (1963) – Okay, this weekend I once again met someone who never heard of this film, so I resolved to do what little I could to spread the word about it by reviewing it here on Balladeer’s...
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B-MOVIE HOSTESS: THE OLD LADY OF NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1957-1958)
THE OLD LADY OF NIGHTMARE ALLEY was the character who hosted the film show Nightmare! on KTLA in Los Angeles. She was played by the elderly actress Ottola Nesmith, who started in Silent Films in 1915...
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B-MOVIE HOSTS OF “SCREAM-IN” (1969-1971)
SCREAM-IN (June 20th, 1969 to August ?, 1971) – Love-Ins begat Laugh-In which begat Scream-In, a Bad Movie Show that went off the air when the station broadcasting it went bankrupt. Scream-In was...
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B-MOVIE HOSTESS: DRACULINDA THE GHOUL-GIRL (1959-1960)
DRACULINDA THE GHOUL-GIRL – Liz Herring, the Assistant Program Director at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC put her theater experience to good use as North and South Carolina’s Movie Hostess Draculinda the...
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VINCENT PASTORE: RIP – BLACK ROSES (1988)
BLACK ROSES (1988) – This legendarily laughable attempt at a horror film belongs to quite a few niche sub-genres. It’s a Canadian horror movie, it’s one of the wonderfully campy Heavy Metal Horror...
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B-MOVIE HOST: THE BEARD (1963-1965)
THE BEARD aka THE WEIRD BEARD – This veteran of television and radio – real name Bob Lowrie – first gained the nickname “the Beard” from his time as a rock ‘n’ roll DJ. It is not known if the “Weird...
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SPECIAL BLOG POST: THE ELMER AWARDS FROM SPOOKS HOTEL
Balladeer’s Blog’s love of Movie Host Shows is no secret. Recently I thanked Mike Pieper from Spooks Hotel (1985-1993, 1999-2000) for providing corrections and clarifications on that neglected Bad...
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2 B-MOVIE HOSTESSES FROM “SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE PARTY” (1962-1965)
SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE PARTY (1962-1965) was also called simply SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE and PAT’S SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE in the tantalizingly few surviving pieces of information available about this cult...
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B-MOVIE HOST WOLFMAN MAC (2008-2010)
WOLFMAN MAC – This werewolf Movie Host was played by Mac Kelly, who took the obvious Wolfman Jack reference and ran with it! And good for him! Why not? Kelly had grown up watching Michigan Movie Hosts...
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HARD CUT: RECOMMENDED MOVIE REVIEW CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE
Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at another YouTube movie review channel. This one is called Hard Cut Reviews. I haven’t been this enthusiastic about a YT channel since Red Letter Media when I covered...
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B-MOVIE HOSTESS: CYN RENTERIA
CYN RENTERIA aka ORIGINAL CYN aka CYNTHIA RENTERIA hosted Cynful Movies from 2019-2022. That show was another movie hosting production from Joel Stephens, whose programs Frightmare Theater and Dark...
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B-MOVIE HOST: RONALD THE GHOUL (1959-1968)
RONALD THE GHOUL, real name Jerry Sandford, hosted the WVEC Norfolk and Hampton, Virginia version of Shock Theater on Friday nights at 11:30. Sandford’s character Ronald was sort of an homage to the...
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B-MOVIE HOSTESS: ANGIE LABANSHEE (1985-1986)
ANGIE LABANSHEE (Joan Kelley-Cordt) hosted the B-Movie show Spooks Hotel Friday nights at 10:30 on KDAO Channel 44 in Marshalltown, Iowa. This sultry banshee with the Transylvanian accent was the...
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B-MOVIE HOST SHOCK ARMSTRONG (1964-1968)
SHOCK ARMSTRONG, THE ALL-AMERICAN GHOUL bore a name that was a play on the old radio series Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy. Even in 1964 that was an obscure reference, so it’s possible that many...
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DISCLOSURE DAY (2026) – A CHILD’S INTRODUCTION TO UFO AND ALIEN CONSPIRACIES
DISCLOSURE DAY (2026) – Did Steven Spielberg forget what he accomplished with the ending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? How does he think that an elderly alien getting brought out in a...
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