Oh my Nick, You really brought back some great memories with Elvira my friend. I remember Curly up with my children and a big bowl of popcorn and watching Elvira and the scary movies. I agree with Jim though about fatting her up a little. Her curves always did make me a little jealous. LOL!!
How about good ole Sammy Terry? He was another awesome Scary Guy! Elvira and Sammy Terry were my children and my favorites to watch!
WHO IS SAMMY TERRY? Sammy Terry was (and still is every once and a while) the Horror Movie Host on WTTV Channel 4 Indianapolis/Bloomington, IN. In the '60's through the '80's
Many of us can thank Sammy for first introducing us to the films of Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney Jr., and the gang. Sammy began appearing somewhere between 1961 to 1963, depending on which source you consult, and at the time the programming was the same "Shock Theatre" package that many stations had purchased during the period (the t.v. horror host phenomena was sparked by L.A. horror hostess Vampira and N.Y.C. host Zacherley in the '50's; in Indianapolis.
Sammy Terry later was established visually as a hooded, skull-faced character who lived in a castle dungeon and rose from his coffin each Friday night (it took awhile for all of this to develop--tape of a very early Sammy shown on the WTTV 50th Anniversary special in 1999 showed that Sammy basically had no set at all to begin with). The show was originally called Shock Theatre, which was later changed to Nightmare Theatre, appropo of Sammy's tagline "may you have many pleasant nightmarrrres." The earliest shows were broadcast live and, according to some who saw them, probably largely ad-libbed. Sammy, who told the worst jokes on earth, had a very eerie, and yet somehow homey, quality about him. Sort of like if you had a ghoul for an uncle who wore playtex gloves with red and blue veins draw on them in El Marko. (If you haven't yet got the joke, his name is an anagram for "cemetery".) While comedy was a big part of the show, many who have compared Sammy to other horror hosts over the years have remarked that he is spookier than most (an article about him several years ago in Fangoria magazine was entitled "Not Just Another Silly Horror Host"). Unlike Zacherley, Sammy rarely ridiculed the movies, preferring to basically ignore the particularly awful ones, or play up their scarier aspects.
I know Nick that you will definately live on forever my friend!
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