What was your local horror movie host's name?

[Ozzymandias]

When I was a kid in the 70's I watched Dr. Dead on KMTC in Springfield MO. He later became Sammy B. Good on KSPR TV. I interviewed him for a class project. He told me that when Kathleen Turner and John Goodman were students at SMSU, they were on the Dr. Dead Nightmare Theater.

I worked for Count Norlock at KSPR during the three months or so it was on air. I wrote an article about it for Scary Monsters magazine about ten years ago and they published it a few months back. LOL.

[Mr. Lobo]

Bob was my horror host too...I host a show called Cinema Insomnia and Bob mentored me alot in the begining. He holds a "Senior Consultant" credit on my show Cinema Insomnia. I did a convention side by side with Bob in SF's Wondercon earlier this year and we have plans to do Horror Host Palooza together and San Jose's SiliCon. Unfortunately Bobs ability to do Q & A or any kind of stage presentation has diminished quite a bit in these last couple years but he loves meeting with fans and signing autographs.

http://www.bobwilkins.net is his official site.

Cinema Insomnia has been picked up by KTEH and will air starting late Sat nights(12:30am Sun) in October.  San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland will have Hosted Horror and Sci-Fi on broadcast TV once again!


Mr. Lobo
http://www.cinemainsomnia.com

[peter johnson]

Oh, that reminds me!
I was/am a character named "Bates" -- standard-issue mad scientist -- opposite this guy that looks like the professional wrestler, The Undertaker:  "Digger", for a show that failed to get into syndication:  "Movie Maesoleum".  
It runs in perpetual reruns out here in Boulder County on CATV 54 -- as the guy who played "Digger" -- Bill Hammel -- is on the board of directors for the station.
My one brush with horror-movie-show-host fame . . .
I think there are 12 episodes, all shot around 10 years ago . . .
Bates helped transform Sonny Bono into The Fly (A real Sonny Bono doll head on one of those giant rubber fly bodies) and gave a Rorshach test to Godzilla to try to find out what made him so angry.  
peter johnson/denny crane

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I grew up in Wyoming and that was horrible enough (plus at that time, there was not much local TV, it was all out of Denver).  But I did find this link:
http://www.geocities.com/horrorhostunderground/html/locate.htm

Pick your host!
-Ed

[LH-C]

I didn't watch too much late night TV growing up, so the earliest local horror/bad movie host I remember was local-radio personality Whitey Gleason (originally on 93/98 Rock; now on Sports 1140-AM). He had a show on Channel 58 here in Sacramento for a few years during the '90s which was great. The most memorable of all the shows was when Abel Ferrara was the special guest back in 1993 (for the release of his version of 'The Body Snatchers'). I had never heard of Ferrara before, and was intrigued. Then after a few years, Whitey's show was cancelled, and it was years before there was another outlet for this kind of programming. Then came Cinema Insomnia on Channel 10. Holy crap, it was too funny! Especially Mr. Lobo! And Mr. Lobo - Will CI be shown in Sacramento again soon?

[Amanda]

I know this is an old post, but mine was Mad Frank...up around the Grand Forks, ND area.  I loved him.