“Shock Theatre” was a hosted horror movie show with Ed Meloan as "Count Justin Sane" screening firstly on Saturday nights, then both Friday & Saturday nights on WRDW, Channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia between 1968 &1974. The coffin used on the show was made out of a couple of sheets of 3/4 plywood which was painted a dull grey. The handles did come from a real coffin. The inside of the “coffin” was lined with a wine-colored, very heavy cloth that had originally been one of the stage curtains of the old Imperial Theater.
I watched this show religiously when I lived in Augusta, GA.
Around 1975 ir 1976, Vincent Price was going on a speaking tour around the country. Stopped at the University of Florida where I was attending. Because a good friend was chairing the speakers bureau who brought everyone in, I got to meet the man.
@Alec I inquired about “Theatre Of Blood” (1973), the premise of which is a thespian who kills off all his critics using the tragedies of Shakespeare. I asked if it was personally satisfying for him to be “killing off his critics”. He just gave me the biggest smile, which of course is a terrifying thing coming from Vincent Price.
He also said it was terrific to work with Diana Rigg on that one.
@wadcorp that’s a great question and story. It’s hard for me to imagine him not being “on” as they say and instead engaging in a casual conversation. 😊 Having watched interviews with him though I guess it’s not impossible to imagine.
The original seemed sort of hippie in a Leon Russell sense of that and the present one reminds me of some other type of music person, maybe like Marc Bolan, but not really.
Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck[1] (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936),[known professionally as Max Schreck, was a German actor, best known for his lead role as the vampireCount Orlok in the film Nosferatu (1922).
Happy All Hallows Eve...
Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre & Vincent Price.
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Vincent Van Dahl, Tangella, and Mr. Livingston
Anne Rice...
Ivonna Cadaver...
Sammy Terry... a.k.a Samuel Terry (Ghoul).
Submitted for your approval...
Leopold and Lenora...
Valentine Dyall a.k.a. The Man In Black
[seen here as the Black Guardian]
“Shock Theatre” was a hosted horror movie show with Ed Meloan as "Count Justin Sane" screening firstly on Saturday nights, then both Friday & Saturday nights on WRDW, Channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia between 1968 &1974. The coffin used on the show was made out of a couple of sheets of 3/4 plywood which was painted a dull grey. The handles did come from a real coffin. The inside of the “coffin” was lined with a wine-colored, very heavy cloth that had originally been one of the stage curtains of the old Imperial Theater.
I watched this show religiously when I lived in Augusta, GA.
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Around 1975 ir 1976, Vincent Price was going on a speaking tour around the country. Stopped at the University of Florida where I was attending. Because a good friend was chairing the speakers bureau who brought everyone in, I got to meet the man.
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Svengoolie... (original)
Bob Wilkins, SFBA legend.
Max Schreck
Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck[1] (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936),[known professionally as Max Schreck, was a German actor, best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film Nosferatu (1922).