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A guy did a, like, three hour documentary (from the early 80s, maybe?) on Spook Shows, called "Spooks-a-Poppin'" Shot and edited on VHS tape, so it's pretty rough looking. But he actually travels around and interviews a number of old Spook Show practitioners. As dreary-looking as you'd expect, considering the technology. But FASCINATING conversations. And some interesting contrasts. One of the more well-known acts has his memorabilia preserved in a small museum setting on his property. While the "filmmaker" shares moonshine with another in his dingy garage. REALLY worth tracking down. And of course, Mark Walker's "Ghost Masters" book is a must.

Spook shows also created the template for the TV horror host - creepy shenanigans guided by a costumed character, followed by a movie. And the connections run deeper: one of the early TV hosts, Dr. Evil (Phillip Morris), had had a stage show for years prior his move to television. Dr. Silkini made an unintentional contribution to the genre when he brought his show to Cleveland. A young Ron Sweed stole Silkini's gorilla suit from the back alley of the theater while they were packing up, then used it to attract Ghoulardi when he was appearing at Euclid Beach. Sweed became Ghoulardi's gopher, and went on to become The Ghoul in 1971. Zacherley was Roland (pronounced Ro-LAND) when he was first on the air in Philadelphia. He kept that name for the run of the show there - about a year - but changed it when he was hired to host the horror movies on WABC in New York. Later, professional magician Joe Zawislak got John Zacherle's permission to recreate his look for Dr. Shock, Phillie's horror host in the 70s.

Who can deny Halloween is the most enjoyable holiday for kids and adults alike in the entire year?

A Google search will further show how Chaney looks like Jerry Stiller too

IN A VIOLENT NATURE = "what if Terrence Malick made FRIDAY THE 13TH?"

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a gorgeous looking mad mess of a movie. It's delightful if you're in the right mood.

I would think Jack Webb's bar set would be worn out from frequent use, in the same way a river carves through rock...

Thank you! Wishing y’all a happy Halloween!

Whew. Finally...

Wow. He hasn't aged a day since the 1960s!

Don't be fooled! This man is NOT Maurice Evans and he seems to young to be around in the 1960s...so, TCM, once again, filled with errors.

Wicked cool.

Always a delight!

Bringing common sense in a world desperately in need.

My Monday just got way better

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Ben Mankiewicz could easily play a younger Greg Proops if, for some reason, they ever did like, a movie about Whose Line or something.

Am I being a heathen continuing to picture Dana as Doctor Z in these episodes? OK, that's rhetoric. I'm probably not alone.

Hitler was a lousy painter. The apt painter comparison is Picasso, a great painter but terrible human being, or if you are a classicist, Caravaggio, one of the greatest renaissance painters who was a murderer, abuser, pimp. I think talent plus time equals okay to look at the art. I can’t watch Polanski or Allen films any longer, no matter how talented they are, maybe after they are dead and they can no longer hurt children it will be different.

I’ve had a day of nothing but anxiety attacks interrupted by panic attacks. Been to upset to do more than just lay in bed and watch the hummingbirds be disappointed by the fact I haven’t filled the feeder thru the crack in the window. Now I have a new ep of the DGH to soothe me. It’s no cure. But it does help. Thank you.

You are awesome my good man ☘️ funny as hell intro and I love the intro song❤

Dana is both smart and funny!

@4:57 - Interesting that George knows of the concept of "punctuated equilibrium", applied it to his career, and that the person to whom this concept is attributed shares that same last name with the interviewer.

Time well spent!

I had the pleasure of seeing this at the movies after a screening of Planet of the Apes a few years back.

"Casino Royale" (1967) is a psychedelic movie by the cigar and bourbon generation. I've always had a fondness for this one - it was on regular rotation on KTVU in the SF Bay Area. Really glad I had the chance to see a nice print on the big screen about ten/fifteen years ago. Beautifully bonkers.

Of course "You Only Live Twice" makes no damn sense. This can be put down to the simple fact that it never happened. "You Only Live Twice" is a sexual anxiety dream triggered by Bond's fear of impotence after failing to capture Blofeld at the end of "Thunderball". The last image we see of him is a man trailing behind an aircraft on a cord. Bond littering left dangling. "You Only Live Twice" mirrors the closing shot of "Thunderball" with opening image of a man on a cord floating next to a space capsule. SPECTRE's Intruder missile arrives, seductively opening up to him, before castratingly snipping his life cord. After a bit of global panic, cut to: James Bond in bed. In the first indication that we've entered a dream, his usual hormonal hi-jinx is cut short in a hail of bullets. Wrapped in rubber, he's transported to a firmly phallic submarine and eventually shot from the tip. (Please note that water is a symbol of rebirth) From there, it's dream logic all the way. Bond, the six-foot plus Scot, somehow fits into the hat and coat of a diminutive Japanese assassin, an effect so uncanny that it fools the man's partner. He repeats the trick later in the film by slipping into a fitted space suit of a Japanese astronaut half his size - as if Q branch managed to tap the cutting edge science of Alice in Wonderland to provide him with "Eat Me-Drink Me" resizing technology. And then of course, there's his astonishing transformation into a Japanese fisherman and staged wedding to Ama girl, Kissy (as named in the credits, but never spoken in the film). Meanwhile, back at Bond's sexual anxiety, SPECTRE's penis-rocket snatches another space capsule, and returns it to their womb-like volcano headquarters. Bond confronts his mortal enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. But in order to face the man who has thrown such a huge shadow on his life, Bond's dream recasts him as a hectoring pipsqueak. Once Bond thwarts Blofeld's plan, he relaxes in a rubber raft shaped like a rolled condom with Kissy. The phallic submarine makes an aggressive reappearance, signaling that Bond has successfully confronted his fears about Blofeld and marriage, regained his sexual prowess, and his ready to face them all as a (literally) new man in his next adventure. (Side note: Bond's confrontation with Blofeld in "You Only Live Twice" comes about passively. He's not certain he's going to see Blofeld at all until the man introduces himself. Ditto the wedding - it was conducted under orders. In "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", Bond pursues both targets aggressively.)

I’m just now discovering this. Omg I luv it!

I miss Merv too.

To back Biden is to back Blofeld, Dana

I will be spreading *a full scrot of bros* among my friends until it inevitably takes hold. We tend to call scrots "rogans."

You could have saved ' The Talk ' ❤ Biggest act of the 60's after The Beatles ? Jerry Lewis

Fantastic! Thank you!

She was lovely even in later live

More like Dana GOLD!...

Few could perform a high-wire act over the Uncanny Valley the way Hendrie did, LIVE-ON-AIR for so long without a fatal misstep. Hendrie is the Maestro.

Great show. Once correction on “True Tales from Weirdville.” Corman didn’t direct “Monster from the Ocean Floor.” It was his first producer credit.

Dana, thank you so much for years and years of laughter. My sincerest condolences for your loss.

Im sorry.

Much love for you in this time of loss, sir.

BIG OL' HUGS FOR YOU, DANA, and this Horror Kid knows how it feels to lose yer mum. DGH is absolutely wonderiffic and amazeringific.

H-E Double Hockey Sticks! This is great. Thank you. ••• Sorry about your mom. ••• PEACES!!!

I CANT WAIT TO WATCH THIS!!!!!!

Your politics ruin everything.

proops and sklar...2 legends. love this one. ❤

Dr Z bangs HUMANS and apes... even baboons..... he has a 11" PECKER and it makes the white girls CRAZY

Dana is GOLD!

We need Paul Williams as a guest on Dr Z!

Oooooohh baaay bee !!!!

Enjoyed the “Dune” chat. I think Dana not really being into “Fire Walk with Me” or the 3rd season of “Twin Peaks” (I love them both) makes sense when he mentions his need for story. Lynch is, at heart, an experimental filmmaker, so narrative is never going to come first. Wondering what Dana thinks of his early short films, which are pretty incredible but not at all narrative-focused.