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It's about that favorite show you forgot you loved ...Plot:
American Scary is a look at the nation's tradition of horror hosting, from Ghoulardi to Ghoul-A-Go-Go... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Horror Host Doc American Scary Heads Home! (From Dread Central. 13 February 2009, 9:14 AM, PST)
'American Scary' Captures Era of TV Horror Hosts
(From ESplatter. 8 February 2009, 10:00 AM, PST)
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A nice walk down memory lane. moreCast
(Credited cast)| Forrest J Ackerman | ... | Himself | |
| Douglas Agosti | ... | Himself / Dr. Shock | |
| Ernie Anderson | ... | Himself / 'Ghoulardi' (archive footage) | |
| Curtis Armstrong | ... | Himself | |
| Bob Beidman | ... | Himself / 'Carpathian' | |
| Terry Bennett | ... | Himself / "Marvin" (archive footage) | |
| Bob Billbrough | ... | Himself / "Hives the Butler" | |
| Jerry G. Bishop | ... | Himself / 'Svengoolie' | |
| John Bloom | ... | Himself | |
| Ken Bramming | ... | Dr. Lucifer (archive footage) | |
| Nicole M. Brooks | ... | Herself | |
| Bob Burns | ... | Himself | |
| P.D. Cacek | ... | Herself / 'Moira the Banshee' | |
| Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille | ... | Himself | |
| George 'E-Gor' Chastain | ... | Himself | |
| Tim Conway | ... | Himself | |
| Lowell Cunningham | ... | Himself | |
| Shane Dallmann | ... | Himself / 'Remo D.' | |
| Frank J. Dello Stritto | ... | Himself | |
| Jeanne Dietrick | ... | Herself / 'Joan E. Cleaver' | |
| John Dimes | ... | Himself / 'Dr. Sarcofiguy' | |
| Penny Dreadful | ... | Penny Dreadful (as Danielle Gelehrter) | |
| Richard Dyszel | ... | Himself / 'Count Gore DeVol' | |
| Brian Easterling | ... | Himself / 'Butch R. Cleaver' | |
| Andrew C. Ely | ... | Himself / 'Grimm' | |
| Hart D. Fisher | ... | Himself | |
| Joseph Fotinos | ... | Himself / 'Professor Anton Griffin' | |
| Tim Fox | ... | Himself | |
| Neil Gaiman | ... | Himself | |
| Chris Gore | ... | Himself | |
| Billy Hall | ... | Himself | |
| Jeff Hall | ... | Himself (as Jeff 'The Sickie' Hall) | |
| Jim Hendricks | ... | Himself / 'Commander USA' | |
| Timothy Herron | ... | Himself / 'Baron Von Wolfstein' | |
| Bob Hinton | ... | Himself / 'A. Ghastlee Ghoul' | |
| Barry Hobart | ... | Himself / 'Dr. Creep' | |
| Joel Hodgson | ... | Himself | |
| John Kassir | ... | Himself | |
| Adam Kolesm | ... | Himself | |
| Eric Lobo | ... | Himself / "Mr Lobo" | |
| Leonard Maltin | ... | Himself | |
| Russ McCown | ... | Sir Cecil Creepe (archive footage) | |
| Alan F. Milair | ... | Himself / "Dr. E. Nick Witty" | |
| Michael Monahan | ... | Himself / 'Doktor Goulfinger' | |
| Joseph Monks | ... | Himself | |
| James Morrow | ... | Himself | |
| Mark D. Newman | ... | Himself / 'Dr. Mor B.S.' | |
| David Nielsen | ... | Himself | |
| Bob Paulin | ... | Himself | |
| Brittany Paulin | ... | Herself | |
| Mike Price | ... | Himself / "Baron Daemon" | |
| Jimmy Psycho | ... | Himself | |
| John Rinaldi | ... | Himself / "Li'l John" | |
| Tom Savini | ... | Himself | |
| Keven Scarpino | ... | Himself | |
| Chuck Schodowski | ... | Himself / "Big Chuck" | |
| Karen Scioli | ... | Herself / "Stella" | |
| Roberta Solomon | ... | Herself / 'Crematia Mortem' | |
| John Stanley | ... | Himself | |
| Ron Sweed | ... | Himself / 'The Ghoul' | |
| Patricia Tallman | ... | Herself | |
| Malena Teves | ... | Herself | |
| Jeff Thompson | ... | Himself | |
| Phil Tippett | ... | Himself | |
| Larry Underwood | ... | Himself / 'Dr. Gangrene' | |
| Vampira | ... | Herself (as Maila Nurmi) | |
| Len Wein | ... | Himself | |
| Darren Wilhite | ... | Himself | |
| Bob Wilkins | ... | Himself | |
| John Zacherle | ... | Himself / 'Zacherley' | |
| Randy Zimmerman | ... | Himself |
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American SCARY is a nice little walk down memory lane for adults who grew up during the generation that enjoyed their local version of "Creature Feature" on television. Where I grew up, it was on Friday and Saturday nights and decades later I have a warm place in my heart for Count Gore De Vol. So it wasn't at all surprising that I gravitated towards this documentary when I saw it listed on Netflix.
Some background is needed for you young whippersnappers. Once or twice a week, in most of the major cities had a local horror movie evening (usually starting around 11pm or later). This film is about these local hosts--local celebrities who were hardly recognized outside their local markets (with only a few exceptions, such as Vampira). In most cases, the films they showed weren't all that great and sometimes watching the host's antics during commercial breaks made these sub-par films worth watching. And in every case in every market, the sets and acting were all pure cheese--enjoyable, fun but certainly cheese!
Now as far as the documentary goes, it was quite enjoyable but suffered from a few problems. First, the musical track was really too invasive and too omni-present. Less would have worked better. Second, while I adored seeing all these local hosts after all these years, I don't know why they had other celebrities there as well (other than, I assume, they'd appear for free). The telepathic lady from "Babylon 5" and Booger from "Revenge of the Nerds", for examples, were shown quite a few times but I would MUCH rather have seen more of the hosts or old clips or more about the history of these shows. Third, and I can't at all blame the film makers, but seeing this stretched out--with more time for specific hosts would have been nice. I wanted more on The Cool Ghoul and Count Gore De Vol and also more on hosts I wasn't familiar with before the film. As they say, though, in entertainment it's important to keep them wanting more, so in this sense the film was a real success--and walk down memory lane.