What Horror movie hosts did you grow up with? I had Big Chuck&Hoolihan then with Little John,Super-Host on Saturday afternoons,Ghoulardi started here then The Ghoul
Svenghoulie and Elvira were staples for me! Never really got into Joe Bob Briggs.
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Most of the ones I grew up with were local celebrities
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Spending a lot of time in the burbs (parents divorced when I was 2) I was deeply invested in Svenghoulie. The Berwyn joke killed me every time!
And Elvira is still a huge crush of mine. Gorgeous, hilarious AND creepy?!?!
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These were not a thing in England, the closest we ever got was a sort-of-show called “Dom And Kirk’s Night-O-Plenty” that was unpopular and only 3 people remember.
I knew about Elvira, because she would show up in ads in the American Comics that would sometimes show up in my local newsagent, so seeing her movie was like getting a radio signal from Mars.
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It must be an American thing🤷♀️
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It’s one of those American things that are incomprehensible outside America.
Like Grits, no-one else understands what Grits are, we assume they’re like little bits of meat, so to find out it’s Porridge when you first go to a Diner in the states is upsettingly weird.
“Why do they make a big deal out of porridge in American films!?!” - Most English people upon finding out what Grits actually are.
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I just found out this very second that grits are porridge…
The internet CAN be a force of good, sometimes!
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I love grits😅
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Ahem. You mean “what Grits actually is.”
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While I was familiar with movie hosts, the one that always stood out to me the most and that I actually watched was Joe Bob Briggs. He was awesome back when I was watching him (in the 90s) and is still doing great over on Shudder now.
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I used to read his movie reviews…very funny
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I grew up in the Chicagoland area and was able to see both Jerry in the original incarnation as well as Rich.
My Dad loved old horror and sci-fi. I remember him being excited when they brought the show back.
I for one always enjoyed the shows. As a kid for Jerry and starting as a teen with Rich. I never did have any say on what could be watched and am lucky the old man enjoyed this kind of stuff. 
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Ber-wyn!
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I grew up with Monster Movie Matinee in Syracuse NY, hosted by Dr. E Nick Witty. It aired at 1pm on Saturdays, right after cartoons. It showed The Crawling Eye too often, but it was great nonetheless.
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Growing up in NE North Carolina, I had two. The main one was Dr. Madblood on WAVY TV-10 from Norfolk, VA. He came on at 1AM and showed both classics and dreadful MST3K-quality films. There was always a story line involving regular characters, two (Mike Arlo and Jim Stanley) were local Norfolk radio guys. WAVY-TV 10 also ran, at 6:30pm on Saturdays, “Creature Feature.” They always showed Universal horrors. They were so short they fit into a 90-minute time slot.
The other, who I could pick up when the weather was right, was The Bowman Body on WXEX, Channel 8, from Richmond, VA. He’s been described as the Bob Newhart of Horror Hosts, and I think that’s exactly right. Very dry and entertaining. There are several clips of him on YouTube.
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Rhonda Sheer on USA Up All Night.
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Morgus the Magnificent for me!
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