Post by OberonPost by MarcovaldoI sometimes watch this Saturday night show. It has some announcers
like WolfMan Mac and his pack. Some of the movies I really enjoy,
such as the one about the Romanian witch a few weeks ago. Does anyone
else watch this series?
I checked out the website. It looks pretty interesting, but it's not
playing on any local station in my area. I like to watch Elvira and
used to enjoy MST3K, and this appears to be a similar concept, so I
might check it out if the opportunity arises.
It was on in the Detroit area - in fact I believe I heard that it
originates from here, but not really sure. It was on for a couple of
years, but seems to have lost its station (the station changed formats
and programming)
For what its worth, I didn't think it was very clever, original or
good. The friends of Mac (the pack) seemed like his entourage of
friends who he "gave" the gig to. Therefore, probably too much
production overhead, and thus the reason why it got cancelled.
I really didn't think very much of it, but the cheesy old time movies
were pretty cool.
Oberon
Wolfman Mac's Chiller Drive-In and Elvira's new Movie Macabre are on
RTV and THIS-TV, respectively, which are both little networks that
typically run on the "sideband" frequencies available to local network
affiliates since the digital changeover.
I like Chiller. It's cheezy and amateurish, for sure, but no more
than the public domain flicks that are the only things they can
generally afford to run these days (same for Elvira, btw, now that the
rights to most film libraries are tied up by a few media megacorpos).
The crew are obviously just a sincere bunch of horrorhosting fans on a
shoestring budget, but as such they're still true to the vibe. And
how many horror hosts are there still around actually working the
airwaves (rather than online)?
dw