How is this on-topic (besides the fact that most MSTies are generally into this kinda show)? Well, to begin with, the teaser promo mentions MST3K by name, sort of.
But also, alert reader “GornCaptain” has pointed us to this story, which reports that “there will be 26 episodes in all showcasing movies like ‘The Killer Shrews,’ ‘Attack of the Giant Leeches’ and ‘Manos, the Hands of Fate’.”
Three for three.
I haven’t dug around too much yet but if anybody knows of a complete list of the movies she’ll be doing somewhere on the Web, please let us know.
Thanks to Ben Hall in the comments for this list:
Night of the Living Dead, The Terror, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, Giant Gila Monster, Scared to Death, Werewolf of Washington, Eegah!, Untamed Women, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Satanic Rights of Dracula, I Eat Your Skin, Don’t Look in the Basement, Teenagers From Outer Space, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Lady Frankenstein, Manster, Wild Women of Wongo, A Bucket of Blood, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric, Tormented, The Wasp Woman, Beast From the Haunted Cave, The Killer Shrews, Monsters From a Prehistoric Planet, Attack of the Giant Leeches and Manos, The Hands of Fate.
Okay, that makes a total of eight (plus one Film Crew and one Cinematic Titanic title) out of 26. Not quite so tragic.
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I’ve noticed that some Elvira episodes are on Hulu featuring movies that Cinematic Titanic have used.
In other cheesy movie show news, Ed the Sock has been doing a movie riffing show for the past few months, although there have been more reruns than original episodes. A couple MST faves have shown up. Killer Shrews has been on, and the Demi Moore episode of The Master showed up last night.
Of course, this information is probably useless unless CHCH Hamilton (Ontario) is on your TV dial.
What exactly is WPHL 2? That’s the only Philly station I saw.
“The Brain That Wouldn’t Die” is another one.
@ #3, no idea, but my Cleveland affiliate has the same thing: WUAB 2? It’s WUAB 43, found on channel 6 if you have cable, so I don’t know (definitely checking this out though!).
Laura, WPHL is channel 17.
Oh, maybe these channels have two feeds now that they’ve gone digital?
It looks like Elvira’s show is relying entirely, or almost entirely, on films that are in the public domain. That keeps costs down and allows her to sell her own DVDs/streaming video of the films with far less hassle. But there are only so many public-domain horror movies around, so a lot of overlap with the public-domain movies MST3K aired is unavoidable.
@Laura, WPHL 2 is a digital secondary channel of WHPL. (Almost all over-the-air channels have these subchannels since the switch to digital TV.) You have to have a digital TV or converter box to get it.
@Larry, see above. It looks like a good number of Elvira’s affiliates are secondary channels. In my case, the local channel is a low-power channel that has a broadcast radius of just a few miles (but it is has a larger footprint via most of the area’s cable systems).
Ah, I see. Thanks Franklin!
Thank you everyone for clarifying that for me. I can’t afford a digital TV so I guess I can’t watch.
WHPL should be WPHL, obviously. I’m too used to typing HPL, as in H.P. Lovecraft.
For#3. WUAB 43.2 is the This TV channel in Cleveland. But her show was not on at the time they said it was supposed to be. It hasn’t been on yet.
IT “premiered” last night in San Diego.
Unfortunately, I did not read this post so I thought it was just the movie “Night of the Living Dead.”
I thought that local stations were returning to late Saturday night movies (which they sort of are).
I wish Elvira luck.
Looking at the listing for my local stations, apparently Night Of The Living Dead ran today (9/26) and The Terror is scheduled for next week.
Ironically, she’s replacing a ‘failed’ local ‘hosted movie’ (the Very Bad Movie, which dropped off the schedule a couple months ago when the two Very Bad Hosts quit/were fired).
It would have been in the same situation as the VBM, because one of the ‘public access’ cable channels had been running Saturday Fright Special (from New Hampshire, as I recall) opposite it, and SFS had some fun breaks – with old commercials, classic ‘intermission’ segments, etc.
Lastly, YouTube has (had?) several Movie Macabres, including The Doomsday Machine, which CT riffed, in the Shout!Factory YouTube account.
@Laura: what you need isn’t a digital TV, but a digital to analog converter (remember all the ‘coupons’ when The Switch was pending?), which needs an antenna with the D to A converter, about $30.
The antenna depends on your reception whether you need simple ‘rabbit ears’ or an amplified outdoor antenna.
J/P=?
This is awesome! Although my converter box doesn’t get WTAE Pittsburgh so I can’t watch
Well, there’s no way in hell KKTV is airing it today or any day. It just doesn’t fit their programming. Hell, there’s a Bronco game airing at that time!
@14
I didn’t need the converter since we didn’t have rabbit ears. Digital cable is just too expensive right now. So I’m stuck with regular cable.
I hope Elvira will be able to get away from the same old public domain stuff and show some more obscure stuff not many people have seen. The Killer Shrews and Attack of the Giant Leeches are only entertaining the first few thousand times you watch them…
@ #12, Thanks! I did a quick search on both the regular and HD WUABs, and didn’t see the show listed. I’m in Akron, so no idea if I even get This TV. We do have digital cable, so maybe it’s somewhere there in channel-land. I haven’t had much time today, but when I get home later tonight I’ll do a little research. Thanks again!
Really, really want to see her take on Manos.
It’s been almost 25 years since I’ve watched something new with Elvira. Considering how much older she is now, I hope she’s pulled back a little on the cleavage.
What – No Denver? What a rip. Great to see Elvira back on the TV. Good for her! ;-)
It says 1 PM for my town. I guess that must be a misprint. Surely it’s supposed to be 1 AM.
Elvira still looks good! Somebody needs to buy up a lot of the old horror movies and just put them in public domain to keep some fresh material available for the horror hosts. Back in the 20th century you got a lot more variety but now the everybody’s so tight. Nobody should have to watch “The Terror” even once let alone as many times as they show it.
Oh, and give Joe Bob Briggs a show again.
@1 & 8 – Yes, with no local-station syndicated movie packages anymore, Elvira’s been more and more forced to take all her fodder from the PD list…But then, so did CT when they started out (no performance rights), so they went to the same well, with just as good but different results.
And like all the great monster-hosts, she can still do the snarky scene-specific parodies in the commercial-break host segs, even on the turf of CT’s titles–
In one seg-riff for “Doomsday Device”, for ex:
Elvira: “We’re auditioning new announcers for the show–Okay, hon, when the camera’s on, I want you to say ‘When we get back to the show, we’ll have more fun, right after this’:”
[Film clip: “When we get back to…when we get back to…AAAHHH!!”]
Elvira: “…WHY do they keep sending me these unprofessionals? :roll: “
If you have digital cable, a sub-channel such as This TV may be on a channel with the same ending digits; e.g. here in Portland it’s 302, since the parent station is channel 2. Incidentally, for Portland it listed the time “various” and both KPTV (12) and KPDX (49); my searching indicates it’s on 49 (cable 13 for most Portland area residents) at 3am early Sunday morning (or very late Saturday night).
I am really excited about this! First RT, then CT, now Elvira… @23 – yes, Joe Bob should be next. Man, I miss his show. I remember one night, sometime in 1990 when he was still on The Movie Channel, he showed “Robot Monster” followed by “Bride Of The Monster.” And now they’re both on Vol. 19. Funny coincidence… He also “crossed-over” with MST with “ISCWSLABMUZ,” the only film to have an MST treatment and a Joe Bob treatment. Joe Bob does a few other Ray Dennis Steckler movies, for you “Eeegah” completists. I saw one called “Blood Shack,” and wow, it’s almost another “Manos.”
I didn’t catch last night’s ep, I read this post not soon enough, so I looked on tvguide.com to see what was up. Apparently, the movie shown here (Tucson, AZ) was “Macabre,” but this could be a typo based off of the name of the show. This week is The Terror and the week after is Giant Gila Monster. @19 – “Manos” caught my attention in a big way, too.
@14 – I’m going to have to watch her version of Doomsday Machine now, and whatever others that crossed over. And they used to show Saturday Fright Special on our public access channel Saturdays at midnight. But we’ve been having trouble with our public access stations, and whoever was turning SFS in stopped doing so a few months ago. I saw many films and shorts from MST and RiffTrax on that show. Sometimes, they’d do weird edits of shorts, like taking clips from “The Days Of Our Years” and arranging them as in between segment bumpers.
@2 – Does Ed The Sock actually riff on the movies, MST style, or just host? I’m going to have to look on youtube, I’m very curious…
@20 – She hasn’t aged a day!
So, in all, I’m very happy! :smile:
#25 – Yeah, I’m in Portland as well and saw it on 49.1. I’m kind of a night owl so I’m usually just winding down about that time.
She was showing Night of the Living Dead, the film was kinda choppy, don’t know why. Just the film though, everything else is fine.
For a sec I was like, “These have to be repeats from the 80’s!” She looks incredible – deal with the devil, Elvira? ;)
I’m going to have to watch her version of Doomsday Machine now, and whatever others that crossed over.
The fading but still watchable Hulu.com has her last 90’s series, with the three early-Titanic episodes:
Doomsday Machine
Legacy of Blood
Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks
(Also worth noting that if the Simpsons’ “Boobarella” was meant to be a parody of Ms. Peterson…they have never watched the show. :mrgreen: )
#26
It is a combo of the two. There’s silliness in the rec room setting, but there’s also a shadowrama-less riffing of the movie. I’ve seen a KTMA comparison. Probably accurate, as there are quite a few silent spots. Still, it is pretty funny, and usually have at least one laugh I feel dirty about after the episode’s airing. If he feels the joke was too obscure, Ed will even apologize. “Oh, that’s a book. Sorry!)
Sadly, I’ve seen nothing except the non-riffing portions of the show on youtube. Someone over on the forrestcrow forums does have recordings of the show, though.
If you do try to get them, I rather enjoted The Manster, Killer Shrews/The Snake, The Tiger,The Crane (double feature, both edited down) and Jesse James meets Frankenstein’ Daughter/The Master (former is edited, the second showed stuff that wasn’t in the MST version, such as an extended version of the airport fire).
I’m just happy to have a movie riffing show on television.
Wow what a great weekend for TV, I got to watch “Sharktopus” on SyFy…(and I do believe Roger Corman himself made a quick cameo in the flick)…..followed by Elvira with Romero’s zombie classic!!!
I stumbled upon her new show by accident. I live near Rochester, NY and at 2AM on Sunday I was still up. So I was flipping through the channels and when I stopped on one of my stations out of the city I saw Elvira. I was like “Oh, how cool!”
At first I thought it was her old show, but after watching it for a bit I realised it wasn’t. So I checked her website (www.elvira.com) I found out she was back in syndication with all new shows.
Yeah, she showed Night of the Living Dead, I watched some of it but after half an hour I finally got sleep and went to bed.
She still looks good at 59, but I’m sure the wig and makeup help. ;-)
There is no schedule list on her website right now, the section for the show just announces it starts the week of the 26th and has a YouTube video of the show’s intro.
I didn’t know she had shown several of the movies Cinematic Titanic has riffed back in the 80’s such as Doomsday Machine, Legacy of Blood, and Frakenstein’s Castle of Freaks. That’s really cool.
Funny how she’s going to show several MST movies this time around, I may have to set my DVR to see what she says about Manos, Killer Shrews and Giant Gila Monster.
It’s cool to see her back on TV again. And count me among the people who would love to see Joe Bob Briggs back on TV too. I loved watching him on MonsterVision on TNT back in the 90’s.
Speaking of Joe Bob Briggs, he has a DVD version of Jesse James meets Frankenstein’s Daughter (granddaughter actually, but since it’s a William Beaudine movie, why quibble) with his audio commentary about the movie. It is funny on a par with any MST3K episode (IMHO). When he was on TNT I got a couple of movies (It the terror from beyond space comes to mind) he did. If Elvira can come back, then there should ge a market for JBB also. In the LA area, KDOC channel 56 will be showing Elvira. This is one of the lowest budget broadcast (UHF) stations in the L.A. (Orange County to be exact) area–if not THE LOWEST.
Hmmmmm………reading through these comments REALLY makes me think that there is absolutely no reason MST couldn’t make a ‘comeback’ at some point, given the right circumstances.
Also, though I realize both Rifftrax and CT are doing just fine, hearing about (some of) the ‘difficulties’ they are having selling out all their live shows, makes one wonder if the possibility of an MST ‘reboot’ could only one day become a reality if one (or both) of those “franchises” were to fail.
Don’t mind me……….just doing a bit of thinking ‘out loud’ again……… :lol:
If anyone in the Cleveland/Akron area has WUAB 43.2 This TV let me know if you found her show. It was not on at the scheduled times this past weekend.
Also I’m sure Joe Bob would approve of Elvira and her two “enormous talents” comming back to TV.
@ JJK: Nope. Not seeing anything listed, nothing’s even coming up searching for the show itself by name, and I tried a few variations, so…?
Just at FYI that your local cable provider has to also provide all the local HD channels for free in what is called Clear QAM. This means that even if you’re only paying for basic cable, you’re getting all the local HD channels too.
You only need a HDTV that supports QAM, or buy a tuner card for you PC that has QAM, like the Hauppauge 2250.
Just connect the cable wire to your HDTV or Tuner Card and scan for channels.
I know in my area, I get 11 HD channels without paying a dime, or needing an antenna. This includes the HD version of the networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, WB, etc) and their sub-channels. One is called RTV (retro TV) and plays everything from the 50s 60s and 70s of TV. Great stuff. You may also get these strange 100% signal channels that are just black. They’re the on-demand channels for your neighborhood. Watch long enough and someone will order a show, and it will show up on these dead-air channels.
At my sisters home, in another city, she also catches Flix and a couple of other ‘cable’ channels on her QAM, too.
So, give that a try. I think most people are unaware of this.
I’ve checked the WBFF schedule and don’t see the Elvira show listed even though that station appears on the list provided at her show’s website. D’oh!
Oh well, no listings for this in my area (Central NJ). Nothing in the programming guide for Elvira.
I guess my hopes for ANY type of horror shows in my area are dashed again.
@Greg
The only closest station to Jersey is the Philly WPHL 2. But then, there aren’t any horror shows on the Philly stations anyway. At least, not that I’ve ever noticed.
Just at FYI that your local cable provider has to also provide all the local HD channels for free in what is called Clear QAM. This means that even if you’re only paying for basic cable, you’re getting all the local HD channels too.
Unless you have Comcast, and they greedily exile them all away to the upper luxury tier, in the hopes you’ll get the Digital+PPV package for $85/mo.
Which means we get no airing in the mid-MA Springfield area, we’re out of reach of Boston’s Ch.5, and I can only get the CT stations but can’t find WTIC’s digital spinoff. :x
I wonder why a lot of these are exiled to the digital broadcast channels/. Looking at WUAB’s schedule @ the same time they broadcast Elvira on WUAB.2, they’re running reruns of Star Trek TNG.
Maybe a petition is in order?
I saw Movie Macabre when it premiered Saturday night here in LA on channel 29 (KDOC) and it was fun. She still looks amazing – you’d never guess she’s about 60 years old. She recycled a few jokes from her Elvira movie released in the 80’s, and aside from the bumpers she does between commercial breaks she appeared in a little window in the bottom left of the screen occasionally with a little joke here and there (a few fell flat, a few were pretty funny) – all in all it was great fun and it’s pretty awesome to have her back on TV.
Atlanta has had spotty late night horror shows over the past four years. More recently on people TV channel 24 we have had a locally (poorly) produced show that featured a movie split into hour long segments for each week. so you watch one half of a bad movie and wait another week to find out the terrible ending. we also had the rtv late night shows like off beat cinema and now apparently wolfman mac’s. this seems like a more stable…and eye frindly option.
Full season episode list at the end of this article: http://popcultureaddict.com/retro-review-san-diego-comic-con-edition-elvira-hates-twilight-by-janet-l-hetherington/
There used to be a program a few years ago called “Off Beat Cinema” that featured a group of people dressed up as beatniks. They’d pretty much show the same (Public Domain) movies.
Beatniks really aren’t very funny.
Off Beat Cinema was a show based out of Buffalo, NY and shown for a while on RTV. The beatnik hosts would go out and visit local clubs in Buffalo and feature local bands. The problem was they often had to edit the movies to the point where you couldn’t follow what little plot there was.
Another such local movie show is Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive-In Theatre, based out of Detroit. They too, would edit the movies (it was only a 90 minute show).
I wish Elvira and the newcomers plenty of success. However, I simply can not imagine anyone bringing anything new to riffing, or being as good and funny as MST3K. IMHO, even FC/RT/CT couldn’t pull it off.
But we shall see, if I can find the shows, I will give them a try.
JeremR and Dropo221: I remember Off Beat Cinema! I would stumble upon them from time to time when I was in college. I don’t know if they are still on the air, but I did catch their show one time when I had to stay over at my sister’s one night to watch her dogs on a Saturday night. Don’t know if it was a new or old episode.
I was right, Off Beat Cinema is still on the air. Here is their website http://www.offbeatcinema.com/
They must be in reruns cause I watched part of Day of the Triffids that night over a month ago,
and it first aired back in January.
RetroTV plays both Off Beat Cinema and Wolfman Mac. Saturday nights they play the local Son Of Ghoul Show, followed by Wolfman Mac. Sunday nights it’s Off Beat Cinema.