Tonight on MeTV- we’re bringing back a favorite fright film from William Castle- that opens the door to a house inherited by a family that wastes no time in revealing that, among its features, besides spacious rooms, a live-in housekeeper, and antique furniture- are a creepy cadre of sinister spirits, strange secrets and deadly dangers! Count down the encounters with “13 Ghosts”!
This 1960 films begins with sad times for the Zorba family- dad Cyrus Zorba is financially strapped, resulting in his furniture being repossessed- unfortunately on the birthday of his son Buck. Buck makes a heartfelt birthday wish – which suddenly seems to be coming true! A message is delivered, bringing news that Cyrus’ uncle, who was deeply into the occult, has passed away- leaving his grand old mansion to none other than Cyrus! They’re inheriting a huge house, free and clear of any debt?! It seems like things are looking up- or- are they?
Cyrus and his wife Hilda meet with lawyer Benjamin Rush to get everything settled. Rush gives them an additional item willed to them by the late uncle -a strange-looking pair of glasses with a sort of “steampunk” feel to them. They accept this odd bequest and head to their new home. It is indeed fully furnished- and watched over the uncle’s creepy housekeeper. As they celebrate their good fortune- such as it seems- Medea,their pretty daughter, decides to play with a Ouija board that happens to be laying around. The parlor game with the “spirit board” takes a nasty turn, when it reveals that there are ghosts in the house that dear departed uncle supposedly collected from all over the world! And- these wraiths have a tendency towards being homicidal!
Those weird glasses they’ve inherited help to reveal the ghostly inhabitants of the house. Cyrus stumbles upon his uncle’s hidden room- infested by evil spirits! This encounter prompts him to visit an old friend at the museum Cyrus works at, in hopes that he might provide some answers. Meanwhile, the creepy old housekeeper has some answers as well- as the malevolent manifestations continue, and the legend of a hidden fortune somewhere in the house becomes of the source of more mortal danger!
This film was remade in 2001,in slightly more modern fashion- but the original is a good example of the typical gimmickry with which Castle loved to frame his films. This one bragged of being presented in the process of “Illusion-O” – utilizing Castle’s famed “ghost viewers” – which braver theatre goers could use to see the ghosts on screen- and which protected the more squeamish in the audience to avoid them. We’ll demonstrate how the ghost viewers worked, and introduce you to the cast, which includes familiar faces like Martin Milner, Rosemary DeCamp, and “Wizard of Oz” ‘s Wicked Witch of the West herself, Margaret Hamilton , along with the usual hammy cameos of Castle himself. Get set for our rundown of the list of the thirteen ghosts, as well as a Sven song!
"13 Ghosts" appears right before your eyes tonight on MeTV at 8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central- and, if you're not sure of the channel or time of the broadcast where you are, consult your local listings or www.metv.com . MeTV invites you to jump on Twitter during the show and live Tweet with the many fans using the hashtag #svengoolie - who keep us trending nationally. Our Chicago viewers get an encore of "4 D Man" at 11 am on the U – now at its NEW channel location- over the air ( with an antenna) on 48.1 and 26.2, and on cable and satellite dish at the former location of the UToo.
Appropriately considering tonight’s film, this afternoon in Bridgeview, IL, I’ll be appearing from 3-5 pm at the Unknown World of Paranormal Convention! Next Saturday, we hit the Elk Grove Library Comic Con -very appropriate in view of our “Svengoolie Meets the DC Universe” event! You’ll find information on both under the “appearances” tab here on our site. And my appearances with the DC superheroes begins with DC Comics books released on October 16th!
Be prepared to see the baker’s dozen spirits –without even needing ghost viewers- tonight on MeTV!
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Fangs for the memories
Publicity still from the _A Fool There Was_ (1915) Based on Rudyard Kipling's "The Vampire."
Today was my last day in my previous work department and we had a pizza party, sorry no onions that’ll keep the vampires away haha! Anyway Monday I begin training for my new job but I’ll still have the same hours and weekends off including Svengoolie Saturday
I am attending my God Daughter's wedding tomorrow. She and her soon to be husband will be getting married in Glen Falls. This is the closest ....well, I can't say the name of the hotel but Pat S. should know what I am talking about.
The setting is bucolic!
I'll be keeping irregular hours (just like tomorrow night's title character) so I will not be posting tonight and maybe just early tomorrow am.
Carl N Brown: I am attempting to use the Incognito feature of this set up in the hotel lobby. Hope I don't just become a "cookie" for someone else......
See you guys later!
On my Droid phone, I can't figure out how to make a link clickable in Sven blog.
It shows as clickable in messaging but not in here.
I suspect the TV vampire movie I watched with Mom must have been the 1957 or 1958 Shock Theater showing of DRACULA because I remember mom saying it had originally been a stage play.
Now, others might also feel that vampies attack men and women purely for their blood, or for control or domination. However, writers like Sheridan Le Fanu and Anne Rice (as well as Bram Stoker, possibly) certainly saw sexual preference as a major subtext of the vampire myth.
A better day weather wise today 86* yahoo
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Friday I always think
that It's the start of
sci-fy 😱 weekend.
I do watch sci-fy most days👾📺
Dracula oh yeah a great movie on the show for us ...thanks Sven 🎩
A stay at home day🏡
there is a few things
to get done 🤗
Had my coffee☕ and
I'm awake to start my day could be a fun day
working on a fall🍁🎃🍁 deco!
Make your own fun day
be happy😁and be kind!
See you later🤖have a great day blog friends!
Have a Great Day & Take Care!
You guys do realize when you post a link and it is in black nobody can click on it! So unless someone wants to write it down it's just a big jumble of stuff.
Even on a linkable link, I right-click, hit "Copy link address", and paste it into an incognito browser window.
That's on my laptop. On my phone I don't click links at all.
Ever since I clicked a link that went somewhere unexpected and I was followed for days by weird pop-up ads. Google and Amazon keep a file of your preferences based on links clicked and direct ads your way.
So be careful. Admiral Administrator may know more foul language & obscene gestures than you do.
In the above article, the Anti-Defamation League lists over 300 symbols of hate, from Pepe the Frog to Dylan Roof's haircut.
We on the Blog don't seem to be Haters. But it might not be a bad idea to understand that words & cute pix can have more than one meaning.
- Steph
I could post dozens of songs relating to Peace.
This song was sung on "M*A*S*H" which airs Sunday through Monday , 7-8 Pm Eastern, 6-7 Pm Central on MeTV.
"Grant Us Peace."
Now you know a bit of Latin!
- Steph (-
A clever hacker could embed more than font changes in HTML code, so some commenting systems simply disallow HTML, support a subset only, or substitute different tag delimiter(s) for their own limited tag language. (like the square brackets for IMG files here)
"Twilight Zone,"
"Little Girl Lost,"
attempts to explain the 4th Dimension.
- Steph
Hope you made it through Perry Mason.
I'll try to watch Twilight Zone.
- Steph🔲◻◾◽▪
too Perry Mason we
will see 📺👻
Always a great story 💼
Jesse is hooked 😄
Good night ⛼
See you tomorrow
morning 🥞☕
