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...of a long departed form of American entertainment, the Saturday late-night horror host.

Most of the younglings in the crowd might only have memories of Elvira, but back in the days before the 200-channel cable lineups, nearly every large city had their own host of the late-late show of the cheesiest grade Z horror and sci-fi movies. Movies like Robot Monster and The Creeping Terror. They had them long before MST3K or RiffTrax got their hand on them.

Pittsburgh's Bill Cardille is legendary as Chilly Billy, host of WIIC/WPXI's Chiller Theater. Here he is with Barbara Feldon (rawr)

I really was expecting someone to pick Elvira as their avatar for this avatar week, but no one did.

If anything says "campy/comedy horror", Elvira does.



-Adam