It's a double serving of treats with double features all month long on Svengoolie's BOO-Nanza!
Hold out your candy bag for two times the treats, including brand-new Saturday night movies and returning fan favorites!
There's a chill in the air and the store shelves are full of candy corn — it must be Halloween! And that can only mean one thing: the return of Svengoolie's BOO-Nanza!
This October, host Svengoolie, aka Rich Koz, will celebrate his 46th year of portraying the iconic horror host. He is joined by his Sven Squad crew which includes Sarah Palmer as the gorgeous ghoul Gwengoolie, Scott Gryder as the devilishly ingratiating IMP (Ignatius Malvolio Prankerstein) and Bill Leff as the 800-year-old vampire Nostalgiaferatoo. Together, they’ll unleash The House of Svengoolie, a dungeon takeover stuffed with surprises, screams and side-splitting fun.
All October long, we're giving you tricks and treats with a full month of Saturday night double features! Keep an eye out for familiar favorites, creepy classics, and some brand-new MeTV premieres!
Take a look at the lineup:
Saturday, October 4:
8P | 7C:Svengoolie: "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" (1966)
A timid typesetter hasn’t a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter – until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
10:30P | 9:30C: House of Svengoolie: "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) MeTV Premiere!
A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.
Saturday, October 11:
8P | 7C:Svengoolie: "Them!" (1954)
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.
10:30P | 9:30C: House of Svengoolie: "Arachnophobia" (1990) MeTV Premiere!
A new species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to a California town in a coffin and starts to breed, leaving a trail of deaths that puzzle and terrify young Dr. Ross Jennings, who is newly arrived in town with his family.
Saturday, October 18:
9A | 8C: House of Svengoolie's Cartoon BOO-Nanza
The Sven Squad host spooky and kooky classic animation Saturday morning cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny and his friends, bringing home more Halloween fun.
8P | 7C: Svengoolie: "Young Frankenstein" (1974) MeTV Premiere!
Mel Brooks directs the sharpest comedy of his stellar career with this greatest of all horror movie send-ups, regarded as one of the best comedy films ever made. An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body with hilarious results.
10:30P | 9:30C: House of Svengoolie: "Frankenstein" (1931)
Dr. Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Sunday, October 19:
6:30P | 5:30C:Collector's Call: "Meet Phil Meenan"
Phil Meenan's monster collection is head-and-shoulders above the rest -- with more than a thousand items celebrating the iconic eight-foot Frankenstein monster. Phil's devotion to the creature covers every inch of wall space in his home, and nearly every inch of his head (with Franken-themed tattoos). Among the items he shares with host Lisa Whelchel are a prop wire from the lab in 1931's Frankenstein, a wildly oversized Mardi Gras mascot head, and a chilling original oil painting of Lon Chaney, Jr. as the monster. To appraise Phil's collection, Lisa has brought along Rudy Munis, whose vintage horror mask collection was the subject of a previous episode; Rudy will also try to tempt Phil to give up some of his Franken-treasures in exchange for some vintage items he's brought with him -- in a nail-biting, monster of a trade scene.
Saturday, October 25:
8P | 7C: Svengoolie: "The Fly" (1958) MeTV Premiere!
A scientist is transformed into a horrifying human/fly hybrid, after a science experiment goes terribly wrong.
10:30P | 9:30C: House of Svengoolie: "Return of The Fly" (1959) MeTV Premiere!
Phillippe Delambre, the now-adult son of The Fly, does some experimentation of his own.
