The third annual smorgasbord of scariness, “Svengoolie’s BOO-nanza” This Halloween month brings you old favorites and several premieres to keep it creepy every Saturday night. We start out with one of our most requested films.

OCT 4

DOUBLE FEATURE!

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken [1966] The Don Knotts classic!

• 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.

House of Svengoolie: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? [1962] Bette Davis and Joan Crawford!

• 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.

*****                     *****                     *****

OCT 11

DOUBLE FEATURE!

Them! [1954] James Arness faces giant ants!

• The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.

House of Svengoolie: Arachnophobia [1990] Jeff Daniels faces spiders!

• 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.

*****                     *****                     *****

OCT 18

DOUBLE FEATURE!

Young Frankenstein [1974] The Mel Brooks horror classic!

• 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.

House of Svengoolie: Frankenstein [1931] The original Karloff classic!

• Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

*****                     *****                     *****

OCT 25

DOUBLE FEATURE!

The Fly [1958] David Hedison bugs Vincent Price!

• A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

House of Svengoolie: Return of the Fly [1959] …and you thought you swatted him!

• Philippe Delambre, the now-adult son of “The Fly”, does some transportation experimentation of his own.

*****                     *****                     *****

Also appearing this month — the Sven Squad hosts a special “Cartoon BOO-nanza” on Saturday morning of the 18th, with spooky animated favorites — and, the next day, Lisa Whelchel gets into the Halloween spirit with a collector of amazing monster memorabilia on Collector’s Call on Sunday, October 19th.