31 Days of Horror EXTRA 01

Anyone who reads this blog knows I love horror hosts. And the best of the modern horror hosts is Joe Bob Briggs.

When cable finally made its way out to the rural hellhole I grew up in I paid 10 bucks a month for The Movie Channel,just so I could watch Joe Bob's weekly show.  Sure Monstervision is better known. But on Monstervision the films were edited for TV and packed full of commercials . His TMC show was uncut and sooo good. On a old VHS I still have all 5 nights of Joe Bob's Emanuelle week. Every night at 10pm he showed one of the many Emanuelle films.

A bit over a year ago word got out that Shudder,a AMC owned horror streaming service, was bringing Joe Bob back.  In what was suppose to be a 1 time thing. Joe Bob showed 4 films and the audience was so large it crashed Shudders servers. Last year around Xmas Shudder had another Joe Bob marathon.  This time he showed Phantasm 1,3,4 and 5. This did even better than the first marathon. So Shudder started up a weekly Joe Bob show.

Known as The Last Drive In. Every Friday at 8pm central Joe Bob does a double feature. Before the film Joe gives us some history of the film he is about to show.  And like the TMC  show the films are uncut without commercials. Usually 4 or 5 times during the film it cuts back to Joe Bob. Where he gives us more info on the film . And sometimes he will interview someone from the film.

The picture at the top is from when Joe Bob was showing the 80s slasher cult classic Sleepaway Camp. He has Felissa Rose,who played Angela in the film,on and interviews her.

Now I have seen Sleepaway Camp many times. And the print used in this airing isn't the slightly cut print that Anchor Bay used. And it isn't that weird hybrid cut print that IFC aired often in 2008 through 2013,you remember back when IFC was a good channel and wasn't just another channel showing Fucking Law and Order 23 hours a day. Nope Joe Bob showed a fully uncut print of Sleepaway Camp. During part of the interview with Me Rose the both let it slip that New Line Cinema is working on a new Sleepaway Camp Film. Hope it actually comes out.

Since mid April if I am home on Friday night I watch an episode of The Last Drive In.

31 Days of Horror Day 4 You're So Cool Brewster the story of Fright Night

TITLE-You're So Cool Brewster the story of Fright Night
SOURCE-Shudder Streaming Service

I heard about this documentary a few years ago. Wanted to see it,but never saw it for sale anywhere. Got Shudder earlier this year and saw the documentary was on there. I have watched it 3 times now.

Fright Night was a Mid 80s vampire movie.  William Ragsdale is a horror obsessed teen. And suspects his new neighbor is a vampire.

This documentary manages to get pretty much every person who is still alive and had a major part in the film. And there is a lot of info I had never heard before.

The documentary only really covers the original film. I would have liked more info on the sequel. And am still trying to forget that the horrid remake exists.

I do wish they had done a bit more on the Fright Night comic.  A few years back I got a complete run of it. And was surprised at how good it is.

If you have Shudder or any other way of watching this documentary do it. It is a bit over 2 hours long. But flies by. You're So Cool Brewster gets a B.