Who is Your Favorite Horror Movie Host

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It's Friday night. Many years ago for me, I used to watch horror movies on Friday nights and weekends. It started in the middle sixties when, while in grade school, a friend named Ronnie hipped me to a show that came on every Friday night. After coming home from the high school football games, I'd watch Shock Theater with its host Ghoulardi. He showed monster movies. At first, he was scary with special effects. Then I started noticing that he was funny. I first saw the movie King Kong on his show. During the show Ghoulardi would use special effects to make him appear like he was in the movie. I remember the scene where the ship's crew was running through the forest searching for King Kong and Fay Wray. All of a sudden Ghoulardi got on the screen, ran to one end, and said, "She's over here," then ran to the other end and said, "no, she's over here." He was quite a character who blew up things, made fun of a local commentator,and played cool jazz music. He also played the song Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow while showing an old toothless man chewing something. As I got older, I enjoyed many other television hosts. I faintly remember seeing Vampira. I've also seen the Ghoul, Elvira of Movie Macabre, Sir Graves of Sir Graves Ghastly, Superhost of Saturday Mad Theater, Chilly Billy of Chiller Theater, Big Chuck and Hoolihan/Little John, and Commander USA while I lived in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. My most favorite of all was Ghoulardi. Who was your most favorite horror movie host? I'd be interested to see if people of other countries had horror movie hosts on television.