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The Horror Host is a narrator who presents harrowing tales to his audience. This eerie character first appeared on radio serials, creating continuity between otherwise unrelated stories. Horror Hosts then spread to horror comics, most notably EC Comics titles like Tales from the Crypt. Soon these Hosts appeared in movies, and then television. During the 1950s and 1960s, a horde of Horror Hosts haunted television viewers across North America. There were hundreds of local presenters on low-budget shows based around cheap B-Movies. Sometimes, the host trope was used to tie together otherwise unrelated material into a single episode for broadcast. By the 1980s, the genre had nearly died out completely — possibly due in part to changing audience tastes, but more likely due to general cost-cutting that resulted in the end of most locally-produced non-news programming in favor of syndicated fare. While not as popular as it once was, by the late Aughties and The New '10s Horror Hosts have made a comeback in the form of Video Review Shows, Caustic Critics who talk about their favorite horror movies in honor of the Rod Serlings and Elviras of their childhood. The Horror Host often takes a sadistic glee in the events of the story, and cannot resist making the implication that the reader might meet a similarly dire fate. He may become an Interactive Narrator, but is usually content to stay at home, whether it be a tomb, a featureless void hung with paintings, or a broom closet with a cardboard coffin. The Horror Host may be grotesque in some manner, possibly with a backstory of his or her own, but ultimately most Horror Hosts are presenters, not protagonists. Their personalities are revealed in various skits, often featuring Black Comedy, morbid props, and puns. These asides usually comment on the themes and morals featured in the episode, making this an example of a Framing Device. Instead of a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, the presenter may be The Stoic, and remain aloof. The one thing the presenter (usually) won't be is scared. In a Live Action TV context, the Horror Host is often the mock-sinister antithesis of the Excited Kids' Show Host. More recently, this character has been fictionalized, appearing as a 'type' in films and movies, or being parodied by characters within a show, often as the introduction to a Halloween Episode. Talkative cousin to the Metal Band Mascot. Examples |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenhole has a live-action introduction to each episode which lovingly parodies the low budget Horror Host. | |
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Parodied in Count Duckula, where the unseen narrator who speaks at the beginning and end of each eisode (and also in the build-up to the lyrics in the intro theme music) has the narration style of the classic Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant Horror Host, but his show really isn't that scary at all. His most memorable trait, being unseen, is his catchphrase with which he closes each episode: "Good night out there... whatever you are..." (cue Evil Laugh) | |
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The greater part of one chapter of Sluggy Freelance, in which several characters visit a Town with a Dark Secret for a retreat, is presented as an episode of "Bun-bun's Theatre of Horrors" with Bun-bun Breaking the Fourth Wall to take the narrator gig. | |
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For TGWTG's fifth anniversary special, an anthology of shorts called The Uncanny Valley, the host is The Webmaster, played by none other than Nash Bozard. | |
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The 16th issue of Keith Giffen's run on Doom Patrol began with a horror show spoof presented by a vampire named Count Suckula. | |
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The Simpsons examples: An Elvira parody named Boobarella shows up occasionally. The Treehouse of Horror episodes often have the regulars spoof famous hosts, like Bart as Rod Serling from Night Gallery or Mr. Burns as the Crypt Keeper. "The Springfield Files" is hosted by Leonard Nimoy. He bails halfway through, necessitating he be replaced by the Squeaky Voiced Teen ("Keep watching the skis!") This doubles as a spoof of Nimoy's In Search of... hosting stint in The '70s. An example from the "Treehouse of Horror" comic book - one story has Bart find a "Tales from the Crypt"-esque story entitled "Harvest of Horror", which is hosted by the Old Lamplighter. |
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The Smiling Friends Halloween Episode "A Silly Halloween Special" featured a live-action Framing Device where the episode is presented by a nameless gray-haired man in a suit, who rambles about how the one thing everyone should fear is fear of the unknown and in the closing portion gets in trouble with the police for loitering. | |
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Played with when it comes to Vampire Reviews. Elisa Hansen portrays a vampire obsessed hostess called Maven of the Eventide, who reviews various vampire-related movies, TV shows, novels and comics. | |
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Madame Dragonfly from Black Hammer acts like one, presenting macabre tales to the comic's reader about the myriad horrors lurking in the rooms of her haunted interdimensional cabin. However, she is also one of the main characters in the comic's actual plot: the other heroes interrupt her at one point while she's trying to tell the reader a story, leaving her very annoyed as she goes to see what they want. | |
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Vampirella for the first eight issues of Vampirella, after which she was reinvented as a lead character. | |
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The Mortuary Collection has Montgomery Dark, a creepy and eccentric, but not particularly malevolent mortician played by Clancy Brown. Deconstructed somewhat, since his behavior has made him a social pariah, which he is not particularly happy about. | |
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Drama Heart plays herself up as one of these as part of her career in Manehattan's Lone Guardian, specializing in puppet shows and illusion-based stageplays. As Burning Salamandra, she passes herself off as a well-traveled storyteller and resident of a Creepy Cemetery. She keeps her stories tame for matinees, knowing that foals are likely to be in the audience, and reserves the truly macabre tales for her adults-only evening performances. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall's annual Halloween segment Longbox of the Damned, reviews of horror comics were conducted by the undead Moarte (a Bela Lugosi parody with occasional outbreaks of the original Toblerone), always greeting viewers with "Hello My Children!" For the summer 2016 edition of LOTD, The Twilight Zone: Chain Reaction (which covers exclusively Twilight Zone comics, Moarte has been replaced with, naturally, a Rod Serling Expy known only as "The Host." The next regular edition had Moarte briefly do the Serling voice while covering another Twilight Zone comic. |
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Tales from the Hood and Tales from the Hood 2 have Mr. Simms, an eccentric mortician with a propensity for telling horror stories and acting as unhinged as possible. Justified, as the ending of both films reveal he’s actually Satan; in the former, he is toying with his latest victims, while in the latter, he uses his stories to lead a Corrupt Corporate Executive and his equally corrupt staff to their doom. | |
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Universal Studios has their annual Halloween Horror Nights which frequently features one or more of a cadre of horror host type mascot characters. The first of which was the Crypt Keeper, but others such as the Storyteller a mysterious old women telling macabre tales, the Usher who shows you to your seat in a haunted theatre to take in a horror show, or the Director who creates horror movies with unwilling subjects most resemble arch types of someone who might be hosting a show for a horror hungry audience. These mascots are typically dubbed the "Icons" of the event and have been featured in stage shows and haunted houses over the years. | |
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Justice League Dark vol 2 #7, "Tales from the Otherkind", is an anthology, with Man-Bat telling the reader four stories from his files about members of the team battling the Otherkind, and getting increasingly worried himself and wondering if he should burn the stories instead of reading them since he's not sure he remembers writing them all up. It turns out the Upside-Down Man is writing them when he's asleep because the Otherkind feed on belief and fear. | |
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While Mosley "Mo" Moville was the main character of most episodes of Moville Mysteries, in others he acted as something of a narrator or Greek Chorus, commenting from the sidelines or off-screen as supernatural phenomena bedeviled a resident of Ouigee Falls. | |
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The first season of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction was hosted by James Brolin (whose segments took place in a dark void) while the subsequent three were hosted by Jonathan Frakes (whose segments took place in a mansion). Don LaFontaine also acted as the announcer for the first three seasons, but was replaced by Campbell Lane for Season 4. | |
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The We Bare Bears episode “Charlie’s Halloween Thing” as well as its sequel “Charlie’s Halloween Thing 2” features Charlie the Sasquatch acting as one, telling tales of terror starring the bears and other characters on Halloween night. | |
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Several two-parters of the television adaptations of the Goosebumps (1995) were given intros and outros hosted by the books' writer, R. L. Stine himself, with Cryptkeeper-esque jokes and puns, but mixed with stoic Rod Serling-esque delivery. For unknown reasons these were abandoned after season two. | |
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The Shadow started out as the host of a crime-drama series, but became a character in his own right when audiences found him more interesting than the stories that unfolded. Not strictly a horror host, but his voice was chilling. He could be called the Ur-Example, since he was the very first host character for an ensemble series. | |
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One of the countless Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts that didn't have the fortune of being picked up for a full-fledged series like The Fairly OddParents!, ChalkZone and My Life as a Teenage Robot was "The Forgotten Toybox: Curse of the Werebaby", which had the plot of a selfish and immature man being cursed by an enchanted doll to periodically transform into a giant infant until he learned to act his age, the Framing Device having the story presented to the audience by a living ventriloquist dummy named Mr. Beasley, who would apparently rummage through the titular toybox to show a different toy related to the current episode's story had this become its own show. | |
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The Justice League Action episode "Trick or Threat" is presented in the style of a horror anthology, with Cain, the horror host of House of Mystery, serving as the episode's presenter. | |
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Uncle Deadly of The Muppet Show was planned to get his own anthology series called "Uncle Deadly's House of Badness" where he would have acted as a parody of this trope. | |
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The Criminolgist from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, narrates the movie from his office and is implied to be investigating the events with witness statements and police reports. The original play and the remake have The Usherette, a cinema ice cream sales girl who sings the opening song and its Dark Reprise. |
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Phelous' Blip channel is also home to Halloweenie who is HORRIBL— Halloweenie who is AWF— Halloweenie who is a horror host. | |
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The original play and the remake have The Usherette, a cinema ice cream sales girl who sings the opening song and its Dark Reprise. | |
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Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror was more or less a literary continuation of Freddy's Nightmares. Krueger did a cheesy intro and outro for each book, though he was also somehow involved in the plot of every story, unlike in the TV show, where only a few episodes revolved around him. | |
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Frankelda's Book of Spooks has the title character Frankelda, the energetic ghost of a horror author, and her cautious enchanted book, Herneval, a cursed demon prince. Together they have been trapped in a haunted house by a much more powerful entity and telling stories to the audience allows them to "live again" and slowly gather enough strength to try and break their curse, though the dark entity stirring from its slumber often cuts things short. | |
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The short-lived 1969-1970 magazine Web of Horror (published by Major Publications, best known for Cracked) was hosted by Webster the spider. | |
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Fright Night (1985). Peter Vincent was the host of the Show Within a Show with the same title, which consisted of him introducing horror movies to his TV audience. | |
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From Britain's 2000 AD: Judge Dredd character Judge Edwina Strange in "Judge Edwina's Strange Cases" Henry Dubble in "Tales of the Black Museum" |
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The host of Fascinating Horror is a sedate and respectful example, as he narrates stories of real-life accidents and tragedies. | |
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Gakkou no Kaidan (Anime Video Joukan) has eight hosts to present the segments. They are Hanako of the Toilet, the Ninomiya Kinjiro statue, a jinmenken, the kuchisake-onna, an anatomy model, Beethoven's portrait, an undead rabbit, and a triple-piece totem. | |
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In Mutants & Masterminds setting Emerald City, Madame Macabre was originally a "scream queen" in low budget horror movies, before getting a job as an Elvira-clone on local TV, and then accepting a Deal with the Devil to become an actual Lady of Black Magic, because she was worried about losing her looks. She's still got the personality of a horror host, with both an enthusuasm for the genre and a fondness for macabre jokes, and is actually Affably Evil if she meets a fan. She lives in a dimensionally-enhanced haunted mansion called the House of Fear, a riff on how many horror comics are named after an Eldritch Location where the host is based. | |
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The Quarry: Eliza is an elderly fortune teller who the player convenes with between chapters to receive her occasional commentary on the story's proceedings as well as tips on what choices in the game's Choose Your Own Adventure format might have what outcomes - provided they (independently of the player characters) find her lost tarot cards during gameplay. Eliza also has a role in-universe as she's the ghostly Hag of Hackett's Quarry and is trying to influence the player to make choices that harm the Hackett family. Long ago, they destroyed her traveling sideshow to set her young werewolf son free from his status as an attraction. Multiple members became infected with lycanthropy after he bit one while transformed, resulting in the family turning to hunting him to cure themselves. | |
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The Laughing Salesman is a anthology about Fukuzou Moguro, a Traveling Salesman who grants wishes to his clients. Since he's a Jackass Genie, this rarely works out well. He also gives a opening narration of who he is and a closing narration in which he makes silly jokes about his clients in a very horror host kind of way. | |
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Minor Something*Positive character Gaspar Baugh, Lisa's dad, used to host a show called Midnight Macabre, and he and his daughter still share cheesy monster jokes. | |
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Uncle Creepy in Creepy Magazine. | |
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Every entry in the Goosebumps: SlappyWorld series of books contains an intro, outro, and "intermissions" done by Slappy the Dummy. Before that, the Hall of Horrors series had The Story-Keeper, while the Most Wanted line had R. L. Stine. | |
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In the TV series Freddy's Nightmares Freddy Krueger himself served as host. This includes episodes where he pulled double duty by starring as the Monster of the Week, giving the impression that he's Reminiscing About Your Victims before the viewer. | |
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Theodore Tremaine was a daytime newscaster for a local TV station on weekdays. On Friday evening, however, he took on the persona of Father Fiore, host of the Friday Night Freakwatch! Unfortunately, however, he's no longer in a state to be hosting much of anything. | |
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The Phineas and Ferb episode "Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror" is hosted by Mr. Macabre of the Macabre Book Mobile. | |
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Jay and Silent Bob parody this trope in Clerks: The Lost Scene. | |
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Count Floyd (see Live Action TV, above) also appeared on The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley. | |
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Garfield and Friends had a two-part episode titled "The Horror Hostess", where Jon Arbuckle falls for a woman named Vivacia who hosts horror films on TV. Garfield and Odie arrange a meeting, but end up having to save Jon when it turns out Vivacia has added Jon to her collection of shrunken baseball players so she can use them to entertain her guests of various monsters. | |
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Supreme had an EC Comics pastiche issue, "The Age of Gold", which homaged the GhouLunatics as the MayheManiacs: the Morgue-Minder, the Tomb-Tender, and the Old Hag. Their role was a little different in that, while some of their visions were horror-related, the themes were that of EC's other titles — the allegories of Weird Science, the "social realism" of Crime / Shock SuspenStories, and the lampoons of early MAD — and they appeared at the ASA's New Year's Eve 1949 party to taunt them with the reality that the world they once knew was now effectively over. | |
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Parodied by two skits in A Bit of Fry and Laurie featuring Stephen Fry as Gelliant Gutfright, host of The Seventh Dimension, who is a Horror Host combined with Weird and Loquacious Stephen Fry Character: | |
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James A. Janisse of Dead Meat does this in his Kill Count videos, with an emphasis on the body counts in the horror movies he covers, complete with a "Golden Chainsaw" award for the coolest kill, a "Dull Machete" award for the lamest kill, and snarky commentary throughout. He also goes into depth on the films' productions. | |
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Diablo House has its horror stories presented to the reader by a morbid Surfer Dude named Riley. | |
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Kild TV: The Show Within a Show is Dr. Perseco's Late Night Horror, which Milton hosts under the Dr. Perseco persona. | |
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SCTV's Count Floyd was a Horror Host parody. In-Universe, he was Floyd Robertson, co-anchor of SCTV News, who moonlighted as the host of Monster Chiller Horror Theater. | |
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Dark Nights: Death Metal had an anthology of more Dark Multiverse stories (albeit going their own direction rather than being darker rehashings of established DC storylines) in the tie-in one-shot The Multiverse Who Laughs, which had the Robin King present the stories in a prologue titled "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Multiverse". | |
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Plan 9 from Outer Space has Criswell addressing the audience directly and introducing them to "the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space." | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 provides an unusual take on the trope, as Joel Robinson/Mike Nelson and the bots might be considered unusually genial Horror Hosts, while Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank could be considered more typically sinister Horror Hosts of the Show Within a Show that the Satellite residents are forced to watch. | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "Sleepless in Retroville" features Dr. Dark, a program designed by Jimmy to tell scary stories, represented by a floating holographic face with sharp teeth. | |
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Parodied by The Two Ronnies in "The Bogle of Bog Fell", where Ronnie Barker (as the Laird of Cockahoopie Castle) introduces the eponymous ghost story. | |
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The eponymous stories in Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids are presented as shorts being shown in a theater owned and operated by Uncle Grizzly and his pet spider, Spindleshanks. Uncle Grizzly would be replaced by his half-brother, the Night Night Porter, when the show "moved" from the Squeem Screen to the Hot-Hell Darkness during the short-lived revival and changed the formula a bit so that the naughty children described in the stories were read from entries in the Night Night Porter's book and the Night Night Porter would explain what became of the children after the events of their stories concluded and they found themselves inmates of the hotel. | |
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Darkroom was hosted by the owner of the eponymous darkroom, a mysterious photographer played by James Coburn. The German version of the show replaced the photographer with a shopkeeper played by Carl-Heinz Schroth. | |
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The tenth issue of the 2004 Plastic Man series, where Plas and Agent Morgan take in Edwina after confronting the teenager's vampire stepfather, was presented to the reader by a cloaked figure calling himself the Cartoonist Wrangler. | |
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Every now and then, a somewhat creepy storyteller-narrator character appears on Jack to tell disturbing stories. He often gives his own thoughts while the story is in progress. At the end of the last arc to feature him in that role, he revealed that he was in hell and so is the reader. | |
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Svengoolie (originally Son of Svengoolie) | |
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The 2001 BBC horror-parody series Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible included a parody Horror Host in the titular character, played by co-writer Steve Coogan. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! episode "Dimmsdale Tales" had Timmy Turner take up the role of horror story narrator by telling three scary stories to his dad and the rest of the Squirrely Scouts. | |
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Tales from the Dark Multiverse is an anthology series where every issue consists of a famous DC Comics storyline being retold in ways that involve the events being altered so the characters are subjected to horrific fates and things end in tragedy (the specific storylines covered being Batman: Hushnote with elements taken from Night of the Owls, Knightfall, The Death of Superman, War of the Gods, Crisis on Infinite Earths note though more a darker take on a follow-up to Crisis on Infinite Earths titled Last Days of the Justice Society, The Judas Contract, Infinite Crisis, Blackest Night, Flashpoint and Dark Nights: Metal). The one presenting these tales is Tempus Fuginaut, a cosmic being who scours the Dark Multiverse in vain hopes of finding a universe within where good triumphs. | |
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A 1986 horror film called TerrorVision features an in-universe busty horror host called "Medusa" who perfectly fits the Gorgeous Gorgon trope. | |
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Larry and Maurice from Freaky Stories. The former was a cockroach while the latter was a maggot, and they both lived in a greasy spoon called Ted's Diner. | |
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Two episode of Tiny Toon Adventures featured Buster Bunny in parodies of Tales from the Crypt and Night Gallery, and at least partially owning to the similarity of their names, another had "Elmyra, Mistress Who's a Dork" as a spoof of Elvira.note Who herself is, again, a parody of horror hosts. | |
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Thriller Restaurant has a number of horror hosts. The main one is the Ghastly Garçon, who is responsible for the episode as a whole, while another employee of his arranges the menu each episode. | |
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: The games are hosted by "The Curator," who appears every so often to comment on how each game's story is progressing and occasionally offer cryptic hints to the player. | |
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Judge Dredd character Judge Edwina Strange in "Judge Edwina's Strange Cases" | |
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In Body Bags, John Carpenter plays an oddball character with creepy fixation with the dead called The Coroner. He brings the viewers three tales centered around the cadavers in his care. The ending of the film reveals that he is actually one of the corpses at the morgue who has come to life as a zombie while the real coroners were away. As the real coroners return, the Coroner quickly removes his scrubs and props himself onto a gurney before zipping up his body bag. The real coroners then unzip his bag and start to do an autopsy on him, much to his horror. | |
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Flavor Flav plays this role in Nite Tales: The Movie. He would reprise the role in the Spin-Off series. | |
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Tales from the Cryptkeeper, being an Animated Adaptation of Tales From the Crypt, naturally followed the format of its parent show by having the Cryptkeeper open and close each episode by narrating the story. Interestingly enough, the second season episodes begin with The Crypt-Keeper fighting against The Vault-Keeper and The Old Witch for the rights to host the episode. |
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For the summer 2016 edition of LOTD, The Twilight Zone: Chain Reaction (which covers exclusively Twilight Zone comics, Moarte has been replaced with, naturally, a Rod Serling Expy known only as "The Host." The next regular edition had Moarte briefly do the Serling voice while covering another Twilight Zone comic. | |
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The Munsters features an episode with a fictional Horror Host named Zombo, who, to Eddie's disappointment, isn't a blood-thirsty ghoul outside of his television show. | |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch briefly served as an EC-style Horror Host in the 1972-1974 Archie Comics series Chilling Adventures in Sorcery As Told By Sabrina. It was actually pretty strong stuff for Comics Code-approved material in its day, and especially for Archie Comics — straight-up horror, albeit still drawn in the Archie house style. | |
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Creeepy Castle: The protagonist is guided by The Crypt Creeper. No reason is given why he helps or so much as a hint as to who he is, but he does have some quips ready to lighten the mood. | |
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ContraPoints portrays such a character in her Pronouns video; Lenora Le Vae, who wears an enormous bird-like headdress and speaks with numerous candles in the background, to hype up the Faux Horrific of talking about right wing personality Ben Shapiro. | |
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In the Homestar Runner toon "Doomy Tales of the Macabre," Strong Sad plays this role, suggesting various horrific fates to befall his friends. | |
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Doctor Strange has a brother named Victor who he desperately tried to save from death using every spell at his disposal. This turned him into a vampire, who killed himself to escape his bloodlust, but his soul lingered on in mirrors. There he can watch anything he wants but tends to focus on events involving monsters and other supernatural dangers. From behind the mirror he tells the stories he sees to an audience he isn't sure is there, having gone slightly insane with isolation and a desire for revenge against his brother. | |
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What Remains of Edith Finch: Barbara's story is told via a comic book in the style of the Tales from the Crypt comics, hosted by a pumpkin headed fellow called "Old Jack". | |
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Off Beat Cinema has three laid-back Beatnik horror hosts, who are less sinister and more into "digging it." | |
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The Creeper from Creepshow 2 qualifies, although he barely showed up in the first film. | |
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Trailer Park of Terror has the lovely Norma spin her tales from the titular trailer park. | |
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The stories of Zekkyou Gakkyuu are narrated by Yomi, a teke-teke. | |
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Horror Host | |
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Salem the cat was a horror host during certain Halloween episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. | |
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The Whistler of the same show, known for his eerie whistled theme tune and always having one last twist revealed in The Stinger. | |
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch featured an in-universe horror host named Grandpa Fred (whose look was lifted directly from Grandpa Munster) who hosted Z-grade horror movies at Clamp Cable. When the plot starts to pick up momentum, he teams up with an excitable Japanese(ish) cameraman to report on the activities within the building and keep the outside world informed. At the end of the movie, Clamp, having witnessed his reporting skills during the total chaos of a gremlin infestation, promotes him to an actual news anchor, causing him to instantly start his first news report on what a total makeover for men costs today to get rid of his horror outfit. | |
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Around the holidays the mansion gets a The Nightmare Before Christmas makeover in Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, complete with the Ghost Host speaking in rhymes. | |
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Gravity Falls episode "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" had a Halloween Episode parodying horror anthologies, with Grunkle Stan playing the role of the Horror Host. Of course, this being Stan, the stories he comes up with actually are meant to advertise the various objects in his shop to convince a visitor to buy them- something he's absolutely shameless about. | |
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Captain America, of all people, could be considered one, albeit only on a technicality. The last two issues of his Golden Age title were retitled Captain America's Weird Tales, because horror was selling and superheroes weren't. Cap didn't actually introduce any stories "on panel," though. In issue #74, he appeared in a regular Captain America story (albeit one with horror aspects, as he fought the Red Skull in, literally, Hell.) He didn't appear in #75 at all, except in the title. | |
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