'Svengoolie,' a campy horror-movie anthology show led by a comedian offering corny jokes from an upright coffin, is appointment TV for some cord-cutters.
for the one show he couldn’t stand missing: a weekly horror-movie anthology hosted by a heavily made-up 70-year-old man standing in an upright coffin.“I was hooked,” Mr. Green said of the first time he stumbled upon “Svengoolie” while channel surfing. Now Mr. Green, a 59-year-old product manager from New York, hardly ever misses an episode, even when he’s out of town.
The appeal of “Svengoolie”—a portmanteau of “Svengali” and “ghoul”—isn’t necessarily obvious. Most films featured on the show are grainy, black-and-white oldies, such as 1941’s “The Wolf Man,” 1942’s “The Ghost of Frankenstein” or 1943’s “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.” Many of them can generously be described as B-movies.
“The program could be two hours of nothing but Svengoolie reading a phone book, and I’d still tune in,” said Sarah Rhodes, a 37-year-old who works in broadcast radio in Dallas and discovered the show in 2017 while staying with family. Ms. Rhodes has missed only three episodes since, she said. “These movies are so campy, and he’s got such a great sense of humor,” said Joe Mantegna, an actor whose credits include “The Godfather Part III” and the CBS TV series “Criminal Minds.” Mr. Mantegna said he watches “Svengoolie” most Saturdays for Mr. Koz’s routine. “It just transcends what it is, and becomes hip,” he said.
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