WOLFMAN MAC – This werewolf Movie Host was played by Mac Kelly, who took the obvious Wolfman Jack reference and ran with it! And good for him! Why not? Kelly had grown up watching Michigan Movie Hosts like the Ghoul and Sir Graves Ghastly and others. He and the rest of the creative team launched Wolfman Mac’s Nightmare Sinema on Public Access Cable on July 19th, 2008 with the time-honored Golden Turkey Robot Monster (1953).
Nightmare Sinema became such a hit that Kelly and company got to live the dream – going from Public Access to a spot on “real” television. Their final episode of WMNS aired on March 7th, 2009 with the Spanish zombie movie Horror of the Zombies (1974) from the Blind Dead series. Their show had been seen in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario.
Retitled Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive-In, the show, the happy go lucky lycanthrope and his supporting cast debuted April 25th, 2009 on Detroit’s WMYD as well as MyNetworkTV affiliate stations in Florida. Devil Doll (1964) was the movie presented on that date. Continuing as virtual co-host was Boney Bob (Aaron Helferich) a wisecracking skeleton puppet in the spirit of Shrimpenstein from the 1960s and Joel Hodgson’s puppet-bots from 1988 onward. Continue reading
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