Horror History May 12
Season 1 Episode 18
Politician Bo Gumbs checks into a hotel to prepare for a speech. After he tells the hotel wait staff that politics is all showmanship, they help him prepare for his best show ever.
Co-Written by Armand Mastoianni and David Gerrold, directed by Mastroianni, starring Dick Shawn.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, May 12, 1985: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “If the Shoes Fit…” premiered”Season 4 Episode 13
A mysterious man hooks up with a husband and wife and he and the wife cook up a scheme to teach her husband a lesson until things backfire.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 12, 1987: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Cabin Fever” premiered”The demonic forces that were lurking in the infamous house in Amityville for over 300 years escape to a remote California mansion by inhabiting a lamp. This evil latches onto a little girl living in the home by taking on the form of her dead father. It’s up to a young priest to perform an exorcism and attempt to lift the curse from the desperate family.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 12, 1989: Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes debuted on TV”A young girl with strange powers causes a deadly accident after two teenagers break her doll. 18 years later, a reclusive, repressed high school teacher can no longer hide the ghosts of her past. When an obnoxious gang of punk students humiliate, sexually assault her and leave her for dead, a twisted, supernatural power stirs within her, driving her insatiable thirst for revenge! Clad in bloody lingerie, the teacher stabs pencils through nubile flesh, hacks off supple limbs with a meat cleaver, plots teenage vivisection and bludgeons youthful beauty into a pulpy mess!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 12, 1989: Hell High was released in theaters”Take a terrifying trip into the world of satanic crimes in this dark, underworld tale of a chronic liar who holds the clues to a murder but can’t get anyone to believe him. Shannon Tweed co-stars.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 12, 1989: Night Visitor was released in theaters”Kayako’s curse from The Grudge and The Grudge 2 continues killing the residents of a Chicago apartment building. News of these deaths reaches Japan, where Kayako’s sister knows the secret that could end the grudge once and for all. Will she be able to stop the raging spirit, or will she become another victim?
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 12, 2009: The Grudge 3 was released direct-to-DVD”
