Svengoolie Season 29, Episode 20: The Thing with Two Heads (1972)

The Raven (1963)

The sorcerer Craven learns from fellow magician Dr. Bedlo that his supposedly dead wife is alive and living at the castle of master sorcerer Dr. Scarabus.

150 min

The Invisible Man (1933)

Claude Rains delivers a remarkable performance in his screen debut as a mysterious doctor who discovers a serum that makes him invisible. Covered by bandages and dark glasses, Rains arrives at a small English village and attempts to hide his amazing discovery. But the same drug that renders him invisible slowly drives him to commit acts of unspeakable terror. Based on H.G. Wells' classic novel and directed by the master of macabre James Whale, The Invisible Man not only fueled a host of sequels, but also features some special effects that are still imitated today.

150 min

The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)

When car trouble strands a honeymooning couple in a small Southern European village, an aristocratic family in the area reaches out to help them with sinister consequences.

150 min

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956)

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Scientists track a prehistoric monster in the South American jungle while it tracks them.

150 min

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

116 min

Duel (1971)

When the headlights of a truck become the eyes of a psychopath.

150 min

The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein’s monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira’s Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.

150 min

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.

150 min

Island of Lost Souls (1932)

A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.

150 min

Konga (1961)

Scientist returns from Africa with a growth serum and injects a chimpanzee which grows into a gorilla He then sends it out to kill anyone who interferes with his plans. An overdose causes the gorilla to grow into a 30-foot monster.

150 min

Blood of Dracula (1957)

A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.

150 min

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

When the murder of an archaeologist puts a valuable medallion into their hands, Abbott and Costello waste little time in trying to sell it, only to find themselves pursued by police, a slinky adventuress, an Egyptian high priest, and the mummy himself.

150 min

The Old Dark House (1932)

Svengoolie presents the 1932 classic "The Old Dark House" starring Boris Karloff . Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.

150 min

This Island Earth (1955)

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

150 min

The Mole People (1956)

A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.

150 min

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

In 1999, a race of she-aliens, the Kilaaks, brainwash Earth's monsters into attacking major cities, prompting a team of astronauts to stop the invaders while the monsters battle Ghidorah.

150 min

Blacula (1972)

An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.

150 min

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)

To win a reporting job, a young man must spend the night in a haunted house.

150 min

The Killer Shrews (1959)

A disparate group are trapped on a remote island by a hurricane. On the island, a doctor works to make humans twice as small as we already are. This, apparently, will help prevent over population. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created some giant shrews. As the shrews run out of smaller animals to eat, they move in on the people in the house.

150 min

Man Made Monster (1941)

A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

150 min

Night Monster (1942)

Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

150 min

Curse of the Demon (1957)

Tonight on MeTV, we travel to England with a skeptical psychologist who plans to debunk reports of a Satanic cult using supernatural powers to destroy their enemies- only to find more than he bargained for when he becomes the target of the “Curse of the Demon”!

150 min

Fiend Without a Face (1958)

A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters

150 min

The Car (1977)

A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.

150 min

Ghoulies (1985)

This week on MeTV, we have something ’fraidy from the 80s- in which the descendent of a powerful warlock finds himself getting caught up in dangerous supernatural rituals that end up releasing some major evil- aided by some tiny terrors known as – “Ghoulies”!

150 min

Ghoulies II (1988)

This week on MeTV- hurry, hurry, hurry! Step right up for the big show- with the little monsters! It’s mayhem on the midway- when the diminutive occult creatures who plagued a young couple and their friends last week on our show-become a part of a carnival and cause chaos! Take in the sinister sideshow of a sequel- “Ghoulies II!”

150 min

The Uninvited (1944)

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.

150 min

The Haunted Strangler (1958)

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.

150 min

The Shadow of the Cat (1961)

A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.

150 min

The Black Scorpion (1957)

Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.

150 min

Konga (1961)

Scientist returns from Africa with a growth serum and injects a chimpanzee which grows into a gorilla He then sends it out to kill anyone who interferes with his plans. An overdose causes the gorilla to grow into a 30-foot monster.

150 min

War of the Colossal Beast (1958)

Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.

150 min

Frankenstein (1931)

Dr. Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

150 min

The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

A giant, cannibalistic humanoid's rampage through Tokyo is halted by his more docile twin, but neither their reunion nor their scientist caretakers can prevent their eventual duel.

150 min

Mr. Sardonicus (1961)

A mysterious and cruel Baron, whose face has become frozen in a horrifying grin, demands that a prominent London physician apply experimental treatments on him to restore his face.

150 min

The Return of the Vampire (1943)

When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly reanimates the monster by removing the stake from his heart

150 min

Trilogy of Terror (1975)

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

150 min

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

150 min

The Crawling Eye (1958)

A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.

150 min

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

150 min

Invaders from Mars (1986)

A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.

150 min

The Night Stalker (1972)

An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.

150 min

Godzilla King of the Monsters! (1956)

An American reporter visiting Tokyo becomes a witness to the city's destruction by a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing.

150 min

The Night Strangler (1973)

1973’s “The Night Strangler” finds Kolchak- as well as his beleaguered boss Tony Vincenzo- both run out of Las Vegas after the “Night Stalker” case, and now in Seattle. Tony reluctantly hires Carl to work at his current newspaper, run by a crusty old gentleman (John Carradine!). Tony assigns Kolchak to cover a series of exotic dancer murders-figuring this would be right up his alley ( and a dark alley it is).Each victim has been strangled, with their necks crushed- and a small amount of blood drained form them. It could be the work of a twisted serial killer- but Kolchak begins to think differently when he hears that each victim also had traces of rotting flesh on their necks!

150 min

Trilogy of Terror (1975)

A 1975 American made-for-television horror film. It consists of three distinct segments, each based on unrelated short stories by Richard Matheson featuring Karen Black in each.

150 min

The Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

In rural Arizona, countless killer tarantulas are migrating through a farm town, killing every living thing in their path. The town's veterinarian will do everything in his power to survive the onslaught.

150 min

Munster, Go Home! (1966)

The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.

150 min

Empire of the Ants (1977)

Tonight on METV- Joan Collins has some real estate she wants to sell you-until it’s discovered that it is already in the possession of some oversized pests who have plans for movin’ on up to take over new territory and claim it as the “Empire of the Ants”! This 1977 film is yet another produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon- whose initials- “B-I-G” – are an immediate tip-off to the size of the six-legged menaces in this film. Based very loosely on an H.G. Wells story, we begin with a brief lecture about ants (pay attention- some facts in this tutorial will be important later)- then, we shift to a tableau of illegal activity- with barrels of radioactive waste being dumped into the ocean. One barrel washes up on a beach, and some of its oozing contents become a feast for …you guessed it- ants!

150 min

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

150 min

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

150 min

The Raven (1963)

A magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.

150 min

The Night Walker (1964)

A lawyer advises a blind man's rich widow tormented by nightmares.

150 min

The Black Cat (1941)

Elderly Henrietta Winslow lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death.

150 min

The Undead (1957)

A psychic researcher uses hypnosis to send a young woman back in time, where she's accused of witchcraft due to a real witch's meddling.

150 min