SALLY THE ZOMBIE CHEERLEADER'S SCHOOL OF HORROR: THE NIGHT STRANGLER

Sally the Zombie Cheerleader's School of Horror presents one of the big, television sequels of the 1970s: The Night Strangler. 

Darren McGavin reprises his Night Stalker role as tenacious reporter Carl Kolchak (with his character now relocated to Seattle, Washington), along with Simon Oakland as his cantankerous boss, Tony Vincenzo. Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman of The Six Million Dollar Man) joins them as the titular fiend, Dr. Richard Malcolm, a subterranean dweller who kills young women for their blood, so he may concoct an elixir to stay nice and spry. (Margaret Hamilton, John Carradine, Al Lewis, Wally Cox, Scott Brady, Jo Ann Pflug and Nina Wayne flesh out the all-star cast.)

Producer/director Dan (Dark Shadows) Curtis and writer Richard (I Am Legend) Matheson were back for this creepy follow-up, which helps instill The Night Stalker's uncanny vibe. (Bob Cobert's score further instills the atmospheric mood.)   

This 1973 entry also holds more humor than its predecessor, but still proved haunting enough to pave the way for the Kolchak: The Night Stalker series. 

The lovely yet ravenous Sally (accompanied by her wisenheimer SkeleKat) is in top form, filling in all the edifying gaps (as well as supplying captioned, trivia inserts throughout the movie), making this a terrific companion piece to her recently hosted Night Stalker installment. Truly, one will come away knowing a generous heap about this sequel, which will come in handy if Sally throws a Fleshie pop quiz.  

Check out Sally the Zombie Cheerleader's School of Horror: The Night Strangler at 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF6SwDneO4s

SCARY MONSTERS #125: MEMORIES FROM THE MAG THAT DRIPPED BLOOD

Scary Monsters #125 holds a Robert Bloch, House that Dripped Blood bent, with Scott Jackson's cover-shot of the Bloch-ian/Amicus anthology's busty Ingrid Pitt to draw us in (accompanied, no less, by an article on Bloch's literary development of Norman Bates). To make Jackson's striking wraparound even more exciting, the rear view is in glorious, blood-tinted 3D, flaunting some fine, related examples, along with a comprehensive essay on the cinematic phenomenon. 

In addition to the aforementioned Bloch and his influential work, this scholarly issue emphasizes authors Ray Bradbury (It Came From Outer Space/Something Wicked This Way Comes), Edgar Rice Burroughs (The Land That Time Forgot/The People That Time Forgot), Robert A. Heinlein (The Puppet Masters/Starship Troopers) and current fantasy trailblazer, Robert Guffey (Bela Lugosi's Dead).

There's also coverage on Richard Matheson's popular Night Stalker sequel, The Night Strangler; The Cat Creature; Island of the Damned; Larry Talbot (and his howling accomplices); '60s Batmania; an Exorcist love letter; the horrifying, real-life H.H. Holmes and (in relation to Bates) Ed Gein; televised monster-movie jubilation; the famous, week-long Realart Film Festivals; and the grand movie palaces that once beamed the best of the best in imagi-entertainment.

Scary Monsters #125 has just the right ingredients to please all horror/science-fiction movie and literary buffs. Get your copy today online or at your favorite book shop.

SO LONG, RICHARD ANDERSON...

You covered an amazing amount of ground during your career, sweeping through the genres like there was no tomorrow. 

In the realm of science fiction and horror, you bolstered the thrills in the creepy "Curse of the Faceless Man" and the classic "Forbidden Planet". And let's not forget television, where you guest starred on such varied shows as "the A-Team"; "The Green Hornet"; "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."; "The Fugitive"; "The Invaders"; "Knight Rider"; "Mission: Impossible"; and above all, as the diabolical Dr. Malcolm Richards in the classic "Kolchak" sequel, "The Night Strangler". Of course, most fans will remember you best as the no-nonsense, but compassionate Oscar Goldman on "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman".

Thanks for all the enjoyment you gave us and be assured, your wonderful body of work will continue to delight far into the decades to come...