Fright Night (TV show)

Fright Night was the name of at least two science fiction and horror film programs. One ran from 1970 to 1981, and the other ran from 1973 to 1987. Both programs were broadcast by KHJ-TV Los Angeles, and its sister-station WOR-TV New York City.

Fright Night was a television horror show that presented low-budget horror and science fiction films on KHJ-TV in Los Angeles between 1970 and 1981. The host for the show was Larry Vincent (Sinister Seymour). He was noted for his style of criticizing the films he presented in an offbeat and funny manner, usually appearing in a small window which would pop up in the corner, tossing a quip, then vanishing again.

His show began with a voice-over introduction by a whiny-voiced, never seen assistant, who proclaimed him ". . .the Master of the Macabre, the Eppy-tome of Evil, the most sinister man to crawl across the face of the Earth, SEEEEEEEYmooooourrrr!" He would then come out from behind the "slimiest of walls," and often lambaste the viewing audience for wasting their time watching such "stinkers." His films generally were poorly written films which had been distributed for late-night filler programming, in the days before satellite distribution became cost-effective for non-network stations.

He would frequently try to get a free meal from Pizza Fella which was a take-off on a then-popular franchise known as Pizza Man. He would announce that a character was a "real four-flusher"—followed by the sound of a toilet, flushing four times.

Vincent was briefly replaced by Elvira prototype Moona Lisa (Lisa Clark), "girl guide of the galaxy and heavenly hostess" during 1972-1973. When Vincent died in 1981 he was replaced by Elvira ("Mistress of The Dark"). Upon Elvira's arrival the show was renamed "Movie Macabre".

In the American horror film Fright Night (1985), Roddy McDowall's character, Peter Vincent, is also a horror host for a TV horror show titled "Fright Night". Although the character's name is derived from veteran horror film actors Peter Cushing and Vincent Price, and the character an amalgam of Cushing, Price, and Christopher Lee, the Peter Vincent character is also an homage to Fright Night 's host Larry Vincent.

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