Count Floyd

Lights are dim in a dank cellar as the camera pans to a coffin.  Cue the ominous music & stormy sound effects. Scary? Not scary… and that’s just fine with me.  Count Floyd (played by the late Joe Flaherty) would slowly emerge from the coffin every night SCTV aired Monster Chiller Horror Theater, a low budget horror program that couldn’t afford scary movies.  The funny part happened when the host still had to howl, leer, and project a vampire’s presence every time he was handed movies like Dr. Tongue’s 3D House of Stewardesses, The Odd Couple, and Heidi.  I think I’ll tune in this Halloween for old time’s sake.