When he canceled his cable-TV package, Gerry Green bought an antenna for the one show he couldn’t stand missing: a weekly horror-movie anthology hosted by a heavily made-up 70-year-old man standing in ...

“Svengoolie” is growing. The MeTV horror host, whose first primetime special on the classic TV network aired this weekend, is spearheading a nationwide talent search to find fans to appear in ...

Each month, Svengoolie fans wait eagerly to find out which horror movies he will air on his MeTV series, Svengoolie Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Movie. But have you ever wondered exactly how Svengoolie ...

Meet Svengoolie, the host of Me TV’s eponymous Saturday-night throwback TV show mixing kid-friendly horror/sci-fi movies (just scary enough) with campy shtick. Once upon a time, these types of locally ...

Starting at 7 a.m. ET on Saturday, October 5, Svengoolie will be kicking off his third annual Svengoolie’s Halloween BOO-nanza, a monthlong programming block on MeTV. Each week, Sven and the gang will ...

What better time than Halloween to turn to our city’s own longtime crypt keeper and ambassador of corny yet creepy movies? Svengoolie picked up in 1970 where Chicago’s original horror-movie host Mad ...

CHICAGO — Svengoolie, also known as Rich Koz, also known as the Son of Svengoolie, also known as the top-hatted cadaver with the goatee and the rubber chickens who introduces monster movies on ...

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LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Rich Koz is keeping the grandly eccentric tradition of the horror movie host alive on MeTV’s “Svengoolie” and can count Mark Hamill, Joe Mantegna and, just maybe, Lady Gaga ...

The campaign, dubbed “Spawn of Svengoolie,” was announced on October 1 at the conclusion of “Svengoolie Uncrypted,” a one-hour special that followed the character, played by Rich Koz, as he escaped ...