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Originally Posted by Sandy G
...Who was her MOTHER, as I recall. I think her real name was Kyra Schon. The guy who was the "Newscaster" was "Chilly Billy" Cordele, who was host of the "creature feature" movie in Pittsburgh. His daughter, Lori, was in one of the later George Romero "Dead" flicks in the '80s.The story of the "Dead" flick is a fascinating one, to say the least. About everybody who played in the 1st one was part owner, writer, assistant director or something. It was kinda as if about 25 of us got together & decided to make a film from scratch, & talked a bunch of our friends/relatives into helping us.-Sandy G.
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As a kid I was a big fan of Bill Cardille. My mother & I lived in Uniontown Pa. in the late 1960's while dad was overseas. We watched "Chilly Billy" every Saturday night. The show (out of Pittsburgh) was called "Chiller Theatre". He'd run 2 movies and in between commercial breaks he'd comment on the movie. The guy smoked like a fiend. The movies always scared the shit out of me but in later years the same movies would be ridiculled & poked fun at on "Mystery Science Theatre 3000".
It seems John Bloom...aka "Joe Bob Briggs" used the same shtick in his "Monster Vision" show on TNT in the mid-late 1990's.
Russ