Dr Madblood - SF/Horror fun

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One of my first great influences in my never ending love for bad SF movies was Dr Madblood.

Dr Madblood was a schlock movie host that started up in the mid-1970s down in the Norfolk, Virginia area when I was a kid. The show ran on Saturday nights at 1 AM and I fondly remember staying up late (when my family thought I was asleep) and watching it.

Here's 30 years of the show in 30 seconds:

But the show wasn't just great for the corny jokes, sketches mocking the movies and the wonderfully terrible movies.

It was also great for how it appreciated the SF community and talked about it. Heck look at this great visit to The Ackermansion, Forest Ackerman's great home museum of SF (he will be sorely missed):

Man I want so much of that stuff.

Here's Doctor Madblood more recently at a Monsterfest (convention that started down there long after I left the area) Panel:

Here's the official web site - Doctor Madblood's Web Site and if you check out youtube they've put up a ton of old clips and outtakes.

So why am I writing about it now?

Because I noticed recently on their website that they have a documentary history of the show for sale on DVD which I ordered (heck all proceeds go to the Animal Rescue League so I also ordered me a t-shirt!), received yesterday and watched the whole thing last night.

Silly, stupid, corny, cringe-worthy and awesomely amazing!

Fond memories of mine to say the least.