Midnight Horror Show (Audiobook-English-Deep-Multi-character)
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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One of the tapes piled on the counter caught my eye. Its cover was a cheap looking photo of a cross eyed platinum blonde staring off into space. Her mouth, an almost perfect o slathered in Creola red slop. The movie's two word title written with dripping letters. I picked it up Blood Feast. I read, I think I may have actually seen this one. Oh, it's a classic said James H G Lewis's stuff was ahead of its time. Looks kind of corny compared to stuff like day of the dead or whatever, but nobody else was doing anything close back then. I just remembered a pretty blonde getting our heart cut out by a mad man in a black suit. I said the vague memory nagged at me and then he ate it. I think she was a redhead said James in a matter of fact tone and the killer in that scene was dressed up like an ancient Egyptian or was supposed to be anyway, looked kind of like a toga party. He wears a black suit later on though. Maybe I'm thinking of something else. I said we can put it in and check it out. If you want offered James eagerly. Uh, and that's fine. I said setting the tape back down on the counter, face down so I didn't have to look at the cover. So I take it you're a fan of that kind of stuff. Yeah, he replied, cool and reserved now trying to impress me. I mean, I'm into all kinds of movies, foreign stuff. I go to the be up in Iowa City sometimes, but I've always loved monsters. Most people think it's all junk, but a lot of them are, are really good and like important. You know how so like they get right to it. You know what? You're afraid of ****, you can't talk about whatever it is. They put it right up there like nightmares that you're awake for. He paused to make a note on his clipboard. I went up to Blackburn last spring because I heard they were gonna show last house on the left on a big screen in an auditorium. They had this professor talk before the show and that's what he said. Like we need to see that stuff called it catharsis. He looked around the room and sighed when Russ first opened this place, he just wanted to rent out adult films. He chuckled, making exaggerated quotation marks with his fingers. I don't know what's so adult about them. It's not like you're watching people do their tax returns or something anyway, I convinced him to try some other stuff. And it was a hit. Now he lets me do the ordering. He was getting comfortable with me. I had no idea where I was headed with any of this. But my instincts told me there was something about this kid. I figured if I kept them talking I might find out what, so the horror ones are pretty popular. Oh, yeah. He said people act like they don't like it, like they make fun of the titles and stuff, but they still rent them and rent the more gorier the better. He smiled. How about this? I handed him the flyer. Yeah, I may know a thing or two about that. He smiled tapping the corner of the page decorated with crumbling tombstones. Johnny a yard, a nightmare with heck appeal. I read when I looked up, he was grinning ear to ear. That's u awesome. Right. This summer this guy comes in and we started talking about movies and stuff and he says he owns the old moonlight drive-in, like he inherited it and I freak out obviously. Why, what do you mean? Boris Arlo, man, that's where he died, right? You mean the TV guy you were talking about or the other day? Seriously? You haven't heard any of this? I shook my head, which isn't technically the same as lying. Well, so he was on TV in the fifties and sixties and he hosted old horror movies, right? Like, you know who Elvera is, right? I don't really watch or whatever. It's like he wore spooky costumes and, like, cut in around the commercials or whatever to tell jokes and do creepy stuff. Make fun of the movie or talk about trivia or something. It's awesome. There's only like, 13 shows that still exist, but I've got them all on tape guy up at the station. Let me make copies. I nodded. And it was a pretty big deal too. Like all the kids and teenagers or whatever, watched it every week and were way into it. So he started doing these live shows at the moonlight where they'd play a horror movie and then he'd get up on stage and, like, do the same thing as on TV. But like way better. Like I heard he had go, go dancers and rock bands and stuff.