Night of the Lepus - Halfway to Halloween is this weekend!

It’s the last week of May Monster Movie Mayhem, and by no means have we saved the best for last.

This week we have the 1972 bunny blowout, Night of The Lepus. Yeah, this week’s monster is a horde of rabbits that are just dynamite. These rabbits will do more than just nibble your bum. They’ve got a vicious streak a mile wide. This one stars Janet Leigh (best known for her role as Marion Crane in Psycho) and DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek).

That’s Saturday night at midnight on Detroit’s My TV 20: Night of The Lepus on Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive-In!

Don’t forget to tune in... for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.

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Don’t forget Saturday night is also the 2nd Annual Halfway to Halloween bash at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac. Performances by Haf/Life and In His Image, DJ Bradd from Necto will be spinning tunes and Wolfman Mac will be hosting the event. There will be costume contests and prizes galore!

Visit their MySpace page or the Crofoot’s web site for more info. $10, 18 and over only.

Lost Continent - Halfway to Halloween

May Monster Movie Mayhem stomps along this week on Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive-In with the 1951 dinosaur flick, Lost Continent.

Actually, this movie spends more time dedicated to the sport of mountain climbing than it does on any dinosaurs. It stars Cesar Romero (best known as The Joker from the 60’s Batman TV series), Hugh Beaumont (Leave it To Beaver) and Acquanetta (AKA The Venezuelan Volcano) in a role she was born to play.

Everything goes bad when an experimental nuclear rocket veers off course and crashes someplace in the South Pacific. Major Joe Nolan gathers a crew to go hunt it down, and crash land on an island with big lizards, some dinosaurs and a smoking hot native girl. Oh yeah, and don’t adjust your sets – it’s supposed to be green.

Yeah, this one’s a stinker, so to ease/add to your suffering, Wolfman Mac, Boney Bob and Professor M Balmer take a ride in a submarine to rescue Morgus Gravesly from the clutches of a monster menace at the bottom of the Detroit River. Wait, what?

It’s more action than should be allowed by law all packed in to 90 minutes! That’s Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive-In, this Saturday night at midnight only on Detroit’s MY TV 20! Bring your own hiking boots and granola!

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And for those of you that love Halloween, but don't like the odd looks you get when you wear your Dracula costume around town in the summer time, Chiller Drive-In has the solution for you!

Come on out to The Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac next Saturday night for their second annual Halfway to Halloween bash!

Special performance by Haf/Life and In His Image, with DJ Bradd from Necto, a costume contest with great prizes. And lots more! All hosted by the one and only Wolfman Mac!

Visit www.thecrofoot.com or their MySpace page for more info! Doors open at 8. 18 and over only! Tickets are $10. Click here to see the commercial...

Gammera The Invincible, Motor City Comic Con, Best Retro TV Program! Oh my!

This week on Wolfman Mac's Chiller Drive-In, we continue with our May Monster Movie Mayhem with 1966's Gammera The Invincible.

A nuclear explosion awakens a fire-breathing monster from hibernation. No, not Godzilla. We're talking about Gammera (with 2 M's)!

Gammera, who's clearly not a morning person, opens a can of whoop-booty on Tokyo. Meanwhile, teenyboppers dance to the Gammera theme song... at least until he crashes the party.

Back at the Drive-In, Wolfman Mac has his hands full with Boney Bob's newest get-rich-quick scheme.

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And don't forget - You can meet Wolfman Mac and many of the other denizens of the Chiller Drive-In all weekend at the Motor City Comic Con at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi!

Click here to visit the site, check out their commercial and see the HUGE guest list!

See you there!

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And extra special thanks to Real Detroit Weekly for voting Chiller Drive-In the Best “Retro” Local TV Program in their latest issue! Here's what they had to say:

Sir Graves is RIP and the Ghoul has his pierogi filled with book signings, public appearances and everything else these days — so to whom can we turn when we want a sweet dose of nostalgia and a tasty bite of cinematic horror on the tube? We can turn to Wolfman Mac and his glorious ensemble of gore on WMYD Channel 20! Chiller Drive-In is the ONLY good reason to eschew the bar scene on Saturday nights, and this wacky nocturnal transmission of camp humor reminds all of us that it’s the gift of personality that makes local broadcasting special.

Thanks to Real Detroit from everyone at Chiller Drive-In!

King Kong Escapes

May Monster Movie Mayhem continues this Saturday night with Chiller Drive-in's presentation of King Kong Escapes!

When a giant robot Kong can't dig up enough radioactive Element X, the evil Dr. Who (No relation to the famous Timelord) decides to kidnap the real thing! However King Kong's current gal pal and her commanding officers have something to say about that.

It's monkey shenanigans and kaiju smackdown - thanks to the folks at Rankin/Bass.

That's this Saturday night at Midnight on Detroit's MY TV 20 - only on Wolfman Mac's Chiller Drive-In!

Meanwhile, Wolfman Mac and Boney Bob have their hands full dealing with additional monkey business - when they're confronted by none other than... King Kong? You'll have to tune in to get the whole story, but you can click here to go see the opening scene from this week's Episode.

Gorgo! Free Comic Book Day! Halfway to Halloween!

May is upon us and Wolfman Mac's Chiller Drive-In is bringing you May Monster Movie Mayhem!

The first monster to bust on to the scene is Gorgo! If you thought the biggest thing to ever come out of Ireland was Riverdance, then you’re in for a surprise. In this 1961 stinkeroo, a giant monster is captured and taken to London to be put on display. But the creature’s mother is not happy about it.

Tune in for Gorgo this Saturday night at midnight for Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive-In, only on Detroit’s My TV 20!

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And don't forget - Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. Meet Son of Froggy and other Chiller Drive-In creatures of the night at Wonderworld Comics in Taylor from 11am - 3pm, and then at Warp 9 Comics in Auburn Hills from 5pm - 7pm!

Wonderworld Comics is at 22347 Ecorse Road in Taylor. Call them at 248-292-8697.

Warp 9 Comics can be found at 2602 Squirrel Road in Auburn Hills. Their number is 248-364-9999.

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Summer's in the air and Halloween is a long way away.

But don't let that stop you from getting out to the Crofoot Ballroom May 30 (yeah, I know it's a month away - so mark your calendar's now) for their 2nd Annual Halfway To Halloween Party.

$10 gets you in the door - Click here to get the poster: Side 1 | Side 2 - Visit the MySpace page.