I won my first Halloween costume contest when I was in second grade - dressed in fishnets, high heels, and a can-can dress, dressed as Miss Kitty from the Gunsmoke series. Everybody else was wearing those cheap little plastic costumes from Sears. I had the best costume every year, because my mom and my aunt would dress me as whatever popular television character there was. I wore costumes when it wasn’t even Halloween, because I was a total geek. Halloween was the biggest time of the year, and I was a Halloween-dressin’-up fool. In life, there are no coincidences - I grew up with my family running a costume shop. Seven years later they found out they’d paid, like, $25,000 in rental fees.ĭo you really like Halloween that much? Were you into it growing up? Funny story: They forgot to stop renting the couch. Obviously, they didn’t think it would run longer than a week, either, because they rented everything on the set, the candelabra, the sofa, and all of that. But, I figured, I’m making $300 a week, I shouldn’t complain. I went on, thinking, gosh, how will this last longer than a week? Because it’s ridiculous - I’m being this Valley Girl character that I developed in the Groundlings while dressed like a vampire. And I said, ‘Are you kidding me? There’s no way in hell they’re going to let me on TV in that.’ And they did! The general manager’s only comment was, ‘Can you make the slit on the leg a little higher?’ I got a part to host horror films on local TV in L.A., and I was told to come up with a look and a costume. And these are also the good bad movies that are perfect for me, movies like Puppetmasters, and Gingerdead Man.

Finding movies that haven’t been done by me is a miracle. And since then, oh my gosh, I’ve had at least a dozen home-video productions, so, I don’t know, upwards of 500 movies.

Just on Movie Macabre, my original show, I did 272, I believe. So I’m back where people can actually find me, on Hulu, hosting some movies I’ve never hosted before - which is hard to believe, because I thought I hosted every damn movie that ever existed. But good luck finding it-it was one of those, you’re looking up some channel number E-72-G-W at four in the morning. I did do that in 2012, as a syndicated show. And I’m also back doing what I do best, hosting horror movies. I’m out there singing and dancing and telling jokes to about 3,600 people a night. I’m doing a big live extravaganza at Knott’s Berry Farm, the Halloween venue in Southern California. And a lot more things in between! Oh, brother.

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