The WORST episodes of Svengoolie
Every episode of Svengoolie ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Svengoolie!
Svengoolie has been the premier horror show icon of Chicago since the late 1970's. He has appeared on a national basis on MeTV since April 2011. Generations of viewers have become fans of the awful jokes and monstrous movies that this video vampire presents every Saturday night.
#1 - Dracula's Daughter
Season 26 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/18/2020
Although Count Dracula was destroyed by Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), who is now being tried for his murder, Dracula's daughter, the Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), is still alive -- and her father's death has brought her no closer to eradicating her vampiric thirst for blood. When attempts to free herself of the disease fail, she turns to psychiatrist Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger) for assistance, but soon finds herself struggling with the desire to make him one of the undead as well.
#2 - Earth vs the Spider
Season 27 - Episode 52 - Aired 12/25/2021
In this giant-creature feature, a man drives into town to buy a birthday present for his teenage daughter, Carol (June Kenney), and meets a horrific catastrophe. The next day, Carol enlists the help of her boyfriend, Mike (Gene Persson), to track down her dad. The kids trace his path to an eerie cave containing a super-sized spider and barely escape with their lives. Naturally, the sheriff (Gene Roth) doubts their story until it's too late, and the tarantula has taken over the town.
#3 - Creature from the Black Lagoon
Season 27 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/2021
Remnants of a mysterious animal have come to light in a remote jungle, and a group of scientists intends to determine if the find is an anomaly or evidence of an undiscovered beast.
#4 - The Curse of the Werewolf
Season 26 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/13/2020
A man with brutal and macabre origins, Leon Corledo (Oliver Reed) was raised in the home of Don Alfredo Corledo (Clifford Evans), his kind and loving adopted father. When he leaves Don Alfredo to find work, Leon discovers that he has increasingly violent urges. Although these tendencies are calmed by Leon's love for the beautiful Christina (Catherine Feller), he ultimately cannot contain his curse and transforms into a werewolf, terrorizing the Spanish countryside.
#5 - Bride of Frankenstein
Season 26 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/6/2020
After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) falls under the control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), who insists the now-chastened doctor resume his experiments in creating new life.
#6 - Gargoyles
Season 26 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/23/2020
An anthropologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern US, stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
#7 - The Deadly Mantis
Season 26 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/16/2020
When a melting iceberg releases a prehistoric giant praying mantis, a paleontologist works with the military to kill it after it attacks scientific outposts on its way to Washington and New York.
#8 - Munster, Go Home!
Season 26 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/9/2020
Herman, Lily, Grandpa, and their ghoulish clan relocate overseas when Herman inherits his uncle's English estate. However, they discover a group of criminals is occupying their new home.
#9 - Frankenstein
Season 26 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/2/2020
This iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein as he attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it escapes into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc. Frankenstein searches for the elusive being and eventually must confront his tormented creation.
#10 - The Undead
Season 27 - Episode 51 - Aired 12/18/2021
"The Undead" is a 1957 fantasy horror film directed by Roger Corman. The plot revolves around a psychic researcher, Quintus, who uses hypnosis to send a woman named Diana back in time to her past life, Helene, in the Middle Ages.
#11 - Village of the Damned
Season 26 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/28/2020
One day the peaceful village of Midwich is cast into a mysterious sleep for several hours, but with no obvious consequences, until soon all the women of child-bearing age turn out to be pregnant. Their children are all born at the same time, and grow quickly into very spooky young people, with strange white-blonde hair and eerie eyes.
#12 - 4D Man
Season 26 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/2020
A scientist discovers a formula enabling him to pass through solid matter but he loses his life-force and rapidly ages which forces him to kill humans in order to reverse the aging process by absorbing his victims' energies.
#13 - Cry of the Werewolf
Season 26 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/2020
A New Orleans Gypsy queen (Nina Foch) tries to kill a couple (Stephen Crane, Osa Massen) who know she is a werewolf.
#15 - The Mole People
Season 26 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2020
Scientists (John Agar, Hugh Beaumont) find a lost underground city of pale people and mutant slaves.
#16 - The Ghost and Mr Chicken
Season 26 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/2020
Looking to score a break as a newspaper reporter and impress beautiful Alma Parker (Joan Staley), milquetoast typesetter Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) pitches a story about his small town's haunted house. When his editor (Dick Sargent) insists Luther spend a night alone in the spooky mansion, where a grisly murder-suicide had taken place decades earlier, the timid reporter learns that the house contains a supernatural resident who doesn't like visitors.
#17 - Revenge of the Creature
Season 26 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2020
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster, half-man, half-fish, is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
#18 - Dracula
Season 18 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/14/2012
British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.
#19 - The Ghost and Mr Chicken
Season 18 - Episode 29 - Aired 7/21/2012
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
#20 - The Mummy's Ghost
Season 18 - Episode 27 - Aired 7/7/2012
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
#21 - The Mummy's Tomb
Season 18 - Episode 26 - Aired 6/30/2012
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
#22 - Son of Dracula
Season 18 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/23/2012
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
#23 - The Mummy's Hand
Season 18 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/16/2012
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
#24 - I Saw What You Did
Season 18 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/9/2012
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.
#25 - Creature from the Black Lagoon
Season 18 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/5/2012
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.