{"id":4779,"date":"2010-09-08T01:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2010-09-08T05:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T09:34:12","slug":"4779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4779","title":{"rendered":"Boris Karloff’s Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve read the ZONE<\/strong> for any length of time, then you know about my love of monster movies<\/strong>, drive-in theaters<\/strong><\/a>, horror movie hosts<\/strong> like Sammy Terry<\/strong><\/a>, as well as scary<\/strong> [well at least they were when I was a kid] tv shows<\/strong> like The Twilight Zone<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, The Night Gallery<\/em>, The Outer Limits<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, and The Invaders<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

One show that fits into the horror genre<\/strong> but you’ve never heard me talk is Thriller<\/strong><\/em>. Hosted by the legendary, Boris Karloff<\/strong>, Thriller<\/strong><\/em> ran for 67 episodes<\/strong> from 1960<\/strong> to 1962<\/strong>. From all accounts Thriller<\/strong><\/em> featured episodes that had some of the best scares<\/strong> and creepy stories<\/strong> that could be found anywhere. Stephen King<\/strong> called it,<\/p>\n

“Probably the best horror series ever put on TV.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet, for some reason it never showed up in reruns and only appeared with sporadic episodes on VHS<\/strong> and laser disc<\/strong>. That’s changed now that Thriller -The Complete Series<\/strong><\/a> is available on DVD<\/strong> with tons of extras.<\/p>\n

If you’re like me, you’re hesitant to plunk down your hard-earned bucks without knowing more. Well, we’re in luck because at A Thriller a Day<\/strong><\/a>, one episode of the series is reviewed, you guessed it, each day. Even if I end up not purchasing the series, I’m going to enjoy reading about it. The two guys running the site have a good banter<\/strong> going, they’re refreshingly honest<\/strong> {they’ll call a clunker story, just that] and yet they also have an obvious love for the genre<\/strong>. If I was to make any suggestions to them it would be to change their rating system<\/strong>. Now they rate each episode from one to four Karloffs<\/strong> like this…<\/p>\n

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Perhaps it would be more horrific<\/strong> if they rated the episodes like this…<\/p>\n

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If you’ve read the ZONE for any length of time, then you know about my love of monster movies, drive-in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}