NEWS ARCHIVE...
Zacherley on the Loose
In case you hadn't noticed we dropped the ball here for a while. We left Igor and Gasport to run the show and they messed up. Gasport has been sacked, again, and so has Igor so we can bring you up to date on Zacherley news.
And while you are at the newsstand grab a copy of Horror Hound magazine and read the two page article on the Cool Ghoul there. But don't leave just yet! Grab the latest issue of Scary Monsters, Zach's favorite monster magazine. Each issue carries the latest Zacherley news, even before we get it! In fact, after Zach talks to Scary Monsters he sometimes forgets to call and tell us what is new!!
Zach also wanted to let you know, "I'm sorry no one could hear me when I sang on stage Saturday night. They always play the music way too loudly."
In this case Zach wasn't too upset by the loud music. You see, Zach does not know the words to Monster Mash so he always carries the lyrics with him. Well, as he got on stage to sing a Chiller security guard took the lyric sheet from him so that he could sing back up with Zach.
"I just let him go and tried to wing it the best I could."
Many people told Zach he had the body of a fifty year old and the ghoul just grinned. "I was trying for forty but I couldn't find anyone that age in my size. Hah-hah ha."
Stay with us for what we hope will be more frequent posts and pictures of the Cool Ghoul, and join us all at Chiller Theatre in Parsippany New Jersey this Halloween weekend!
Zacherley AT His Finest Hour
October 2010 Chiller Theatre Expo marked its twentieth anniversary. On hand was the Cool Ghoul to thank founder Kevin Clement for a job well done!
And thousands of fans flocked to the show to tell the Cool Ghoul, "Well done!" That's how they wanted their brains cooked (check out
the photo section)
Zach was full of surprises. He hooked up with long time romantic rival Stella from the Philadelphia area. Stella hosted Saturday Night Dead in the 1980s and she had Zacherley as a guest host on her show. Her table was set up next to Zach's so fans had plenty of chances to see the two of them in action!
Zach's favorite musician, Mike Gilks, received an awesome present from the Cool Ghoul. It was a fabric (not real) stuffed bat that hung in the background on the set of Zach's Shock Theatre shows. This rare prop is certainly one of a kind and a treasure any Zacherley fan would want.
The biggest surprise for all was when Zacherley got to meet his younger self! Chiller staffer Tony Stanziola had himself made up as the Cool Ghoul and took his seat when Zach was out making his rounds among the other guests. He came back to find himself seeing himself from a younger time. Artist Ric Frane was on hand as Igor to help liven up the already animated crowd.
After seeing the way Zach carried on for those three days, it's very hard for anyone to believe he's a young 92!
Congratulations, Zach, on helping to make a twentieth anniversary show even more spectacular!!
Zacherley Aurora Monster DVD Available
    "It's been a long time since I felt that good in front of a camera," said Zacherley about his role hosting the new DVD by Cortlandt Hull and the Witch's Dungeon entitled AURORA MONSTER MODELS. "Bill Diamond and Cortlandt Hull created an environment for me that I hadn't seen in years. They gave me as much if not more freedom to act than I had with the Horrible Horror experience." The long awaited DVD has finally been made available for general purchase. It can be obtained from Amazon.com or through the Witch's Dungeon website. "We barely got it done in time for Wonderfest," says Cortlandt Hull, the man behind the DVD. "We were only able to make a limited number of copies and they sold out quickly. We then tried to have a larger order of them for Monster Bash but they sold out there as well. We finally have enough printed that everyone can enjoy the DVD." The DVD is a capsule in time. It captures the experience of the first monster boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The focus, however, is on the Universal Monster models created by Aurora Plastics Company. Zacherley hosts the DVD adding his wisdom and some creative experiments into the mix. The DVD is over an hour and a half in length with some extras. Zacherley remembers Mike Thomas One of Zacherley's long time friends, Mike Thomas, passed away this week. Mike was a regular at the Disc-O-Teen dance show that Zacherley hosted back in the mid-1960s. They have been friends ever since. Mike was a talented actor and a professional makeup man. He did on target impersonations of Bela Lugosi as Dracula and as Ygor. In recent years Mike has appeared on stage with Zacherley while dressed as Dracula to perform Joe Girardi's hit BELA LUGOSI. Mike was a regular fixture at the Chiller Theatre and Monster Bash monster shows. At Chiller he dressed as Dracula, and at Monster Bash he was most often seen as Ygor. Mike produced and started in a pilot called DEAR YGOR which featured the maligned monster as a horror host of sorts. While the pilot failed to produce a series it was seen by hundreds of monster fans who then became endeared to Michael's talents. "He was a very dear friend," said Zacherley. "I knew he had health problems and I always worried about him. His spirit and sense of humor were strong. He was a wonderful friend. I will miss him." ZACHERLEY ON YOU TUBE! Cortlandt & Dennis put up on "You Tube" two of their Zach clips. View in "HighQuality".
"Zacherley's Halloween Poem" ROCK with the Cool Ghoul! A movie clip of Zacherley singing 'Monster Mash' at April's 2005 CHILLER!
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