BY RUDY PANUCCI
With the advent of television in the 1950s, the monster movies that Universal Studios began producing to thrill adults in the 1930s & 1940s found a new life as kids’ entertainment. Television stations, starved for programming, started showing monster movies in after-school time slots, offen with a horror host like Vampira or Zacherle cracking sick jokes and making ghoulish puns about the movies they were showing. These movies connected with a new generation of kids and suddenly Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolfman were hot properties.