THE BIG BAD B-MOVIE SHOW

ZACHARIAH DURR - "LEOPOLD"
LAURA WIMBELS - "LENORA"

"The Big Bad B-Movie Show" was a 2020 hosted horror movie show with Zachariah Durr as "Leopold" and Laura Wimbels as "Lenora", who spent decades trapped in a film vault, host dusty old b-movies. Vampires, demons, Michael Myers - in horror, many things never die. One Cleveland television station is betting there's something else that is immortal: the appetite for horror hosts. "The Big Bad B-Movie Show" is a locally-produced schlock horror movie series on CW43, the city's CW affiliate. It is hosted by Zachariah Durr and Laura Wimbels, who play "Leopold" and "Lenora", two dapper, wisecracking ghouls trapped in a vault. The two are part of a new generation of horror hosts, those late-night master of ceremonies who supplement terrible movies with wink-wink sketch comedy and goofy gags, delivered in accents that land somewhere between Transylvania and the Catskills. In one of the episodes, the show spoofed horror hosts by introducing horror host "Uncle Kreep". After the showed closed, in 2022 - Laura Wimbels as "Lenora" went on to host "Lenora's Midnight Rental". Portraits of "Leopold" & "Lenora" by Dave Dunlap. The following is a promo for the show: "The Big Bad B-Movie Show" - promo from The Professor's Scary Clips on Vimeo.

LINKS

Internet Movie Data Base "The Big Bad B-Movie Show"	The New York Times "TV's Horror Hosts: 70 Years of Screams and Cheese"	Internet Movie Data Base "Zachariah Durr"
Cleveland 19 News "The Big Bad B-Movie Show"	Cleveland.Com "The Best of Bad Movies"	Internet Movie Data Base "Laura Wimbels"
	Facebook: Dunlap Art "Horror Host Artwork"

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