Horror has always loved a good host. From the campy brilliance of Svengoolie and Vampira’s sultry spookiness to Elvira’s iconic cleavage-and-quips combo and Joe Bob Briggs’ drive-in wisdom, the genre has a special relationship with charismatic guides who usher us through the darkness. There’s something uniquely fitting about having a ghoulish narrator to introduce terrors—a buffer between reality and the fantastical nightmares we’re about to witness.
