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Dr. Gangrene | |
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Born | Larry W. Underwood September 9, 1966 |
Career | |
Show | Dr. Gangrene's Cinetarium |
Station(s) | Nashville Music City Arts CH9 |
Time slot | Saturday @ 9pm central |
Country | United States |
Previous show(s) | Dr. Gangrene's Creature Feature, Dr. Gangrene Presents, Chiller Cinema - est. July 1, 1999 |
Website | www |
Dr. Gangrene is a television horror host based in the Middle Tennessee area, played by actor/writer/producer Larry Underwood.
Underwood was inspired to create the character as an homage to Sir Cecil Creape, a former Nashville horror host. Created in 1999, the show was originally a half hour Public-access television cable TV program called Chiller Cinema in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
The first episode aired July 1, 1999 on the Hendersonville, TN Public-access television station. The show quickly expanded into Nashville, TN where it aired on Community Access Channel 19. Chiller Cinema was the first program to broadcast live out of the new Public, Educational, and Government Access television building where CH 19 broadcast from. Chiller Cinema was soon seen on other Public-access television stations across the country, making Underwood one of the first horror hosts to self-syndicate his program. The show won much praise and accolades and was named one of the country's top 20 cable access TV programs by Gear Magazine.
The show moved to Nashville's WB affiliate WNAB in 2005, and was renamed The WB58 Creature Feature, expanding to a two-hour format showing horror and Sci-Fi movies. Underwood later changed the name slightly to The CW58 Creature Feature to match WNAB's switchover from The WB to The CW in September 2006.
Below is a partial list of films hosted by Dr. Gangrene while on the air on WNAB, Nashville's CW58. First airing only listed:
Film | Date |
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Bruiser | October 22, 2005 |
Dreamscape | October 29, 2005 |
Sometimes They Come Back... for More | November 5, 2005 |
Piranha | November 12, 2005 |
Specimen | November 19, 2005 |
Total Recall(1990 film) | November 26, 2005 |
DNA | December 3, 2005 |
The Devil Bat | December 10, 2005 |
Beyond Tomorrow | December 24, 2005 |
Nosferatu | December 31, 2005 |
The Descendant | January 7, 2006 |
Aerobicide | January 29, 2006 |
The Giant Gila Monster | February 5, 2006 |
The Ex | February 12, 2006 |
Phoenix The Warrior | February 19, 2006 |
Little Shop of Horrors | March 11, 2006 |
Space Mutiny | March 18, 2006 |
The Screaming Skull | March 25, 2006 |
The Brain That Wouldn't Die | April 8, 2006 |
Future Force | April 15, 2006 |
Future Zone | April 22, 2006 |
Total Recall 1 | April 29, 2006 |
Piranha | May 6, 2006 |
The Wraith | May 13, 2006 |
The House That Dripped Blood | May 26, 2007 |
Night of the Living Dead | October 13, 2007 |
The Last Man On Earth | December 29, 2007 |
Five Deadly Venoms | February 2, 2008 |
The Little Shop of Horrors | September 13, 2008 |
The Phantom Planet | September 27, 2008 |
White Zombie | October 11, 2008 |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(2002 Version d. by Mark redfield) | November 1, 2008 |
Night Tide | October 17, 2009 |
They Crawl | October 30, 2009 |
The Hollow | October 30, 2009 |
A Christmas Carol(1949 TV version) | December 25, 2009 |
Deep Shock | July 10, 2010 |
The Cave | July 17, 2010 |
Black Cadillac | July 24, 2010 |
Absolon | July 31, 2010 |
Dark Waters(1993) | August 7, 2010 |
Glass Trap | August 14, 2010 |
Dark Descent | August 21, 2010 |
The Untold | September 4, 2010 |
The Sadist | September 18, 2010 |
Eegah | September 25, 2010 |
The Dreadful Hallowgreen Special | October 31, 2010 |
In celebration of his 20th anniversary as a TV horror host, Dr. Gangrene returned to the airwaves in 2019. The new show was called Dr. Gangrene's Cinetarium, and once again aired on Nashville's CW58 for the month of October, running for 4 episodes. [1]
In January of 2020 the show returned for a second season, this time on Nashville's NECAT Arts Ch9 in Nashville. The show airs weekly on Saturday nights at 9 pm central, and simulcasts on the station's website as well as their Roku channel. [2]
Dr. Gangrene continues to stay busy, producing a weekly horror host TV program Dr. Gangrene's Cinetarium, which airs weekly on Nashville's NECAT Arts CH9 on Comcast out of Nashville, TN, Saturdays at 9pm central. He is a regular guest at the Wonderfest convention held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, where he hosts live movies every year. He also occasionally writes articles for Scary Monsters Magazine (interviews, reviews and essays on horror movies and creators).
In 2008, Dr. Gangrene appeared in a series of Public Service Announcements entitled Go Green With Dr. Gangrene. The initial three shorts were entitled "Bonehead", "Two Lane Trash Stop", and "Trash Day Of The Dead". The shorts were written by Cameron McCasland and Larry Underwood and directed by Cameron McCasland. The series went on to win several local and national awards, including an Emmy Nomination for McCasland, [14] and citations from the Governor of Tennessee Phil Bredesen, and the Nashville City Council. [15] In the 2008 Rondo Awards the PSAs were awarded a special Rondo Award in The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards called "The Vasaria Public Service Rondo Award" http://www.rondoaward.com/rondo/RondoVIIwinners.htm
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