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Yesteryear Ballyhoo Revue
@ballyhoorevue.bsky.social
Podcast dedicated the cinemas past and the laughter and lessons it can bring today. Hosted by Zach and a slew of film loving pals 🎥🎞️☺️

(Operated by Zach)

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Tonight on the Research Docket: Browning & Chaney are coming back to the podcast courtesy of our old pal Sterling & newcomer Jake . Gonna be fun to chat about The Unknown & The Unholy Three with this spooky lot 😱🎞️
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The Ballyhoo crossed the 5 Year Mark 🥳🥳

5 years of podcasting about Film, Radio, & TV history with the finest group guests & co-hosts that anyone could ask for.

Thanks to all the voices that have been on mic and to all the ears that listened along . Heres to many more fun chats to come ❤️🎞️📻🎧
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Been a long week of episode prep, video editing, & life period.

Settling in now for a new experience of an old story direct from Mexico in the year 1933, LA LLORONA! #MexicanFilm #LaLlorona
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
🎃NEW EPISODE🎃

Zach welcomes back podcaster & Peanuts fan Ryan Frost (Reel Nerds Podcast) for a look at the making & legacy of 'It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’

Now Available Wherever You Get Your Podcasts!

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November 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Enjoyed Frankenstein & would recommend. Without getting too in-depth I'll say two things

1) del Toro crafted the film Laemmle Jr. wished he would have had the money to produce w/ content the code would have forbade.

2) Elordi carried Boris' and Lee's spirit w/out neglecting his own unique stamp.
November 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Day 31 of BallyBOO goes for another double bill, this time tracing the origins of a sub-genre: Slashers & Scream Queens.

Its also an excuse to watch 2 of my favorite movies back to back ❤️🎃

Settling in for PSYCHO (1960) & HALLOWEEN (1978)

#Psycho #Halloween
November 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Day 30 of BallyBOO consisted of an afternoon of pod pal Matt Willocks & I kicking back to some spooky flicks together!

Loved getting to introduce him to 1939's THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG & absolutely floored by our mutual first time watch of the 1962 shocker 'BURN, WITCH,BURN'

#FilmsWithFriends
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Day 29 of BallyBOO pays tribute to the grand year of 1931, where Universal unleashed two titans of terror that cemented a genre & changed the course of film history.

It's DRACULA followed by FRANKENSTEIN for this evening!

#BelaLugosi #BorisKarloff #UniversalMonsters
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Day 28 of the BallyBOO see's the cinematic conclusion of Prof. Quatermass at Hammer Studio's. With Andrew Kier now with the credentials, its Sci-Fi terror that probes the questions of our origins as a spiecies.

From 1967, it's QUATERMASS & THE PIT!

#Quatermass #HammerFilms
October 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I hate gay Halloween, What do you mean you're going as the center clock from the zeppelin in Madam Satan?
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A solid idea. I dont think I coulda pulled off Joans get Up any way 😂
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Day 27 of the BallyBOO seeks to resume what was started yesterday as I fell asleep on the second half of my double bill 20 minutes in. You could say I was pretty DEAD TIRED.... No , I dont like that either.

Anywho, settling in for NOSFERATU : A SYMPHONY OF HORROR

#Nosferatu #MaxSchreck #FWMurnau
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Day 26 of BallyBOO calls for complete silence, ingenious make up, striking performance, and ghastly intent from a duo of Horror Legends

Settling in for the thrills of NOSFERATU & THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA! #SilentFilm #LonChanry #FWMurnau #Nosferatu #MaxSchreck #ThePhantomOfTheOpera
October 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Day 25 of BallyBOO finds a pause in life to sit back and enjoy the fascinatibg return to London After Midnight that Tod Browning took in 1935.

With Bela Lugosi & Lionel Barrymore aboard, it's time for...MARK OF THE VAMPIRE!

#MarkOfTheVampire #TodBrowning #BelaLugosi #LionelBarrymore
October 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Now Playing: Day 24 of BallyBOO finds me dead tired after a long shift and in need of something new to spark the imagination. Who better to do that than Karloff under the direction of Roy William Neil at Columbia with 1935's THE BLACK ROOM!

#BorisKarloff #ColumbiaPictures
October 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
😱NEW EPISODE 😱

The BallyBOO returns as @smokeyjustsmokey.bsky.social & @aysquared.bsky.social come to chat about Ealing Studios rare venture into horror, the 1945 portmanteau 'DEAD OF NIGHT'!

Now Available Wherever You Get Your Podcasts

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#DeadOfNight
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
😱NEW EPISODE 😱

The BallyBOO returns as @smokeyjustsmokey.bsky.social & @aysquared.bsky.social come to chat about Ealing Studios rare venture into horror, the 1945 portmanteau 'DEAD OF NIGHT'!

Now Available Wherever You Get Your Podcasts

ballyhoorevuepodcast.com/ep-161-dead-...

#DeadOfNight
October 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Day 23 of the BallyBOO breaks out some Tod Browning at last with a rewatch of his 1927 macabre classic, THE UNKNOWN!

#TheUnknown #TodBrowning #LonChaney
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Day 22 of BallyBOO returns to Karloff, this time at Columbia where his royal horror-ness tries to communicate with the dead in Edward Dmytyk's 1941 shocker, THE DEVIL COMMANDS!

#BorisKarloff #TheDevilCommands #ColumbiaPictures
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Now Playing: Day 21 of BallyBOO will trek to the Arctic for a trio of THINGS to while away the hours after a long day.

Settling in for THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951), TTHE THING (2011) and THE THING (1982)

#TheThing
October 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Now Playing: Day 20 of the BallyBOO travels to Egypt for a Double Bill of Then & Now dedicated to our MUMMY dearest.

Settling in for THE MUMMY (1932) & THE MUMMY (1999).

#TheMummy #BorisKarloff #BrendanFraser #ArnoldVosloo
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Day 19 of BallyBOO goes for a night of silence with the presence of Lon Chaney in a mad doctor mode with 1925's THE MONSTER!

#LonChaney #MGM #GoldenAgeOfHollywood
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Day 18 of BallyBOO has another double bill on the docket with a Lewton/Robson combo guaranteed to shatter the nerves with a healthy dose of terror.

Ao lets settle in for BEDLAM (1946) followed by THE GHOST SHIP (1943)

#ValLewton #MarkRobson #RKO #GoldenAgeOfHollywood #HorrorFilms
October 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Coming Up Next on the Podcast: The BallyBOO, 4 episodes of horror chatter, kicks off w/ the return of pod pals @aysquared.bsky.social & @smokeyjustsmokey.bsky.social covering Ealing Studios 1945 portmanteau of terror, DEAD OF NIGHT!

Stay Tuned for a deep dive into a horror classic! #DeadOfNight
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Day 17 of BallyBOO turns to a Double Bill of Then & Now. A classic from yesteryear & its modern counterparts or spiritual successors.

Tonight's Subject: THE INVISIBLE MAN

1933 then 2020!

#TheInvisibleMan #JamesWhale #LeighWhannell
October 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM