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This week on DragonKing Dark, we continue our month-long celebration of Halloween as Tonya and I take a look back at the 1988 horror comedy Beetlejuice.
An all-star cast battles with the afterlife in this late 1980s classic, fun for everyone on your Halloween playlist that has actually aged pretty well.
Just don’t say the title three times!
Our most popular shows of the year are back: the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame ballot discussion.
On this opener, I talk about this year’s rule changes, the many new tag teams, discussion about Sgt. Slaughter and many others.
Part one of three has arrived.
We continue celebrating Halloween all month long and this week, myself and Tonya from WhenItWasCool.com discuss the classic 1982 horror movie Poltergeist.
Into the pop culture lexicon entered the eerie phrase: “They’re here!” And beyond the storyline itself, the movie was followed by the tragic death of its young star.
Poltergeist gave birth to multiple sequels and remains a staple of must-see horror Halloween classics.
This week on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show we talk about the Frankenstein Monster in pro wrestling!
Yes, the creature has popped up a few times in wrestling, most famously in Los Angeles and Memphis. We tell you all about that today — and we talk about the shoot fight Frankenstein had with Andre the Giant. No kidding.
On this week’s DragonKing Dark, we take a look at a real-life monster.
A new and controversial Netflix series called Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is currently one of the most popular streaming series of the year.
Myself and Tonya from When It Was Cool have watched it and this week’s show is our review. We understand there is a lot of negative feelings toward this series, so we try to address those as honestly as possible.
We venture into the night on this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show.
There have been vampires in pro wrestling in the past: Gangrel and The Brood, Kevin Thorn (Mordecai), Vampiro, Vince McMahon (har, har, har), but has the head vampire himself, Dracula, ever appeared as a character in the squared circle?
He has been elusive, I’ll say that. Apart from CM Punk dressing up as the evil vampire lord once at a WWE house show, I had a hard time tracking down Dracula himself. But, let’s give it a try as I kick off a month-long celebration of Halloween by looking for Dracula in pro wrestling.
Wear your garlic.
I interrupt our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history series for the month of October as we are celebrating Halloween all month long.
For this kickoff, I am joined by my wife, Tonya, from When It Was Cool to discuss one of the most iconic horror movies ever: 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. The movie gave us a young Johnny Depp and one of the greatest monster horror characters ever in Freddy Krueger.
One…two…Freddy’s coming for you on the latest DragonKing Dark.
On this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I take a look at another classic era pro wrestling magazine: WWF Magazine from May 1993 featuring Hulk Hogan on the cover.
This issue was put together shortly before WrestleMania 9 and came out shortly after, so they spend a lot of time skirting around the show. There are major feature articles on Andre the Giant and Bret Hart, plus some fun house ads for Coliseum Video, ICOPRO, and a WWF catalog insert.
Let’s talk about it on this week’s show.
Who was Fatty Arbuckle?
Besides having a hilarious name, he was the center of the first big Hollywood scandal. Yes, the sad tale of Arbuckle is a cautionary tale for the movie industry still to this very day.
He was a silent movie era star until his career was destroyed by an allegation that he raped and killed a Hollywood actress. It took three trials with wildly varying verdicts to finally proclaim him not guilty with a written apology from the jury as well.
On this week’s look at the top 100 darkest moments in pop culture history, we look at the tragic story of Fatty Arbuckle.
On this week’s DragonKingKarl, I continue my look at the history of pro wrestling by taking a look at every major event that happened in April 1983.
It appeared like Hulk Hogan won the AWA World title from Nick Bockwinkel….but not so fast. Bockwinkel also battled Jerry Lawler all month.
Ric Flair continued to defend the NWA World title all over the U.S. while a heel Bob Armstrong won the Southeastern title. WWF is drawing large crowds with Bob Backlund against “Big” John Studd, plus we look at Japan.
You know your life has taken a bad turn if the government has to name a law after you.
That’s exactly what it was for child actor Jackie Coogan, who, after gaining huge success in various Charlie Chaplin films, went on to even greater notoriety as Uncle Fester from The Addams Family.
So, what is so dark about Coogan? It is a cautionary tale for all child actors, Hollywood, and human nature.
We continuing our 100 darkest moments in pop culture history with a look at the life of Jackie Coogan.
We close out the 1800s in my continued look at pro wrestling at Madison Square Garden by looking at the only pro wrestling show held there in 1898 before it resumed in 1900.
Ernest Rober has returned and we find out that he is the hand-picked champion for William Muldoon. We also discover clues as to why the original Strangler, Evan Lewis, never wrestled at MSG. We then discuss one of the best early heavyweights, Tom Jenkins.
Enjoy this latest episode of DragonKing Karl.
The next match in the DragonKingKarl GKT, aka the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament, is here!
I discuss the lives and careers of the original “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers and New Japan legend Hiroshi Tanahashi. Both men were among the best wrestlers and most charismatic stars of their eras. It’s the figure four leg grapevine vs. the high fly flow and you have decided a winner.
Let’s talk about Buddy Rogers vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi on this week’s DragonKingKarl Show.
Gary Albright was a big, burly, legitimate amateur wrestler from Nebraska. He got his start working for Stu Hart out of the Stampede promotion and was married into the famous Anoa’i family of wrestlers.
With those credentials, Albright naturally found success in Japan, especially with the early shoot/semi-shoot leagues and later with All-Japan. Unfortunately, Albright died at the age of 36.
On this “From the Pages of the Observer” episode of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, Karl Stern looks back at the life of Gary Albright through the obituary that Dave Meltzer wrote following Albright’s death.
I continue our series of the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history by taking a look at the supposed curse of The Little Rascals/Our Gang group of actors.
Did many of them meet an untimely demise? We will discuss. One thing is certain, however: Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer’s story does not end well.
On this week’s DragonKing Dark, I take a look at the facts surrounding the supposed curse of the Rascals and sad end for Switzer.
