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On 20 February 1974 in the US, ABC’s Wide World of Entertainment presented The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute, an entertaining 70-minute videotaped TV production hosted by Vincent Price, With the help of his hunchback sidekick (played by comic star Billy Van, who also appeared with Price around the same time in the Canadian TV series The Hilarious House of Frightenstein), Vincent (attired in a cape similar to the one he wore in Theatre of Blood) presides over the pun-filled, canned-laughter proceedings which honours the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist, whose Tubular Bells ended up sounding the death knell of classic horror.
