LIVE WITH THE RED FREAK
FEATURED PLAYERS:
Chris Woods as The Red Freak
Matt Wolin as D.O.A.
Elizabeth "ELi" Leaberry
Luis Matos
Debra Longobardi
Brett McDavid (caller)
Mike Mathews (caller)
Eric Hildebrand (caller)
David Noble (caller)
All right this is how our live show came about. The guy that was ahead of the station rigged it up for you can go LIVE on the air. He was pushing for us to take part of the show live. I was excited about going live on the air. I would be taking calls from people tuning in. What we had was right before our Warhammer episode debut we went LIVE 15 minutes before the show started. At the time Lisa was busy and couldn't be on the show to play Madame Eve, so I had my friend Debra come on the show as herself to introduce it. This also featured the debut of D.O.A. played by Matt Wolin who played The Red Freak's Warrior of Death. The first show went okay. We had a bunch of staged phone calls. We did another one two weeks later I believe and it did a little bit better. After that the show caught on like crazy. It became a fixture every week in the Tuesday Night Fright line up. The live show was at 8;30, followed by Creeping Death at 9 (we played back to back episodes at this point to be in a hour block) and then a horror film at 10. The live show was cool, since we could only pump out a new Creeping Death once a month or every other month, this way fans could get their Red Freak fix every week. People really loved the show. I know that lots of student left class early to tune in. Most of them just wanted to hear themselves call in on TV, but others wanted to see what we would do next. They were guests on the show like good friend Luis Matos who starred in Nighttime, directed You're Dead and The Deal which became a Creeping Death episode, and a future ICOn member. We had scream queen of Creeping Death, star of Nighttime, Warhammer, Blood Feast 1997, and Revenge is Forever, Elizabeth "ELi" Leaberry. And always was myself as The Freak and Matt as D.O.A. We started to do some crazy stuff on the show. Like inserting clips of pornos to having a girl flash her tits. (Which actually wasn't a part of The Freak Show but shot by us in the place which we produce. It was sort of a spin off I guess. I really don't want to get into detail.) It was so bad that a bunch of us almost got kicked out of school. This is something not a lot of people know about and is kind of a sore subject for me a bit because they were other factors involved in the situation. But it was a long time ago and I have grown since then. After that the live show was no more. I didn't get kicked out of show and Creeping Death still continued on the following year. In a way I was glad it ended. Most of the focus started to be on the live show and most of the people didn't stay tuned for Creeping Death right after it. (Well, there were only 5 or 6 episodes at the time, and we did replay them a lot, for people got enough of them.) It was still cool to have two shows that people couldn't wait to watch. And it was a fun time in my life and I wouldn't change anything.
