#18 – YTV’s Dark Night Returns
DARK NIGHT RETURNS 1:
DATE: October 30th, 2015
VENUE: The Royal Cinema
FORMAT: Digital Prints courtesy of DHX Media
GUESTS: PJ Paul McGuire and PJ “Fresh” Phil Guerrero
ORIGINAL POSTER ART: CHRIS NASH
ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?:
Created by: D.J. MacHale and Ned Kandel
"The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner (Season 4, Episode 8)
DIRECTOR: Ron Oliver
YEAR: 1994
RUNTIME: 22 min
"The Tale of the Dead Man's Float" (Season 5, Episode 1)
DIRECTOR: D.J. MacHale
YEAR: 1995
RUNTIME: 22 min
FREAKY STORIES:
Created by: Steve Schnier and John A. Delmage
"Animal Maggotism" (Season 1, Episode 3)
YEAR: 1997
RUNTIME: 22 min
GOOSEBUMPS:
Created by R.L. Stine
"Attack of the Jack-O'Lanterns" (Season 2, Episode 10)
Directed by William Fruet
YEAR: 1996
RUNTIME: 22 min
DARK NIGHT RETURNS 2:
DATE: October 28th, 2018
VENUE: The Royal Cinema
FORMAT: Digital Prints courtesy of DHX Media
GUESTS: PJ Paul McGuire and PJ “Fresh” Phil Guerrero, Ross Hull (Gary - Are You Afraid Of The Dark) & Evan Morgan (star of the Goosebumps episode "Don't Wake Mummy)
ORIGINAL POSTER ART: Trevor Henderson
ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?:
"The Tale of the Super Specs (Season 1, Episode 6)
DIRECTOR: Ron Oliver
YEAR: 1992
RUNTIME: 22 min
"The Tale of the Pinball Wizard" (Season 1, Episode 13)
DIRECTOR: D.J. MacHale
YEAR: 1992
RUNTIME: 22 min
EERIE INDIANA:
Created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer
"Reality Takes a Holiday" (Season 1, Episode 18)
DIRECTOR: Ken Kwapis
YEAR: 1992
RUNTIME: 22 min
GOOSEBUMPS:
"Don't Wake Mummy" (Season 2, Episode 22)
DIRECTOR: William Fruet
YEAR: 1997
RUNTIME: 22 min
DARK NIGHT was a popular Halloween programming block that ran annually on the Canadian specialty television channel YTV between 1993 and 1997. It was hosted by young television personalities Phil Guerrero and Paul McGuire, who best known by Canadian children as the after-school programming jockeys of YTV's popular programming block THE ZONE.
The Laser Blast Film Society paid tribute to this programming block by reuniting Phil and Paul live-in-person to once more present an evening of creepy and Canadian children's television content. Programming included episodes of ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK, FREAKY STORIES, GOOSEBUMPS and EERIE INDIANA.
The evening was also preceded by a special video mixtape curated by the incredible archivists at RETRONTARIO (http://www.retrontario.com/).
