Horror Hall of Fame

The Horror Hall of Fame was an annual Oscars-style award show hosted by Robert Englund which honored the best horror films, television shows, actors, producers and special-effects designers. It ran for three years from 1989 to 1991. At the end of Horror Hall of Fame III, the host promised a Horror Hall of Fame IV, but it never happened.

The Horror Hall of Fame[]

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Horror Hall of Fame II[]

The second annual program opens with Robert Englund enjoying a relaxing smoke on a playground which slowly begins to fill with birds, a parody of a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

Inductees for this year are:

Film - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Presented by Adrienne Barbeau, accepted by Tobe Hooper

Publisher - EC Comics Presented by Carel Struycken & James Martin Workman, Jr., accepted by William Gaines

Actor - Béla Lugosi Presented by Richard Moll, accepted by Jeff Lugosi (Béla's grandson)

Producer/Director - Roger Corman Presented by William Shatner, accepted by Roger Corman

Production Company - Universal Studios Presented by Elvira, accepted by Carla Laemmle (niece of founder Carl Laemmle, Sr.)

Film - The Birds Presented by Dee Wallace-Stone & Brad Dourif; accepted by Morgan Brittany & Tippi Hedren

The nominees for best horror film were Misery, Child's Play 2, The Silence of the Lambs, Predator 2 and Jacob's Ladder. The winner, presented by Vincent Price, was Silence of the Lambs. The award was accepted by Lambs executive producer Gary Goetzman.

This program also included:

A sneak peek of the films The Addams Family, Guilty as Charged and Alien 3 presented by Gilbert Gottfried

A tribute to the passing of Freddy Krueger (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, which was thought to be the final film featuring the Kruger character, would premiere on Sept. 13th, 1991) by stand-up comic Sam Kinison

Special Effect segments hosted by make-up artist Steve Johnson and scream queen Linnea Quigley

Co-hosting segments from The Crypt Keeper.