(Garou & Nurse Bela Donna)

1. Where did you come up with your name?
My parents named me Garou because we are descended from a long line of Garous. When preceded by the word "Loup" it means "werewolf" en Francais.

2. Where did you come up with your character?
I think it might have been a combination of heredity and environment.

3. Going to conventions you have met a lot of famous people, who is your favorite?
It is very exciting to get to meet so many spooky and wonderful characters. It was really so wonderful when Von Bulow & I got to hang around with Tura Satana. She was so much fun and full of sass, like Mae West!
And at WonderCon Penny Dreadful and I had a great time with Martine Beswick. But even just getting to howl hello at Legends like Zacherley and Bert I. Gordon is so exciting and getting to be pals with the great ghouls of Ghoul-A-Go-Go and having fun at conventions with Count Gore and Doctor Sarcofiguy and Doctor Dreck and Doctor Lady and Doctor Gangrene is always a real treat, though it does seem that I do know rather a lot of doctors. But I need all the help I can get! Those conventions are pretty much non-stop all weekend so if they don't fall during a fool moon, even I get tired! It was super exciting to meet Rowdy Roddy Piper and Ox Baker, and the marvelous Gremlina Glow of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. These wrestlers are some of the friendliest humans I've ever had the pleasure to meet. Gremlina is a load of laughs and so is her amazing husband. And Eddie Munster really speaks my language!

4. What are your favorite horror movies and why?
Why, well it was Jean Genet who said it best:
"To escape from horror, bury yourself in it."
So although I quite enjoy being lycanthropic, it isn't usually a path one gets to choose. Having it thrust upon one's self is quite a difficult challenge. For so artistically expressing the pathos of this situation, my hat is off to Lon Chaney Junior. For me, The Wolfman is the greatest motion picture ever made for a number of reasons, but his performance is the greatest reason. I honestly don't know how he was able to conjure such perfect expression without having been in that very predicament himself. I guess that is why they call it "acting" and his actions honestly exhibited just how it would feel to have this befall you. His pop was no slouch, either. Let me keep it brief by telling you about my favorite kinds of horror movies. I love films with my werewolf brothers in them, even though they rarely have a happy ending. Paul Naschy did an excellent job as did Dean Stockwell in Werewolf of Washington. David Janssen in Moon of The Wolf, that film is a real smorgasbord- there is even Tennessee Williams sort of sub-plot in there amid a crime drama story and a horror movie sub-plot as well! If you want to see it for yourself, check out Season Three of Shilling Shockers at www.shillingshockers.com
Paul Naschy was really a great werewolf in so many classic Spanish horror films but I have to go with Oliver Reed for the post-Lon Chaney Junior era. His passionate performance really captures the zeal we wolfmen experience when the moon is full in Curse of the Werewolf.

5. Who inspired you growing up?
I still have a lot of growing up to do, but Penny Dreadful is all the inspiration I need! I am a little older than I look, so when I was a pup I really loved the now classic silent films and Vaudeville, ya know, the Marx Brothers, George Burns, W.C. Fields, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows which featured Howie Morris and Imogene Coca and Carl Reiner. You might know Howie Morris as Doctor Lilloman in Mel Brooks' High Anxiety, one of his later roles. He is a big hero of mine. All these comedians are, as they still keep me laughing.

6. What kind of advice would you give to any future horror show hosts?
Show the movies some love. And don't just tape one episode and put it on the air. Tape a bunch before you begin broadcasting so you have time to work on future episodes at your own pace.

8. What in your opinion makes a great horror movie?
A touch of the supernatural, a pinch of mystery and a handful of suspense, and perhaps a dash of humor to relieve the stress of the suspense. I like the way fog slithers in a black and white film, a monster that has more to their character than just provoking terror, and having enough hair on the back of my neck to appreciate it when the action onscreen makes it rise up and tickle my ears.

9. What was your favorite thing to dress up as for Halloween in childhood?
A silly mortal!

10. Is there any particular monster that fascinates you?
The ones that I haven't seen are the most intriguing. Of course in Season Five I found living with a chupacabra to most unpleasant. I much prefer creatures like Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, Memphre, Ogopogo, Champie, Slimy Slim and Sasquatch and the other low profile types who aren't as likely to drop in uninvited and make a mess of things. Vampires won't drop by uninvited either, so they make the list too! But you can't beat a werewolf! I dare you to try!

11. How did your show get started?
Well, Penny and I like to watch horror films and Manfred Von Bulow kept dropping by from next door. He's a semi-retired monster hunter, so to keep others of his ilk from also deciding they could just drop by, we figured we ought to air the movies so everyone else could watch with us, without necessarily showing up in person just in time to Bogart all of our popcorn, like someone we know!

12. Who are the other members on your show?
Manfred Von Bulow, of course, and Penny Dreadful's longtime pal Luna who is just plain bat guano crazy. But she is handy with all the newfangled gizmos since she has a few short circuits herself!

VISIT GAROU!!