The very first episode of the OSI-74 era. Mr. Lobo proves “THEY’RE NOT BAD MOVIES–JUST MISUNDERSTOOD!” Just try to get this classic horror film out of your head. MISS MITTENS, model JESSIE SEEHERMAN. and KOGARELLA the She-Ape!
When fellow horror host Slob Zombie is held ransom by the nefarious King Kobra, Mr. Lobo & the Queen of Trash are forced to endure ridiculous demands and an even more ridiculous Filipino spy movie if they want to get Slob Zombie back alive. THE QUEEN OF TRASH’s farewell episode, also featuring SLOB ZOMBIE.
Your host Mr. Lobo is a caretaker at an old cemetery. Whenever someone puts a black pin in the map a cheezy TV personality dies. Should he be worried?
MR. LOBO hosts HORROR HOTEL AKA CITY OF THE DEAD starring CHRISTOPHER LEE. MISS MITTENS dabbles in Witchcraft and even infamous “Bible-thumper” J.C. WEBSTER of COAST TO COAST AM calls in.
Now-you-see-him, Now-you-wish-you-didn’t! MR. LOBO looses himself while hosting a sci-fi heist film that you can see right through. This lost episode can finally be seen here for the first time!
MR. LOBO watches a romantic horror film at home with BARBARA STEELE–or perhaps Stainless Steel? Aluminum Siding? Featuring sidekicks galore MISS MITTENS, ROMANA, and his computer ABBAKISS.
Featuring VINCENT PRICE! Mr. Lobo discovers another classic episode of INSOMNIAC THEATER, a film showcase that would later become CINEMA INSOMNIA! DIXIE DELLAMORTO as BABS & KATHERYN HANS as the NURSE.
MISS MITTENS is on vacation & MR. LOBO’s left alone with a spicy SCI-FI film & some desperate-yet-lovely REEL 7 GIRLS. JESSIE SEEHERMAN, DIXIE DELLAMORTO, Cheesecake, Sexism, Satire & Cheap laughs.
MR. LOBO presents a VERY misunderstood indie film directed by GLENN BERGGOETZ of WORST MOVIE EVER! Made even “shorter” by editor AARON LANE.
Former CREATURE FEATURES host JOHN STANLEY comes back from the future to save MR. LOBO’s show from certain doom and to present another chapter in the “Crappy-Italian-Star-Wars” saga. First appearance of “CosmoNaughty” played by STEPHANIE HYDEN and first episode edited by AARON M. LANE.
MISTER LOBO explores old HOLLYWOOD in hopes of explaining The Curse of filmmaker MAXWELL STEIN. Shot on locations and sets from the film in Manassas VA. First episode made from Zom-Bee TV. reformatted for OSI by Aaron Lane! Elle Conejo and Karn Henderson from the film drop in.
From JAVA LOUNGE, MR. LOBO hosts a restored version of a 2003 episode re-edited by AARON LANE. Features the ROGER CORMAN classic starring DICK MILLER with a cast of Beatnicks & emotional vampires.
Famed LIVE episode at THE GUILD Theater presented by MOVIES ON A BIG SCREEN recreated for TV. This Grindhouse-four-wall-spookshow slash & gash classic from the 60s is a must see for fans of horror!
MR. LOBO finds a lost episode of another show he hosted called INSOMNIAC THEATER that featured a film about a Mad Scientist who plots to put the brain of a rich spinster into a young woman’s body.
For our Cinema Insomnia 17 Year Celebration, we have restored and rebuilt an Historic episode featuring The Wraith (1986). It aired locally on KXTV-ABC NEWS10. It was not syndicated or shown anywhere in any format.
MR. LOBO goes back in time to the Turbulent and Polyester 1970’s before CINEMA INSOMNIA when he presented low rent Sci-Fi films afternoons like BATTLE OF THE WORLDS. Featuring sexy sidekick RO-MANA and supercomputer ABBAKISS.
Happy Horror Days! MR. LOBO and MISS MITTENS present the ROGER CORMAN classic in PLANT-O-VISION and learn the meaning of X-Mess along the way!
20 YEARS OF CINEMA INSOMNIA & this one started it all! Saved from an outdoor shed in Sacramento, this is the pilot of MR LOBO’s show that was never meant to be aired and only broadcast once! Restored and formatted by CI producer Aaron Lane.
A long time ago, in a galaxy not too far away, ALL DVD copies of this episode were thought to be destroyed due to a party of interest looking to sell the rights to this crappy Italian STAR WARS KNOCKOFF.
MR LOBO celebrates GLEN LARSON’s series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA with Superfan GOLD CYLON, while his evil houseplant attacks tonight’s film with poisonous quips and riffs. Special extended appearance by and dedicated to the memory of RICHARD HATCH.
MR. LOBO brushes up on his Kaiju as The King of the Fire Monsters GIGANTIS stomps into Osaka to fight spiky foe ANGRYSS in this classic show from 2002 to 2003 Season restored by editor AARON LANE
The greatest giant monster battles from this GAMERA film’s prequels are all here! This disco age greatest hits party is strung together with a loose storyline about superhero women from space protecting the earth from space pirates and hosted with even looser segments featuring your favorite cult kaiju emcee MR. LOBO attempting to raise a pet turtle named Puddles. MR LOBO hosts this restored 2004 episode by AARON LANE.
MR. LOBO hosts a Japanese Sci-Fi film about a Superhero disguised as shoeshine boy to our greatest scientists. Meanwhile, PHANTOM of Planet KRANKOR plots to take over Earth.
AARON LANE lovingly restores a classic MISTER LOBO episode featuring SONNY CHIBA as SPACE CHIEF and THE BULLETEERS! Shot entirely in Outer Space in 2002
In the tradition of Horror Hosts and CREATURE FEATURES, MR LOBO channel surfs between segments this summertime cult classic with his beach party girl, a houseplant named MISS MITTENS.
We Celebrate the 50th ANNIVERSARY of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with the first syndicated episode of CINEMA INSOMNIA.
"Tonight's feature has been approved by the NASCAR Dads Association of America. And if that doesn't raise a red flag, I don't know what will." A classic MISTER LOBO episode originally Shot in 2004. We try to enjoy this West German knock off of HERBIE THE LOVE BUG and MISS MITTENS drives a car!
"And now, back to the world's least successful organist transplant, Herk Harvey's 1962 classic, Carnival of Souls." MR LOBO is asleep at the wheel as rivals try to take over his slot as favorite movie host. They all compete by showing the exact same movie on the same night. Featuring FRANCIOUS FLY & LADY SKANKENSTEIN.
A “very angry” classic CREATURE FEATURE with MR LOBO episode remixed and restored by AARON M LANE and starring THE TRIPHIBIAN MONSTER himself!
Things get hot for MR. LOBO and MISS MITTENS as they host this classic Sci-Fi film and try to survive the end of the world!
Cinema Insomnia’s Salute to BRAD PITT in this classic KXTV episode from September 2001. An oddity of a film starring BRAD PITT as a young man with a rare skin disorder and a stylish gimp hood!
Commander Lobo dons his SPACE-BLOOD-O-VISION goggles to prevent hypersleep during this ALIEN (1979) knock off directed by WILLIAM MALONE and featuring KLAUS KINSKI.
For the Drac pack! CULT MOVIES TV, MR. LOBO and COUNTESS BLOODSUGAR present a rare VHS movie in BLOOD-O-VISION starring BOB BURNS, FORRY ACKERMAN, JOHN AGAR and more.
Mr. Lobo hosts this restored early episode from 2001. MERLE OBERON wants to know why her husband PERCY is so darn fancy in this superhero adventure from the French Revolution!
MR. LOBO serves up corn for a buccaneer! CHARLES LAUGHTON chews it up in this episode from 2001 for true video pirates only!
A group of teenagers are enjoying their Christmas party until a masked serial killer starts picking them off one by one. AARON LANE recovered LIVE MR. LOBO footage from 2002 and completes this never before seen Christmas Horror Show!
Season Premiere! MR. LOBO is up to his eyeballs in a hoarders paradise…or maybe it’s a paradox! EDWARD G. ROBINSON film parallels STRANGER THINGS as we put the night on hold.
MR. LOBO goes to the Everglades & discovers that swamp people are people too! ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES gets a fresh coat of paint as we whitewash ROGER CORMAN’s classic.
MR LOBO presents the broadcast premiere of WAR OF THE ROBOTS back in the 70s with interview footage shot on the streets of Washington DC and newer studio segments edited by AARON M LANE.
Mr. Lobo tries to win his soul back from “Dean Slithers” voiced by Don Drakulich of GWAR. To do this, he must explain the plot of this Filipino werewolf film. Plus–tons of fun film clips from our archive! Jessie Seeherman also guest stars as Nurse Wretched and Wolfenmittens.
MR LOBO hosts a rare episode restored and re-edited for OSI 74. Italian slasher artsploitation film by Dario Argento. With DIXIE DELLAMORTO as MUMSY
MR. LOBO goes ROD SERLING and tries to discover the truth about grave robbing astronomers from outer space by studying this classic TV documentary based on CHARIOTS OF THE GODS!
EDWARD G. ROBINSON and JOAN BENNETT get mixed up in a dark noir tale directed by FRITZ LANG. From KXTV, after the pilot was aired this was the very second Cinema Insomnia episode 8/5/2001 – restored for OSI 74 by Aaron Lane!
MR. LOBO is your MC at a live event every JULY in PHOENIXVILLE PA at THE HISTORIC COLONIAL THEATRE to celebrate the movie THE BLOB and 50’s SCI-FI and HORROR!
Over 40 years in the making! 70’s Mr. Lobo by way of mid 2000’s MR. LOBO by way of present day Mr. Lobo leaps into action in this time-warped transformation of CINEMA INSOMNIA that will leave you howling! Featuring Dean Stockwell as THE WEREWOLF OF WASINGTON and horror host SVENGOOLIE as the voice of president NIXON!
Brought to you in part by our friends at Synapse Films, MR. LOBO gets bugged by JENNIFER CONNELLY and ten trillion insects in this GIALLO HORROR classic by DARIO ARGENTO. DONALD PLEASANCE from HALLOWEEN also stars.
Break the space-time continuum with MR. LOBO and MISS MITTENS as we try to make sense of the CHARLES BAND classic.
Brought to you in part by our friends at Synapse films, MR. LOBO is stuck in the haunted and HISTORIC CREST THEATER theater for a live event. Meanwhile, in Italy at the METROPOLIS THEATER the audience is turned into horrible monsters.
LADY SKANK’NSTEIN thinks RALPH BIRD is not butch enough to be comic book hero DICK TRACY & is barely a match for BORIS KARLOFF as GRUESOME but steals MR. LOBO’s movie anyway!
Underground movie royalty PAUL BARTEL and MARY WARNOV cook up something weird while host MR. LOBO & MISS DIXIE entertain you with some INSOMNIAC SNACK RECIPES on our clunky kitchen set!
MR. LOBO tried to overcome his fear of creepy puppets and puppeteers by hosting this “HUGO winning” British Horror classic!
Just like VINCENT PRICE, in tonight’s movie MR. LOBO is also THE LAST MAN ON EARTH–only there are still women!
MR. LOBO is finally back after a cosmic trial in the future. Everything you know is a lie. CREATURE FEATURES hosts JOHN STANLEY and BOB WILKINS guest star.
Not seen in years, this lost episode from Cinema Insomnia’s first season on KXTV-10 in Sacramento features Gary Cole as a burned out cop turned cult aficionado in the 1997 film, Santa Fe.
MR. LOBO gets BANDERSNATCHED in this LOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE multiple choice cinematic experiment with this RAY DENNIS STECKLER FILM.
Not a remaster! ALL NEW! For MISS MITTENS birthday we host her favorite man eating plant film and have a sleepover with special scream queen guest CRYSTAL QUINN!
MR. LOBO learns that beauty is only skin deep but bee stings can really bug you. Restored Classic episode featuring MISS MITTENS and DEREK LOBO.
COMMANDER LOBO blasts off to the West Sacramento spaceport to meet with STAR WARS actors C. ANDREW NELSON (DARTH VADER) and ALAN FERNANDEZ (TUSKEN RAIDER). Plus TROOPS!
MR. LOBO hosts a Sci-Fi classic with on the road from CA with appearances by the QUEEN OF TRASH, RAD ABRAMS, Reel 7 Girl CANDY GRAVES, LARRY SERVO & more!
RIP BILLY DRAGO. JAN MICHAEL VINCENT of AIRWOLF and MICHEAL PARE of EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS star in this action packed hot mess hosted by no good television terrorist MR. LOBO.
Mr. Lobo, Dash Daring, Horror Hostess Aurora Gorealis, Alex Doll, The Patient Creatures, and an all new Miss Blobfest Suzanne Firner celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the fest!
Travel at speeds that smother the imagination with Commander Lobo. In the movie cute teddy bear spacesuits and Omega . We’ve got a plastic junk helmet and Robot 74.
The Second of two live shows at the BAL Theater in San Leandro, CA! ED WOOD and BELA LUGOSI classic with guests FRANKENSTEIN’s MONSTER, KOGARELLA and LARRY SERVO.
MR. LOBO goes clubbing caveman style. ARCH HALL is a rocker who rolls into a Stone-Age giant that lives out in the dessert. The “Queen of Trash” SARA DUNN guest stars as SHEEGAH!
Russian space opera PLANETA BUR is chopped up, tossed, and served cold with bad dubbing and cut-in scenes starring American actors BASIL RATHBONE and FAITH DOMERGUE.
MR. LOBO’s assistants ABBAKISS & ROMANA are giddy that their favorite pop stars CLAMHAWK MANOR are premiering their Rock-N-Roll Monster Movie on CINEMA INSOMNIA! You will twist and shout with laughter!
Mr. Lobo and his mentor talk about favorite Halloween films. If you love this CREATURE FEATURES tribute check out OLDIES.com to get an ALPHA VIDEO collector’s DVD.
Rest in peace SID HAIG: Mr. Lobo’s interview. Guest star WILL “THE THRILL VIHARO” and the premiere of “I’M WATCHING TV” sung and co-produced by RON DANTE of THE ARCHIES!
Early KXTV HALLOWEEN episode with Mr. Lobo hosting a horrible horror film starring BORIS KARLOFF JACK NICHOLSON and produced by ROGER CORMAN
MR. LOBO and DIXIE LOBO, DICK DYSZEL (Count Gore’s Creature Feature), John Dimes (Dr. Sarcofiguy’s Spooky Movie), RICH KOZ (Svengoolie) come together to spin a yarn!
Restored 2004 Ep! Wrestle with this film concept of a super hero super spy who is also a masked Mexican wrestler using his abilities to destroy a coven of undead senoritas!
Mr. Lobo in a restored 2003 episode with a film about an ITALIAN SUPER HERO caught in a battle of aspect ratios!
While hosting this classic kiddie movie-Mr. Lobo raises awareness for stray socks & learns the true meaning of Christmas from his lovable side kicks.
Mr. Lobo comes to the CREATURE FEATURES MANSION to pick up MISS MITTENS & decides to shoot an episode of his own show without telling VINCENT VAN DAHL, TANGELLA, & LIVINGSTON.
Mister Lobo visits the Cumberland Drive-In for Creature Feature Weekend and hosts the Halloween festivities with special guest, Trick ‘R Treat’s Samm Todd in this Super-Sized Cinema Insomnia Special.
Back in the year 2003, Mister Lobo hosted She Creature and sought the help of hypnosis to help Miss Mittens quit drinking. That episode was seemingly lost forever, until we found it… and then lost it again. So instead here is what Miss Mittens & and out producer Aaron remember having happened the first time, despite Miss Mittens having been blotto drunk and Aaron not having been there at all.
A lost episode, not seen since it’s original broadcast in 2002 on KXTV 10, Mister Lobo hosts Christine Lahti, Dylan McDermott and Jennifer Rubin in the 1992 erotic thriller “The Fear Inside”.
"The Surgeon General has determined that tonight's feature, presented in Blood-O-Vision, may be hazardous to your mental health. A registered nurse will be in attendance for the duration of tonight's program." Mister Lobo hosts The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. Bruce Campbell guest stars, promoting his film “Man With the Screaming Brain”.
Mister Lobo hosts a 1 hour Special featuring Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, an action-adventure/comedy spy series starring a cast of chimpanzees dressed in people clothes and dubbed with human voices, to benefit the Wildlife Waystation.
Mister Lobo travels to the amplified world of Richmond, VA to host the first half of Eric Miller’s masked wrestler battling vampire women and a zombie plaque epic, Mark of the Damned.
Mister Lobo returns from the amplified world of Richmond, VA to find Miss Mittens and the Queen of Trash M.I.A. on Halloween and he buries his sorrows in Halloween while hosting the conclusion of Mark of the Damned.
Give your friends Venus Envy! Get snared by this man eating plant film written by the king of B-movies and hosted by MR. LOBO! CINEMA INSOMNIA presents ED WOOD’s VENUS FLYTRAP(1970), a rare edit of this film with never before heard Criswell narration! They say April showers bring May flowers, but this episode from our 10th anniversary season features “Tom Servo’s brother”, Larry Servo –performed by fan of the week Larry Lee Moniz! That’s right, Mr. Lobo “riffs” on MST3K! 2 hours of slumber party fun brought to you through the miracle of ED WOOD-O-VISION and Edward D-colorization!
In Memory of Max Von Sydow, Cinema Insomnia presents this classic episode from 2001.
Mr. Lobo travels to Wasteland Weekend to host the TROMA TEAM RELEASE CYXZORK 7 directed by the great JOHN HUFF and starring RAY WISE and GREG PROOPS.
"Inspiring. It's like the season finale of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues." Y’all need Jesus… and Cinema Insomnia is going to bring him to you in this all new, Super-sized Easter Special, just in time for his “second birthday”! Join Mr. Lobo, Jesus, the Easter Bunny, Countess Bloodsugar, and El Santo in the wildest Easter party this side of Family Circus! Now with over 25 minutes of additional footage not seen in the original broadcast!
"Vote now, or you're gonna be baking pumpkin seeds with Joseph Stalin in Hell." The most widely distributed syndicated Cinema Insomnia episode of all time, 2006’s Halloween Election Special “Frankenstein vs the Creature From Blood Cove” returns for its 15th Anniversary with new material featuring guest star G. Larry Butler who plays Dr. Lazaroff in the film.
"Sure, we like to have fun and engage in a little 'tomfoolery,' but I'd like to talk to you seriously about a problem in our subculture: don't let 8 year-olds steal a submarine and drive around in it." Mister Lobo takes the whole gang on a camping adventure with the Junior Lobo Scout Cubs. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing bad ever happens to people alone in the woods.
Mr. Lobo takes the show on the road to Critters-Con at the Historic Mahoning Drive-In in Lehighton, PA for a celebration of all of cinema’s creepy critters of the 1980’s and interviews the legendary CHIODO BROTHERS along the way. Brought to you, in part, by Creature Feature Weekend.
"What is unexplainable today will be inexplicable tomorrow. They laughed at the horseless carriage, television, transistor radio, 8-track tape players, clowns, chimpanzees, poodles in...little...ballerina tutus...and yes, they even laughed at tonight's picture, Plan 9 from Outer Space. Well Mr. Lobo assures you: no one's laughing now." The biggest small film of all time is on CINEMA INSOMNIA Presented by MR LOBO and HARDWARE WARS Creator ERNIE FOSSELIUS Special Guests ARTIE DECO, CHEWCHILLA The Wookie Monster, and a new puppet GEORGE LUCAS Also ED WOODs B classic PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE.
For our Cinema Insomnia 20th Anniversary Celebration, our producer, Aaron Lane, has restored and rebuilt a classic KXTV episode of Cinema Insomnia that aired on KXTV NEWS10 in 2001. It has never been syndicated or shown anywhere in any format. Until now.
Mister Lobo comes to you from Creature Feature Weekend in Gettysburg & hosts The Eye Creatures, with appearances from special guests Kathleen Kinmont, Caroline Williams, Eileen Dietz, Ted Raimi, Jim Krut, Nancy Loomis Kyes, Kyra Schon, and more.
Mister Lobo is feeling the bite as Countess Bloodsugar hypnotizes Miss Mittens! Featuring Dracula’s Bela Lugosi in this classic horror film as you’ve never seen it before – in Blood-o-Vision!
A completely lost episode that has been upscaled from existing elements. At last, a “watchable” version of the long lost UATV era CINEMA INSOMNIA FAN CLUB PLEDGE DRIVE. For historical and educational purposes only.
Follow Mr. Lobo on a journey through this mass-collaboration approach to view Romero’s classic through an experimental lens.
Mr. Lobo hosts this noir parody starring Bob Hope & Peter Lorre from 1947 in this restored version of a 2001 KXTV episode of Cinema Insomnia from the show’s first season.
Creature Features host John Stanley takes over Cinema Insomnia to present the movie he produced, Nightmare in Blood.
It’s a blast from Blobfest’s past as Cinema Insomnia brings you this never before seen episode filmed live in 2014 as Mister Lobo hosts Blobfest live at Phoenixville’s Colonial Theater.
Mr. Lobo is on a Company Vacation to Obelisk Island and his hoping his agent Gurnie Gonax can help him get on a better show to host better movies. Tonight’s feature is the 1972 Bob Clark classic about teenagers who horse around with a corpse. Plus an intermission interview with Terry Kiser of “Weekend At Bernie’s” and special guests Sally The Zombie Cheerleader and Joe LaScola from Movie Dumpster. Jessie Seeherman “Countess Bloodsugar” and Dixie Lobo “Babs From The Front Desk” add big laughs!
Not to be mistaken for the original pilot episode of Cinema Insomnia, this rarely-seen episode was the final episode made for the KXTV run, though it wasn’t aired til later in syndication, featuring Mister Lobo inserted into the film via green screen for a drinking game.
King Kong does Hong Kong in this 1977 Chinese King Kong ripoff. Join Mister Lobo on his quest to grow Kogarella up into a mighty Kong of his own with an illegal matter-refabricator ray, again drawing the ire of Micronaughty and the Micromanagers of Inner Space. Featuring Crystal Quinn, Jessie Seeherman, Nicole King and Dixie Lobo in two exciting roles!
Vintage cartoon & toy commercials, celebrity interviews, fan interactions, a musical performance from the Cybertronic Spree, and all around Mister Lobo hijinks from Philadelphia’s RetroCon 2022.
NEW Cinema Insomnia Special shot at OSI STUDIOS! Mr. Lobo tries to get his old shadowcast together host his favorite Misunderstood Midnight Movie. Featuring THE VISITANTS (1986) by special arrangement with Rick “HOBGOBLINS” Sloane! Plus Dixie Dellamorto Lobo as RO-MANA & BABS FROM THE FRONT DESK, Roxanne Guarino as “NEXETER”, SALLY THE ZOMBIE CHEERLEADER, Wendy Sews as PUNKIN GHOUL and EMPEROR MAUS, a mystery Reel 7 Girl, and selected Fan Halloween Greeting Videos!
As Peter graves putters around the woods in this Sun Shick Classic Crockumentary, Mr. Lobo goes from Loch Ness to Area 51 and scores exclusive interviews with Bigfoot’s hair stylist, Bigfoot’s prom date and Bigfoot’s 5th grade teacher.
Mr. Lobo is visited by three ghostly Hosts of Horror past, Present, and Future as he presents the 1935 classic A Christmas Carol in Jingle-Rama!
"You're not dreaming. You're watching Cinema Insomnia's Cyberpunk Special 1AOK! Tonight's feature has been enhanced in Cyber-O-Vision XM. For an extra immersive effect, put on your old thrift store VR goggles and you will actually feel yourself getting eye herpes." The Future Crimes Commission is trying to shut down Mister Lobo from the Retro-Future to prevent his hosting of Jesse Ventura’s Abraxas: Guardian of the Future. Special appearances by Sally The Zombie Cheerleader, Tony from Hack The Movies, Joe LaScola from Movie Dumpster, Jessie Seeherman in multiple roles, and the Legendary John Stanley from Creature Features!