Alive!. On Stage!. The Return of the Midnite Spook Show takes you back to the heyday of this lost piece of Americana, the Spook Show, where the nomadic Ghostmasters traveled from town to town like a carnival, enticing theatre owners and audiences alike, with FEAR. This one phenomenon helped to spawn our collective fascination with the macabre. Everything from haunted houses to late night TV horror hosts, and so much more, entered our popular culture thanks to the Ghostmasters and the Spook Show tradition. The film crew traveled the nation, seeking out the few remaining Old-School Ghostmasters, the newest generation of their counterparts, and many of the oddities of pop culture everyone now take for granted that the Spook Show helped to create. Their stories would have been lost to the world, their faces forgotten. And everyone owes them nearly every scary moment we' have ever experienced. Everyone have what may be the final recorded interviews with some of the greatest Ghostmasters who ever lived, and have captured the memories of those who knew them and saw them perform as well. Magic historians, scholars of horror, and "monster kids" all excitedly lent us a hand (we might give them back sometime). The cameras will take you inside the haven of international magicians, The Magic Castle, explore the spectacle of the Mansfield Reformatory, check out the latest horror and magic convention crazes, and give you a peek behind the scenes of reviving the Spook Show for the modern audience.
—PCJ Films