"Shocktober Halloween Movie Marathon" was a hosted horror movie marathon with with Tom Ryan as "County Scary" presenting movies on WDIV-TV Detroit, Michigan in October 1984 (as Count Scary), and October 1987 (as The Count).

"Shocktober Halloween Movie Marathon" was a hosted horror movie marathon with with Tom Ryan as "Count Scary" presenting movies on WDIV-TV Detroit, Michigan in October 1984 (as Count Scary), and October 1987 (as The Count). From the Detroit Kids website: " Count Scary was a combination of Bela Lugosi meets Richard Nixon meets Steve Martin's wild and crazy guy. Tom De Lisle and Ryan were fans of the Canadian sketch comedy show SCTV, especially Joe Flaherty as the bumbling horror movie host Count Floyd. They decided to do a takeoff of Flaherty's vampire character and name him Count Scary, after Count Floyd's tag line, 'Oooh, that's scary'!".—The Professor