H.R. BLOODENGUTZ

Larry Kurtzberg, better known as H.R. Bloodengutz, was the main character of the Halloween Horror Nights 21 haunted house, H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror and the Halloween Horror Nights 35 haunted house, H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular.

This character appeared at the event in 2011, and 2026

FULL LORE

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

Born sometime in the 1920s, before he became the Creature Feature TV host H.R. Bloodengutz, Lawrence "Larry" Kurtzberg was once an actor and Broadway performer from the 1930's who began his career at the Shubert Theatre in the musical comedy, Babes in Arms, at age 17. Years later, he retired to the life of a taxidermist after his career ended. During the 1970's he got desperate for more fame, so he turned to a talent agency at Carey, Ohio to get a role in theatre, television, and radio media once more. Later, he got this telephone message from a talent agent (Lady Luck in disguise). The message gave Larry the choice to either take up the role of H.R. Bloodengutz for the WKNB Midnight Horror Show or refuse and have to go back to work as a taxidermist to get by resulting in the agency not being able to represent him anymore.

Larry took the offer, started working at the Channel 21 WKNB Station and within months, the Midnight Horror Show became one of the best horror variety shows at the time. Larry's character H.R. Bloodengutz resembled Al Lewis's character Grandpa Munster from The Munsters TV show, and he had a witty personality. The show would present all kinds of horror movies, and H.R. Bloodengutz was the host of the show. Bloodengutz later began to host original horror/comedy episodes about holidays such as Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, President's Day, the Fourth of July, Arbor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. At this point, Larry began to take the role of H.R. Bloodengutz too seriously as he demanded to be referred to as such and soon began to develop violent mood swings.

SLIPPING INTO MADNESS

A year later, the show's ratings began to drop drastically due to the holiday themed horror episodes being too disturbing. This, along with the corresponding loss of advertising revenue, was enough to make the producer, John Reynolds, write Larry a letter telling him that the H.R. Bloodengutz show had to be cancelled. In a demented rage, Larry kidnapped Reynolds and some of the TV crew members and horribly tortured them as he hosted and broadcasted his holiday themed episodes for one last time. By the time police arrived to arrest Larry, Reynolds was suffering from mortal wounds. He died in the hospital he was placed in. The other members of the crew were released from the hospital, but they all quit their jobs at the WKNB station. Larry Kurtzberg was placed in the Carey Penitentiary for life, showing no remorse in torturing the producer.

GRAND RETURN

After his descension into violent madness where he tortured his crew when his show was canceled, H.R. Bloodengutz has escaped from Carey State Penitentiary on Halloween Day to return to WKNB Television Station for a final Halloween Special of gruesome proportions with a marathon of straight-to-TV Halloween films that were his favorites that he never got to showcase back when he was working 15 years prior. The events which was seen in H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular during Halloween Horror Nights 35.

ALTERNATE ALIAS

Soon after his initial escape but before presenting his new Halloween Spooktacular Show, Larry Kurtzberg would be revealed to be The Feaster Bunny during the Feaster Grievings event at Horror Unleashed in Las Vegas. He was also discovered to be responsible for the 1978 Feaster Grievings Massacre, acting as the protagonist of an unfinished horror film called Feaster Bunny. The character would set out to finish his film, casting guests as "extras".