Career
Larry Underwood has appeared in a number of independent films, as well as the documentary American Scary. However his best known work is as the Horror Host Doctor Gangrene on the long running WNAB television programs Doctor Gangrene"s Creature Feature, and Doctor Gangrene Presents, as well as his earlier cable-access program Chiller Cinema. Among the books they published was "Best Cellars", which featured the first-published work of Eric Powell, a story called MONSTER BOY, a precursor to The Goon.
lieutenant was during this period he first started writing, first scripts for comics then short stories.
To date he has had a number of short stories published in various anthology collections, and is a columnist for Scary Monsters Magazine where he researches and writes about horror and sci-fi cinema. In 2009 Larry Underwood formed a horror punk band called Spookhand.
Underwood fronted the band, appearing in a number of outlandish costumes and masks. The band utilized a variety of shock rock gimmicks live including dismemberment, blood drinking, and brain eating.
The songs were all horror themed and based on many sci-fi and horror movies.
They performed annually at Doctor Gangrene"s Horror Hootenanny show as well as in Nashville and surrounding areas. The band broke up in 2011. In 2005 Underwood performed a spoken intro on the Creeping Cruds Civil Defense, "The Incredibly Strange People Who Stopped Living and Became the Creeping Cruds." He also appeared on the Civil Defense in a spoken word bit in the middle of the song "All Hail the Horror Host" on that album.
That Civil Defense was nominated for a 2005 Rondo Award for BEST Civil Defense. Doctor Gangrene also provided the spoken intro and outro for the horror rock compilation Civil Defense "T-Boner"s Rot-North-Roll Compilation from Hell," released in 2006.
In 2009 Doctor Gangrene recreated a faux horror host episode at the start of the song "I Kicked Dracula"s Ass" on the Creeping Cruds Civil Defense, "Tennessee Bloodbath." The bit spoofed tales of long lost Hollywood horror films and poked fun at ridiculous "Americanized" titles of imported Spanish horror films. A classic horror film that was lost in a fabled Hollywood fire is recovered from Doctor Gangrene"s dungeon in Tennessee nearly 75 years later.
Before Doctor Gangrene is able to screen the newfound film for his horror host audiences the film catches fire in the projector and is again lost for the ages. Underwood provides the voice of a deranged killer truck driver on the 2010 Civil Defense Mark of the Psycho by the band Psychocharger.
That Civil Defense was nominated for a 2010 Rondo Award for BEST Civil Defense. Doctor Gangrene produced a 10th anniversary compilation Civil Defense called THE BLOODWATERS OF DR. G (He also voiced the intro for it), featuring a compilation of bands from the Horror Hootenanny rock concert held annually in Nashville, Tennessee during the Halloween season and hosted by Doctor This Civil Defense was nominated for a Rondo Award in 2014.
In Fall, 2014 Doctor Gangrene voiced the intro for ATTACK OF THE MUTANTS, a tribute Civil Defense for the band Impaler. Underwood also wrote the liner notes for the Education
