"The Host: Tom Leahy, TV Horror Host Pioneer" is a 1986 direct-to-video documentary focusing on the work of Tom Leahy as the horror movie host "The Host" of "Nightmare".

In 1986 a student, Jeffrey Kilian, made a documentary for his senior film studies project, writing the script, and obtaining Wichita movie host Jim Erickson to narrate and interview Tom Leahy who played the horror movie host "The Host" on the late night movie show "Nightmare", as well as showing archival clips from that show..—The Professor