Cassandra Peterson
Director
Elvira's Movie Macabre (1981)
Season 1
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, presents low-budget scary movies and provides sarcastic, campy commentary all while bringing the voluptuous charm & energy that only she can give.
Released Sept. 26, 1981
Episode 120 min
14+
Keywords: tmdb.b-movie, imdb.psychotronic-series, imdb.horror-filmmaking, imdb.psychotronic-filmmaking, imdb.camp, imdb.campy, imdb.elvira-mistress-of-the-dark-character, mdblist.has-trailer
Network: KHJ-TV
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Grave of the Vampire
Vampire attacks woman and rapes her. Woman gives birth to a boy who must have mother`s blood instead of milk. When boy becomes an adult, he is determined to find and destroy his father.
Sept. 26, 1981, midnight
S1E2 - Silent Night, Bloody Night
The townspeople are upset when a man begins to research the history of his inheritance: an old mansion that used to be used as a mental institution.
Oct. 3, 1981, midnight
S1E3 - The House That Screamed
Students begin to disappear from an all-girl boarding school.
Oct. 10, 1981, midnight
S1E4 - The Fall of the House of Usher
In search of the woman he loves, a young man goes to the ancestral home of the Ushers. He discovers a house of madness and death. The first Roger Corman Poe adaptation.
Oct. 17, 1981, midnight
S1E5 - The Dunwich Horror
Once upon a time, twins were born. One looks and acts human, the other is a many-headed creepy crawly. The human brother wants to bring ""the old ones"" from another dimension. He needs a book called the Necromicon and a human sacrifice. He picks Sandra Dee. ""Hey, look at me, I`m Sandra..."" Oops! Heh heh, wrong movie. Anyway, the creepy-crawly gets out and starts eating all the townspeople. That`ll drive down property values, I can tell ya. Based on H P Lovecraft story.
Oct. 25, 1981, midnight
S1E6 - Blacula
African Prince, cursed with vampirism, is shipped to the US and accidentally revived in the 1970`s. Talk about culture shock.
Nov. 1, 1981, midnight
S1E7 - The Comedy of Terrors
Business is so poor, a cash-strapped undertaker and his bumbling assistant decide to ""persuade"" people to become clients. Classic Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone horror comedy.
Nov. 7, 1981, midnight
S1E8 - The Thing With Two Heads
White bigot plans to have his head transplanted to another man`s body. He is dying and this is his idea to thwart death. Without his knowledge, his head is transplanted onto a black convict`s body. And the convict still has his own head.
Nov. 15, 1981, midnight
S1E9 - The Werewolf of Washington
After returning from Hungary, a reporter is appointed a press secretary to th US President. Unknown by all, he is a werewolf. Horror comedy.
Nov. 21, 1981, midnight
S1E10 - Cry of the Banshee
Evil ruler with an obsessive hatred for witchcraft, destroys a witches coven. The head witch puts a curse on his entire family. Title creature begins killing family members one by one.
Nov. 29, 1981, midnight
S1E11 - Count Yorga, Vampire
Modern (circa 1970) vampire causes havoc amongst some twentysomthings in Los Angeles.
Dec. 5, 1981, midnight
S1E12 - Murders in the Rue Morgue
Masked man is killing members of a theatre troupe. Film has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe.
Dec. 12, 1981, midnight
S1E13 - Baron Blood
Visiting his ancestral castle, a young man accidentally brings the sadistic title fiend back to life. Oops!
Dec. 27, 1981, midnight
S1E14 - Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde
A novel twist to the classic tale. When Jekyll drinks his potion, he turns into a woman!
Jan. 3, 1982, midnight
S1E15 - The Crimson Cult
In search of his missing brother, a man discovers witchcraft at a country estate. Boris Karloff`s last A film.
Jan. 10, 1982, midnight
S1E16 - The Murder Clinic
Someone or something is killing inmates and medical personnel at a mental institution.
Jan. 16, 1982, midnight
S1E17 - Horror Express
Ape-like creature, found frozen on an archeological dig, thaws out and begins killing people on board a train traveling across Siberia.
Jan. 23, 1982, midnight
S1E18 - The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Doctor transplants the head of a psychotic killer onto the body of a retarded young man.
Jan. 30, 1982, midnight
S1E19 - Horror Hospital
Doctor and his wacky wife experiment on people who answer their newspaper advertisement.
Feb. 6, 1982, midnight
S1E20 - Rattlers
Rattlesnakes high on nerve gas decide to kick some human butt.
Feb. 13, 1982, midnight
S1E21 - Disciple of Death
One of Satan`s own is accidentally brought back to life. (here we go again) He immediately begins searching for women to sacrifice to his boss.
Feb. 20, 1982, midnight
S1E22 - Frankenstein
Still another version of the classic tale. This time the monster is more sympathetic. A Dan Curtis production.
Feb. 28, 1982, midnight
S1E23 - The Devil's Rain
If you cross these satan worshippers, you end up as a puddle on the floor.
March 6, 1982, midnight
S1E24 - Psychic Killer
After learning astral projection from a fellow inmate in a mental institution, a man uses it to kill people who tick him off.
March 13, 1982, midnight
S1E25 - Necromancy
Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.
March 20, 1982, midnight
S1E26 - The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe
Poe believes something strange is going on at the asylum where the love of his life, Lenore, is an inmate.
March 27, 1982, midnight
S1E27 - Peeping Tom
Man films his victims as he kills them. Classic film.
April 3, 1982, midnight
S1E28 - Legacy of Blood
Heirs to fortune must spend the night in their late father`s mansion. Someone or something begins to kill them one by one.
April 10, 1982, midnight
S1E29 - Deathdream
Family is notified that their son was killed in action while serving in Vietnam. The same day, the son returns but everyone begins to realize something is horribly wrong with him. Updated version of The Monkey`s Paw.
April 18, 1982, midnight
S1E30 - The Deathmaster
Vampire becomes the head of a commune of hippies.
April 25, 1982, midnight
S1E31 - Beware! The Blob
A piece of the original blob accidentally thaws out. Critter begins gobbling up everyone it comes in contact with.
May 1, 1982, midnight
S1E32 - Good Against Evil
Exorcists vs devil worshippers.
May 8, 1982, midnight
S1E33 - The Brotherhood of Satan
Still more devil worshippers. They recruit(read kidnap)kids for their cult.
May 15, 1982, midnight
S1E34 - The Mad Magician
Magician and master of disguise takes revenge on those who screwed him over.
May 22, 1982, midnight
S1E35 - The Turn of the Screw
The new governess at a country estate begins to see ghosts. Are they real or is she mad?
May 22, 1982, midnight
S1E36 - Count Dracula's Great Love
Four women take refuge in a castle after their coach breaks down. Guess who lives there?
May 29, 1982, midnight
S1E37 - Jennifer The Snake Goddess
Girl has ability to control snakes. She uses them to take revenge on classmates who torment her.
June 12, 1982, midnight
S1E38 - Masque of the Red Death
Believing Satan protects him and his privileged guests from the plague that is ravaging the countryside, an evil count torments selected victims. Classic Price/Poe/Corman film.
June 19, 1982, midnight
S1E39 - The Tomb of Ligeia
Man believes his new wife is possessed by the ghost of his first wife.
June 26, 1982, midnight
S1E40 - The Incredible Melting Man
After returning from a space mission, astronaut begins to turn to liquid. Bloody mess, what?
July 3, 1982, midnight
S1E41 - The Fearless Vampire Killers
Van Helsing-like professor and his bumbling assistant hunt vampires. They stumble onto the mother lode. Classic horror comedy.
July 10, 1982, midnight
S1E42 - Terror House
Guests are on the menu at the Red Wolf Inn.
July 17, 1982, midnight
S1E43 - The Baby
Social worker investigates bizarre family where the twentysomething son is kept in diapers and treated like an infant!
July 24, 1982, midnight
S1E44 - The House of Seven Corpses
Someone or something is killing members of a production crew filming a movie in an old dark house.
July 31, 1982, midnight
S1E45 - Psychomania
Hell raising bikers discover that, if they commit suicide, they can return from the dead and raise even more hell.
Aug. 7, 1982, midnight
S1E46 - Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Modern version of Hansel and Gretel. Wacko lures kids into her old dark house. Pie anyone?
Aug. 14, 1982, midnight
Network: KHJ-TV
Episode Runtime: 120 min.
Season Runtime: 16800 min.
Released: Sept. 26, 1981
Last Air Date: Nov. 2, 1986, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-14 / 14+
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