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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a 1988 American comedy horror film directed by James Signorelli, starring Cassandra Peterson as eccentric horror host Elvira. The film's screenplay, written by Peterson, John Paragon, and Sam Egan, follows Elvira inheriting a house nestled in the heart of an overtly prudish community.
Sep 30, 1988 · Elvira, a horror hostess, inherits a mansion and a spell book from her great-aunt and faces a warlock who wants to destroy her. IMDb provides cast and crew, plot summary, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and user reviews of this 1988 film.
- (21K)
- Comedy, Horror
- James Signorelli
- 1988-09-30
- Cassandra Peterson saw her first horror movie—William Castle’s House On Haunted Hill—when she was just a kid. In an interview for David Weiner’s 2019 documentary In Search of Darkness, Peterson recalled seeing the 1959 Vincent Price shocker when she was very young, maybe 7 or 8 years old, and being “gobsmacked.”
- Cassandra Peterson credits a terrible childhood injury with setting her on the path to creating Elvira. Peterson suffered horrific, near-fatal third degrees burns after overturning a pot of boiling water when she was 18 months old.
- Cassandra Peterson became a Las Vegas showgirl when she was just 17 years old. When Peterson was a teenager, one of her idols was Ann-Margret, the Swedish-American singer, dancer, and actress who co-starred with Elvis Presley in 1964’s Viva Las Vegas.
- Cassandra Peterson was an extra in a James Bond movie. When she was working as a dancer with Vive Les Girls, Peterson and several of her colleagues served as extras in the 1971 James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.
Elvira, a horror hostess, inherits a mansion and a spellbook from her great-aunt in a conservative town. She faces a warlock who wants the book and the townspeople who want to burn her as a witch.
Shop a range of books, photos, and other collectibles that are autographed and autographed and personalized by the Mistress herself!
Nov 30, 2018 · Order in the UK: http://bit.ly/2Sk82mK Campy, quirky and stuffed to the brim with more double entendres than your average Carry On movie, 1988’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark helped...
- 2 min
- 145.3K
- Arrow Video
A comedy film starring Cassandra Peterson as the gothic TV hostess who inherits a haunted house and a black-magic cookbook. Read critics' reviews, watch the trailer and stream the movie on Prime Video.
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- Comedy
- PG-13
