"Listen, young lady. I don't know who you are or where you came from, but you most certainly don't fit in this town. Why, you don't even fit in that dress." Well, that wasn’t a very nice thing to say. Join your faithful Grue-Crew - Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr - as they experience the media phenomena known as Elvira in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988).
Decades of Horror 1980s
Episode 172 – Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.
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Director: James Signorelli Writers: Sam Egan, John Paragon Cast Cassandra Peterson as Elvira / Great-Aunt Morgana Talbot W. Morgan Sheppard as Great-Uncle Vincent Talbot Daniel Greene as Bob Redding Susan Kellermann as Patty Edie McClurg as Chastity Pariah Robert Benedetti as Mr. Calvin Cobb Kurt Fuller as Mr. Glotter Jack Fletcher as Mr. Bigelow William Duell as Lesley Meeker Pat Crawford Brown as Mrs. Meeker Ellen Dunning as Robin Meeker Kris Kamm as Randy Scott Morris as Sean Ira Heiden as Bo Jeff Conaway as Travis Frank Collison as Billy Frank Welker as the voice of Algonquin
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is Bill’s pick and it is a first-time watch for him. He did enjoy the watch and even though it’s a bad movie, Elvira is a great, compelling character and Cassandra Peterson knows that character inside and out. It might not be a surprise that Crystal loves everything about Elvira and watches this film 2 or 3 times each year. For her, it’s lighthearted and silly and super dumb and super good. Lilly Munster meets The Addams Family meets Henny Youngman is how Chad sees Elvira and he’s a big fan as well. As another first time viewer, Jeff agrees it’s an enjoyable, fun movie and he loved all the good character actors supporting Cassandra Peterson.
If you haven’t seen it or haven’t seen it for a while, check it out! You know you want to! As of this writing, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is available to stream on Shudder, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, and on physical media as a Blu-ray from Arrow Films.
Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Crystal, will be Society (1989).
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