
Elvira's Movie Macabre
TV-141981•2h 0m•6.9/10
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6.9/10(14)
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.
Language
EN
Status
Ended
First Aired
September 26, 1981
Last Aired
November 2, 1986
Networks
KHJ-TV
Created By
Cassandra Peterson
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Where to Watch
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season
E1
Grave of the Vampire
Air date: 1981-09-26
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.
E2
Silent Night, Bloody Night
Air date: 1981-10-03
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.
E3
The House That Screamed
Air date: 1981-10-10
Students begin to disappear from an all-girl boarding school.
E4
The Fall of the House of Usher
Air date: 1981-10-17
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.
E5
The Dunwich Horror
Air date: 1981-10-25
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.
E6
Blacula
Air date: 1981-11-01
African Prince, cursed with vampirism, is shipped to the US and accidentally revived in the 1970`s. Talk about culture shock.
E7
The Comedy of Terrors
Air date: 1981-11-07
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.
E8
The Thing With Two Heads
Air date: 1981-11-15
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.
E9
The Werewolf of Washington
Air date: 1981-11-21
After returning from Hungary, a reporter is appointed a press secretary to th US President. Unknown by all, he is a werewolf. Horror comedy.
E10
Cry of the Banshee
Air date: 1981-11-29
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.
E11
Count Yorga, Vampire
Air date: 1981-12-05
Modern (circa 1970) vampire causes havoc amongst some twentysomthings in Los Angeles.
E12
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Air date: 1981-12-12
Masked man is killing members of a theatre troupe. Film has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe.
E13
Baron Blood
Air date: 1981-12-27
Visiting his ancestral castle, a young man accidentally brings the sadistic title fiend back to life. Oops!
E14
Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde
Air date: 1982-01-03
A novel twist to the classic tale. When Jekyll drinks his potion, he turns into a woman!
E15
The Crimson Cult
Air date: 1982-01-10
In search of his missing brother, a man discovers witchcraft at a country estate. Boris Karloff`s last A film.
E16
The Murder Clinic
Air date: 1982-01-16
Someone or something is killing inmates and medical personnel at a mental institution.
E17
Horror Express
Air date: 1982-01-23
Ape-like creature, found frozen on an archeological dig, thaws out and begins killing people on board a train traveling across Siberia.
E18
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Air date: 1982-01-30
Doctor transplants the head of a psychotic killer onto the body of a retarded young man.
E19
Horror Hospital
Air date: 1982-02-06
Doctor and his wacky wife experiment on people who answer their newspaper advertisement.
E20
Rattlers
Air date: 1982-02-13
Rattlesnakes high on nerve gas decide to kick some human butt.
E21
Disciple of Death
Air date: 1982-02-20
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.
E22
Frankenstein
Air date: 1982-02-28
Still another version of the classic tale. This time the monster is more sympathetic. A Dan Curtis production.
E23
The Devil's Rain
Air date: 1982-03-06
If you cross these satan worshippers, you end up as a puddle on the floor.
E24
Psychic Killer
Air date: 1982-03-13
After learning astral projection from a fellow inmate in a mental institution, a man uses it to kill people who tick him off.
E25
Necromancy
Air date: 1982-03-20
Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.
E26
The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe
Air date: 1982-03-27
Poe believes something strange is going on at the asylum where the love of his life, Lenore, is an inmate.
E27
Peeping Tom
Air date: 1982-04-03
Man films his victims as he kills them. Classic film.
E28
Legacy of Blood
Air date: 1982-04-10
Heirs to fortune must spend the night in their late father`s mansion. Someone or something begins to kill them one by one.
E29
Deathdream
Air date: 1982-04-18
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.
E30
The Deathmaster
Air date: 1982-04-25
Vampire becomes the head of a commune of hippies.
E31
Beware! The Blob
Air date: 1982-05-01
A piece of the original blob accidentally thaws out. Critter begins gobbling up everyone it comes in contact with.
E32
Good Against Evil
Air date: 1982-05-08
Exorcists vs devil worshippers.
E33
The Brotherhood of Satan
Air date: 1982-05-15
Still more devil worshippers. They recruit(read kidnap)kids for their cult.
E34
The Mad Magician
Air date: 1982-05-22
Magician and master of disguise takes revenge on those who screwed him over.
E35
The Turn of the Screw
Air date: 1982-05-22
The new governess at a country estate begins to see ghosts. Are they real or is she mad?
E36
Count Dracula's Great Love
Air date: 1982-05-29
Four women take refuge in a castle after their coach breaks down. Guess who lives there?
E37
Jennifer The Snake Goddess
Air date: 1982-06-12
Girl has ability to control snakes. She uses them to take revenge on classmates who torment her.
E38
Masque of the Red Death
Air date: 1982-06-19
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.
E39
The Tomb of Ligeia
Air date: 1982-06-26
Man believes his new wife is possessed by the ghost of his first wife.
E40
The Incredible Melting Man
Air date: 1982-07-03
After returning from a space mission, astronaut begins to turn to liquid. Bloody mess, what?
E41
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Air date: 1982-07-10
Van Helsing-like professor and his bumbling assistant hunt vampires. They stumble onto the mother lode. Classic horror comedy.
E42
Terror House
Air date: 1982-07-17
Guests are on the menu at the Red Wolf Inn.
E43
The Baby
Air date: 1982-07-24
Social worker investigates bizarre family where the twentysomething son is kept in diapers and treated like an infant!
E44
The House of Seven Corpses
Air date: 1982-07-31
Someone or something is killing members of a production crew filming a movie in an old dark house.
E45
Psychomania
Air date: 1982-08-07
Hell raising bikers discover that, if they commit suicide, they can return from the dead and raise even more hell.
E46
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Air date: 1982-08-14
Modern version of Hansel and Gretel. Wacko lures kids into her old dark house. Pie anyone?
























