Elvira's Movie Macabre (1981)
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, presents low-budget scary movies and provides sarcastic, campy commentary.
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Episode 1 - Grave of the Vampire
Release Date: 1981-09-26Vampire 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.
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Episode 2 - Silent Night, Bloody Night
Release Date: 1981-10-03The 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.
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Episode 3 - The House That Screamed
Release Date: 1981-10-10Students begin to disappear from an all-girl boarding school.
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Episode 4 - The Fall of the House of Usher
Release Date: 1981-10-17In 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.
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Episode 5 - The Dunwich Horror
Release Date: 1981-10-25Once 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.
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Episode 6 - Blacula
Release Date: 1981-11-01African Prince, cursed with vampirism, is shipped to the US and accidentally revived in the 1970`s. Talk about culture shock.
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Episode 7 - The Comedy of Terrors
Release Date: 1981-11-07Business 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.
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Episode 8 - The Thing With Two Heads
Release Date: 1981-11-15White 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.
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Episode 9 - The Werewolf of Washington
Release Date: 1981-11-21After returning from Hungary, a reporter is appointed a press secretary to th US President. Unknown by all, he is a werewolf. Horror comedy.
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Episode 10 - Cry of the Banshee
Release Date: 1981-11-29Evil 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.
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Episode 11 - Count Yorga, Vampire
Release Date: 1981-12-05Modern (circa 1970) vampire causes havoc amongst some twentysomthings in Los Angeles.
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Episode 12 - Murders in the Rue Morgue
Release Date: 1981-12-12Masked man is killing members of a theatre troupe. Film has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe.
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Episode 13 - Baron Blood
Release Date: 1981-12-27Visiting his ancestral castle, a young man accidentally brings the sadistic title fiend back to life. Oops!
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Episode 14 - Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde
Release Date: 1982-01-03A novel twist to the classic tale. When Jekyll drinks his potion, he turns into a woman!
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Episode 15 - The Crimson Cult
Release Date: 1982-01-10In search of his missing brother, a man discovers witchcraft at a country estate. Boris Karloff`s last A film.
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Episode 16 - The Murder Clinic
Release Date: 1982-01-16Someone or something is killing inmates and medical personnel at a mental institution.
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Episode 17 - Horror Express
Release Date: 1982-01-23Ape-like creature, found frozen on an archeological dig, thaws out and begins killing people on board a train traveling across Siberia.
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Episode 18 - The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Release Date: 1982-01-30Doctor transplants the head of a psychotic killer onto the body of a retarded young man.
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Episode 19 - Horror Hospital
Release Date: 1982-02-06Doctor and his wacky wife experiment on people who answer their newspaper advertisement.
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Episode 20 - Rattlers
Release Date: 1982-02-13Rattlesnakes high on nerve gas decide to kick some human butt.
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Episode 21 - Disciple of Death
Release Date: 1982-02-20One 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.
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Episode 22 - Frankenstein
Release Date: 1982-02-28Still another version of the classic tale. This time the monster is more sympathetic. A Dan Curtis production.
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Episode 23 - The Devil's Rain
Release Date: 1982-03-06If you cross these satan worshippers, you end up as a puddle on the floor.
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Episode 24 - Psychic Killer
Release Date: 1982-03-13After learning astral projection from a fellow inmate in a mental institution, a man uses it to kill people who tick him off.
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Episode 25 - Necromancy
Release Date: 1982-03-20Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.
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Episode 26 - The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe
Release Date: 1982-03-27Poe believes something strange is going on at the asylum where the love of his life, Lenore, is an inmate.
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Episode 27 - Peeping Tom
Release Date: 1982-04-03Man films his victims as he kills them. Classic film.
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Episode 28 - Legacy of Blood
Release Date: 1982-04-10Heirs to fortune must spend the night in their late father`s mansion. Someone or something begins to kill them one by one.
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Episode 29 - Deathdream
Release Date: 1982-04-18Family 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.
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Episode 30 - The Deathmaster
Release Date: 1982-04-25Vampire becomes the head of a commune of hippies.
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Episode 31 - Beware! The Blob
Release Date: 1982-05-01A piece of the original blob accidentally thaws out. Critter begins gobbling up everyone it comes in contact with.
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Episode 32 - Good Against Evil
Release Date: 1982-05-08Exorcists vs devil worshippers.
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Episode 33 - The Brotherhood of Satan
Release Date: 1982-05-15Still more devil worshippers. They recruit(read kidnap)kids for their cult.
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Episode 34 - The Mad Magician
Release Date: 1982-05-22Magician and master of disguise takes revenge on those who screwed him over.
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Episode 35 - The Turn of the Screw
Release Date: 1982-05-22The new governess at a country estate begins to see ghosts. Are they real or is she mad?
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Episode 36 - Count Dracula's Great Love
Release Date: 1982-05-29Four women take refuge in a castle after their coach breaks down. Guess who lives there?
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Episode 37 - Jennifer The Snake Goddess
Release Date: 1982-06-12Girl has ability to control snakes. She uses them to take revenge on classmates who torment her.
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Episode 38 - Masque of the Red Death
Release Date: 1982-06-19Believing 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.
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Episode 39 - The Tomb of Ligeia
Release Date: 1982-06-26Man believes his new wife is possessed by the ghost of his first wife.
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Episode 40 - The Incredible Melting Man
Release Date: 1982-07-03After returning from a space mission, astronaut begins to turn to liquid. Bloody mess, what?
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Episode 41 - The Fearless Vampire Killers
Release Date: 1982-07-10Van Helsing-like professor and his bumbling assistant hunt vampires. They stumble onto the mother lode. Classic horror comedy.
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Episode 42 - Terror House
Release Date: 1982-07-17Guests are on the menu at the Red Wolf Inn.
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Episode 43 - The Baby
Release Date: 1982-07-24Social worker investigates bizarre family where the twentysomething son is kept in diapers and treated like an infant!
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Episode 44 - The House of Seven Corpses
Release Date: 1982-07-31Someone or something is killing members of a production crew filming a movie in an old dark house.
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Episode 45 - Psychomania
Release Date: 1982-08-07Hell raising bikers discover that, if they commit suicide, they can return from the dead and raise even more hell.
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Episode 46 - Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Release Date: 1982-08-14Modern version of Hansel and Gretel. Wacko lures kids into her old dark house. Pie anyone?