About this season
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.
Episodes (46)
1. Grave of the Vampire
Aired 26 September 1981 • 120 min
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.
2. Silent Night, Bloody Night
Aired 3 October 1981 • 120 min
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.
3. The House That Screamed
Aired 10 October 1981 • 120 min
Students begin to disappear from an all-girl boarding school.
4. The Fall of the House of Usher
Aired 17 October 1981 • 120 min
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.
5. The Dunwich Horror
Aired 25 October 1981 • 120 min
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.
6. Blacula
Aired 1 November 1981 • 120 min
African Prince, cursed with vampirism, is shipped to the US and accidentally revived in the 1970`s. Talk about culture shock.
7. The Comedy of Terrors
Aired 7 November 1981 • 120 min
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.
8. The Thing With Two Heads
Aired 15 November 1981 • 120 min
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.
9. The Werewolf of Washington
Aired 21 November 1981 • 120 min
After returning from Hungary, a reporter is appointed a press secretary to th US President. Unknown by all, he is a werewolf. Horror comedy.
10. Cry of the Banshee
Aired 29 November 1981 • 120 min
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.
11. Count Yorga, Vampire
Aired 5 December 1981 • 120 min
Modern (circa 1970) vampire causes havoc amongst some twentysomthings in Los Angeles.
12. Murders in the Rue Morgue
Aired 12 December 1981 • 120 min
Masked man is killing members of a theatre troupe. Film has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe.
13. Baron Blood
Aired 27 December 1981 • 120 min
Visiting his ancestral castle, a young man accidentally brings the sadistic title fiend back to life. Oops!
14. Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde
Aired 3 January 1982 • 120 min
A novel twist to the classic tale. When Jekyll drinks his potion, he turns into a woman!
15. The Crimson Cult
Aired 10 January 1982 • 120 min
In search of his missing brother, a man discovers witchcraft at a country estate. Boris Karloff`s last A film.
16. The Murder Clinic
Aired 16 January 1982 • 120 min
Someone or something is killing inmates and medical personnel at a mental institution.
17. Horror Express
Aired 23 January 1982 • 120 min
Ape-like creature, found frozen on an archeological dig, thaws out and begins killing people on board a train traveling across Siberia.
18. The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Aired 30 January 1982 • 120 min
Doctor transplants the head of a psychotic killer onto the body of a retarded young man.
19. Horror Hospital
Aired 6 February 1982 • 120 min
Doctor and his wacky wife experiment on people who answer their newspaper advertisement.
20. Rattlers
Aired 13 February 1982 • 120 min
Rattlesnakes high on nerve gas decide to kick some human butt.
21. Disciple of Death
Aired 20 February 1982 • 120 min
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.
22. Frankenstein
Aired 28 February 1982 • 120 min
Still another version of the classic tale. This time the monster is more sympathetic. A Dan Curtis production.
23. The Devil's Rain
Aired 6 March 1982 • 120 min
If you cross these satan worshippers, you end up as a puddle on the floor.
24. Psychic Killer
Aired 13 March 1982 • 120 min
After learning astral projection from a fellow inmate in a mental institution, a man uses it to kill people who tick him off.
25. Necromancy
Aired 20 March 1982 • 120 min
Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.
26. The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe
Aired 27 March 1982 • 120 min
Poe believes something strange is going on at the asylum where the love of his life, Lenore, is an inmate.
27. Peeping Tom
Aired 3 April 1982 • 120 min
Man films his victims as he kills them. Classic film.
28. Legacy of Blood
Aired 10 April 1982 • 120 min
Heirs to fortune must spend the night in their late father`s mansion. Someone or something begins to kill them one by one.
29. Deathdream
Aired 18 April 1982 • 120 min
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.
30. The Deathmaster
Aired 25 April 1982 • 120 min
Vampire becomes the head of a commune of hippies.
31. Beware! The Blob
Aired 1 May 1982 • 120 min
A piece of the original blob accidentally thaws out. Critter begins gobbling up everyone it comes in contact with.
32. Good Against Evil
Aired 8 May 1982 • 120 min
Exorcists vs devil worshippers.
33. The Brotherhood of Satan
Aired 15 May 1982 • 120 min
Still more devil worshippers. They recruit(read kidnap)kids for their cult.
34. The Mad Magician
Aired 22 May 1982 • 120 min
Magician and master of disguise takes revenge on those who screwed him over.
35. The Turn of the Screw
Aired 22 May 1982 • 120 min
The new governess at a country estate begins to see ghosts. Are they real or is she mad?
36. Count Dracula's Great Love
Aired 29 May 1982 • 120 min
Four women take refuge in a castle after their coach breaks down. Guess who lives there?
37. Jennifer The Snake Goddess
Aired 12 June 1982 • 120 min
Girl has ability to control snakes. She uses them to take revenge on classmates who torment her.
38. Masque of the Red Death
Aired 19 June 1982 • 120 min
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.
39. The Tomb of Ligeia
Aired 26 June 1982 • 120 min
Man believes his new wife is possessed by the ghost of his first wife.
40. The Incredible Melting Man
Aired 3 July 1982 • 120 min
After returning from a space mission, astronaut begins to turn to liquid. Bloody mess, what?
41. The Fearless Vampire Killers
Aired 10 July 1982 • 120 min
Van Helsing-like professor and his bumbling assistant hunt vampires. They stumble onto the mother lode. Classic horror comedy.
42. Terror House
Aired 17 July 1982 • 120 min
Guests are on the menu at the Red Wolf Inn.
43. The Baby
Aired 24 July 1982 • 120 min
Social worker investigates bizarre family where the twentysomething son is kept in diapers and treated like an infant!
44. The House of Seven Corpses
Aired 31 July 1982 • 120 min
Someone or something is killing members of a production crew filming a movie in an old dark house.
45. Psychomania
Aired 7 August 1982 • 120 min
Hell raising bikers discover that, if they commit suicide, they can return from the dead and raise even more hell.
46. Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Aired 14 August 1982 • 120 min
Modern version of Hansel and Gretel. Wacko lures kids into her old dark house. Pie anyone?