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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Introducing Elvira
Review: Arrgghh! How dare Amazon not have this great campy film in stock? Please check in by Halloween, which is the best time to see the film.

More hilarious and sexy than scary and ghostly, Elvira is a great fictional character that is a reviewer of bad b horror movies who just happens to find herself visiting a small highly moral town to see if she has inherited anything form a dead relative. Of course, the woman with big assets and a small dress causes wackiness to ensue as she gets a haunted house with an eerie book in the will along with a an evil uncle, an ultra conservative manic (played awesomely by Edie McClurg). Through in a love interest and a slew of teenagers that lovely the dark lady's campy shtick and you have got yourself a hell of a movie. The story is not an original at all and the witty comebacks give a chuckle or two, but it is the main character of Elvira that shines the brightest.

The movie is a funny little thing and is over the top at best. Elvira just is powerful on the screen and manages to make you fall in love with that weirdo that introduces bad horror movies on cable. A very funny film that can be enjoyed by all. Please check back close to Halloween because I'm sure that the film distributor will wake up and realize what a fabulous little thing they have sales wise here. Please give it a chance

By the way, I'm sure that you all no that Elvira is not real. Sorry. She is played by Cassandra Peterson, who is also one of the writers of those jokes. It is also wroth mentioning that there are videos of Elvira reviewing bad movies, which are incredible fun. Good night, boils and ghouls.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Elvira Proves She Is Queen of Scream and Just Plain Fun
Review: Dispite what Leonard Maltin has to say about this film, Elvira's huge, uh, ratings proves that she is definately no slouch when it comes to making a great comedy. Weither you are young or old, Elvira is one person you just gotta love. A great send-up to old horror movies, and a few recent pop-culture favorites, this movie doesn't miss a beat. From Elvira's failed attempt at cooking to her standing ovulation Flashdance number, you just have to laugh. Starring as a bored Horror Hostess on a local syndicated network, Elvira soon discovers that she has an inheritance from a long lost aunt. She leaves her crummy job and sets out to find her fortune. Little does she know she's inherited more than she's bargained for. Like the knowledge that she's decended from a major mata-physical celebrity! From then on she must contend with an evil sorcerous uncle, a shy hunky local, a jealous girl named Patty and a nosey gossip who's catty, all while trying to keep up that gorgeous do! (Try saying THAT three times fast.) Watch this movie and you'll agree, Elvira is just too funny for words.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: She's a great pair of legs too!
Review: I saw this in the theater when I was in high school and took my girlfriend at the time. Ha ha, ten minutes into this movie I forgot she was even with me. Elvira aka Cassandra Peterson is funny, beautiful, and the most talanted woman alive with a pair of tassles.

When she inherits a house in New England she doesn't know her evil uncle is after a book of spells within. With two bumbling henchmen he seeks to get it. Elvira ends up saving the day with the help of the neighborhood kids and Gonk!

Highlight scenes are many since Elvira stars in this movie and is in almost every scene. I mean how could you ever get enough of this woman? Sexy, funny, and a woman who knows how to dress for success. There is not another movie out there anywhere with more sight gags and jokes about boobs.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a delightful little comedy
Review: Cassandra Peterson stars in a laugh-a-minute movie based on her 1980's cult persona of the horror movie hostess Elvira.

In the film, Elvira goes to the small town of Fallwell, where she is to receive an inheritance from a long-lost great-aunt.

She finds herself at odds with the straight-laced small town (not surprisingly) and the town's "moral leader" Chastity Pariah (Edie McClurg), and she is more than repulsed by the yokels chasing her down the street.

She needs the inheritance so she can open her act in Las Vegas, and when she discovers the contents; a house, a book and a dog, she is more than a little peeved.

However, she is about to learn of her ancestry, and her heritage...as a witch!

A funny romp, my mother was reluctant to watch this film merely because of the image of the busty Elvira on the cover, but she loved the film, and never laughed so hard in her life!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Elvira's great leap from hostess to star
Review: She's old enough to be my mom, yet like many guys, I fell in love (or would that be lust?) with Cassandra Peterson (better known as Elvira) almost from the moment I heard of her. The woman with the skintight, low-cut black dress, black pantyhose, & black bouffant wig used to host horror movies on TV in the 1980s, but here she stars in one of her own. Upon learning of the death of a great-aunt she didn't know she had, El embarks across the country to a small Massachusetts town named Falwell (after Rev. Jerry Falwell) to find out what she has inherited. This town is like Salem all over again--prudishness, religious fanaticism, hypocrisy, & witch trials. It's bad enough for El to face an adversary like Chastity Pariah (the upholder of the town's morals) & also get sexually harassed by a few creepy guys, but her most dangerous foe is her late great-aunt's brother & rival for the inheritance of a powerful recipe book that would make its possessor Master (or Mistress) of the Dark. Even the VHS version has a post-movie featurette about its making, in which Cassandra (in her Elvira costume) notes how the plot loosely parallels her own life; I might add that the movie's ending is reminiscent of her Las Vegas showgirl days.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Campy Horror Spoof -- Many Good Laughs!
Review: Elvira, the popular TV Creep-Show Hostess eventually made it to the Silver Screen with this formula plot-line. Elvira inherits what she first condiers a rather "intangible" fortune in form of an old (haunted?) mansion and a recipe book. Of course, there is much more to this "recipe book", of which only an evil relative is aware. -- Predictable good vs. evil story, helped along by countless double entendre side gags delivered mostly by the forever-hyper motor-mouthed buxom star. This is a modern Camp Classic, right up there with the Earnest Goes to Wherever films. Enjoyable non-sense. Even kids will enjoy this one!****

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of Elvira's finest hours!
Review: This was the movie that made Cassandra Peterson a star. Forget her role in Fellini's Roma, or her stint in the James Bond movie, it is her uncanny ability to appeal to both camp fanatics and [others] of all ages that makes her one of films most iconic figures. This film is a great laugh and a true cult classic.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: great campy movie
Review: if you like campy movies, busty babes, and like to laugh then this movie is for you. How can you go wrong with watching the funny and busty elvira for 90 mins. This is one of those movies where you shut your brain off and just have fun with it, also check out elviras other movie, elviras haunted hills.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: What is wrong with you people?
Review: I wouldn't watch this movie again if my life depended on it. Cheesy movies are supposed to be funny. I like Elvira's boobs as much as the next guy, but why does this movie need to make a breast joke every 30 seconds? ...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Oh man!!
Review: I don't know where to start here, but this film is Hilarious!! Elvira makes her debut, the picture is good thanks to Anchor Bay, which is one of the best companies out there right now! This Is a film that shows its not afraid to laugh at itself even! For fans of Elvira, this film is a MUST own! cmon , who can Ever get enough of Elvira??


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