Movies: Cassandra Peterson

The story of Elvira's rise to pop culture royalty....

An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a pair of innocents....

A revamping, if you will, of the 1980's classic horror movie showcase, hosted by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Elvira decides that the film she's hosting is so boring that she catches up on her reading and various personal chores....

Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of a expensive divorce. Madie hitches a ride back to California with a certain Charles Callahan, a...

MTV Halloween special, hosted by Elvira, featuring skits and music videos....

In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the next...

Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes....

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are...

A revamping, if you will, of the 1980's classic horror movie showcase, hosted by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Elvira decides to clean out her basement, relaunch "Movie Macabre," and host "Night of the Living Dead."...

Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention....

A fond remembrance of and tribute to the uniquely American institution of the horror movie host....

A look behind the scenes at Cortlandt Hull's "The Witch's Dungeon," a movie-themed Halloween attraction in Bristol, Connecticut -- now the longest-running show of its type in the United States....

Filmed for CBS in 1993, this unaired pilot features the witch Elvira, her aunt, and their pet cat welcoming a long-lost niece into their new Kansas home and contending with a couple of overzealous cops....

Monster Mania traces the evolution of horror films, featuring footage from classic and contemporary favorites....

The Professor, helped by his flying robot M.A.X., tries to show us the history of 3-D film, and his newest innovation, Real-O-Vision (ride films). But his hardware keeps breaking down, particularly when he's trying to introduce a music video of Elvir...

In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs, their in-laws, and the household servants must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off....

A look at the horror movies of the 1980's....

MTV Halloween special, hosted by Elvira, featuring skits and music videos....

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, narrates this tale of a new breed of vegetarian vampires who prefer tomatoes to jugulars. When old-fashioned Transylvanians come to town, things sure get wild in the castle!...

John Paragon and friends perform comedy skits as a variety of colorful characters....