Movies: Cassandra Peterson

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...

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....

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...

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...

A dedicated social worker joins forces with a group of senior citizens fighting City Hall to prevent the demolition of their apartment building and falls for the man she meets on a blind date at a punk rock club. She soon learns that he is the buildi...

Host Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, satisfies the yearnings of viewers with a taste for terror in this one-hour special devoted to movies' ultimate bad girls. From witches to vampires, female monsters and robots to women possessed and women from outer...

Vampira The Movie chronicles the story of Malia "Vampira" Nurmi living on the very edge of show business and her rise to celluloid cultdom 50 years later. Her big break came in 1954 when she played the "glamour ghoul" Vampira, emerging from the mist...

As an actor, Bruce Campbell has well over 150 credits to his name. From "Xena: Warrior Princess" to "Bubba Ho-Tep" and "The Evil Dead" franchise, Bruce's prolific career is something worth celebrating. And what better way than with a roast from his n...

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....

Elvira hosts this humorous look at movie monsters and facts about the real animals on which they're based. Included: clips from films; and interviews with scientists and various showbiz types, including directors John Carpenter and John Landis, and a...

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

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."...

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

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

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!...

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....

KCAL's 1997 Halloween Scream special featuring Elvira and other celebrity guests....

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

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