Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

It’s time for a new episode of our Revisited video series, and with this one we’re taking a moment to pay tribute to one of the most iconic horror hosts of all time, Elvira. The movie we’re covering is the 1988 horror comedy Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (watch it HERE) – the Halloween season seemed like a perfect time to show Elvira some love – and you can find out all about it in the embed above!

Directed by James Signorelli from a screenplay written by Sam Egan, John Paragon, and Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a. Elvira herself), Elvira: Mistress of the Dark has the following synopsis:

The late night TV scream queen of horror makes her debut as a movie star in this manic comedy that is full of laughs. The mega-busted terror queen descends descends upon a conservative Massachusetts town to sell her late aunt’s estate. What ensues is a laugh riot, albeit with more jokes than you can count. From screaming gremlins to campy schtick to witchy graveyard warfare, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is busting at the seams with morbid and monstrous misadventures.

Peterson / Elvira stars alongside W. Morgan Sheppard, Daniel Greene, Jeff Conaway, Susan Kellermann, and Edie McClurg.

The Elvira: Mistress of the Dark episode of Revisited was Written by Emilie Black, Narrated by Niki Minter, Edited by Lance Vlcek, Produced by Tyler Nichols and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Several series on the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel have been released under the Revisited banner. (Episodes of Best Horror Movie You Never Saw, The Black Sheep, Deconstructing, Horror Party Movies, Best Foreign Horror Movies, Playing with Fear, and Real Slashers have all been labeled Revisited on YouTube.) We recently got a new series simply titled Revisited started with an episode dedicated to Chopping Mall. The second episode covered Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, the third looked at Videodrome, Jacob’s Ladder was the fourth in the series, Re-Animator was number five, episode six looked back at House II: The Second Story, number seven covered Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, number eight revisited Poltergeist, number nine looked at Killer Klowns from Outer Space, with the tenth episode we revisited Fright Night, number eleven was all about The Fog, and twelve looked back at The Craft.

Two previous episodes of Revisited can be seen below. To see more of our shows, head over to the JoBlo Horror Originals channel – and subscribe while you’re at it!

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