#Elvira’s Haunted Hills

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Elvira coffin makeup case collaboration with dolls kill

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elvira with pee wee herman and traci lords

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This Black dress is worn on unknown actor as Elvira in Bump In The Night-Pattycake Productions the Horror Musical (2020) and later worn on Elvira in Elvira’s Haunted Hills (2001)

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𝐈 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲’𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤?

𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐲𝐞.

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Watching Elvira’s Haunted Hills and even though it’s not as good as Mistress of The Dark and obviously had a lower budget, I love Elvira’s little cabaret song. I’m enjoying it. And it looked like Cassandra is having a lot of fun.

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Elvira’s Haunted Hills (2001) dir. Sam Irvin

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Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)

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Cassandra Peterson as Elvira on the set of Elvira's Haunted Hills

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Cavity Colors enters Elvira's creepy corn maze with T-shirts ($30) and long sleeves ($40) designed by Yannick Bouchard. They'll ship the week of October 11.

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Okay, long story short, the reasons I liked Elvira's Haunted Hills despite my better judgement:

The constant riffs on the Price/Corman/Poe films

Richard O'Brien

It actually being kind of a real horror movie?

But most importantly, the opening titles claiming it was set in "Carpathia, 1851"

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Elvira's Haunted Hills (movie posters, 2001)

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Can't go thru spooky season without an entry from the queen of Halloween....

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SUMMARY: Spooky high jinks abound when Elvira finds herself spending the night in a mysterious castle en route to 1851 Paris.

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Halloweenathon:Elviras Haunted Hills

So a few years ago I watched Elvira Mistress of the Dark and was utterly enchanted by it ,a well deserved cult classic that I found very endearing and heartwarming.So this year I decided to check out Elviras second feature ,which is very diffrent .....But still charmed the hell out of me

This 2001 film follows Elvira (Cassandra Petersen ) and her servent Zhou Zhou (Mary Jo Smith ) as on her way to a show in Paris finds herself in Castle Hellsubus where resides the tortured and brooding Lord Vladimir Hellsubus (Richard O'Brien )

OK so....I hvae to explain what this film is,cause it is NOT a Mistress of the Dark sequel and that might dissappoint some people......What it is ,is something definately in my wheelhouse but kind of niche.....A parody of the Roger Corman/Vincent Price Poe films (With a dash of Hammer ,though mostly Corman ).ITs basically a mix of Fall of the House of Usher and Pit and the Pendulem but Elviras there .Now I LOVE the Corman Poe films and this is a brillaint parody .The common thing said about parody is you MUST parody something you love ,and this is one of the most loving parodys I have seen since Young Frankenstein ,not the funniest,but so loving,with scenes taken directly from USher or Penfulum,the convulated plot ,the crumbling castle ,and especially the hammy acting .I think the most brillaint choice in the film has to be the casting of Richard O'Brian as the Vincent Price type character....Cause he NAILS it ,I mean O'Brian is a spooky cult icon in of himself(I mean he created Rocky Horror for crying out loud ) ,but he absoultely gets the angsty torment and maniacal villainy of a Price character while gobbling up bits of scenery and nailing the humor of the part ,all while doing his own spin,hes not imitating Price ,but he nails the type of character Price excelled at ,he gets the vibe down .The rest of the cast is pretty fun especially Mary Scheer as the villinous wife who is wonderfully over the top and Scott Atkinson who plays the conniving Doctor while doing an impression of George Sanders .Elvira is Elvira ,despite it being a period film she plays it totally modern and I think it works as if Elvira is stuck in one of the movies shes used to hosting on her show .As a comedy it worked for me,mainly cause I got what they were spoofing ,I laughed a good bit ,my three fave bits where the doctor explaining the depraved history of the family and all the ancestors are Richard O Brien while Elvira comments on their activities,O BRiens take on the Vincent Price Pit and the Pendulem monologue ,and especially the handsome heroic stabkle hand played by Gabriel Andronache  who isintentionally dubbed badly by voice acting legend Rob Paulsen

Not all the jokes land and Zhou Zhou feels like a bit of a one note and kind of mean joke .....But those are my only complaints

This is a very fun love letter to the Vincent Price movies of the 60's.If you are a fan of the Corman/Price/Poe films,this is a must watch ,if you like Elvira its a must watch ,if you like Richard O Brian its a must watch and if you are looking for a horror comedy this is a good one .ITs not for every one but its a fun time

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Mary Scheer, Lucia Maier and Cassandra Peterson Elvira's Haunted Hills (2002)