The movie was also featured on the current run of " Elvira's Movie Macabre.

Kiel broke into films in the early 1960s with the B-movie Eegah ( 1962 ), which was later featured on the TV show Elvira's Movie Macabre, Mystery Science Theater 3000, as were The Phantom Planet and The Human Duplicators.

What followed was Elvira's Movie Macabre, featuring a quick-witted Valley-girl-type character named Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

The movies featured on Elvira's Movie Macabre were always B grade ( or lower ).

In September 2010, Elvira's Movie Macabre returned to television syndication in the U. S., this time with public-domain films.

* Elvira's Movie Macabre DVD series – ( September 2006 )

* Elvira's Movie Macabre Horror Hostess – ( 2010 )

Buffalo, New York's Off Beat Cinema, Cleveland, Ohio's now-discontinued Big Chuck and Lil ' John, Chicago's Svengoolie, and Elvira's Movie Macabre are some of the better-known late night hosted movie series.

The Midnight Madness tapes were formatted very much like the Movie Macabre TV package, with mostly Z movie | grade-Z movies framed by Elvira's commentary.

Starting at L. A .' s KHJ-TV in 1981, Elvira's Movie Macabre was soon being syndicated nationally ; Peterson presented mostly cut-rate horror films, interrupted on a regular basis for tongue-in-cheek commentary.

The movie was also released as Lady of the Shadows, The Castle of Terror and The Haunting, and was later featured as an episode of Cinema Insomnia and of Elvira's Movie Macabre.

In 2010, the film was featured in the second episode of the revived, syndicated TV series, Elvira's Movie Macabre.

* In an earlier version of the movie, Elvira's death was filmed to be less gory than the final shot.

To save Elvira's honor, her family kept her infant and took him to the near village of Bolaños de Calatrava, and Diego was later transferred to Aldea del Rey under the tutelage of Sancha López del Peral.

Heartbroken after his wife, Mary Elvira's, death in May 1910, he did not have the will to pursue the matter further, and the invention was never successfully marketed .”

Besides the similarities in the format and costumes, Elvira's closing line for each show, wishing her audience " Unpleasant dreams ", was notably similar to Vampira's closer: " Bad dreams, darlings ..." uttered as she walked off down a misty corridor.

She refused to host Make Them Die Slowly, Seven Doors of Death, and Buried Alive, so the videos were released on the LIVE Home Video label without Elvira's appearance as hostess.

For this production, he wrote two new arias with corresponding recitatives: Don Ottavio's aria " Dalla sua pace " ( K. 540a, composed on April 24 for the tenor Francesco Morella ), Elvira's aria " In quali eccessi ... Mi tradì quell ' alma ingrata " ( K. 540c, composed on April 30 for the soprano Caterina Cavalieri ) and the duet between Leporello and Zerlina " Per queste tue manine " ( K. 540b, composed on April 28 ).

In 2004, she revisited this concept with a similar horror film collection on DVD, titled Elvira's Box of Horrors.

* Elvira's Box of Horrors ( 2004 ), horror film collection on DVD

From 1995 to 1997, Peterson made appearances as Elvira at the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park for " Elvira's Friday the 13th " events held whenever the 13th of a month fell on a Friday.

On Halloween night as a prank, Paul, Tom and Samantha have BB crack the combination lock on her gate so that they can ring Elvira's doorbell to scare her.

In the VHS release, when Sam throws the ball at her, Elvira's head explodes on impact and then cuts back to Sam watching in amazement as Elvira's headless body wanders around the living room until it falls down in the floor.

In the DVD release, when Sam throws the ball at Elvira's head, more explosion is shown as Elvira's head completely shatters from her shoulders and shows her headless body wander directly from the wall around the living room, spurting blood and then cuts back to Sam watching in amazement as the body comes to rest on the floor.

To Betsy's shock / tititalation ( and Jack's huge amusement ), Elvira's costume is based on a nun's wimple, but with nothing underneath.

Fassbinder's camera tracks the nun ( played by his mother ) telling Elvira's story ; she moves with a kind of military precision through the grounds, recounting the story in blazing detail, unaware that Elvira had collapsed and can no longer hear it.

* Elvira's Not a Witch – a 45 second viral video that spoofed a campaign ad by US Senate candidate Christine O ' Donnell ( October 2010 )

In 1997, Ray Productions of Orlando, Florida, produced the first haunted house chain endorsed by Elvira titled " Elvira's Nightmare Haunted House ".

In 1960 Rodríguez moved to Puerto Rico and played with Rafael Elvira's Super Orquesta Tropicana later followed by a short stint with Noro Morales Orchestra before joining El Gran Combo.

She's very intrigued by Elvira's open admission of her swinging lifestyle, including spouse-swapping and drugs.

A day or two later police officers come questioning Jane about Elvira's disappearance, so Jane panics, grabs her barely conscious sister and heads for the location of some of her happiest childhood memories, the beach.

MacNeille also appeared as an angry anchorwoman in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and served as the voice of Elvira's Great-Aunt Morganna Talbot.

On the death of Raymond, Elvira returned to Castile and there, before 1117, married count Fernando Fernández, having three additional children, Diego, García, and Teresa Fernández, wife of count Osorio Martinez, whose family inherited many of Elvira's Iberian holdings.

Leonella is Elvira's sister and Antonia's spinster aunt.

The success of the ThrillerVideo series led to a second video set, Elvira's Midnight Madness through Rhino Home Video.

In November of 2000, Cassandra wrote and co-produced Elvira's Haunted Hills.

On July 5, 2002, Elvira's Haunted Hills had its official premiere in Hollywood.

In 2001, she appeared throughout the nation, including Los Angeles, New York, Key West, Chicago, and Atlanta, screening her second full-length feature film, Elvira's Haunted Hills.

In the mid-1990s, Cassandra Peterson enlisted female impersonators, Christian Greenia ( Cassandra Fever ), from Los Angeles, California, and Patterson Lundquist (" Elvira's Twin "), from Atlanta, Georgia, as her " official Elvira impersonators ", calling them " the best she'd ever seen.

In 1986-87, DC comics published a new series, Elvira's House of Mystery.

She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation.

She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation.

In 1982, with the success of Movie Macabre, Knott's Theme Parks hired Elvira to replace Seymour as the host of its annual Halloween Haunt during the month of October.

After more than ten years, Box of Horrors was the return of Elvira hosting horror movies as she did with Movie Macabre.

* Movie Macabre ( 1981 ), TV horror hostess

also appeared on an episode of Movie Macabre, featuring Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Some local stations aired the Movie Macabre package in late-night slots.

* The Terror in Elvira Movie Macabre App