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Information
- Year
- 1988
- Runtime
- 96 min.
- Director
- James Signorelli
- Genres
- Comedy, Horror
- Rating *
- 6.5
- Votes *
- 10,426
- Checks
- 1,365
- Favs
- 79
- Dislikes
- 27
- Favs/checks
- 5.8% (1:17)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is pure, camp delight. In this 1988 flick, the horror hostess quits her job after having been sexually harassed and moves to a Puritanical Massachusetts town where she's in line to inherit her witchy great-aunt's house and book of spells. At the intersection of local TV, schlock horror and burlesque, the comedy is a joke-a-second, many in the double-entendre mold (as per Elvira's show), and most of them land. Sure, there's an inordinate amount of boob jokes, but Elvira (or Cassandra Peterson, if you prefer) owns them, and makes her character a feminist icon in the process. A lot of great lines (Elvira should have written for Mad Magazine's Stupid Answers to Stupid Questions feature) and an amusing send-up of modern Puritanism, Elvira Mistress of the Dark leaves you with a smile even if it would never win any acting awards. 6 years 6 months ago -
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Ayas_Song
This movie is hilarious! I loved it. Plus Elvira is drop dead gorgeous. 10 years 5 months ago