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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark conocida en castellano con los títulos de Elvira, reina de las tinieblas (en España), Elvira: misterio de la obscuridad (en México) y Elvira, la dama de la oscuridad (en el resto de Hispanoamérica) es una película de comedia y horror estrenada en 1988.
30 de sept. de 1988 · "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" is a 1988 comedy, horror movie - upon arriving in a small town where Elvira has inherited a rundown mansion, the famous horror host must battle an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.
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- Comedy, Horror
- James Signorelli
- 1988-09-30
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Buxom Los Angeles TV horror hostess Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, quits her job after the station's new owner sexually harasses her. She plans to open an act in Las Vegas, but needs $50,000 for the project. Upon learning she is a beneficiary of her deceased great-aunt Morgana, she travels to Fallwell, Massachusetts, to claim the inheritance, which ...
Pre-production
As her Elvira character rose to fame, Cassandra Peterson announced plans to spin her off into a feature film. NBC casting director Joel Thurm pitched the idea of a sitcom to network president Brandon Tartikoff, who became enthusiastic about the notion. However, Peterson had her heart set on bringing the character to the big screen, and there were concerns that she would never get the opportunity if she made the leap to prime time. Tartikoff later finalized a deal for NBC to produce a film, wh...
Casting
Many roles were played by Cassandra Peterson's associates from The Groundlings, including Edie McClurg (Chastity Pariah), Tress MacNeille (Anchorwoman), Joey Arias (Hitchhiker), Lynne Marie Stewart (Bartender), Deryl Carroll (Charlie), and co-writer John Paragon (Gas Station Attendant). Paul Reubens was also supposed to appear in a bit part, but this became unfeasible when Big Top Pee-wee went into concurrent production, so his cameo came in the form of a Pee-Wee Herman doll that is visible i...
Filming
The film was shot over a span of eight weeks, between January and March 1988. The first scenes were shot at a bowling alley in Montrose, California, and Peterson worried about beginning the production with her character's big monologue,but much bigger stresses were soon to follow. One of the most problematic issues was Peterson's costar, Binnie, a temperamental poodle that did not seem to like anyone except his trainer. Peterson would not allow them to use a permanent dye on the dog's fur, in...
The original musical score was composed by James B. Campbell. Although there were several well-known songs in the film, licensing the original recordings was cost-prohibitive, so they were covered by stock singers. The goofy ditty "Chicken Fried Steak", which is faintly heard at the gas station, was an original composition written and performed by ...
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which categorizes reviews only as positive or negative, 56% of 25 reviews are positive. The consensus summarizes: "A gothic, campy, raunchy comedy elevated by Cassandra Peterson's iconic persona yet driven off course by one-note jokes, this isn't the best — or worst — introduction to Elvira, Mistres...
1990s–2000s: Proposed sequel, and Elvira's Haunted Hills
Peterson quickly sold a script for a sequel, but it got tied up in red tape when Carolco Pictures went bankrupt. She followed through with plans to star in a sitcom, but 1993's The Elvira Show did not secure a spot on the TV schedule. Soon after, she announced the forthcoming Elvira Vs. the Vampire Women, but a contract dispute with Roger Cormanprevented the film from being produced. The script for Elvira's Haunted Hills was written in the late 1990s, but after spending three years trying to...
2010s–present: Netflix and Shudder
Prior to Mistress of the Dark, there were already plans to feature Elvira in an animated series, but this has yet to materialize. In 2019, Peterson pitched the idea to Netflix and Shudder, which both passed. Around the same time, the character made her inaugural Scooby-Doo appearance in Return to Zombie Island. Elvira returned the following year with an increased role in Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!, in which she spends the bulk of in a flat-top variation of the Macabremobile and dispatches a...
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark at the American Film Institute CatalogElvira: Mistress of the Dark at IMDbElvira: Mistress of the Dark at AllMovieElvira: Mistress of the Dark at Box Office Mojo30 de nov. de 2018 · Order in the UK: http://bit.ly/2Sk82mK Campy, quirky and stuffed to the brim with more double entendres than your average Carry On movie, 1988’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark helped...
19 de mayo de 1989 en cines | 1h 36min | Comedia , Terror. Dirigida por James Signorelli. |. Guion Sam Egan , Cassandra Peterson. Reparto Cassandra Peterson , Edie McClurg , William Duell. Título...
- James Signorelli
- 2 min
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. (. 1988. ) Cuando su tía-abuela muere, la famosa conductora de horror se dirige a la mojigata Nueva Inglaterra, en el pueblo de Falwell, a reclamar su herencia de una casa embrujada, un recetario de bruja y un perro poodle punk.
Los Angeles horror hostess Elvira, Mistress of the Dark quits her job after the station's new owner sexually harasses her. She plans to open her act in Las Vegas, but needs $50,000 for the project.
