Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, presents low-budget scary movies and provides sarcastic, campy commentary.
Episode 1
Vampire attacks woman and rapes her. Woman gives birth to a boy who must have mother`s blood instead of milk. When boy becomes an adult, he is determined to find and destroy his father.
Episode 2
The townspeople are upset when a man begins to research the history of his inheritance: an old mansion that used to be used as a mental institution.
Episode 3
Students begin to disappear from an all-girl boarding school.
Episode 4
In search of the woman he loves, a young man goes to the ancestral home of the Ushers. He discovers a house of madness and death. The first Roger Corman Poe adaptation.
Episode 5
Once upon a time, twins were born. One looks and acts human, the other is a many-headed creepy crawly. The human brother wants to bring ""the old ones"" from another dimension. He needs a book called the Necromicon and a human sacrifice. He picks Sandra Dee. ""Hey, look at me, I`m Sandra..."" Oops! Heh heh, wrong movie. Anyway, the creepy-crawly gets out and starts eating all the townspeople. That`ll drive down property values, I can tell ya. Based on H P Lovecraft story.
Episode 6
African Prince, cursed with vampirism, is shipped to the US and accidentally revived in the 1970`s. Talk about culture shock.
Episode 7
Business is so poor, a cash-strapped undertaker and his bumbling assistant decide to ""persuade"" people to become clients. Classic Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone horror comedy.
Episode 8
White bigot plans to have his head transplanted to another man`s body. He is dying and this is his idea to thwart death. Without his knowledge, his head is transplanted onto a black convict`s body. And the convict still has his own head.
Episode 9
After returning from Hungary, a reporter is appointed a press secretary to th US President. Unknown by all, he is a werewolf. Horror comedy.
Episode 10
Evil ruler with an obsessive hatred for witchcraft, destroys a witches coven. The head witch puts a curse on his entire family. Title creature begins killing family members one by one.
Episode 11
Modern (circa 1970) vampire causes havoc amongst some twentysomthings in Los Angeles.
Episode 12
Masked man is killing members of a theatre troupe. Film has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe.
Episode 13
Visiting his ancestral castle, a young man accidentally brings the sadistic title fiend back to life. Oops!
Episode 14
A novel twist to the classic tale. When Jekyll drinks his potion, he turns into a woman!
Episode 15
In search of his missing brother, a man discovers witchcraft at a country estate. Boris Karloff`s last A film.
Episode 16
Someone or something is killing inmates and medical personnel at a mental institution.
Episode 17
Ape-like creature, found frozen on an archeological dig, thaws out and begins killing people on board a train traveling across Siberia.
Episode 18
Doctor transplants the head of a psychotic killer onto the body of a retarded young man.
Episode 19
Doctor and his wacky wife experiment on people who answer their newspaper advertisement.
Episode 20
Rattlesnakes high on nerve gas decide to kick some human butt.
Episode 21
One of Satan`s own is accidentally brought back to life. (here we go again) He immediately begins searching for women to sacrifice to his boss.
Episode 22
Still another version of the classic tale. This time the monster is more sympathetic. A Dan Curtis production.
Episode 23
If you cross these satan worshippers, you end up as a puddle on the floor.
Episode 24
After learning astral projection from a fellow inmate in a mental institution, a man uses it to kill people who tick him off.
Episode 25
Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.
Episode 26
Poe believes something strange is going on at the asylum where the love of his life, Lenore, is an inmate.
Episode 27
Man films his victims as he kills them. Classic film.
Episode 28
Heirs to fortune must spend the night in their late father`s mansion. Someone or something begins to kill them one by one.
Episode 29
Family is notified that their son was killed in action while serving in Vietnam. The same day, the son returns but everyone begins to realize something is horribly wrong with him. Updated version of The Monkey`s Paw.
Episode 30
Vampire becomes the head of a commune of hippies.
Episode 31
A piece of the original blob accidentally thaws out. Critter begins gobbling up everyone it comes in contact with.
Episode 32
Exorcists vs devil worshippers.
Episode 33
Still more devil worshippers. They recruit(read kidnap)kids for their cult.
Episode 34
Magician and master of disguise takes revenge on those who screwed him over.
Episode 35
The new governess at a country estate begins to see ghosts. Are they real or is she mad?
Episode 36
Four women take refuge in a castle after their coach breaks down. Guess who lives there?
Episode 37
Girl has ability to control snakes. She uses them to take revenge on classmates who torment her.
Episode 38
Believing Satan protects him and his privileged guests from the plague that is ravaging the countryside, an evil count torments selected victims. Classic Price/Poe/Corman film.
Episode 39
Man believes his new wife is possessed by the ghost of his first wife.
Episode 40
After returning from a space mission, astronaut begins to turn to liquid. Bloody mess, what?
Episode 41
Van Helsing-like professor and his bumbling assistant hunt vampires. They stumble onto the mother lode. Classic horror comedy.
Episode 42
Guests are on the menu at the Red Wolf Inn.
Episode 43
Social worker investigates bizarre family where the twentysomething son is kept in diapers and treated like an infant!
Episode 44
Someone or something is killing members of a production crew filming a movie in an old dark house.
Episode 45
Hell raising bikers discover that, if they commit suicide, they can return from the dead and raise even more hell.
Episode 46
Modern version of Hansel and Gretel. Wacko lures kids into her old dark house. Pie anyone?
