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Elvira’s Haunted Hills

On her way to Paris to do her brand of burlesque, Elvira (Cassandra Peterson, who co-wrote) is stranded in the mountains of Romania, but finds welcome at the requisite spooky old castle. This isn’t so much a plot as a setup for joke after joke, all as flimsy as the elastic on Elvira’s signature costume. […]

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Embodiment of Evil

The bearded, beady-eyed, bald Brazilian — aka actor/writer/director José Mojica Marins — dresses in all-black like a past-his-prime TV horror host, complete with cape, medallion, top hat and fingernails so dangly and Guinness World Records-long, it makes one wonder, “How does he even wipe?” The character is best known in circles of international cult cinema […]

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