Elvira: The House That Screamed

Halloween is synonymous with three things: linens with holes cut into them, candy corn that tastes like neither candy nor corn and, of course…Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. 1981, the B-movie queen (played to perfection by Cassandra Peterson) began her campaign to bring only the very best, and worst of schlock cinema to audiences. The result was Elvira’s Movie Macabre, a television series that featured a different film, infused with Elvira’s own twist of humor and innuendo, each week. The series lasted five years and made Elvira the first nationally syndicated horror show hostess to ever hit the airwaves. Not to mention the sexiest Halloween icon since Frankenstein’s bride! Headmistress Madame Fourneau (Lilli Palmer) runs her French boarding school for troubled girls with an iron fist. Still, one by one, her students are going missing without a single trace of evidence left behind. Are the girls escaping Fourneau’s absolute authority and torturous 19th century social conditioning, or are they being taken against their will?