Elvira's Movie Macabre

10/3/1981

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.

10/10/1981

Students begin to disappear from an all-girl boarding school.

10/17/1981

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.

10/25/1981

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.

11/1/1981

African Prince, cursed with vampirism, is shipped to the US and accidentally revived in the 1970`s. Talk about culture shock.

11/7/1981

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.

11/15/1981

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.

11/21/1981

After returning from Hungary, a reporter is appointed a press secretary to th US President. Unknown by all, he is a werewolf. Horror comedy.

11/29/1981

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.

12/5/1981

Modern (circa 1970) vampire causes havoc amongst some twentysomthings in Los Angeles.

12/12/1981

Masked man is killing members of a theatre troupe. Film has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe.

12/27/1981

Visiting his ancestral castle, a young man accidentally brings the sadistic title fiend back to life. Oops!

1/3/1982

A novel twist to the classic tale. When Jekyll drinks his potion, he turns into a woman!

1/10/1982

In search of his missing brother, a man discovers witchcraft at a country estate. Boris Karloff`s last A film.

1/16/1982

Someone or something is killing inmates and medical personnel at a mental institution.

1/23/1982

Ape-like creature, found frozen on an archeological dig, thaws out and begins killing people on board a train traveling across Siberia.

1/30/1982

Doctor transplants the head of a psychotic killer onto the body of a retarded young man.

2/6/1982

Doctor and his wacky wife experiment on people who answer their newspaper advertisement.

2/13/1982

Rattlesnakes high on nerve gas decide to kick some human butt.

2/20/1982

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.

2/28/1982

Still another version of the classic tale. This time the monster is more sympathetic. A Dan Curtis production.

3/6/1982

If you cross these satan worshippers, you end up as a puddle on the floor.

3/13/1982

After learning astral projection from a fellow inmate in a mental institution, a man uses it to kill people who tick him off.

3/20/1982

Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.

3/27/1982

Poe believes something strange is going on at the asylum where the love of his life, Lenore, is an inmate.

4/3/1982

Man films his victims as he kills them. Classic film.

4/10/1982

Heirs to fortune must spend the night in their late father`s mansion. Someone or something begins to kill them one by one.

4/18/1982

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.

4/25/1982

Vampire becomes the head of a commune of hippies.

5/1/1982

A piece of the original blob accidentally thaws out. Critter begins gobbling up everyone it comes in contact with.

5/8/1982

Exorcists vs devil worshippers.

5/15/1982

Still more devil worshippers. They recruit(read kidnap)kids for their cult.

5/22/1982

Magician and master of disguise takes revenge on those who screwed him over.

5/22/1982

The new governess at a country estate begins to see ghosts. Are they real or is she mad?

5/29/1982

Four women take refuge in a castle after their coach breaks down. Guess who lives there?

6/12/1982

Girl has ability to control snakes. She uses them to take revenge on classmates who torment her.

6/19/1982

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.

6/26/1982

Man believes his new wife is possessed by the ghost of his first wife.

7/3/1982

After returning from a space mission, astronaut begins to turn to liquid. Bloody mess, what?

7/10/1982

Van Helsing-like professor and his bumbling assistant hunt vampires. They stumble onto the mother lode. Classic horror comedy.

7/17/1982

Guests are on the menu at the Red Wolf Inn.

7/24/1982

Social worker investigates bizarre family where the twentysomething son is kept in diapers and treated like an infant!

7/31/1982

Someone or something is killing members of a production crew filming a movie in an old dark house.

8/7/1982

Hell raising bikers discover that, if they commit suicide, they can return from the dead and raise even more hell.

8/14/1982

Modern version of Hansel and Gretel. Wacko lures kids into her old dark house. Pie anyone?