Editing Elvira's Movie Macabre

{{short description|American hosted horror movie television program}}
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| presenter            = [[Cassandra Peterson]]
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| country              = United States
| language             = English
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'''''Elvira's Movie Macabre''''' (titled on-screen as '''''Movie Macabre with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark''''' in its original run), or simply '''''Movie Macabre''''', is an American [[Horror host|hosted]] [[horror movie]] television program that originally aired locally from 1981 to 1986. The show features [[B movie]]s, particularly those in the horror and [[Science fiction film|science fiction]] genres, and is hosted by Elvira, a character with a black dress and heaven bump hairstyle, played by [[Cassandra Peterson]]. Elvira occasionally interrupts the films with comments and jokes, and in some episodes receives phone calls from a character called "the Breather" ([[John Paragon]]).

The popularity of the show led to a feature film, ''[[Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (film)|Elvira: Mistress of the Dark]]'', which was released in 1988. The character returned in the 2001 film ''[[Elvira's Haunted Hills]]''. The show was revived in 2010 as ''Elvira's Movie Macabre'', in which Elvira hosted [[public domain]] films. This revival aired on [[This TV]] until 2011. Elvira returned as a horror hostess in 2014 with ''13 Nights of Elvira'', a 13-episode series produced by [[Hulu]]. In 2021, she recreated her show for a one-night movie marathon on the streaming service [[Shudder (streaming service)|Shudder]] to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. The special was called ''Elvira's 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special.''

==History==
[[File:Elvira waving.jpg|thumb|Peterson dressed as Elvira at the 2006 San Francisco Gay Pride parade]]
In 1981, six years after the death of [[Larry Vincent]], who starred as host Sinister Seymour of a Los Angeles weekend horror show called ''[[Fright Night (TV show)|Fright Night]]'', show producers began to bring the show back.<ref>{{cite web |last=Boone |first=Brian |title=What Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Looks Like Today |url=https://www.nickiswift.com/136138/what-elvira-mistress-of-the-dark-looks-like-today/ |website=Nicki Swift |access-date=October 3, 2021 |date=October 23, 2018}}</ref>

The producers decided to use a hostess. They asked 1950s' [[horror host]]ess [[Maila Nurmi]] to revive ''[[The Vampira Show]]''. Nurmi worked on the project for a short time, but quit when the producers would not hire [[Lola Falana]] to play Vampira.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wax |first=Alyse |title=This Day in Horror: Happy Birthday Maila Nurmi aka Vampira |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/315074/this-day-in-horror-happy-birthday-maila-nurmi-aka-vampira/ |website=Dread Central |access-date=October 3, 2021 |date=December 11, 2019}}</ref> The station sent out a [[casting call]], and Peterson auditioned and won the role. Producers left it up to her to create the role's image. She and her best friend, Robert Redding, came up with the sexy goth/vampire look after producers rejected her original idea to look like [[Sharon Tate]]'s character in ''[[The Fearless Vampire Killers]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pierce-Bohen |first=Kayleena |title=Elvira's Movie Macabre: 10 Things Fans Never Knew About The Horror Show |url=https://screenrant.com/elvira-movie-macabre-horror-show-trivia-facts/ |website=[[Screen Rant]] |access-date=October 3, 2021 |date=June 2, 2020}}</ref> They created the Elvira look by drawing inspiration from a [[Kabuki]] makeup book and the hairstyles of [[The Ronettes]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stardust |first1=Lisa |title=Cassandra Peterson on Elvira's Legacy, Goth Glam, and Feminine Power |url=https://www.instyle.com/cassandra-peterson-elvira-legacy-interview-6823621 |website=InStyle}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Peterson |first1=Cassandra |title=How the Iconic Late-Night TV Character of Elvira Came to Be |url=https://lithub.com/how-the-iconic-late-night-tv-character-of-elvira-came-to-be/ |website=Literary Hub}}</ref>

Shortly before the first taping, producers received a [[cease and desist]] letter from Nurmi. Besides the similarities in the format and costumes, Elvira's closing line for each show, wishing her audience "Unpleasant dreams," was notably similar to Vampira's closer: "Bad dreams, darlings..." uttered as she walked off down a misty corridor. The court ruled in favor of Peterson, holding that "'likeness' means actual representation of another person's appearance, and not simply close resemblance." Peterson claimed that Elvira was nothing like Vampira aside from the basic design of the black dress and black hair. Nurmi claimed that Vampira's image was based on [[Morticia Addams]], a character in [[Charles Addams]]'s cartoons that appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vampirathemovie.com/nurmi-v-peterson/ |title=Nurmi v. Peterson |date=March 25, 2007 |website=Vampira: The Movie |access-date=3 October 2021 |archive-date=3 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003142451/https://www.vampirathemovie.com/nurmi-v-peterson/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Peterson's Elvira character rapidly gained notice with her tight-fitting, low-cut, cleavage-displaying black gown. Adopting the flippant tone of a California "[[Valley girl]]", she brought a satirical, sarcastic edge to her commentary. She reveled in dropping risqué double entendres and making frequent jokes about her cleavage. In an ''AOL Entertainment News'' interview, Peterson said, "I figured out that Elvira is me when I was a teenager. She's a spastic girl. I just say what I feel and people seem to enjoy it." Her camp humor, sex appeal, and good-natured self-mockery made her popular with late-night movie viewers and her popularity soared.<ref name="about">{{cite web |url=https://movieweb.com/person/cassandra-peterson/ |title=About Cassandra Peterson |website=[[MovieWeb]] |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref>

Elvira was a frequent guest on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' and other talk shows. She also produced a long-running series of Halloween-themed television commercials for [[Coors Brewing Company|Coors Light Beer]] and [[Mug Root Beer]] (her trademark cleavage was concealed for the Coors campaign). She appeared in guest roles on television dramas such as ''[[CHiPs]]'', ''[[The Fall Guy]]'' and ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' and appeared on numerous awards shows as a presenter. Although she is known primarily as Elvira, Peterson has made out-of-costume appearances as herself for television interviews and specials.

Two million pairs of $0.99 3D glasses were reportedly sold for the 22 May 1982, broadcast of ''[[The Mad Magician]]''.<ref>#4784 	May 25, 1982	Suzanne Pleshette, Argus Hamilton, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston	[[List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes (1982)]]</ref>

In 1982, with the success of ''Movie Macabre'', [[Knott's Berry Farm|Knott's Theme Parks]] hired Elvira to replace Seymour as the host of its annual Halloween Haunt during October. Elvira appeared nightly at the park, live on stage with a Halloween-themed musical comedy revue similar to her ''Mamma's Boys'' act from the 1970s.

The Elvira character rapidly evolved from obscure cult figure to a lucrative brand name. She was associated with many products through the 1980s and 1990s, including  [[Halloween]] costumes, comic books,<ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/3147/''Elvira's House of Mystery''] [[DC Comics]] (11 issues) at the [[Grand Comics Database]]</ref><ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/4907/''Elvira, Mistress of the Dark''] [[Claypool Comics]] (166 issues) at the Grand Comics Database</ref> action figures, trading cards, pinball machines, Halloween decor, model kits, calendars, perfume and dolls. She has appeared on the cover of ''[[Femme Fatales (magazine)|Femme Fatales]]'' magazine five times. Her popularity reached its zenith with the release of the feature film ''[[Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (film)|Elvira, Mistress of the Dark]]'', on whose script, written directly for the screen, Peterson collaborated with [[John Paragon]] and Sam Egan.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pierce-Steinmetz |first=Johanna |title='Elvira' True to Star's Deadpan Humor Trademark |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-09-30-8802030362-story.html |website=[[The Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=October 3, 2021 |date=September 30, 1988}}</ref>

==Episode list==
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=== Season 1 ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Episode!!Film shown!!Ep #!!Date
|-
| 01||''[[Grave of the Vampire]]''||1||September 26, 1981
|-
| 02||''[[Silent Night, Bloody Night]]''||2||October 3, 1981
|-
| 03||''[[The House That Screamed (1969 film)|The House That Screamed]]''||3||October 10, 1981
|-
| 04||''[[House of Usher (film)|The Fall of the House of Usher]]''||4||October 17, 1981
|-
| 05||''[[The Dunwich Horror (film)|The Dunwich Horror]]''||5||October 25, 1981
|-
| 06||''[[Blacula]]''||6||November 1, 1981
|-
| 07||''[[The Comedy of Terrors]]''||7||November 7, 1981
|-
| 08||''[[The Thing with Two Heads]]''||8||November 15, 1981
|-
| 09||''[[The Werewolf of Washington]]''||9||November 21, 1981
|-
| 10||''[[Cry of the Banshee]]''||10||November 29, 1981
|-
| 11||''[[Count Yorga, Vampire]]''||11||December 5, 1981
|-
| 12||''[[Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971 film)|Murders in the Rue Morgue]]''||12||December 12, 1981
|-
| 13||''[[Baron Blood (film)|Baron Blood]]''||13||December 27, 1981
|-
| 14||''[[Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde]]''||14||January 3, 1982
|-
| 15||''[[Curse of the Crimson Altar|The Crimson Cult]]''||15||January 10, 1982
|-
| 16||''[[The Murder Clinic]]''||16||January 16, 1982
|-
| 17||''[[Horror Express]]''||17||January 23, 1982
|-
| 18||''[[The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant]]''||18||January 30, 1982
|-
| 19||''[[Horror Hospital]]''||19||February 6, 1982
|-
| 20||''[[Rattlers (film)|Rattlers]]''||20||February 13, 1982
|-
| 21||''[[Disciple of Death]]''||21||February 20, 1982
|-
| 22||''[[Frankenstein (1973 film)|Frankenstein]]''||22||February 28, 1982
|-
| 23||''[[The Devil's Rain (film)|The Devil's Rain]]''||23||March 6, 1982
|-
| 24||''[[Psychic Killer]]''||24||March 13, 1982
|-
| 25||''[[Necromancy (film)|Necromancy]]''||25||March 20, 1982
|-
| 26||''The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe''||26||March 27, 1982
|-
| 30||''The Deathmaster''||30||April 1, 1982
|-
| 27||''[[Peeping Tom (1960 film)|Peeping Tom]]''||27||April 3, 1982
|-
| 28||''[[Blood Legacy|Legacy of Blood]]''||28||April 10, 1982
|-
| 29||''[[Deathdream]]''||29||April 18, 1982
|-
| 31||''[[Beware! The Blob]]''||31||May 1, 1982
|-
| 32||''Good Against Evil''||32||May 8, 1982
|-
| 33||''[[The Brotherhood of Satan]]''||33||May 15, 1982
|-
| 34||''[[The Mad Magician]]''||34||May 22, 1982
|-
| 35||''[[The Turn of the Screw (1974 film)|The Turn of the Screw]]''||35||May 22, 1982
|-
| 36||''[[Count Dracula's Great Love]]''||36||May 29, 1982
|-
| 37||''[[Jennifer (1978 film)|Jennifer]]''||37||June 12, 1982
|-
| 38||''[[The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)|Masque of the Red Death]]''||38||June 19, 1982
|-
| 39||''[[The Tomb of Ligeia]]''||39||June 26, 1982
|-
| 40||''[[The Incredible Melting Man]]''||40||July 3, 1982
|-
| 41||''[[The Fearless Vampire Killers]]''||41||July 10, 1982
|-
| 42||''[[Terror at Red Wolf Inn|Terror House]]''||42||July 17, 1982
|-
| 43||''[[The Baby (film)|The Baby]]''||43||July 24, 1982
|-
| 44||''[[The House of Seven Corpses]]''||44||July 31, 1982
|-
| 45||''[[Psychomania]]''||45||August 7, 1982
|-
| 46||''[[Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?]]''||46||August 14, 1982
|-
|}

=== Season 2 ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Episode!!Film shown!!Ep #!!Date
|-
| 01||''[[City Under the Sea|War-Gods of the Deep]]''||47||September 4, 1982
|-
| 02||''[[The Oblong Box (film)|The Oblong Box]]''||48||September 11, 1982
|-
| 03||''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]''||49||September 25, 1982
|-
| 04||''[[Witchfinder General (film)|The Conqueror Worm]]''||50||October 2, 1982
|-
| 05||''[[And Now the Screaming Starts!]]''||51||October 9, 1982
|-
| 06||''[[Blood from the Mummy's Tomb]]''||52||October 16, 1982
|-
| 07||''[[Madhouse (1974 film)|Madhouse]]''||53||October 23, 1982
|-
| 08||''[[The House That Dripped Blood]]''||54||October 30, 1982
|-
| 09||''[[Tales of Terror]]''||55||October 30, 1982
|-
| 10||''[[The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968 film)|The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''||56||November 7, 1982
|-
| 11||''[[The Day It Came to Earth]]''||57||November 13, 1982
|-
| 12||''[[The Blood on Satan's Claw]]''||58||November 20, 1982
|-
| 13||''[[The Corpse|Crucible of Horror]]''||59||November 27, 1982
|-
| 14||''[[Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde]]''||60||December 4, 1982
|-
| 15||''[[I Don't Want to Be Born|The Devil Within Her]]''||61||December 12, 1982
|-
| 16||''[[The Bat People]]''||62||December 19, 1982
|-
| 17||''[[The Return of Count Yorga]]''||63||January 1, 1983
|-
| 18||''[[Revenge (1971 film)|Inn of the Frightened People]]''||64||January 8, 1983
|-
| 19||''[[Craze (film)|Craze]]''||65||January 29, 1983
|-
| 20||''[[The Monster Club]]''||66||February 6, 1983
|-
| 21||''[[Brain of Blood|The Creature's Revenge]]''||67||February 12, 1983
|-
| 22||''[[Beast of Blood (film)|Beast of the Dead]]''||68||February 19, 1983
|-
| 23||''[[Brides of Blood|The Island of Living Horror]]''||69||February 27, 1983
|-
| 24||''[[The Devil's Wedding Night]]''||70||March 5, 1983
|-
| 25||''[[The Blood Demon|The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism]]''||71||March 12, 1983
|-
| 26||''[[The Playgirls and the Vampire|Curse of the Vampires]]''||72||March 20, 1983
|-
| 27||''The Vampire People''||73||March 26, 1983
|-
| 28||''[[Scream and Scream Again]]''||74||April 2, 1983
|-
| 29||''[[The Human Vapor]]''||75||April 9, 1983
|-
| 30||''[[Lemora|Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural]]''||76||April 16, 1983
|-
| 31||''[[The Haunted Palace]]''||77||June 18, 1983
|-
| 32||''[[Doomsday Machine (film)|The Doomsday Machine]]''||78||August 27, 1983
|-
|}

=== Season 3 ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Episode!!Film shown!!Ep #!!Date
|-
| 01||''[[They Came from Beyond Space]]''||79||September 17, 1983
|-
| 02||''[[Blue Sunshine (film)|Blue Sunshine]]''||80||October 1, 1983
|-
| 03||''[[Island of the Fishmen|Screamers]]''||81||October 29, 1983
|-
| 04||''[[Willard (1971 film)|Willard]]''||82||November 5, 1983
|-
| 05||''[[The Time Travelers (1964 film)|The Time Travelers]]''||83||November 12, 1983
|-
| 06||''[[Maneater of Hydra]]''||84||November 20, 1983
|-
| 07||''[[Shivers (1975 film)|They Came From Within]]''||85||December 11, 1983
|-
| 08||''[[Gamera: Super Monster]]''||86||December 24, 1983
|-
| 09||''[[New Year's Evil (film)|New Year's Evil]]''||87||December 31, 1983
|-
| 10||''[[Homebodies (film)|Homebodies]]''||88||January 28, 1984
|-
| 11||''[[Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973 film)|Dracula]]''||89||February 4, 1984
|-
| 12||''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]''||90||March 3, 1984
|-
| 13||''[[Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype]]''||91||March 17, 1984
|-
| 14||''[[Contamination (film)|Alien Contamination]]''||92||March 24, 1984
|-
| 15||''[[Village of the Damned (1960 film)|Village of the Damned]]''||93||April 14, 1984
|-
| 16||''[[Monster (1980 film)|Monstroid]]''||94||May 12, 1984
|-
| 17||''[[The Beast in the Cellar]]''||95||May 19, 1984
|-
| 18||''[[The House of the Dead (1978 film)|The House of the Dead]]''||96||May 26, 1984
|-
| 19||''[[Circus of Horrors]]''||97||June 10, 1984
|-
| 20||''[[Pigs (1973 film)|Pigs]]''||98||June 17, 1984
|-
| 21||''[[Schizoid (film)|Schizoid]]''||99||June 24, 1984
|-
| 22||''[[The Godsend (film)|The Godsend]]''||100||June 30, 1984
|-
| 23||''[[Blood Bath]]''||101||July 8, 1984
|-
| 24||''[[Kiss Daddy Goodbye]]''||102||July 14, 1984
|-
| 25||''[[The Love War]]''||103||July 28, 1984
|-
| 26||''[[The Human Duplicators]]''||104||August 5, 1984
|-
| 27||''[[Mark of the Devil (1970 film)|Mark of the Devil]]''||105||August 11, 1984
|-
| 28||''[[So Sad About Gloria]]''||106||August 19, 1984
|-
| 29||''[[Hell of the Living Dead|Night of the Zombies]]''||107||August 26, 1984
|-
|}

=== Season 4 ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Episode!!Film shown!!Ep #!!Date
|-
| 01||''[[Inn of the Damned]]''||108||September 1, 1984
|-
| 02||''[[Tombs of the Blind Dead]]''||109||September 8, 1984
|-
| 03||''[[Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks]]''||110||September 15, 1984
|-
| 04||''[[The Capture of Bigfoot]]''||111||September 22, 1984
|-
| 05||''[[Village of the Giants]]''||112||November 3, 1984
|-
| 06||''[[The Legend of Hell House]]''||113||November 10, 1984
|-
| 07||''[[The Other (1972 film)|The Other]]''||114||November 25, 1984
|-
| 08||''[[The Navy vs. the Night Monsters]]''||115||December 1, 1984
|-
| 09||''The Last Bride of Salem''||116||January 12, 1985
|-
| 10||''Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century''||117||February 9, 1985
|-
| 11||''[[The Revenge of Frankenstein]]''||118||March 10, 1985
|-
| 12||''[[Curse of Bigfoot]]''||119||March 24, 1985
|-
| 13||''[[Il fiume del grande caimano|The Great Alligator]]''||120||May 4, 1985
|-
|}

=== Season 5 ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Episode!!Film shown!!Ep #!!Date
|-
| 01||''[[House of Dark Shadows]]''||121||June 22, 1986
|-
| 02||''[[The Asphyx|The Horror of Death]]''||122||June 29, 1986
|-
| 03||''Kill and Go Hide''||123||July 6, 1986
|-
| 04||''[[The Legend of Lizzie Borden]]''||124||July 13, 1986
|-
| 05||''The Mad Butcher''||125||July 20, 1986
|-
| 06||''The Meateater''||126||July 27, 1986
|-
| 07||''[[The Mighty Gorga]]''||127||August 3, 1986
|-
| 08||''[[Scream, Baby, Scream]]''||128||August 10, 1986
|-
| 09||''[[Dark Sanity|Straight Jacket]]''||129||August 17, 1986
|-
| 10||''[[They Saved Hitler's Brain]]''||130||August 24, 1986
|-
| 11||''[[The Mad Doctor of Blood Island|Tomb of the Living Dead]]''||131||August 31, 1986
|-
| 12||''[[The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll]]''||132||September 7, 1986
|-
| 13||''[[The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973 film)|The Boy Who Cried Werewolf]]''||133||September 14, 1986
|-
| 14||''[[Let's Scare Jessica to Death]]''||134||September 21, 1986
|-
| 15||''[[The Ghost Galleon|Horror of the Zombies]]''||135||September 28, 1986
|-
| 16||''[[House of the Long Shadows]]''||136||October 5, 1986
|-
| 17||''[[Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]]''||137||October 12, 1986
|-
| 18||''[[Empire of the Ants (film)|Empire of the Ants]]''||138||October 19, 1986
|-
| 19||''[[Nightwing (film)|Nightwing]]''||139||October 26, 1986
|-
| 20||''[[Nightmare City]]''||140||November 2, 1986
|-
|}

==Revivals==
===''Midnight Madness'' (1990s)===
In the 1990s, [[Rhino Home Video]] released ''Midnight Madness'', a collection of films hosted by Elvira, on [[VHS]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=|first=|date=April 27, 1996|title='MST3K' Arms Rhino Home Video|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|language=en|volume=108|issue=17|issn=0006-2510|access-date=August 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818153402/https://books.google.com/books?id=-QsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77|archive-date=August 18, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>

* ''[[Eegah]]''
* ''[[Frankenstein's Daughter]]''
* ''[[Killers from Space]]''
* ''[[The Giant Gila Monster]]''
* ''[[The Mask (1961 film)|The Mask]]''
* ''[[She Demons]]''
* ''[[Night of the Ghouls]]''
* ''[[I Eat Your Skin]]''
* ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]''
* ''[[The Brain from Planet Arous]]''
* ''[[A Bucket of Blood]]''
* ''[[The Crawling Hand]]''
* ''[[The Wasp Woman]]''
* ''[[The Hideous Sun Demon]]''
* ''[[Missile to the Moon]]''

===''Elvira's Movie Macabre'' (2010–11)===
[[File:Elvira's Movie Macabre (2010–11) logo.png|thumb|right|The logo used for ''Elvira's Movie Macabre'' (2010–11)]]
In September 2010, ''Elvira's Movie Macabre'' returned to television syndication in the United States, airing on [[This TV]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2010/09/check-out-the-jack-white-produced-theme-for-elviras-movie-macabre/ |title=Check Out: The Jack White-produced Theme for Elvira's Movie Macabre |last=Coplan |first=Chris |date=September 30, 2010 |work=[[Consequence of Sound]] |access-date=June 7, 2020}}</ref> This revival saw Elvira hosting [[public domain]] films. 26 episodes were produced; six were left unaired, but were released on both [[DVD]] and [[iTunes]].

{|class="wikitable sortable"
!s#e#!!Film shown!!ep!!Week of
|-
| s1e01||''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''||1||September 20, 2010
|-
| s1e02||''[[The Terror (1963 film)|The Terror]]''||2||September 27, 2010
|-
| s1e03||''[[The Giant Gila Monster]]''||3||October 4, 2010
|-
| s1e04||''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]''||4||October 11, 2010
|-
| s1e05||''[[The Satanic Rites of Dracula]]''||5||October 18, 2010
|-
| s1e06||''[[Scared to Death (1947 film)|Scared to Death]]''||6||October 25, 2010
|-
| s1e07||''[[The Werewolf of Washington]]''||7||November 1, 2010
|-
| s1e08||''[[Eegah]]''||8||November 8, 2010
|-
| s1e09||''[[Teenagers from Outer Space (film)|Teenagers from Outer Space]]''||9||November 15, 2010
|-
| s1e10||''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]''||10||December 20, 2010
|-
| s1e11||''[[I Eat Your Skin]]''||11||January 17, 2011
|-
| s1e12||''[[The Forgotten (1973 film)|Don't Look in the Basement]]''||12||January 24, 2011
|-
| s1e13||''[[Untamed Women]]''||13||January 31, 2011
|-
| s1e14||''[[Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter]]''||14||February 7, 2011
|-
| s1e15||''[[Lady Frankenstein]]''||15||February 14, 2011
|-
| s1e16||''[[The Manster]]''||16||February 21, 2011
|-
| s1e17||''[[Tormented (1960 film)|Tormented]]''||17||April 25, 2011
|-
| s1e18||''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]''||18||May 2, 2011
|-
| s1e19||''[[Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis|Hercules and the Captive Women]]''||19||May 9, 2011
|-
| s1e20||''[[A Bucket of Blood]]''||20||May 16, 2011
|-
| s1e21||''[[Attack of the Giant Leeches]]''||21||unaired
|-
| s1e22||''[[Beast from Haunted Cave]]''||22||unaired
|-
| s1e23||''[[Monster from a Prehistoric Planet]]''||23||unaired
|-
| s1e24||''[[The Killer Shrews]]''||24||unaired
|-
| s1e25||''[[The Wasp Woman]]''||25||unaired
|-
| s1e26||''[[The Wild Women of Wongo]]''||26||unaired
|}

===''13 Nights of Elvira'' (2014)===
''13 Nights of Elvira'' was produced for [[Hulu]] by [[Brainstorm Media]]. A new episode streamed each day through Halloween.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/366809-elvira-heads-hulu-new-series/|title=Elvira Heads to Hulu for All-New Series |last=Turek |first=Ryan |date=October 2, 2014 |website=[[Shock Till You Drop]] |access-date=October 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005202430/http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/366809-elvira-heads-hulu-new-series/ |archive-date=October 5, 2014}}</ref> The series teamed with film distributor [[Full Moon Features]]; it provided the majority of the films chosen for the series.

{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Episode!!Film shown!!Date
|-
| 01||''[[Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death]]''||October 19, 2014
|-
| 02||''[[Puppet Master (film)|Puppet Master]]''||October 20, 2014
|-
| 03||''[[Demonic Toys]]''||October 21, 2014
|-
| 04||''[[Hobgoblins (film)|Hobgoblins]]''||October 22, 2014
|-
| 05||''[[The Gingerdead Man]]''||October 23, 2014
|-
| 06||''[[Dollman (film)|Dollman]]''||October 24, 2014
|-
| 07||''[[Trancers]]''||October 25, 2014
|-
| 08||''[[Oblivion (1994 film)|Oblivion]]''||October 26, 2014
|-
| 09||''[[Shrunken Heads (film)|Shrunken Heads]]''||October 27, 2014
|-
| 10||''[[Hideous!]]''||October 28, 2014
|-
| 11||''[[Evil Bong]]''||October 29, 2014
|-
| 12||''[[Seedpeople]]''||October 30, 2014
|-
| 13||''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''||October 31, 2014
|-
|}

===''Elvira's 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special'' (2021)===
To celebrate the original show's 40th anniversary, Cassandra Peterson revived her role for a special one-night movie marathon, which premiered live on Shudder, the horror streaming service. The special came out on September 25, 2021, the same week as her memoir, ''Yours Cruelly, Elvira.''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/23/elvira-cassandra-peterson-halloween-horror-special-film-shudder/ |title=Newly-out Queer Icon Elvira celebrates 40th Anniversary with 'Very Special' Event |last=Yates |first=Jonny |date=September 23, 2010 |work=[[PinkNews]] |access-date=October 5, 2021}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! !!Film shown!!Year made
|-
| 01||''[[Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (film)|Elvira: Mistress of the Dark]]''||1988
|-
| 02||''[[House on Haunted Hill]]''||1959
|-
| 03||''[[The City of the Dead (film)|The City of the Dead]]''||1960
|-
| 04||''[[Messiah of Evil]]''||1973
|-
|}

==DVD releases==
===Time Life===
In 2004, Time Life released a series of special Elvira DVDs titled ''Elvira's Horror Classics'', which was done in a similar fashion to ''Movie Macabre''. There were seven films total in the series. There was a 3-DVD box set for six of the seven films titled ''Elvira's Box of Horrors''. This box set consists of three double feature DVDs. The films featured were all in the public domain. They included:

* ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'' and ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]'' 
* ''[[Dementia 13]]'' and ''[[Carnival of Souls]]''
* ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]'' and ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''

The films were also released on four stand-alone DVDs. Three of the four DVDs were double features under the ''Elvira's Horror Classics'' title. ''Night Of The Living Dead'' was a single feature DVD without the ''Elvira's Horror Classics'' title branding on the DVD case art. It was titled as ''Night of the Living Dead'' "Hosted by Elvira". The disc itself does have the ''Elvira's Horror Classics'' branding on it.

* ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'' and ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]'' 
* ''[[Dementia 13]]'' and ''[[Carnival of Souls]]''
* ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]'' and ''[[The Terror (1963 film)|The Terror]]''
* ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''

===Shout! Factory===
Shout! Factory has released a small number of ''Movie Macabre'' episodes to DVD, in both single and [[double feature]] format. The DVDs allow the material to be shown either complete with Elvira's interruptions or uninterrupted. Unlike the original broadcasts, the films are complete and uncensored.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/12460/1/DVD-REVIEW-ELVIRAS-MOVIE-MACABRE-DOUBLE-FEATURES/Page1.html|title=DVD Review: Elvira's Movie Macabre Double Features|last=Klippert|first=Thor|date=November 8, 2007|website=[[CHUD.com]]|access-date=July 18, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204104855/http://chud.com/articles/articles/12460/1/DVD-REVIEW-ELVIRAS-MOVIE-MACABRE-DOUBLE-FEATURES/Page1.html|archive-date=December 4, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Single DVDs====
* ''[[Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks]]''
* ''[[Count Dracula's Great Love]]''
* ''[[Blood Legacy|Legacy of Blood]]''
* ''[[The Devil's Wedding Night]]''
* ''[[Doomsday Machine (film)|The Doomsday Machine]]''
* ''[[The Werewolf of Washington]]''

====Double feature DVDs====
* ''[[Blue Sunshine (film)|Blue Sunshine]]'' and ''[[Monster (1980 film)|Monstroid]]''
* ''[[Gamera: Super Monster]]'' and ''[[They Came from Beyond Space]]''
* ''[[Maneater of Hydra]]'' and ''[[The House That Screamed (1969 film)|The House That Screamed]]''
* ''[[Count Dracula's Great Love]]'' and ''[[Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks]]''
* ''[[Blood Legacy|Legacy of Blood]]'' and ''[[The Devil's Wedding Night]]''
* ''[[Doomsday Machine (film)|The Doomsday Machine]]'' and ''[[The Werewolf of Washington]]''

===E1 Entertainment===
Following the revival of ''Elvira's Movie Macabre'' in 2011, E1 Entertainment began releasing episodes of the new series on DVD. Unlike the Shout! Factory editions, these films were released in their edited format as aired in syndication.

====Single DVDs====
* ''[[The Satanic Rites of Dracula]]''
* ''[[I Eat Your Skin]]''
* ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''
* ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]''
* ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]''
* ''[[Beast from Haunted Cave]]'' (previously unaired)
* ''[[The Terror (1963 film)|The Terror]]''
* ''[[Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis|Hercules and the Captive Women]]''
* ''[[The Wasp Woman]]'' (previously unaired)
* ''[[The Wild Women of Wongo]]'' (previously unaired) 
* ''[[Untamed Women]]''

====Double feature DVDs====
* ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' and ''[[I Eat Your Skin]]''
* ''[[The Satanic Rites of Dracula|Satanic Rites of Dracula]]'' and ''[[The Werewolf of Washington]]''
* ''[[The Terror (1963 film)|The Terror]]'' and ''[[Eegah]]''
* ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]'' and ''[[The Manster]]''
* ''[[Scared to Death (1947 film)|Scared to Death]]'' and ''[[Tormented (1960 film)|Tormented]]''
* ''[[Lady Frankenstein]]'' and ''[[Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter]]''
* ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'' and ''[[Beast from Haunted Cave]]'' (previously unaired)

====Quadruple feature sets====
* ''Wild Women'' featuring ''[[Untamed Women]]'', ''[[The Wild Women of Wongo]]'' (previously unaired), ''[[Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis|Hercules and the Captive Women]]'' and ''[[The Wasp Woman]]'' (previously unaired)
* ''Giant Monsters'' featuring ''[[The Giant Gila Monster]]'', ''[[Attack of the Giant Leeches]]'' (previously unaired), ''[[Teenagers from Outer Space (film)|Teenagers from Outer Space]]'', and ''[[Daikyojū Gappa|Monster from a Prehistoric Planet]]'' (previously unaired) 
* ''Bloody Madness'' featuring ''[[A Bucket of Blood]]'', ''[[The Killer Shrews]]'' (previously unaired), ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'' and ''[[The Forgotten (1973 film)|Don't Look in the Basement]]''

==See also==
* [[List of films in the public domain in the United States]]
* [[List of Cinema Insomnia episodes|List of ''Cinema Insomnia'' episodes]]
* [[List of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes|List of ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' episodes]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0262973|Movie Macabre}}
* {{IMDb title|1721556|Elvira's Movie Macabre}}
* {{IMDb title|4126382|13 Nights of Elvira}}
* {{IMDb title|15433052|Elvira's 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140901213335/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/shows/Elviras-Movie-Macabre/12335 ''Elvira's Movie Macabre'' E1 Entertainment releases] via [[TVShowsOnDVD.com]]

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