Elvira's Movie Macabre - Season 1

First aired: 9/26/1981 46 episodes
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Episodes

1. Grave of the Vampire

Aired: 9/26/1981

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.

2. Silent Night, Bloody Night

Aired: 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.

3. The House That Screamed

Aired: 10/10/1981

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

4. The Fall of the House of Usher

Aired: 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.

5. The Dunwich Horror

Aired: 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.

6. Blacula

Aired: 11/1/1981

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

7. The Comedy of Terrors

Aired: 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.

8. The Thing With Two Heads

Aired: 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.

9. The Werewolf of Washington

Aired: 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.

10. Cry of the Banshee

Aired: 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.

11. Count Yorga, Vampire

Aired: 12/5/1981

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

12. Murders in the Rue Morgue

Aired: 12/12/1981

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

13. Baron Blood

Aired: 12/27/1981

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

14. Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Aired: 1/3/1982

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

15. The Crimson Cult

Aired: 1/10/1982

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

16. The Murder Clinic

Aired: 1/16/1982

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

17. Horror Express

Aired: 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.

18. The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant

Aired: 1/30/1982

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

19. Horror Hospital

Aired: 2/6/1982

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

20. Rattlers

Aired: 2/13/1982

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

21. Disciple of Death

Aired: 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.

22. Frankenstein

Aired: 2/28/1982

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

23. The Devil's Rain

Aired: 3/6/1982

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

24. Psychic Killer

Aired: 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.

25. Necromancy

Aired: 3/20/1982

Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.

26. The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe

Aired: 3/27/1982

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

27. Peeping Tom

Aired: 4/3/1982

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

28. Legacy of Blood

Aired: 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.

29. Deathdream

Aired: 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.

30. The Deathmaster

Aired: 4/25/1982

Vampire becomes the head of a commune of hippies.

31. Beware! The Blob

Aired: 5/1/1982

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

32. Good Against Evil

Aired: 5/8/1982

Exorcists vs devil worshippers.

33. The Brotherhood of Satan

Aired: 5/15/1982

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

34. The Mad Magician

Aired: 5/22/1982

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

35. The Turn of the Screw

Aired: 5/22/1982

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

36. Count Dracula's Great Love

Aired: 5/29/1982

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

37. Jennifer The Snake Goddess

Aired: 6/12/1982

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

38. Masque of the Red Death

Aired: 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.

39. The Tomb of Ligeia

Aired: 6/26/1982

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

40. The Incredible Melting Man

Aired: 7/3/1982

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

41. The Fearless Vampire Killers

Aired: 7/10/1982

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

42. Terror House

Aired: 7/17/1982

Guests are on the menu at the Red Wolf Inn.

43. The Baby

Aired: 7/24/1982

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

44. The House of Seven Corpses

Aired: 7/31/1982

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

45. Psychomania

Aired: 8/7/1982

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

46. Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

Aired: 8/14/1982

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