Elvira: Films (1988-2001)

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

Dir. James Signorelli

Late night TV host Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) quits her crummy job and travels to a sexually-repressed town in Massachusetts that's like a late 1960s sitcom. Whist there the leggy host offends ninety-percent of the locals with her outspoken views and her outstanding cleavage. But while the anti-fun brigade (i.e. the town council) is fuming, the youth of the backwards town are on her side.

It's a cult film with a whopping amount of tame innuendo (mostly tit-jokes) and intentionally bad wisecracks that'll either make sense to your inner teenager or have you scratching yourself while periodically checking your wristwatch (or phone).

It may even struggle to hold the attention of anyone born after the mid 80s, but that isn't me.

The B+W science fiction film featured at the beginning is an AIP release called It Conquered the World (1956), directed by Roger Corman. I remember seeing it as a kid for the first time, at home on a school day. I was off sick, but not too sick that I couldn't watch daytime TV.