Mistress of the Dark
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The Picard Maneuver
FunnyShe shaped what I find attractive at a young age.
Was Elvira, Mistress of the Dark the first "make fun of b-movies" TV show? I'm 53 and I remember watching her show and the hilariously awful horror films as a tweener.
She certainly wasn't the first horror hostess. Vampyra and Tarantula Ghoul have her beat out by about a decade. But the combination of camp and comedy she brought were definitely her own. The camp coming from the time she worked with drag queens. And the comedy she developed in the Groundlings with Paul Reubens.
The only thing remotely close I can remember in the decades that followed would be Svengoolie? But that's more goofy than anything else.
My heart’s on fire.
Elvira is under rated
And underappreciated! She's a treasure.
Yeah, usually TV would give her a PG or PG-13 but she’s clearly not meant for children. :V
Hey-o!
Though I do wonder where society is supposed to draw the line on this. Selling sex to boys is endemic. ~~Babs~~ Lola Bunny is pretty openly sexualized as just one of many examples. Why are Elvira's low cut dresses not-OK but Col Wilma Deering's skin-tight jumpsuits are OK?
Oh my God, I forgot about the zipperrrrrr
Cause she'd need two more tits to equal one of Elvira's.
Wanted to say that - this poor gal needs a very strong hex to get a fraction of Elviras might.
As Yakko and Wakko say, Hello, Nurse!
It's not skin tight and it's very rigid
The Elvira movie is, by today's standards, offensive as fuck.
Which also makes it refreshing to watch, it has a couple of superbly delivered gags! It's still so much fun!
https://youtu.be/mbejXti_sgg
Oh my fucking god it is marvelous trash! There is enough cringe in there to fuel the shame of multiple generations of teenagers!
Thank you so much for this tip! It is sexist while making it clear who actually is the problem, it is offensive while deservedly pissing on the morality nazis, i love it!
I'm glad you liked it :)
I'm gonna watch this trash tonight, thanks for the rec!
It's a solid classic in the drag community. 10/10 hilarious camp.
