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· Year: 2001
· Director: Sam Irvin
· Writers: Cassandra Peterson, John Paragon
· Cast: Cassandra Peterson, Richard O'Brien
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· Based on Cassandra Peterson's character, a sarcastic host of horror movies on television and video.
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Amazon.com B00004WIA6
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In the nineteenth century, anachronistic entertainer Elvira hails down the wrong carriage and winds up in a castle haunted by a murdered woman and inhabited by a bunch of weirdos.
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RATING
Out of 100 |
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23
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| COLD ANALYSIS |
| 2.0 -ATMOSPHERE |
| 1.75 -GORE |
| 1.25 -HUMOR |
| 0.25 -SCARES |
| 0.75 -TENSION |
What happened? This followup to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is only rarely what its predecessor was: well-paced, funny, and just goofy. While the writing in Hills occasionally hits on a good joke (like the hunk whose "talks" in dubbed dialogue), the hit-to-miss ratio of this movie tips heavily to the latter side. Gone are the gleefully transparent double-entendres of the first film, replaced by unfunny pratfall after unfunny pratfall. Even as a parody of Roger Corman's Poe adaptations, it works on paper, but it just ain't funny on screen.
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