Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution
expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, will be having loads and loads
of fun on Apr. 28 with the release of a new 4K film restoration of director
James Signorelli’s 1988 horror comedy, Elvira:
Mistress of the Dark, as a Blu-ray special edition.
Cassandra Peterson had knocked around the edges of
the entertainment business for years as a Las Vegas showgirl, a few small roles
in films, a stint in an Italian rock band, a member of The Groundlings and she
even found time to pose for Playboy, but it was a casting call in 1981 for the
new female host of the proposed revival of “Fright Night” on TV that changed
everything.
She got the role and Elvira of the “Movie Macabre”
show was born. She used her showgirl
attributes and blended them with her Groundlings comedy timing to create an
instant horror cult figure … a marketing force that quickly grew and grew.
By 1988 it was time for Elvira to star in a movie of
her own!! In Elvira:
Mistress of the Dark she plays herself as herself, no
Cassandra Peterson in sight.
It is a hoot as Elvira quits her show and soon
discovers that she has been named in her great aunt’s will. She
has inherited a spooky old mansion and a book of spells, which eventually has
the people of the town claiming that she is a witch who must be burned at the
stake.
The plot is just an excuse for Elvira to deliver
snappy one-liners, most of which are double entendre jokes about her
well-endowed and very shapely body.
Arrow Video’s Blu-ray presentation of Elvira:
Mistress of the Dark comes loaded with extras. There are three commentary options — a
vintage commentary track featuring Cassandra Peterson, who is joined by Edie
McClurg (who plays Chastity Pariah) and writer John Paragon (fellow Groundling
… four time Emmy nominee for his work on Pee-wee’s
Playhouse); a second with director James
Signorelli, who is joined by Fangoria’s
Tony Timpone, and the third commentary option features Elvira impersonator Patterson
Lundquist.
Also included as bonus nuggets are the
feature-length documentary Too Macabre: The Making of Elvira:
Mistress of the Dark, the featurette titled “Recipe
for Terror: The Creation of the Pot Monster,” image galleries, a collection of
trailers and the original storyboards.
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