The Dunwich Horror
Elvira's Movie Macabre - S1 - E5
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.
Elvira's Movie Macabre: Season 1 - 46 Episode s
1x1 - Grave of the Vampire
September 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.
1x2 - Silent Night, Bloody Night
October 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.
1x3 - The House That Screamed
October 10, 1981
Students begin to disappear from an all-girl boarding school.
1x4 - The Fall of the House of Usher
October 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.
1x5 - The Dunwich Horror
October 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.
1x6 - Blacula
November 1, 1981
African Prince, cursed with vampirism, is shipped to the US and accidentally revived in the 1970`s. Talk about culture shock.
1x7 - The Comedy of Terrors
November 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.
1x8 - The Thing With Two Heads
November 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.
1x9 - The Werewolf of Washington
November 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.
1x10 - Cry of the Banshee
November 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.
1x11 - Count Yorga, Vampire
December 5, 1981
Modern (circa 1970) vampire causes havoc amongst some twentysomthings in Los Angeles.
1x12 - Murders in the Rue Morgue
December 12, 1981
Masked man is killing members of a theatre troupe. Film has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe.
1x13 - Baron Blood
December 27, 1981
Visiting his ancestral castle, a young man accidentally brings the sadistic title fiend back to life. Oops!
1x14 - Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde
January 3, 1982
A novel twist to the classic tale. When Jekyll drinks his potion, he turns into a woman!
1x15 - The Crimson Cult
January 10, 1982
In search of his missing brother, a man discovers witchcraft at a country estate. Boris Karloff`s last A film.
1x16 - The Murder Clinic
January 16, 1982
Someone or something is killing inmates and medical personnel at a mental institution.
1x17 - Horror Express
January 23, 1982
Ape-like creature, found frozen on an archeological dig, thaws out and begins killing people on board a train traveling across Siberia.
1x18 - The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
January 30, 1982
Doctor transplants the head of a psychotic killer onto the body of a retarded young man.
1x19 - Horror Hospital
February 6, 1982
Doctor and his wacky wife experiment on people who answer their newspaper advertisement.
1x20 - Rattlers
February 13, 1982
Rattlesnakes high on nerve gas decide to kick some human butt.
1x21 - Disciple of Death
February 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.
1x22 - Frankenstein
February 28, 1982
Still another version of the classic tale. This time the monster is more sympathetic. A Dan Curtis production.
1x23 - The Devil's Rain
March 6, 1982
If you cross these satan worshippers, you end up as a puddle on the floor.
1x24 - Psychic Killer
March 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.
1x25 - Necromancy
March 20, 1982
Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.
1x26 - The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe
March 27, 1982
Poe believes something strange is going on at the asylum where the love of his life, Lenore, is an inmate.
1x27 - Peeping Tom
April 3, 1982
Man films his victims as he kills them. Classic film.
1x28 - Legacy of Blood
April 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.
1x29 - Deathdream
April 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.
1x30 - The Deathmaster
April 25, 1982
Vampire becomes the head of a commune of hippies.
1x31 - Beware! The Blob
May 1, 1982
A piece of the original blob accidentally thaws out. Critter begins gobbling up everyone it comes in contact with.
1x32 - Good Against Evil
May 8, 1982
Exorcists vs devil worshippers.
1x33 - The Brotherhood of Satan
May 15, 1982
Still more devil worshippers. They recruit(read kidnap)kids for their cult.
1x34 - The Mad Magician
May 22, 1982
Magician and master of disguise takes revenge on those who screwed him over.
1x35 - The Turn of the Screw
May 22, 1982
The new governess at a country estate begins to see ghosts. Are they real or is she mad?
1x36 - Count Dracula's Great Love
May 29, 1982
Four women take refuge in a castle after their coach breaks down. Guess who lives there?
1x37 - Jennifer The Snake Goddess
June 12, 1982
Girl has ability to control snakes. She uses them to take revenge on classmates who torment her.
1x38 - Masque of the Red Death
June 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.
1x39 - The Tomb of Ligeia
June 26, 1982
Man believes his new wife is possessed by the ghost of his first wife.
1x40 - The Incredible Melting Man
July 3, 1982
After returning from a space mission, astronaut begins to turn to liquid. Bloody mess, what?
1x41 - The Fearless Vampire Killers
July 10, 1982
Van Helsing-like professor and his bumbling assistant hunt vampires. They stumble onto the mother lode. Classic horror comedy.
1x42 - Terror House
July 17, 1982
Guests are on the menu at the Red Wolf Inn.
1x43 - The Baby
July 24, 1982
Social worker investigates bizarre family where the twentysomething son is kept in diapers and treated like an infant!
1x44 - The House of Seven Corpses
July 31, 1982
Someone or something is killing members of a production crew filming a movie in an old dark house.
1x45 - Psychomania
August 7, 1982
Hell raising bikers discover that, if they commit suicide, they can return from the dead and raise even more hell.
1x46 - Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
August 14, 1982
Modern version of Hansel and Gretel. Wacko lures kids into her old dark house. Pie anyone?