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Mistress of the Dark (media.piefed.world)

submitted 2 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 17 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 days ago

Sven Ghoulie was around well before Elvira.