Elvira's Movie Macabre

Aired 1981-09-26

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.

Aired 1981-10-03

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.

Aired 1981-10-10

Students begin to disappear from an all-girl boarding school.

Aired 1981-10-17

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.

Aired 1981-10-25

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.

Aired 1981-10-31

African Prince, cursed with vampirism, is shipped to the US and accidentally revived in the 1970`s. Talk about culture shock.

Aired 1981-11-07

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.

Aired 1981-11-14

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.

Aired 1981-11-21

After returning from Hungary, a reporter is appointed a press secretary to the US President. Unknown by all, he is a werewolf. Horror comedy.

Aired 1981-11-28

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.

Aired 1981-12-05

Modern (circa 1970) vampire causes havoc amongst some twentysomthings in Los Angeles.

Aired 1981-12-12

Masked man is killing members of a theatre troupe. Film has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe.

Aired 1981-12-27

Visiting his ancestral castle, a young man accidentally brings the sadistic title fiend back to life. Oops!

Aired 1982-01-03

A novel twist to the classic tale. When Jekyll drinks his potion, he turns into a woman!

Aired 1982-01-10

In search of his missing brother, a man discovers witchcraft at a country estate. Boris Karloff`s last A film.

Aired 1982-01-16

Someone or something is killing inmates and medical personnel at a mental institution.

Aired 1982-01-23

Ape-like creature, found frozen on an archeological dig, thaws out and begins killing people on board a train traveling across Siberia.

Aired 1982-01-30

Doctor transplants the head of a psychotic killer onto the body of a retarded young man.

Aired 1982-02-06

Doctor and his wacky wife experiment on people who answer their newspaper advertisement.

Aired 1982-02-13

Rattlesnakes high on nerve gas decide to kick some human butt.

Aired 1982-02-20

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.

Aired 1982-02-28

Still another version of the classic tale. This time the monster is more sympathetic. A Dan Curtis production.

Aired 1982-03-06

If you cross these satan worshippers, you end up as a puddle on the floor.

Aired 1982-03-13

After learning astral projection from a fellow inmate in a mental institution, a man uses it to kill people who tick him off.

Aired 1982-03-20

Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.

Aired 1982-03-27

Poe believes something strange is going on at the asylum where the love of his life, Lenore, is an inmate.

Aired 1982-04-03

Man films his victims as he kills them. Classic film.

Aired 1982-04-10

Heirs to fortune must spend the night in their late father`s mansion. Someone or something begins to kill them one by one.

Aired 1982-04-18

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.

Aired 1982-04-25

Vampire becomes the head of a commune of hippies.

Aired 1982-05-01

A piece of the original blob accidentally thaws out. Critter begins gobbling up everyone it comes in contact with.

Aired 1982-05-08

Exorcists vs devil worshippers.

Aired 1982-05-15

Still more devil worshippers. They recruit(read kidnap)kids for their cult.

Aired 1982-05-22

Magician and master of disguise takes revenge on those who screwed him over.

Aired 1982-05-22

The new governess at a country estate begins to see ghosts. Are they real or is she mad?

Aired 1982-05-29

Four women take refuge in a castle after their coach breaks down. Guess who lives there?

Aired 1982-06-12

Girl has ability to control snakes. She uses them to take revenge on classmates who torment her.

Aired 1982-06-19

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.

Aired 1982-06-26

Man believes his new wife is possessed by the ghost of his first wife.

Aired 1982-07-03

After returning from a space mission, astronaut begins to turn to liquid. Bloody mess, what?

Aired 1982-07-10

Van Helsing-like professor and his bumbling assistant hunt vampires. They stumble onto the mother lode. Classic horror comedy.

Aired 1982-07-17

Guests are on the menu at the Red Wolf Inn.

Aired 1982-07-24

Social worker investigates bizarre family where the twentysomething son is kept in diapers and treated like an infant!

Aired 1982-07-31

Someone or something is killing members of a production crew filming a movie in an old dark house.

Aired 1982-08-07

Hell raising bikers discover that, if they commit suicide, they can return from the dead and raise even more hell.

Aired 1982-08-14

Modern version of Hansel and Gretel. Wacko lures kids into her old dark house. Pie anyone?