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PRODUCTION NorES ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
"Elvira, Mistress of the Dark," a comedy with unbridled , non-stop fun, stars the sultry hostess of TV horror movies as she's never been seen before. In her first theatrical film, Elvira's bizarre lifestyle and her outrageous wit shock the stuffy elders of a small New England town but happily excite the young people who help her claim the inheritance she needs to finance her dream -- a starring Las Vegas act, Elvir a style. "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark," the theatrical feature from NBC Productions and Queen "B" Productions for release September 30 by New World Pictures, is a film that just had to be made. From the start, when Elvira (created and portrayed by actress-writer Cassandra Peterson) burst" on the Los Angeles scene via her "Movie Macabre" series of televised bad horror films in 1981, her fans clamored for a full length Elvira comedy-adventure feature . After "Movie Macabre" became nationally syndicated, the demand became too strong to ignore. Ultimately, Cassandra joined with actor-writer John Paragon and writer-producer Sam Egan in scripting Elvira's first motion picture . NBC Productions and Cassandra's own Queen "B" Productions then set the creative team, including director James Signorelli ("Easy Money"), producers Eric Gardner and Mark Pierson, executive (more)