Elvira's Haunted Hills

Elvira's Haunted Hills (2002)

Evil. Terror. Lust.

The setting is Carpathia. The year is 1851. When Elvira gets kicked out of an Inn for a slight monetary discrepancy, she is rescued by a local who takes her to stay at the castle in the hills high above the village. The fact that she happens to resemble the count's former "missing" wife opens a can of worms or two.

Date of release
2002-10-31
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (167)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy, Horror
Director
Sam Irvin
Collection
Elvira Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Elvira's Haunted Hills is a 2001 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Irvin and written by Cassandra Peterson and John Paragon. The second film starring Peterson in the title role, after the 1988 theatrical release Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, it also stars Richard O'Brien, Mary Scheer, and Scott Atkinson.

Production

Elvira's Haunted Hills was independently made and privately funded; Peterson and then-husband Mark Pierson mortgaged their house and the apartment building they co-owned to raise $1 million, with donations from relatives providing the remaining $500,000. Filming took place in Transylvania, Romania, and the film was promoted at film festivals and horror/sci-fi conventions.

The film parodies the Roger Corman-directed Edgar Allan Poe films of the early 1960s – dedicated to the memory of the then-recently deceased Vincent Price – as well as the British horror films from Hammer Studios. Atkinson's character is clearly evocative of Price, who starred in many of the Poe films.

The film opened on the July 5, 2001 weekend at the Laemmle Fairfax Cinemas in Los Angeles after premiering at the International Rocky Horror Fan Convention on 23 June 2001. It was released direct-to-video on 31 October 2002.

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