6.2/1010 votes#1 - Grave of the Vampire
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1981
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.
Director: N/A
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- 5.7/108 votes
#2 - Silent Night, Bloody Night
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1981
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.
Director: N/A
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- 6.2/1035 votes
#3 - The House That Screamed
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1981
Students begin to disappear from an all-girl boarding school.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#4 - The Fall of the House of Usher
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1981
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.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#5 - The Dunwich Horror
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1981
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.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Blacula
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1981
African Prince, cursed with vampirism, is shipped to the US and accidentally revived in the 1970`s. Talk about culture shock.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#7 - The Comedy of Terrors
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1981
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.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#8 - The Thing With Two Heads
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1981
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.5/1024 votes
#9 - The Werewolf of Washington
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1981
After returning from Hungary, a reporter is appointed a press secretary to th US President. Unknown by all, he is a werewolf. Horror comedy.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Cry of the Banshee
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1981
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.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Count Yorga, Vampire
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1981
Modern (circa 1970) vampire causes havoc amongst some twentysomthings in Los Angeles.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Murders in the Rue Morgue
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1981
Masked man is killing members of a theatre troupe. Film has very little to do with Edgar Allan Poe.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Baron Blood
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1981
Visiting his ancestral castle, a young man accidentally brings the sadistic title fiend back to life. Oops!
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1982
A novel twist to the classic tale. When Jekyll drinks his potion, he turns into a woman!
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#15 - The Crimson Cult
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1982
In search of his missing brother, a man discovers witchcraft at a country estate. Boris Karloff`s last A film.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#16 - The Murder Clinic
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1982
Someone or something is killing inmates and medical personnel at a mental institution.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#17 - Horror Express
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1982
Ape-like creature, found frozen on an archeological dig, thaws out and begins killing people on board a train traveling across Siberia.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#18 - The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1982
Doctor transplants the head of a psychotic killer onto the body of a retarded young man.
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- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Horror Hospital
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1982
Doctor and his wacky wife experiment on people who answer their newspaper advertisement.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#20 - Rattlers
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1982
Rattlesnakes high on nerve gas decide to kick some human butt.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Disciple of Death
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1982
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.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Frankenstein
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1982
Still another version of the classic tale. This time the monster is more sympathetic. A Dan Curtis production.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.6/106 votes
#23 - The Devil's Rain
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1982
If you cross these satan worshippers, you end up as a puddle on the floor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Psychic Killer
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1982
After learning astral projection from a fellow inmate in a mental institution, a man uses it to kill people who tick him off.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Necromancy
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1982
Warlock wants to bring his dead son back to life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Elvira's Movie Macabre Season 1
Every episode of Elvira's Movie Macabre Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Elvira's Movie Macabre Season 1!
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, presents low-budget scary movies and provides sarcastic, campy commentary.
Genres:ComedyDrama
Network:KHJ-TV
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Grave of the Vampire" is the best rated episode of "Elvira's Movie Macabre" season 1. It scored 6.2/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/26/1981. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Silent Night, Bloody Night".