The scalding water etched third-degree burns into her skin, melted the hair on her head and fused her eyelids shut. Skin on her stomach and thighs was grafted onto her badly burned body and required months of painful healing — and left permanent scars.
There were frequent fights, slaps in the face and orders to leave the house. For a time, she took on the role of a hippie, trying magic mushrooms, opium and LSD. Cassandra and her friend Cindy wandered through hotel rooms looking for bands; she got into bed with a famous drummer, but was kicked out of his room when she refused to have sex with him.
He was strumming his guitar, and they smoked a doobie together before he got called to go onstage. Cassandra was in heaven, donning three pairs of eyelashes, feathers, rhinestones, high heels and bare breasts. A consensual romp in bed with Tom Jones sent her to the emergency room for an internal injury. The singer was, alas, a bit too well endowed.
Several years later, she was in Las Vegas, saw his show and went backstage again. She told the Huffington Post :. Elvira isn't just a classic goth girl who strolls through a fog of dry ice while talking about horror movies, she's also a gloriously over the top valley girl without an off switch.
Even though she sounds like a total airhead she somehow has an encyclopedic knowledge of Roger Corman and Lloyd Kaufman films. She explained :. While Elvira is mostly thought of as a lowbrow character from a sexy show that aired nasty little movies, she actually did a lot of fun and interesting stuff. In , an episode of her show playing The Mad Magician aired in 3D and it was a total cash cow for the station.
She may look like the centerfold for the Transylvanian edition of Playboy but she jokes like a borscht belt standup comic. She delivered most of her bits from her red Victorian couch surrounded by candelabras while interspersing the jabs she made at the expense of the audience with clips from exploitation movies.
Elvira in the Macabre-Mobile. Photo by Lynn Goldsmith. When she goes missing, a cast of boring white college kids goes in search of her. The marathon unfortunately loses a bit of steam with its last entry, Messiah of Evil , and Elvira seems to know it, calling out some of its B-movie weaknesses going in. A young woman Marianna Hill goes to a seaside town in search of her missing father, falling in with a pack of weirdos who amazingly are not the ones trying to kill or ensorcell her.
That job belongs to the pack of zombies who pick them off one by one. On balance, the four movies provide a pretty good amount of variety while also keeping Elvira the star of the show. Kenneth Lowe is a regular contributor to Paste Movies.
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