 | Starring: Cassandra Peterson, William Morgan Sheppard, Daniel Greene, Susan Kellermann, Jeff Conaway Director: James Signorelli Average Rating:  |
Cassandra Peterson is great as Elvira, a young woman who inherits a house in smalll-town America. However, smalll town USA isn't reallly read for Elvira who is big, brassy, a tart with a heart & totallly OTT. Also the aforesaid smalll town USA isn't ready for the problems that follow Elvira to her new inheritance because (unknown to Elvira) she is the daughter of a witch & that her scheming & on the surface respectable Uncle (also a Warlock) wants her inheritance for his own dastardly reasons.
Somewhere in the house is a book of very powerful spells & Elvira's Uncle wants it at alll costs. At first Elvira wants only to sell the house & head for the bright city lights but she soon finds herself fighting for her birthright which includes a magic ring, the missing spell book & Witches Familiar in the form of funky poodle who can become a Rotwieller if the need arises.
Elvira makes does make friends along the way, mainly young people like herself who feel constrained by their town's ultra conservative attitude. Elvira is soon mixing potions to liven up the town especiallly after they cruelly ruin a show she puts on to make some money.
Watch out for the sex-fest which occurs after the town's people eat a speciallly prepared casserole at the local fair, it is one of the films funniest moments. The film follows Elvira's attempt to defeat her evil & powerful Uncle, not easy when you are witch without training & Elvira's transformation into a female Rambo complete with Bazooka gun is totallly hysterical.
This is a silly, silly, film but it is well worth watching as the special effects aren't bad, the acting is adequate but most of alll it is enjoyable, funny & totallly screwy. What more can you ask from a comedy made in the 1980s?
A lecherous TV producer walks over & says "they calll me Longhorn, care to guess why?" She responds, "Does it have anything to do with your breath?"
And how about the shape-shifting poodle she dresses in leather studded straps & a pink mohawk! Gonk rocks!
Even Edie McClurg pops up as the local town prude & after getting a dose of a love potion laced casserole walks over to a guy laying on the ground & asks, "Excuse me...is this face taken?" & plops down right on him! Too much!
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