6/8/2023 0 Comments Camp Vamp by Elvira![]() ![]() Besides the similarities in the format and costumes, Elvira's closing line for each show, wishing her audience "Unpleasant dreams", was notably similar to Vampira's closer: "Bad dreams, darlings." uttered as she walked off down a misty corridor. Shortly before the first taping, producers received a cease and desist letter from Nurmi. She and her best friend, Robert Redding, came up with the sexy punk/vampire look after producers rejected her original idea to look like Sharon Tate's character in The Fearless Vampire Killers. ![]() Producers left it up to her to create the role's image. The station sent out a casting call, and Cassandra Peterson auditioned and won the role. Nurmi worked on the project for a short time, but quit when the producers would not hire Lola Falana to play Vampira. They asked 1950s horror hostess Maila Nurmi to revive The Vampira Show. The producers decided to use a female host. ![]() In the late spring of 1981, six years after the death of Larry Vincent, who starred as host Sinister Seymour of a Los Angeles weekend horror show called Fright Night, show producers began to bring the show back. ![]()
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