elvira mistress of the dark ( 1988 ) represent cassandra peterson and daniel greene and william morgan sheppard and susan kellerman and edie mcclug and jeff conaway and phil rubenstein and larry flash jenkins and tress macneille and damita jo freeman and mario celario and william dance and lee mclaughlin and charles woolf and sharon hay and bill cable and joseph aria and scott morris and ira heiden and frank collison and lynne marie stewart and marie sullivan and jack fletcher and robert benedetti and kate brown and hugh gillin and eve smith and raleigh bond and tony burrier and alan dewames and timm hill and read scot and james hogan and derek given . director james signorelli . screenplay sam egan and john paragon . elvira and mistress of the dark be an 80 tv icon who have her own late night show on cable . she host and present classic american horror film and many of them campy and while provide her own quip and humorous remark . actress cassandra peterson have to this date ridden on that success . in 1988 and her first film be release . play herself and she stick host monster movie show but longs for her own show in las vega and make big money . her agent manny prove a disappointment . it not long before she inherit a mansion from a deceased relative and a pet dog and a book of recipe . she come to claim her inheritance in a small nevada town she be on her way to vegas and become lose and soon stir thing up in the sedate community . outspoken conservative town council woman chastity pariah ( edie mcclurg ) soon see her a a threat to the decency and value of the small town . her voluptuous figure and win personality soon draw the youth of the town . she fall for bob redding ( daniel greene ) the town handyman or carpenter and but before any real relationship can bloom and she find herself in deep trouble . vincent talbot ( william morgan sheppard ) an eerie old man who be also set to inherit part of the fortune of elvira relative be in fact an age old sorcerer who have a personal vendetta against elvira aunt and elvira herself . he be aware that the so call recipe book be actually a book of powerful magic and a power he wish to claim for himself . he scheme to bring down elvira by have the town burn her at the stake . how will elvira get out of this one . the movie be no real success at the box office and draw a crowd of mostly young audience familiar with the elvira show on cable . truth be tell and this be a funny and feel good movie . the script be chalk full of all kind of joke and some bad and some good and lot of sexual innuendo and visual joke and overall campiness i. e. the hilarious last scene in which elvira have finally get her own strip show in vega . this film be a cult classic of sort and cater to elvira fan . you couldn not enjoy this film otherwise . it also a look back at pop culture of the 80 . elvira be as much an icon of the 80 a be alf and vicky the robot and hulk hogan and mr. t and madonna .