This movie had such potential as a spoof/satire on old horror movies and stories, but it flops miserably. The Elvira character audiences came to love as being sexy though slightly naive and always involved in situations full of double entendre while staying just on the "safe" side of it all is gone and replaced with an over-sexed, bawdy Elvira who acts more like she is in perpetual heat. The former Elvira was the "victim" of those with dirty minds and intentions - now she is the willing assailant.
The innocent aspect of the humor also is missing and replaced with cheap gags and blatant sex jokes that simply are not funny and wear thin quickly.
The characters are poorly written and most of the actors over-play their roles to the point that their deaths (and thus removal from the story) are welcomed. Those who recognize themes/plots of The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado and other horror stories and expect them to be given a Young Frankenstein-ish treatment will be saddened to see those stories reduced to back drops used only as an excuse for Elvira to show off her cleavage. The sets are reminiscent of those in the old Universal and Hammer films, but these sets really look like movie sets rather than castle interiors.
Were it still in production, Movie Macabre no doubt would feature this movie.
The innocent aspect of the humor also is missing and replaced with cheap gags and blatant sex jokes that simply are not funny and wear thin quickly.
The characters are poorly written and most of the actors over-play their roles to the point that their deaths (and thus removal from the story) are welcomed. Those who recognize themes/plots of The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado and other horror stories and expect them to be given a Young Frankenstein-ish treatment will be saddened to see those stories reduced to back drops used only as an excuse for Elvira to show off her cleavage. The sets are reminiscent of those in the old Universal and Hammer films, but these sets really look like movie sets rather than castle interiors.
Were it still in production, Movie Macabre no doubt would feature this movie.