# The Elvira that Saved Halloween **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elvira-that-saved-halloween/922948 "2020-10-14T16:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elvira-that-saved-halloween/922948/1 "2020-10-14T16:57:00Z")
Elvira is using her considerable influences to promote observing Halloween, even in the Age of COVID [https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/entertainment/elvia-halloween-trnd/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/entertainment/elvia-halloween-trnd/index.html) > [@](#): > > The 69-year-old iconic horror character, real name Cassandra Peterson, debuted a “Don’t Cancel Halloween” video on Tuesday, looking like she hasn’t aged a day since creating her alter-ego nearly 40 years ago. > > In the video, posted to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark YouTube channel, the goth queen performs a parody of Madonna’s 1983 classic song “Holiday,” changing the lyrics to stress the [importance of Halloween](https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/health/halloween-cdc-guidance-wellness/index.html) and her love of trick or treating. > > She sings: “I’m the Queen of Halloween/Covid-19 ruined everything/If they cancel Halloween/ cause we’re still in quarantine/ It would make me so mad/It would suck/ It would suck so bad.” > > It’s quite something. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elvira-that-saved-halloween/922948/2 "2020-10-14T17:12:40Z")
So, CNN post a story about a celeb trying to keep halloween from being cancelled, and most of the article discusses her looks. Sad! ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elvira-that-saved-halloween/922948/3 "2020-10-15T04:01:12Z")
The whole POINT of Elvira is her looks. It’s her product; her trademark. A story about Elvira without mentioning her looks makes as much sense as a story about John Deere without mentioning tractors. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elvira-that-saved-halloween/922948/4 "2020-10-15T04:12:09Z")
> it’s Elvira’s stunning face. > > . . . looking like she hasn’t aged a day since creating her alter-ego nearly 40 years ago. > > . . . > > . . . > > Fans were delighted to see her new work, with one commenting, “. . . It’s astounding that Elvira looks so good. I say keep going!” Yeah, you’re right its just about her trademark character. What was I thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elvira-that-saved-halloween/922948/5 "2020-10-15T16:49:04Z")
I’ve heard her interviewed on a podcast once. Nerdist, maybe? She’s very funny and smart. Notice the Elvis t shirt in the video? She dated Elvis early in her pre- Elvira career as a showgirl. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elvira-that-saved-halloween/922948/6 "2020-10-15T17:17:23Z")
Watch her second movie sometime – **Elvira’s Haunted Hills** is obviously a not-so-veiled reference to her attributes, but the film is a spot-on sendup of the early 1960s Roger Corman Edgar Allen Poe movies, right down to the opening credits and Richard O’Brien’s weird dark glasses that copy Vincent Price’s in **The Tomb of Ligeia**. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elvira-that-saved-halloween/922948/7 "2020-10-15T18:46:56Z")
I’ve always liked Elvira, but what seals the deal is that three of the best (and most sought after) pinball machines ever made are based on her theme. Legend has it that part of her licensing agreements with the manufacturers involved a dozen, twenty, fifty? of the machines themselves which she tucked away new-in-box somewhere. Whatever the case, she does in fact sell one (signed of course) on occasion for 5 figures (even a used, unsigned _Elvia - Scared Stiff_ goes for $7,000).