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These releases would add previews along with an introduction and post-credits sequences featuring Elvira, bumping the runtimes up to an hour.īeyond these 12 titles, Elvira would only host fairly tame B-horror as she was averse to hosting more extreme horror fare believing it would sully her reputation.

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Of the Elvira releases, half were not in fact feature films but actually episodes of the British TV anthology series Hammer’s House of Horror. Thriller Video’s catalog consisted of 47 video releases in total, 24 of which featured Elvira and her hosting talents. Said to have been started in 1983 (even though its first release was not until 1985) the company put out its last VHS in 1987 and was one of the few to release the majority of its tapes in big box packaging. That would change in 1985 when Elvira would sign with International Video Entertainment (I.V.E) to host their home video horror series, the one and only Thriller Video.

Her dark, sultry figure abounded in just about every form of media except for one: home video. In the 1980s Cassandra Peterson could be seen everywhere flaunting ample cleavage in tight black gown and wearing an equally black beehive wig, evoking her sarcastic horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. At the center of more than half of those releases was Ms. The company’s instantly recognizable skull-topped headstone logo would go on to grace the box art of almost 50 VHS releases during the company’s short life. Of the many VHS companies to come and go in the 1980s, one that remains nestled in the brains of horror fans and VHS aficionados alike is Thriller Video. The following excerpt on Thriller Video originally appeared in LUNCHMEAT #7, written and compiled by Matthew Dilts-Williams: If you’re wondering how much a copy of Alabama’s Ghost was going for about 8 years ago, we got you, my dudes.

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We’ll also offer up the full checklist for the Thriller Video catalog, complete with pricing from 2012. To introduce you to this installment of The Visual History of Audio/Video Plus, we’ll be rewinding back to LUNCHMEAT #7 and exhuming an excerpt from a piece by Matthew Dilts-Williams as he details and explores one of horror home video’s most beloved labels: Thriller Video.

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