Horror History: Friday, September 30, 1988: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark was released in theaters

Elvira busts out in her outrageously funny feature film debut! Wise-cracking vamp, Elvira, wants to put on a show in Las Vegas but she’s short $50,000, so when she learns that her wealthy Aunt Morgana has just died, she rushes off to old-fashioned, conservative Falwell, Massachusetts, for the reading of the will.

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Horror History: Wednesday, September 28, 1988: Scarecrows was released direct-to-video

Five crooks rob an army base payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. One crook parachutes out with the money–followed closely by the others. All five land in a mysterious, abandoned graveyard at night, where they are terrorized by ghouls.

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Horror History: Friday, September 23, 1988: Spellbinder was released in theaters

Jeff Mills, an L.A. attorney, rescues a woman he has never met before, not knowing she is the woman of his dreams, or that she will lead him into a nightmare of illusion and betrayal.

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Horror History: Tuesday, September 20, 1988: Cellar Dweller was released direct-to-video

The promising career of a horror comic book artist ends in a fiery death when he confronts the carnage of his own imagination in his studio. Years later, an ardent devotee of the artist’s work becomes a resident in his house, now an art academy, unaware that her imagination has revived the grotesque murderer of the past…and that she may be the next victim. Whoa.

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