Elvira's Haunted Hills is a sequel

Sequel

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 to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, directed by Sam Irvin

Sam Irvin

Sam Irvin is a film and television director, producer, screen writer, and author.-Career:Sam Irvin was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. In 1964, when he was eight years old, Irvin went on a family trip to California where he was able to tour various movie studios...

. The film premiered at the International Rocky Horror

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O'Brien. The film is a parody of B-movie, science fiction and horror films of the late 1940s through early 1970s. Director Jim Sharman collaborated on the...

 Fan Convention on June 23, 2001.

Synopsis

Carpathia, 1851: Elvira and her maidservant Zou Zou (Mary Jo Smith), on their way to a can-can

Can-can

The can-can is a high-energy and physically demanding music hall dance, traditionally performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings...

 revue in Paris, get kicked out of an inn for a slight monetary discrepancy, she is rescued by a local who takes her to stay at the castle in the hills high above the village. The fact that she happens to resemble the count's (Richard O'Brien

Richard O'Brien

Richard Timothy Smith , better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien, is an English writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and for his role in presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze...

) former "missing" wife opens a can of worms or two.

Cast

• Cassandra Peterson
  Cassandra Peterson
  Cassandra Peterson is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation...
  
   as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark/Lady Elura Hellsubus
• Richard O'Brien
  Richard O'Brien
  Richard Timothy Smith , better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien, is an English writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and for his role in presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze...
  
   as Lord Vladimere Hellsubus
• Mary Scheer
  Mary Scheer
  Mary Scheer is an American actress and comedian. She is best known as one of the original cast members of the sketch comedy series MADtv and for playing Freddie's mother, Marissa Benson, on iCarly...
  
   as Lady Ema Hellsubus (the adulteress)
• Scott Atkinson as Dr. Bradley Bradley (the charlatan)
• Heather Hopper as Lady Roxanna Hellsubus (Catalepsy poster child)
• Mary Jo Smith as Zou Zou
• Gabriel Andronache as Adrian (stable stud)
• Jerry Jackson as the English gentleman
• Theodor Danetti as the inn-keeper

Details

• The film fondly parodies most of the Roger Corman
  Roger Corman
  Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
  
  -directed Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
  
   films and the British horror films from Hammer Studios. Mention of this is made on the featurette contained within the DVD of the film.