BigList
Login / Sign up
Vampira: The Movie (2006)

Vampira: The Movie (2006)

Horror Documentary
Release Date: 2006, October 31
Directors: Kevin Sean Michaels
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Sid Haig, Cassandra Peterson, Kevin Eastman, Bill Moseley, Forrest J. Ackerman, Julie Strain, Debbie Rochon, Deborah Dutch, Jerry Only, Maila Nurmi, Smokey Miles, Danielle Gelehrter

Overview:

The story of Maila "Vampira" Nurmi, living on the very edge of show business, and her rise to celluloid cultdom 50 years later. Her big break came in 1954 when she played the "glamour ghoul" Vampira, emerging from the mist to greet viewers of obscure horror movies on the new medium— television. Her newfound fame led to friendships with Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Anthony Perkins. But Vampira's show was abruptly cancelled. Nurmi appeared as Vampira again in the 1959 low-budget horror / sci-fi film, Plan 9 from Outer Space, directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. and often dubbed "the worst film of all time." But you can't keep a good vampire down, and Nurmi's character rose from the dead again in 1993's Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton.