
Television Horror Movie Hosts
Midnight, 1954. A striking woman in a torn black dress slinks down a cobwebbed, candelabra''d corridor. She stops, shrieks hysterically into the camera, then solemnly says, "Good evening, I am Vampira."
Her real name is Maila Nurmi and she was the first in a long line of television horror movie hosts, commonly seen on independent stations'' late-night "grade Z" offerings dressed as some zany ...
Midnight, 1954. A striking woman in a torn black dress slinks down a cobwebbed, candelabra''d corridor. She stops, shrieks hysterically into the camera, then solemnly says, "Good evening, I am Vampira."
Her real name is Maila Nurmi and she was the first in a long line of television horror movie hosts, commonly seen on independent stations'' late-night "grade Z" offerings dressed as some zany ...