Elvira's Haunted Hills

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Director: Sam Irvin Year: 2001 Runtime: 90 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.6

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Synopsis

The setting is Carpathia. The year is 1851. When Elvira gets 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 former "missing" wife opens a can of worms or two.

In 1851 in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, Elvira and her maidservant Zou Zou (Mary Jo Smith), on their way to a can-can revue in Paris, get kicked out of an inn for a slight monetary discrepancy. After making their way out of the village, they are rescued by Dr. Bradley Bradley, who takes them to stay at Castle Hellsubus, in the hills high above the village. While there, Elvira meets the residents—and discovers that she happens to resemble the deceased former wife of his Lordship, the Count Vladimere Hellsubus.

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a dog dies

spoiler No animals die in the movie, but, SPOILER ALERT, since at the end of the movie Elvira is told that the castle where she and her servant spent the night was destroyed a hundred years ago, everyone there, including the horses and a cat that is heard but not seen, have already died a hundred years ago.

someone is sexually assaulted

Yes

there's domestic violence

Yes

there's abusive parents

Yes

there are spiders

Yes

there's genital trauma/mutilation

Yes

there's amputation

Yes

someone is restrained

Yes

someone's mouth is covered

spoiler Maid briefly covers Elviras mouth while she sleeps, because she's scared. Elivra wakes up screaming. And the maid quickly explains.

someone dies

Yes

someone cheats

Yes

someone is kidnapped

Yes

someone is possessed

Yes

there are clowns

spoiler Mentioned in a song about sex.

there's ghosts

Yes

there are shower scenes

spoiler Bath scene.

someone vomits

spoiler No but the girl with long curly blond hair has a gross cough! At 23:20 she hacks something up too the the audio is quite gross. Again not v* though

There's audio gore

Yes

there's decapitation

spoiler Yes. Old practical effects shown of the head. Just a little blood on the neck. Don't believe the body is shown at all.

autism is misrepresented

Yes

there's misophonia

spoiler Yes, the Lord of the house has misophonia, though it's not described with that term. Upon arriving, Elvira does a number of things that causes loud noises (often unintentionally), which distresses the Lord. It is not consistent throughout.

a mentally ill person is violent

Yes

reality is unstable or unhinged

Yes

there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization

spoiler Someone is briefly hypnotized to be little.

someone has a mental illness

Yes

there's flashing lights or images

spoiler Frequently, to the point it gets quite difficult to watch as someone with light sensitivities. Flickering torch light, lightning flashes.

there are sudden loud noises

Yes

shaky cam is used

Yes

there's screaming

Yes

there is obscene language/gestures

Yes

someone is watched without knowing

Yes

the fourth wall is broken

spoiler It's Elvira. She totally talks to her audience. Constantly.

there's ableist language or behavior

spoiler Two of the characters are described as "suffering from peculiarities of temperament". Which Elvira calls hypochondria and "all in their mind". Which the other character agrees., and says "it's more real and more powerful than any physical malady". But even though it's said to be in their mind, there's clearly physiological problems, since the woman coughed up a bit of her lung.

there's fat jokes

spoiler Multiple jokes are made at the expense of Elvira's maid, Zou Zou, who is a bigger woman.

there are "Man in a dress" jokes

spoiler Yes, but not the usual. They're looking at old portraits. When talking about the Lord's grandfather he is described as "Smuggler, slave trader, pathological liar, bad dancer, cross dresser" Elvira's reply is "That's really weird, cross dressers are usually great dancers".

someone dies by suicide

Yes

there's bestiality

spoiler a joke about it in a song

there is sexual content

spoiler Ever so slightly. Maybe PG 13.

someone is sexually objectified

Yes

someone has a chronic illness

Yes

a car honks or tires screech

Yes

there's blood/gore

spoiler Only a little, and it's cartoony.

there's excessive gore

Yes

there's torture

spoiler Somewhere around 1 hr, 45 min. Very brief. And very hokey, just like the whole film.

someone is buried alive

spoiler Attempted. Also mentioned that it happened in the past.

someone is stabbed

Yes

someone falls to their death

Yes

someone falls down stairs

spoiler Elvira almost falls the first time she clubs the stairs. On the way down she does fall off the side of the stairs and lands on the floor in a pile of clothes, uninjured.

Someone becomes unconscious

Yes

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