Cutting Class Anime 1988's Elvira: Mistress of the

1988's Elvira: Mistress of the Dark helped solidify the horror hostess (played by Cassandra Peterson) as a major pop culture icon

is one hell of a gorgeously stylized and shockingly visceral experience: a forgotten classic on the fringes of the slasher cycle

Lynn Lowry and composer Giorgio Moroder

run out of a theme park in Los Angeles

Cutting Class Anime 1988's Elvira: Mistress of thePaula Carson's (Jill Schoelen, POPCORN) high school experience couldn't be better. Between being class president and dating her school's star basketball player, Dwight (Brad Pitt, SE7EN), she seems to have everything she could ask for. But when mentally disturbed teenage murderer Brian Wood (Donovan Leitch, THE BLOB) is released from an area asylum and rejoins his old classmates, it's not long before students and teachers alike turn up missing, or are