LOCAL GHOUL MAKES GOOD

Horror fans will know that Maila Nurmi as Vampira was TV's first horror host(ess). Her show first aired on L.A.'s KABC-TV on April 30, 1954. THE VAMPIRA SHOW only lasted a year, but it still has a cult following to this day. She never opened the Bar Sinister that she mentions in the article, but an L.A. club bearing the Viva Vampira Bar Sinister name is still operating in her honor. You can't get any more cultish than that!

This article is from TV GUIDE for the week of  July 17-25 July 1954.

See more Vampira posts HERE.

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH!

 

THE FILMS OF LAURA GEMSER

Howdy, folks. You may have noticed the title change on today's post, the second part on the films of Laura Gemser. The reason is this: Yesterday, I received an email message from Google notifying me that they had flagged the post. I suspect it's because of "Queen of Exploitation" in the title, and in particular, the word "exploitation" (or maybe the combination of words, or even the thumbnail image) and I wonder if Google has bots scanning for potential trigger words that may or may not cause this which might possibly violate their Community Standards policy.

I have to tell you I've seen much more than what's seen here on numerous other blogs and they're still up the last time I checked. I have always published this blog within Google's policy and accordingly put up the mature content authorization wall before anyone can enter the site. I guess I'll hereafter need to be a little more careful on the use of words and images in my titles.

Any other bloggers had an issue like this? I am curious, yellow.

Anyway, here's the rest of it.