Vampira is dead. Long Live Vampira!
 

Vampira is dead. Long Live Vampira

 

 

 

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85.

Nurmi died Thursday afternoon at her Hollywood home, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Fred Corral said. The cause of death has not been determined, Corral said.

Nurmi created her Vampira character -- reminiscent of Charles Addams' spooky New Yorker cartoons -- to host horror movie broadcasts on KABC TV in Los Angeles in 1954.

With darkly mascaraed eyes and blood-red lipstick, Nurmi appeared each week in her revealing black dress and slinky fishnets to introduce such films as "Revenge of the Zombies" and "Devil Bat's Daughter."

old goths don't die, they just need less makeup.

Vampira was PRE-Goth!

Two Inch Nails
Micro Waist
With a pale white feline face
Inclienation eyebrows to there

Vampira

R.I.P.

yes!

Black dress moves in a blue movie
Graverobbers from outer space
Well, your pulmonary trembles in your outstretched arm
Tremble so wicked

Two inch nails
Micro waist
With a pale white feline face
Inclination eyebrows to there

Mistress to the horror kid
Cemetary of the white love ghoul, well
Take off your shabby dress
Come and lay beside me

Come a little bit closer
Come a little bit closer
Come a little bit closer
Come a little bit closer to this

Vampira, vampira, vampira

the bats have left the bell tower
the victims have been bled
red velvet lines the black box
Maila Nurmi's dead



am I doing this right?

Vampira >>>>>>>>>>>>> Elvira

One of the true bits of Americana that I'm sad to have missed.

she started her horror movie show in LA in 1954. hell yes.

I was thinking of this song when I saw the thread name. It's a good song too.

this sucks.

Vampira's dead, undead undead undead

she was from finland.

ha hah ahhaaa!

back in serious mode, rip.. peculiar woman.