By Celina Ehrlich
Floating down a misty hallway with her long black hair, skin tight black dress and long red fingernails, Vampira birthed the horror hosting genre with her signature blood-curdling scream. Her TV production, The Vampira Show, which aired on KABC-TV in Los Angeles, was the first of its kind, creating a timeless format where a ghoulish host introduces a classic horror movie that they watch with the audience, making comedic comments along the way. In the 1980s, Philadelphia’s own horror show, Saturday Night Dead, was hosted by Stella, “that maneater from Manayunk ” who represented a uniquely Philadelphian brand of horror hosting that is remembered to this day.
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