If you have ever saw Ed Wood's camp classic Plan 9 from Outer Space then you may have remember a ghoulish vampire looking girl running around the graveyard scenes. That character was called Vampira ...

In the early days of television, when horror movies were often campy by nature, actress Maila Nurmi created the character Vampira, a glamorous ghoul who as hostess of late-night fright films in the ...

Vampira was a woman ahead of her time. Back in the 1950s, when many a gal was still kitchen-bound (not that there's anything wrong with that!), the TV horror hostess and B-movie legend had already ...

Despite a regrettable dearth of visual material of Maila Nurmi in her signature role as early TV horror icon Vampira, R.H. Greene‘s docu succeeds admirably in transposing his 2010 radio documentary ...

The story of Maila "Vampira" Nurmi, living on the very edge of show business, and her rise to celluloid cultdom 50 years later. Her big break came in 1954 when she played the "glamour ghoul" Vampira, ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...