Waiting for Plan 10

Maila Nurmi, better known as the 1950s horror host and occasional actress Vampira, has died at the age of 86. The heavily gothed and amply cleavaged Nurmi was like something out of a Russ Meyer movie and heavily influenced similar fright night hostesses right through Elvira. She started screening late night horror movies in 1954, making her the first horror movie hostess, wandering through a set with mist and cobwebs while talking to her pet spider Rollo. Most fans are more familiar with her from her starring role as a corpse re-animated by aliens in Plan 9 From Outer Space, the Edward D. Wood, Jr. misunderstood classic.