The vampish horror hostess becomes stranded in a remote castle in the Carpathian mountains. The aristocratic owner is stunned to discover she's the exact double of his dead wife, and develops a sinister obsession with her. Comedy, sending up classic horror films of the 1950s and 1960s, starring Cassandra Peterson and Richard O'Brien.

The setting is Carpathia. The year is 1851. When Elvira gets kicked out of an Inn for a slight monetary discrepancy, she is rescued by a local who takes her to stay at the castle in the hills high above the village. The fact that she happens to resemble the count's former "missing" wife opens a can of worms or two.