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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 ...

ICS Nordic is working on a 3×30-minute documentary series and 90-minute feature doc about Maila Nurmi, the American actress best known for creating the camp 1950s character Vampira. The series and ...

ICS Nordic is working on a 3x30-minute documentary series and 90-minute feature doc about Maila Nurmi, the American actress best known for creating the camp 1950s character Vampira.