{"id":194234,"date":"2025-10-06T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194234\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:12:08","slug":"cassandra-peterson-says-her-days-as-elvira-may-be-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194234\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassandra Peterson Says Her Days as Elvira May Be Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

As horror hostess Elvira, Cassandra Peterson has been the reigning Mistress of the Dark and Queen of Halloween since she came onto the scene back in the early 1980s, and there\u2019s rarely been a Halloween season that\u2019s gone by since where we didn\u2019t hear from Elvira. This Halloween is no exception, as Elvira\u2019s Cookbook from Hell<\/a> just released earlier this week!<\/p>\n

Elvira also just launched her own gin<\/a> with As Above So Below Distillery, and she\u2019s joined forces with Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group for this year\u2019s Los Angeles Haunted Hayride<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It would seem Elvira isn\u2019t going anywhere anytime soon, but Peterson suggests in a new chat with PEOPLE<\/a> this week that her days of actually donning the costume may be behind her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of cut it off,\u201d Peterson explains. There gets to a point where nobody\u2019s going to want to see a really old Elvira.\u201d She jokes, \u201ctwo big reasons that are really a lot lower these days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere comes a point when you want to get out at the top of your game like Muhammad Ali,\u201d Peterson adds. \u201cDon\u2019t just keep going until people are going, \u2018Oh, that poor woman.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to run her into the ground. But yeah, nobody wants to see an 80-year-old Elvira.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cassandra Peterson most recently played Elvira on screen for a Halloween episode of \u201cThe Goldbergs<\/a>,\u201d and she\u2019s expressed interest in recent years in bringing the character back to the big screen for a new movie. One thing we\u2019ve learned? Never say never\u2026<\/p>\n

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