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TomWeaver999	Vampira	Lead	[-]
(01/11/08 7:55 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	An e-mail I just received from David J. (OUTER LIMITS) Schow: Ladies & Gents, Tommy Kuntz has informed me that Maila Nurmi has passed.
Count Gamula		#1	[-]
(01/11/08 10:56 AM) Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sorry to hear that Vampira has left us. The original TV horrror host, she was an original in more ways than one. It's amazing that in such a brief career she managed to create a lasting icon with her sexy and spooky persona. Last Edited By: Count Gamula 01/11/08 12:03 PM. Edited 1 times.
Penny Dreadful		#2	[-]
(01/11/08 10:59 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is such sad news. Thank you for letting us know. Vampira was an inspiration and I had always hoped to meet her one day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Penny Dreadful's Shilling Shockers http://www.shillingshockers.com
JessieLilley		#3	[-]
(01/11/08 11:09 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Oh, I'm sorry.
ArmandV101	Sad news.	#4	[-]
(01/11/08 11:10 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That's sad to hear. I wonder if she'll be mentioned in December when the media reviews on who departed during the past year.
Dr Acula		#5	[-]
(01/11/08 11:44 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What an individual - we can only be glad that there was a documentary with her recently, and I hope more footage and more of the stuff alluded to existing trhough the Vampira's Attic site can come to pass, maybe a Vampira the Movie II. I hope she driving a fast hearse with James Dean on the other side, having a great time. "I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." - Anaïs Nin
ArmandV101		#6	[-]
(01/11/08 12:06 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	No news except for this: http://darkvault.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/vampira-maila-syrjaniemi-nurmi-1921-2007-r-i-p/ And this (more details): http://blogging.la/archives/2008/01/rip_vampira_aka_maila_nurmi.phtml Last Edited By: ArmandV101 01/11/08 12:11 PM. Edited 1 times.
Bobtheman		#7	[-]
(01/11/08 12:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Who can ever forget Vampira in Plan 9... and footage used in the Chiller Theatre introduction.. those outstretched hands... In the doc Flying Saucers Over Hollywood, she said she was thrilled to hear she would be playing against a dead man ( Lugosi). Last Edited By: Bobtheman 01/11/08 12:23 PM. Edited 1 times.
Robert Summit		#8	[-]
(01/11/08 12:47 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I only know her from Plan 9, and her considerable legend, but there's a lump in my throat. RIP. "If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right in the nose, and I'm just the fella that can do it!"
zogstar67		#9	[-]
(01/11/08 12:57 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	She'll be back! Chris Herzog "Moe! Larry! The Cheese!"
blackbiped		#10	[-]
(01/11/08 1:05 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I also knew Vampira only from PLAN 9, but Maila was always interesting and funny in interviews that I've seen. Hate to lose her. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way. Porfle's Secret Blog HK and Cult Film News Andersonvision.com
TomWeaver999		#11	[-]
(01/11/08 1:08 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Inappropriate comment at this time, perhaps, but I was never quite sure if I wanted to meet and try to talk with her or not. She kinda struck me as somebody who lived on "another plane" -- not that fandom isn't full of folks who live on other planes, whether it's Planet Egoboo or Planet Looneytunes or Planet Hammer-Films-Are-Art or Planet I-Need-To-Keep-This-Ten-Dollar-Magazine-In-A-Plastic-Bag-Even-Though-Years-From-Now-It-Won't-Be-Worth-Two-Cents, and 1001 others. (Including Planet "I Gotta Interview This Person That Only 20 People Remember In Hopes That Maybe Two People Will Read It.") But, reading interviews with her, and seeing on-camera ones, I nnnnever was able to figure out what to even CALL her plane, or have any idea if I'd really be able to communicate with it. And I wondered if I'd just be boring her or bothering her, and didn't want to do that. Has anybody here ever really "connected" with her? I don't mean, ask her what the PLAN 9 soundstage was like and get some kind of an answer, but actually talked like "just folks" about real stuff? What was she like? Last Edited By: TomWeaver999 01/11/08 1:17 PM. Edited 1 times.
taraco		#12	[-]
(01/11/08 1:21 PM) Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Joe Moe posted elsewhere that she was a true 'bohemian,' and it made me smile because in the filmed interviews I've seen -- in VAMPIRA THE MOVIE from Alpha and AMERICAN SCARY (not yet released on DVD) -- she did come across as a very artsy post-modern cynic, her hair all back in a tight nanny bun but her eyes sparkling with intelligence and zest for what's next, or for what was left in her life. It may be fitting that this year will mark the first year of a Best Horror Host (active), category in the Rondo Awards. The nominations will be in honor of Maila Nurmi and the still-with-us John Zacherle. Though her time in the genre was very short, her impact on all of us will be eternal. Sad news indeed... david Rondo VI is here!
Dr Gangrene		#13	[-]
(01/11/08 1:26 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tom, I never got to meet her, but am saddened to her of her passing nonetheless. The footage that exists of her show is very cool, and she had a great look about her, all tall and sleek, slinky and creepy. First television host. Nice that you're honoring the new category in her name, David - and Zach's too - good call!
TomWeaver999		#14	[-]
(01/11/08 1:43 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One of the RUE MORGUE magazine honchos is e-mailing any-and-all that she "died in her sleep several days ago. She was 86. ... she passed away peacefully, of natural causes." If you gotta go, that'd be the way, IMHO.
taraco		#15	[-]
(01/11/08 2:08 PM) Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Here's a photo of Vampira in her classic hosting days: And here she is recently with Kevin Sean Michaels, director of VAMPIRA THE MOVIE: david Rondo VI is here!
GhostofChaneysLiver		#16	[-]
(01/11/08 3:08 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	86 years isn't a bad run. She lived life her own way and probably enjoyed it more than most. I was always kind of hoping someone could coax her into doing the convention circuit, strictly for selfish reasons. I really wanted to meet her, and sorry now I'll never get the chance. Cromwell
killer meteor		#17	[-]
(01/11/08 3:35 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Farewell sweet lady
skelton knaggs		#18	[-]
(01/11/08 3:52 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What a shame. This folder seemed to be pretty inactive for a few weeks, and now this. Maila Nurmi kept a veil of integrity and secrecy for so many years, but that iconic figure she created so strong, so visual.......Will be with us for generations to come. Not a bad thing at all. "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
Rakshasa		#19	[-]
(01/11/08 3:55 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Coincidence #1: Though not really a fan, I recently bought Vampira The Movie just because I thought it looked interesting (it is!). Coincidence #2: Last night I chose to watch Plan 9 as I lay in bed. RIP Maila ~ RIP Vampira Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
SteveZodiak		#20	[-]
(01/11/08 4:02 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Like many have said, I never saw her as Vampira except in photos, only in Plan 9, but certainly anyone remotely connected with classic horror knows of her. My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention.

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