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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark w. Safe Slut

You Are Good

Alex Steed

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Relationships, Film History

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Our appearance is kind of a shock to everybody. In which we get to the bottom of what makes Elvira an icon with the wonderful Safe Slut.

And! A message from Sarah!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello you and welcome to You Are Good a Feelings podcast about movies. Today we are talking about

0:15.6

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and we are talking about it with the glorious safe slut. I am your host for today's

0:22.8

episode, Alex Steed. But before we get into all that, I have a message from the marvelous Sarah

0:29.3

Marshall. Hello, this is your friend Sarah. And I have a little bit of bittersweet news today,

0:36.2

which is that I'm not going to be returning

0:38.9

to this show. I am walking off into the sunset. It has been the greatest joy and the most

0:45.5

wonderful experience to share this with you and to share my loves with you and the movies that I

0:49.6

love most and some of the people that I love most. And truly one of the things that dragged my

0:57.3

barely animated corpse through the pandemic and the difficult years after. And now I feel like

1:03.4

it is time for me to hand this over to the amazing Alex Deed and to the beautiful hands of

1:09.6

Miranda Zichler. This is the part where I'm supposed to talk about new projects, but I'm not excited about

1:14.5

new projects.

1:15.2

I'm excited to be doing less with my brain.

1:18.4

Thank you for sharing these years with me and for maybe watching Manhunter if you did.

1:24.3

It means a lot.

1:25.8

Bye.

1:28.2

Thank you so much, Sarah. Happy trails. And Miranda does have beautiful hands, doesn't she?

1:37.7

The opportunity to make this show, as Sarah just said, has been one of the greatest

1:43.3

pleasures of my life and the greatest pleasures of my life and the greatest

1:46.7

opportunities of my life. And doing it with Sarah and shaping it with Sarah and figuring out

1:54.2

how to talk about things like feelings and culture and empathy, while also, you know, talking about folks' favorite movies

2:04.9

really got me through this wild stretch of time that we have all had. And to do it with all of you

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