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♥Maila Nurmi♥ 1921-2008.  "In the early morning hours of January 10th, 2008, while sleeping peacefully, Maila Nurmi suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away. Maila had recently turned 86 and was in seemingly good health and spirits. Funeral arrangements are pending due to a search for relatives, but a memorial service will be held in Los Angeles in the near future. If you wish to be notified, please send your contact information to Ghooled@sbcglobal.net. In lieu of flowers, anyone wishing to make a donation in Maila's name may contact the Much Love Animal Rescue at http://www.muchlove.org/index.phpThank you for everything, Maila, and God bless."  http://www.vampirasattic.com/
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I saw Vampira: The Movie last year at the Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival. She seemed like a nice enough woman, a little eccentric in her old age. While I never got to see an episode of her TV show, I do remember staying up late as a child to watch Plan 9 From Outer Space. That she is a horror/cult icon is indisputable. RIP.
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock ![[Linked Image from i6.photobucket.com]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/JoeMama13/RedSoxBanner05.png)
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Message from the director of Vampira: The Movie
Maila Nurmi passed away from natural causes on January 10th, 2008 in Los Angeles. She was 86. The reason there was no official word is that there is no official source of information. She had no manager and was, most of the time, reclusive.
Friday night I made some calls to friends in Los Angeles based upon a blog that was circulating, and many people had heard the news, but I didn't want to post anything here (or, perhaps, believe what I was hearing) without a definitive source. But now the Associated Press has reported the news of her death on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 based upon information from the L.A. County Coroner's office.
Maila was a great friend of mine, full of wisdom, and a genius. She was one-of-a-kind. When we filmed the documentary, Vampira: The Movie, I had tears in my eyes because she rarely did interviews; I was honored to hear her story and felt that it had to be told to a wider audience. Maila often said that she lived a strange life, but was very proud of her accomplishments.
It is a tribute to Maila's enduring popularity that the documentary is the fastest-selling DVD on Alpha New Cinema to date. It has also played numerous film festivals, and we will be screening the movie in her home country of Finland later this year.
Alexia Anastasio, the editor of Vampira: The Movie, conducted what we believe to be the last interview with Maila three weeks ago as an exclusive for Rue Morgue Magazine. I am currently finishing up a new documentary on grindhouse filmmaker Ted V. Mikels and had to stop work on it temporarily to mourn the loss of Maila.
Thank you, Maila, for all the good cheer.
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Kevin Sean Michaels
January 15, 2008
New York
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That she is a horror/cult icon is indisputable. RIP. Absolutely. RIP
 Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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That she is a horror/cult icon is indisputable. RIP. Absolutely. RIP Ditto, RIP
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That she is a horror/cult icon is indisputable. RIP. Absolutely. RIP Ditto, RIP RIP....
"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your death bring you the peace you never found in life." - Tuvok. 
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