{"id":46205,"date":"2025-10-26T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=46205"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:02:53","slug":"vampira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/10\/26\/vampira\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Vampira\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/3338800032\/in\/photolist-663dVN\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/3589\/3338800032_8c0fcf3b0b_c.jpg?resize=640%2C799&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Vampira\" width=\"640\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><em>Brian Bubonic<\/em> scored me this terrific, autographed 8&#215;10 of <em>Vampira<\/em> aka <em><span class=\"hero__primary-text\" data-testid=\"hero__primary-text\">Maila Nurmi<\/span>a<\/em> a few years back. Brian offers his two cents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I met Maila at a screening of grindhouse movies that used to take place monthly in Hollywood. She was not looking well at the time and seemed flat broke. I bought a few photos from her and she gladly signed them. There is a marker at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery where fans paid to have her buried. She is buried close to Dee Dee Ramone and Darren McGavin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Bubonic scored me this terrific, autographed 8&#215;10 of Vampira aka Maila Nurmia a few years back. Brian offers his two cents: I met Maila at a screening of grindhouse movies that used to take place monthly in Hollywood. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/10\/26\/vampira\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,82],"tags":[208,802,76,6118,6117,4548],"class_list":["post-46205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-halloween","tag-1950s","tag-autograph","tag-horror","tag-horror-host","tag-maila-nurmi","tag-vampira"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1ed1x-vampira","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24507,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/10\/13\/halloween-in-the-neighborhood\/","url_meta":{"origin":46205,"position":0},"title":"Halloween in the Neighborhood","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"October 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halloween&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/halloween\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Vampiraweb.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Vampiraweb.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Vampiraweb.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16866,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/07\/16\/beauty-the-niece\/","url_meta":{"origin":46205,"position":1},"title":"Beauty &#038; The Niece","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"July 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I was hunting through an old four-drawer filing cabinet in my studio for something that eluded me and has now completely escaped me when I came upon this old snapshot of me under heavy zombie makeup and my niece Jessica playing a hapless victim unconvincingly. 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