YMMV / Vampire Reviews

• And You Thought It Would Fail:
  • Elisa mentioned it was a pretty risky move to do nothing but vampire fiction with the Dead Horse Genre feeling about them following Twilight and its fandom backlash.
  • Elisa was surprised to find out her Patreon content went up enormously when she did a LP of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Elisa was this for The Nostalgia Chick and ended up getting this show out of it. She's come a long way from the Makeover Fairy.
  • Her son Grey is so adorable that many fans love when he shows up for cameos.
• Harsher in Hindsight: During a Q&A video Elisa explained that back in their Channel Awesome days there were plans to do a crossover review of Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire with Paw, Nella and Justin Carmical that fell though. While she did express interest in doing regular Vampire Review of it someday, she wasn’t ready due to Justin’s suicide...And then comes the Not So Awesome document a few months later and the fallout revealing Justin as a sexual predator.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In October of 2011, Elisa creates the vampire-obsessed Perky Goth Maven of the Eventide. Then, in September of 2012, Columbia Pictures releases to theaters Hotel Transylvania, which features a young, Perky Goth vampire named Mavis, which Maven reviews in a vlog.
    And if any of you start calling me Mavie-Wavie, I will find out where you sleep and make you regret it! <Beat, cheerful> “Bye!”^note Sure enough, the very first comment calls her Mavie-Wavie.
    • Her screen name in Zoom is Mavey Wavey.
  • When discussing Monster High in her Monster Mash video, she expresses surprise that Frankie Stein is the main protagonist of the line as opposed to Draculaura despite being a vampire (which in a traditional Monster Mash is the leader) and is pink. Cue the 2016 reboot Welcome to Monster High, where Draculaura is the main POV instead.
• Moe: Maven for being a pretentious but lovable Perky Goth fangirl.
• Most Wonderful Sound: "Good eeeeeeeevening. I am ze Maven of ze Eventide..."
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: A common feature of her show is that she reads feminist, political, economic, and racial interpretations of their messages. Some of these were intended by their creators and some of them were not. Her review of Daybreakers for example is an a analysis of the film as a warning against global warming.

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