Edward D. Wood Jr.

  • Edward D. Wood Jr. – Night of the Ghouls (1959)

    1951-1960CultEdward D. Wood Jr.HorrorUSA

    Follow-up to Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space” about the walking dead, It opens in a cemetery. Criswell, the “real” medium, rises from his coffin to tell us of “monsters to be despised.” Dr. Acula (Kenne Duncan) is a phony medium aided by Valda Hansen, a bogus ghost, and big Tor Johnson, wearing rags and horrible scar makeup as Lobo. The doctor swindles people by pretending to contact dead relatives, but then accidentally succeeds in reviving a bunch of corpses that bury him alive! Sat unreleased for 23 years because Wood couldn’t pay the lab bill! Followed by “Sinister Urge” in 1961 (Wood’s last film).Read More »

  • Ted Newsom – Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora (1994)

    1991-2000DocumentaryTed NewsomUSA

    A hysterical documentary which uses footage of Ed Wood’s movie to tell the story of his life. It may not be a deep analysis, but shows distinctly how Ed’s life strongly influenced his own films.
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  • Edward D. Wood Jr. – Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

    1951-1960CultEdward D. Wood Jr.Sci-FiUSA

    Quote:
    Plan 9 From Outer Space has been unjustly deemed the worst movie of all time. It’s true that cardboard gravestones are knocked over, that scenes change from day to night at a moment’s notice, and that half of Bela Lugosi’s scenes are shot with a taller stand-in who has trouble keeping his vampire’s cape on his shoulders. But technical gaffes like these are shared by a number of low-budget sci-fi films with plots that equal the absurdity of this epic’s tale of extraterrestrial grave robbers.Read More »

  • Edward D. Wood Jr. – Crossroads of Laredo (1995)

    1991-2000CultEdward D. Wood Jr.USAWestern

    Plot Synopsis
    Definitely not to be confused with the 1949 Paramount release starring William Holden or the Larry McMurtry 1995 television mini-series, this 20 minute unfinished “western” marked the first helpless Hollywood effort of legendary bad filmmaker Edward J. Wood, Jr. Together with a friend, 18-year-old John Crawford Thomas, the 23-year-old Wood produced his little epic in 16 mm on a one-day shooting schedule at the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, California, apparently blowing Thomas’ inheritance in the process. A few other scenes ere filmed several weeks later in Griffith Park, but then Wood ran out of funds or acquaintances with ready cash (a recurring problem for the young auteur). Read More »

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