Bela Lugosi, Loretta King, Tony McCoy
Directed by: Edward D. Wood Jr, Edward Wood, Edward Wood Jr
Release Date: January 1, 1955
DVD Release Date: February 15, 2000
Stats: 239 reviews
Hard to rate this one. It's terrible...after all it's directed by Ed Wood. But it's also so campy and lame that it's hysterical...because it's directed by Ed Wood. OK, I'll split the difference.
"A race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world!" as quoted by Bela Lugosi's character in another of Ed Wood's famously appalling films.
That quote pretty much sums up the plot...and the absolutely appalling screenplay.
Bride of the Monster is about a crazed...( read more)
Rates a 3 on the ED WOOD SCALE, which falls somewhere between 0 and 2 in the real world. You really just have to know what you're in for when you sit down for an evening of Ed Wood.
we have Bela Lugosi playing a mad scientist in this Ed Wood production. He's trying to make super-strength slaves and he has an octopus. This one has more sense than the notorious Plan 9, but still with all the ineptness which I don't believe was deliberate. These traits of abs...( read more)
absolutely awful in the most fantastic way possible! Scene after scene of horrible effects and even worse acting. I loved every minute of it!
this film is amazing. unlike Plan 9, it seems to have somewhat of a budget, although it's not really a noticeable step up. easily my favorite part of the movie is the last 5 or 10 minutes...the final sequence of events is just so unbearably awful you can't help bust a gut laugh...( read more)
Dr. Varnoff captures twelve men for his experiment: to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Newspaperwoman Lawton gets too snoopy for her own good.
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