Bela Lugosi, Loretta King, Tony McCoy

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Unrated, 1 hr. 8 min.

Directed by: Edward D. Wood Jr, Edward Wood, Edward Wood Jr

Release Date: January 1, 1955

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DVD Release Date: February 15, 2000

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  • July 6, 2009
    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.
  • January 13, 2009
    How does one rate a movie that is sooooo bad that it's good?
  • April 26, 2008
    "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) doctor named Eric Vornoff who is experimenting with people to create his own "master race" of atomic people to rule the world.

    Premise is weak, and executed appallingly! Performances are just woeful, with Lugosi visibly past his prime, Tor Johnson doing nothing more than zombie sleep-walking and a bit of roaring, and there's a few others that do nothing more than winge and moan, and add nothing to the story.

    Script is horrible...I mean how did the actors ever agree to say such lines?! And the octopus...well it's so rubber and fake I believe even a novelty store would be fiercely ashmed to so much as glance at it. The attacking scenes...laughable. The opening attack scene was just dismal, with bad editing, bad acting and above all no believability at all.

    The octopus never so much as touches the guy. All other attacks throughout the film are even worse...with an actor happily sitting amongst the tenticles and pulling the lifeless tenticles onto themself.

    And don't get me started on the alligator...that scene was even worse. It was different in every shot, and is never seen in the same frame as the actor.

    And what's more - a snake that looks out of place and suddenly turns all stiff and rubber a second before it's killed.

    Regular on set goofs are visible, with shaking sets, and fake looking props. Heck, even when things get shot there's not so much as a bullet mark on them.

    Those who've seen Tim Burton's biopic of Ed Wood will be familiar with the offscreen misadventures the crew faced.

    The film is another trademark bad movie from Ed Wood...so bad it's very watchable and extremely funny at times. I watched it for its comedic entertainment value, and that's the only reason anyone should watch it.
  • January 6, 2007
    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.
  • November 15, 2006
    Horrible but grossly entertaining.
  • October 21, 2009
    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)olute horribleness actually help to boost this above many of this genre during this period.
  • September 30, 2009
    home ... i have no ... home ... hunted ... despised
  • September 25, 2009
    absolutely awful in the most fantastic way possible! Scene after scene of horrible effects and even worse acting. I loved every minute of it!
  • May 24, 2009
    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)ing. miserable writing, sloppy editing, and just about everything you'd want or expect from the Ed Wood tier of moviemaking.
  • April 26, 2009
    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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