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List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $14.99 Features • Black & White • NTSC In Theaters : 1953 DVD Release : 15 February, 2000 |
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Glen or Glenda description Is Ed Wood the worst director who ever lived? His films are campy, clumsy, and hysterically inept, but their enthusiasm and good humor overcome incoherent scripts and wooden performances with heart, soul, and an infectious sense of fun. The jaw-dropping "documentary" Glen or Glenda? is a bizarre confessional starring Wood himself as a misunderstood transvestite and Bela Lugosi as a smirking godlike narrator. "Pull ze string!" shouts Lugosi as Wood reveals his angora fetish and love of women's underwear to the world. Lugosi returns as a mad scientist revenging himself on the world ("Home? I have no home!") in Bride of the Monster, a howler of a horror picture. Tor Johnson, the hulking Swedish wrestler turned B-movie icon, made his first Wood appearance as the lumbering beast Lobo (he almost knocks over the set in one scene!) tamed by the touch of angora. Finally there's Wood's "masterpiece," the clumsy, nearly incoherent, and ridiculously cheap Plan 9 from Outer Space. A tall, skinny, blond chiropractor subs for short, raven-haired Bela Lugosi (who died after a few days of shooting), cardboard gravestones wobble as the actors walk by, and night and day randomly come and go within the same scene. --Sean Axmaker |
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| This is a painful yet highly effective introduction to the world of incredibly bad movies. The best tape out of these three is something that will make you say, "Is this a movie?? It can't be. No movie can be this bad. This must be something else."
But no, these are real movies. It's just that you don't hear much about their theatrical release history, which makes sense, because they're so bad. Let's start with oldest of these three movies, Glen or Glenda. This is a movie that attempts to grab your attention with the first-ever sex change operation (which was a current event at that time) before it segways into a movie about transvestites. Why a transvestite movie? Because Ed Wood, the man responsible for the movie, was a transvestite himself. He wanted people to understand why he was the way he was. The movie does accomplish Wood's desire in a way, but it's so bad that going any more than halfway through the final print is darn near impossible. The story just stops in the middle and random music and footage arise to combine in such a wrecthed manner that the audience is hypnotized to instantly press the nearest "off" button they can find. So only half of what Ed Wood wanted to show actually comes across. Fortunately, Ed's films do get better. Bride of the Monster can actually be viewed all the way through, but just barely. Not much happens in it. I think it's supposed to be one of those movies that shows us how taking science too far is ultimately destructive. Also, it seems to put a lot of emphasis on the unsurpassed danger of lying on top of a completely immobile fake octopus. Plan 9 From Outer Space can actually be watched more than once. That doesn't mean it's good, but it's actually not PAINFUL painful like the others. It's just mildly painful. It takes the destructive science theme from Bride of the Monster and brings it a step further, saying man will destroy the universe by finding a way to explode rays of light. The "Plan 9" of the title is actually an attempt by outer space aliens to stop man before this explosive carnage happens. But all that doesn't seem to grab your attention when Ed won't even bother doing a second take after a man nearly falls over trying to pick up a freaking newspaper. I highly recommend this as a supplement to Tim Burton's 1994 biography of Ed Wood. Why? Because you actually get to see the REAL footage that Johnny Depp acts out in the Burton movie. So this set of tapes is very educational, but gosh, the movies are ever so bad. |
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