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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LEGEND FILMS
EAN: 0844503000682
Feature: An all time B-movieic explodes on the screen in all its cheesy glory! Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space) directs screen legend Bela Lugosi in a bizarre tale of a mad scientist who, along with his servant Lobo (the gigantic Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, in a role he was born to play), attempts to create an army of superhuman mutants. Features the famous scene in which Lugosi "wrestles" with
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Item Dimensions: 500
Label: Legend Films
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Manufacturer: Legend Films
MPN: LF00428
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Legend Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Running Time: 68 minutes
Studio: Legend Films
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
Features:- An all time B-movieic explodes on the screen in all its cheesy glory! Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space) directs screen legend Bela Lugosi in a bizarre tale of a mad scientist who, along with his servant Lobo (the gigantic Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, in a role he was born to play), attempts to create an army of superhuman mutants. Features the famous scene in which Lugosi "wrestles" with
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Studio: Legend Films Inc. Release Date: 10/21/2008
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For years, conventional wisdom has had it that Ed Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 from Outer Space is the ultimate "bad movie," a sort of Holy Grail of cinematic ineptitude. Often lost in the shuffle, though, is Bride of the Monster (fans of Tim Burton's biopic Ed Wood will already be familiar with it and the offscreen misadventures that went along with it). Bela Lugosi plays Dr. Vornoff, a mad scientist working on a race of superbeings in his lab. His process of clamping a metal lampshade onto the heads of his subjects and zapping them with radiation usually kills them, but the monstrous Lobo (Tor Johnson) survives and becomes Vornoff's assistant. Vornoff's plans go awry, though, when he tries to get a nosy reporter to mate with Lobo and winds up being given the atom treatment himself. Suffice it to say that there's a grappling match between Vornoff and Lobo until the evil doctor falls into a pit and wrestles a rubber octopus. Stock footage of lightning and an atomic explosion round things out for a great non sequitur of an ending. Knowing Bela Lugosi's sad state by the time that he and Ed Wood had teamed up makes it hard to watch this movie without feeling a pang of pathos for the 73-year-old actor; indeed, Bride was his last speaking role. Still, any movie with as many obvious gaffes in direction, editing, set design, narrative (heck, take your pick) as Bride is a must for any connoisseur of bad movies. And of course, the gargantuan Tor Johnson gets to utter the deathless line: "Time for... go to bed." --Jerry Renshaw
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Not much I can add to the other reviews here other to say that this is probably the best of Ed "So Bad It's Good" Woods endeavors. I just wanted to point out just one of the many hilarious gaffs in this gem. It's in the scene when the chief goes to Janet's newpaper to investigate her disapperance. In the coversation he has with the file clerk, notice how the pencil over her right ear keeps disappearing and reappearing. Oh Ed, you were the greatest!
Rating:  -
Bride of the Monster, aka Bride of the Atom
An Ed Wood film. Need I say more?
Bela Lugosi's last speaking part in this 1956 campy silliness as a mad doctor who somehow makes a fierce octopus that grabs people that walk too near Lake Marsh. The two guys who first get it are commenting on how unnatural the lightning is, and this is most likely caused by atomic bombs. Of course we don't listen to that, those are just a couple of superstitious hunters, right?
Well, after an attempt to get out of the rain but they are rebuffed by Lugosi's character (Dr. Varnoff) and his mute friend Lobo (who actually screams when you whip him, go figure). One guy falls in the swamp and gets attacked by the aforementioned octopus (why he just doesn't stand up, I don't know) and the other guy is put on a table and experimented on.
He dies.
Somehow a female reporter (Loretta King) gets the headlines that a monster is on the loose. This is not confirmed by the police nor anyone else. How she got that headline in the paper is anyone's guess. Her fiancé is on the police force, too and they have a chat with the police chief, bantering about. The chief (Henry Dunn, also seen on Teenagers from Outer Space, my review is buried on that farce elsewhere) has a pet bird that sits on his shoulder. Joy.
Anyway, long story short, Lugosi gets the girl on the table. Lobo likes her too much to see her fry and saves her. He then performed the experiment on Varnoff. Unfortunately the machine works on Varnoff, killing everyone else. Strange.
How can Lobo and Varnoff be bullet proof, yet the bullets don't mark their clothing? Why do guns have 7 or 8 bullets in them? Why are the alligators near the swamp also bullet proof? Oh, and there is a small spy problem with a doctor who wants to take Varnoff back home to some communist country to help them make supermen. That does not work out too well either.
Campy dialogue, overacting and an awful bantering episode between the chief and a file room woman -- awrghh....
Good movie to see for a laugh. I was surprised that the machine actually worked and did not kill Varnoff. Lugosi's double was about a foot taller and wider than the slight Hungarian actor.
Two stars for effort. Did you know that hypnosis can work through solid wood doors if you curl your fingers just right?
Other Ed Wood films and/or parodies:
The Ed Wood Collection - A Salute to Incompetence
Ed Wood (Special Edition)
The Ed Wood Box (Glen or Glenda / Jail Bait / Bride of the Monster / Plan 9 from Outer Space / Night of the Ghouls / The Haunted World of Ed Wood)
Barely Legal Lesbian Vampires - Curse of Ed Wood
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Irresistible Monogram film. At the top of the list of movies that qualify for genre So-bad-that's-it's-good. Poverty Row films were filmed in 2-5 days with cardboard sets, wierd music (if any), preposterous plots, bad acting by actors required to wear their own clothes instead of being supplied with costumes, etc..
Bela is known for appearing in about 10 of these amusingly ghastly films. However--Lugosi always gave it his All, no matter how dreadful the script or working conditions. He never dissapoints; he never "walked through" a role. One of the true Immortals...
Rating:  -
Prime nonsense from the imagination of Ed Wood, featuring his regular "stock company" (Paul Marco, Tor Johnson, Dolores Fuller). BRIDE OF THE MONSTER is arguably his most polished and coherent effort, though it's of course also loaded with the stiff dialogue, clunky special effects and clumsy continuity errors we all love from this masterly moviemaker whose heart and best intentions were always in the right place.
Bela Lugosi is zany Dr. Vornoff, who lives in a ramshackle mansion in the middle of a swamp. Armed with brutish lab assistant Lobo (Tor Johnson) and a giant plastic octopus, Vornoff conducts experiments on trespassers, by trying to harness atomic energy in a quest to create a race of super-humans. Snoopy reporter Janet Lawton (Loretta King) looks set to be his next victim when she decides to investigate the latest series of swamp disappearances...
The "highlight" of BRIDE OF THE MONSTER is the mechanical rubber octopus, which Wood "borrowed" from the props department of Republic Studios. It was made for the John Wayne picture WAKE OF THE RED WITCH (1948). Unfortunately, Wood forgot to borrow the mechanical motor that caused the tentacles to thrash about, so the victims of the octopus had to physically sit on top of the creature and make the tentacles move themselves!
Loretta King allegedly nabbed the role of Janet because she had just come into a small inheritance and would also bankroll the film. The story is maintained by Dolores Fuller, Wood's girlfriend and GLEN OR GLENDA? leading lady; who was originally slated to play Janet but instead relegated to only one scene and a few lines of dialogue in a small role as one of Janet's friends. However, in interviews, Ms King later denied those allegations, stating that money never exchanged hands and she was in fact offered the role by an agent. Whatever the reason, I'm glad Loretta King won the role over Ms Fuller. As an actress, Ms Fuller was a fantastic songwriter.
BRIDE OF THE MONSTER is perfect entertainment for late-night movie buffs.
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First of all,let me clarify something:Tor Johnson does not say "time for go to bed" in this movie,but it was the turkey "The Unearthly" starring John Carradine instead.Second,please do not take this movie seriously,even thought it tries to be.At least in Ed Wood's mind,that is.This is a bad movie,but still lots of fun.Third,Ed Wood was NOT the worst director.That award goes to Coleman Francis who did the awful "Red Zone Cuba" and The Beast of Yucca Flats";just to name a couple..The octopus in this movie was taken from a John Wayne movie,which,by the way,they forgot to get the motor that made it move.Plus,Mystery Science Theater 3000 did this movie to hilarious affect,but if you just want to watch the movie by itself,then I say,Go ahead! because it is fun to watch.As is "Plan 9 From Outer Space",too..I don't know if it's the bad editing or the bad acting or the goofs or maybe all three,so just sit back and enjoy!
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