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Summary: The best of the three
Review: I must say, I've seen all three of the Wood films in which Lugosi got credit and in my oppinion it is the best of the three. If you're an Ed or Bella fan, this is absolutely esential for the collection.
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Summary: One of the better sci-fi movies of its time
Review: I purchased the "Box Set" of Ed Wood movies. I wish the entire Ed Wood collection were available. However I thought this one was his best effort. Yes some of the acting is bad but the movie has a good plot. After watching this I wonder what Ed could have accomplished if he would have had a decent budget, like the sci-fi directors of today have. In the 50's science fiction was not taken in the same manner that it is today. Directors like Ed Wood brought it to the screen and was, in my opion, ahead of his time. The man had a dream and followed it, regardless of the end result.
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Summary: Like the old saying, this one is so bad it's good!!
Review: I saw this one about 3 years back and it stank!! But don't let that get you down!! Order it anyway, and you've got yourself a zany, if unintentional, parody of Universal horror movies!!
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Summary: Bela! Bela! Bela!!!!
Review: I watched this movie expecting another enjoyable PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE catastrophe. I was surprised to find myself liking the movie a lot. The main reason is Bela Lugosi. He is in rare form as Dr. Vornoff, chomping up the scenery like a demon-possessed chainsaw! Also, Tor Johnson plays "LOBO" Dr. Vornoff's hulking zombie assistant with far more animation than his PLAN 9 role as a hulking zombie police detective. My only complaint is that Vampira was not in BOTM to round out the terrible trio! Plot? Dr. Vornoff (sounds like cheap vodka doesn't it?) is attempting to take over the world by creating an army of radiated supermen (unfortunately, he keeps killing his victims instead). He and Lobo live in a big, spooky abandoned house with their pet octopus (??!). A female reporter gets nosey after a pair of locals disappear. She goes to the "vacant" old house to snoop around. She is captured by Lobo and taken to Vornoff's lab. Somehow, she ends up in a wedding dress and is set to be zapped by Vornoff's evil contraption, when suddenly, Lobo goes berserk, untying the girl and attacking Vornoff! This leads to Dr. V being zonked by his own machine, turning him into a giant (check out the Bela-double in the 7" platform KISS shoes). This all ends in a duel between Bela and the lifeless rubber octopus. Now, from what I've just described, how can you possibly lose?? Buy this masterpiece right now...
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Summary: Another incredible chapter from the best "worst" director
Review: It looks and feels bad from the get go, acting is awful, effects are bad even for those days. Lugosi hits the screen in what was probably his most sinister role of his later movies. He was evil and I felt it as i watched it. Plot was great, final product could have been 90% better, but as you watch the film, you laugh jump, grimace and suddenly stop and say...Ed Wood was a genious.
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Summary: Beware that metal-salad-bowl thing!
Review: Most of Dr. Bella's patients seem to die in this film--and it's probably of embarrassment. After all, how would you feel if some one tied you to a table and then strapped a metal salad bowl on your head? The purpose of these odd experiments seems to be the creation of an "atomic" man, through which Bella can rule the world...but his subjects keep dying off, and eventually intrepid reporter Loretta King goes stomping out to Bella's house to see just what's up--and pretty soon she too is writhing on the table with that metal salad bowl thing on her head.THE BRIDE OF THE MONSTER doesn't really have the sublime ineptitude that makes PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE so much fun, but it has more than enough unintentional hilarity to keep you tuned in. After all, where else are you going to see a rubber octopus, an angora-fondling slave, and a police chief who plays with birds? And dare we mention an incredibly obnoxious performance by Loretta King, who has less talent than your bathroom tile? Ed Wood fans will love it, for sure, and for them I give it four stars. But all others are warned away!
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Summary: A classic by Ed Wood.
Review: One of Ed Woods more famous films. Not as bad as the reputation says. If you like the old Monogram films with Bela Lugosi you'll like this one too. Bela Lugosi plays a mad scientist trying to create superhumans in his cottage in the swamps. Tor Johnson is perfectly cast as Bela's angora loving servant Lobo. A must for lovers of old horror movies.
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Summary: It's bad[good] but not Ed Wood's worst[best].
Review: Only a loyal and true "Ed Head" will understand why, in thinking about Ed Wood Jr., the terms "best" and "worst" quickly become synonymous. But if you're not already an Ed Head, this is not the movie to make you one. I'd recommend instead Ed's debut "Glen or Glenda" or his masterpiece "Plan 9 From Outer Space". "Bride" is draggy even by Wooden standards. And there's only one moment of classic Ed Wood dialogue: The police captain tells the female investigative reporter, "Nobody believes in monsters anymore. This is the 20th century." and she replies, "Don't count on it." She then realizes the jaw-dropping stupidity of what's just been said[i.e., that we can't count on what century it is] and adds in an obvious ad-lib, "Uh, don't count on there being no such things as monsters, I mean!" Also... fans will appreciate that the very same reporter will later get nicely tied up by the fiendish Lugosi, and what a fetching Damsel-in-Distress she makes, too, with her sobbing and her bosom heaving as she squirms helplessly against her bonds and...uh, that is, if you're the kind of [person] who's into that sort of thing. That stuff doesn't interest ME in the least, as you can plainly see. Don't count on it.
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Summary: Now this is the worst movie ever made!
Review: People have for years (and will continue for years) to argue: what is the worst movie ever made? Is is "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? Or is it "Robot Monster"? I give my vote to "Bride of the Monster." "Plan 9" is just absolutely bizarre. It's almost fascinating to watch because you can get a glimpse into Wood's differently-wired brain. The same applies to "Robot Monster." They're bad, but they're fascinating. "Bride of the Monster," on the other hand, is bad--and _boring._ I don't think it can get much worse than that. Even the "funny" scenes--such as the guy wrestling with the fake octopus--isn't funny; it's pathetic. The whole film is pathetic, especially Bela Lugosi. What a sad way for him to send his career.
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Summary: Ed Wood's Best Film and Lugosi's Last Hurrah
Review: Released in 1956, "Bride of the Monster" is an enjoyable schlock-fest from Grade-Z auteur Edward D. Wood, Jr. However, the film rises above its low-budget shortcomings -- thanks to a bravura performance by an aging Bela Lugosi. Regardless of his personal and professional misfortunes, Bela plays Dr. Eric Vornoff to the hilt, as though it were the performance of his life. Sadly, it would be Lugosi's last starring and speaking role. Despite the amateurish supporting cast and obvious production flaws (who can forget that rubber octopus), "Bride of the Monster" has a comic-book charm that's hard to resist. It's certainly on par with most of Bela's Monogram programmers from the 1940s, and it's definitely superior to Wood's "Glen or Glenda" (1953) and "Plan 9 From Outer Space" (1959). In retrospect, Hollywood has managed to surpass Ed Wood's cinematic ineptitude on a larger scale (remember "Heaven's Gate," "Showgirls" and, more recently, "Battlefield Earth"?). For once, let's give the Master of Bad Cinema his due.
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