Edward D. Wood Jr.
Date of Birth: 10 Oct 1924
Country: USA
Biography: In the 1950s, Wood made a run of cheap and poorly produced genre films, now humorously celebrated for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts and outlandish plot elements, although his flair for showmanship gave his projects at least a modicum of critical success. Wood's popularity waned soon after his biggest "name" star, Béla Lugosi, died. He was able to salvage a saleable feature from Lugosi's last moments on film, but his career declined thereafter.
Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Actor), 12 (Director), 27 (Writer)
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Overcoming a nurse, and dressing in her clothes, a madman escapes from Hope Sanitarium. The film is quintessential Ed Wood with a modern twist - no dialogue, only atmospheric sounds, alternating bursts of laughter and screams, and a wonderful soundtrack. (Cinnequanon Pictures)
Aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires to stop human kind from creating the Solaranite (a sort of sun-driven bomb) (imdb)
Upon discovering the suicide of a known transvestite, the police inspector seeks enlightenment from a psychiatrist familiar with the phenomenom... (imdb)
Dr. Varnoff captures twelve men for his experiment: to turn them into supermen using atomic energy.... (imdb)
John and his girlfriend Shirley go in search of a cemetary in order to inspire John for writing his next horror story. After they crash the car, they wander into the graveyard and encounter the dancing dead, a full moon spectacle overseen by the Ruler of the Dark. (imdb)
Someone is killing young women in the park. Police suspect it's related to the smut picture racket, and begin leaning on Gloria Henderson, a smut front woman for the "mob." Her right arm man continues to procure young women with stars in their eyes to submit to their heinous celluloid activities, and if the women try blackmail, they call in a specialist to take care of the problem. (imdb)
Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor's plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops. This is Steve Reeves' first speaking part. (imdb)
An all-girl gang, led by the spoiled daughter of a rich family, terrorizes a small town. They commit petty crimes but become more and more violent. A moralizing tale from Ed Wood.
Final Curtain (1957) - Short Film
After a horror play's final performance, The Vampire roams the theater. (imdb)
One Million AC/DC is a heretofore-unrecorded era in prehistory when sources of food other than grapes and the concept of personal shame were complete unknowns. So was hygiene and soap for that matter, as the skinniest, dirtiest, and vilest actors alive cavort in a Styrofoam cave and shark down on each other like jackrabbits on industrial strength Spanish fly. In between sex acts, they mutter mindlessly and avoid the savage onslaught of a gumball machine plastic dinosaur.
Tenderfoot Burton and his wife join forces with an old prospector to search for the rich gold strike the old-timer claims to know of. Along with a couple of no-account gunslingers, they ride deep into the mountains to find the gold, unaware that the treasure is guarded by an all-female tribe of deadly, beautiful, and topless Indians. (imdb)
Take It Out in Trade: The Outtakes (1995) - Direct-to-Video
TAKE IT OUT IN TRADE is a sex film that consists of footage discovered by archivists and assembled to make some sort of sense. No audio track was found, so basically all you see are several outtakes and scenes from the movie, set to instrumental music. An ugly guy rolls around with some girls, there's a homosexual couple, and Ed Wood is seen playing the character of a woman. (imdb)
The Sun Was Setting (1951) - TV Special
A woman is dying in her apartment. Two friends visit her and she tells them she wants to go to Chinatown. They convince her not to go, and then leave themselves. Unable to stand her confinement, the woman dies. (imdb)
Boots (1953) - Short Film
This is listed in Rudolph Grey's Nightmare of Ecstasy as being the sequel to (or second pilot for) Crossroad Avenger. (edwoodonline.com)
A short western pilot to a TV series, directed by Ed Wood.
A couple hire a detective to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute." (imdb)
When Laura and Dan get married, she's more interested in Dan's gorilla. It's revealed through hypnosis that she was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation. (imdb)
A high-school reunion held at a hotel serves as an excuse for some alumni to resume old relationships and start new ones--sometimes with several people at once. (imdb)
A mad scientist uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures. (imdb)
A group of well-endowed women decide to use their "assets" to get ahead in the business world. (imdb)
Five inmates break out of a women's prison. Four of them are hardened convicts, but one is a girl who was convicted for a crime she didn't commit. As the authorities chase them down, the cons terrorize or kill anyone who gets in their way. (imdb)
Brenda, Madie, and Tammy go on a ski vacation, where they have intimate encounters with men
A homage/remake of Plan 9 from Outer Space. Aliens crash-land in the town of Nilbog and summon the recently diseased, who begin to kill everyone in the vicinity. The townsfolk must defend themselves from the living dead, while foiling the aliens' plans.
Melanie tries to come up with a way to get her boss to marry her after she becomes pregnant.
Hard on his luck, a fishing charter boat captain unwisely gets involved with a crime ring smuggling illegal Mexicans into California.