Films of Edward D. Wood Jr.

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Let me begin with The Sinister Urge from 1961..

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81cwBx_3wKw[/youtube]

NIght of the Ghouls from 1960...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6y7_TiaRiE[/youtube]

I've never seen these, but I did see the Tim Burton film ED WOOD.

Those two I posted up there were not featured in the movie Ed Wood, as there it depicted "Glen or Glenda","Bride of the Monster" and "Plan Nine From Outer Space".

In the Ed Wood movie they show George Weiss receiving the idea for Glen or Glenda. Aroound the same time he produced a script by Lenny Bruce, starring Lenny Bruce, his mother and his girlfriend, as well as Timothy Farrell, who is in Glen or Glenda and Jail Bait.

I liked that film also. Tim Burton used Wood's story more as a depiction of optimism and love of movies and movie making, more than an accurate bio of Ed Wood's life.

I voted for Glen or Glenda, because I think it was semi-autobiographical, and the movie closest to his heart.

I learned about his movies thanks to the Tim Burton film too, when I was a teen. I became obsessed and stumbled across Plan 9 + Glen or Glenda on DVD in a record store. I love Plan 9

I've only yet seen Plan 9.

Quite true; he descended into alcoholism (they said no one could type more quickly whilst drunk - explains some of the dialogue perhaps) and was ripped off on practically every picture he made during his "classic era". Though his last movie directed in his "classic era" was about the "evils of the smut picture racket", he spent the 1960s and 1970s writing "smut" books and writing scripts for Stephen C. Apostoloff's softcore pictures, most notably "Orgy of the Dead" in 1965, starring as it does Criswell. These really are another lessp-known generation of Wood pictures, as he did write the dialogue, and these are in colour. He also directed a couple of harcore porn movies in the late '60s early '70s. He lived under trying circumstances in Hollywood... and died as a result of his alcoholism.

I've seen some of Wood's work, most notably Plan 9 From Outer Space, and a few others, and they were most certainly crap in regard to writing, acting, and cinematography. But as I remember Glenn Or Glenda, some of it looked like genuinely inspired expressionism(!), and thus that film gets my vote.

I've never seen any of Wood's work, but I might start soon.