#edward d wood

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“My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space? Can you handle unspeakable horrors from outer space paralyzing the living and resurrecting the dead?”

On this day 65 years ago (22 July 1959), gloriously inept and twisted b-movie visionary Ed Wood Jr unleashed his much-ridiculed el cheapo sci fi horror thriller Plan 9 from Outer Space (original title: Grave Robbers from Outer Space) – frequently derided as the worst film ever made – on an unsuspecting and mostly oblivious public. Pictured: the dream team of cadaverous glamour ghoul Vampira (aka Maila Nurmi) and hulking Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson.

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Born on this day 100 years ago: maverick outsider American filmmaker, actor, scriptwriter, producer, director, novelist, cross-dressing angora sweater fetishist and pornographer, the notorious Ed Wood Jr (10 October 1924 – 10 December 1978)! The twisted visionary is cherished by cult cinema connoisseurs for inept but hilariously entertaining kitsch bargain basement atrocities like Glen or Glenda (1953), Bride of The Monster (1955) and Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). Perhaps less famously, Wood was also a prolific writer of ultra-lurid horror, crime, and sex pulp novels (with titles like Suburbia Confidential, Devil Girls and Killer in Drag). To me, Woods’ literary efforts reached a kind of acme with this erotic passage from Let Me Die in Drag (1967): “His tongue found her breasts. One nipple then the other, back and forth with the suction of a windshield wiper in a heavy rainstorm.”  Needless to say, the Lobotomy Room cinema club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) is commemorating Wood’s centenary with a FREE screening of Bride of the Monster at Fontaine’s bar in Dalston on Thursday 17 October! (Email bookings@fontaines.bar to reserve a seat). Pictured: Wood in his most autobiographical cri de coeur, Glen or Glenda.

Ed Wood- GLEN OR GLENDA? (1953)

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Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1957

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Martin Landau and Johnny Depp as Bela Lugosi and Edward D. Wood Jr. in Ed Wood - Tim Burton (1994)

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Bride of the Monster (1955) // Dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.

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MST3K 613 | The Sinister Urge | 1994

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Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.

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ED WOOD (1994)

Director: Tim Burton Cinematography: Stefan Czapsky

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The Ed Wood Centennial

Born 100 years ago today, the one and only writer/actor/producer/director Edward D. Wood, Jr! We are a huge fan of his oeuvre, and have been for well over 30 years. (As it happens, it is also the 30th anniversary of Tim Burton’s bio-pic, as well). We celebrate this day of days with this new guide to the many Ed-related posts we have done on Travalanche. In further celebration, we’ll be adding…

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Ease into the Halloween festive season (or as we call it, “gay Christmas”) on Thursday 17 October with a FREE screening of an outrageous 1950s horror b-movie! Yes! Every October the monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club (our motto: Bad Movies for Bad People) screens something “horror adjacent”. This time, we’re also commemorating the centenary of infamous filmmaker / twisted visionary Ed Wood Jr (10 October 1924 – 10 December 1978) with a presentation of his 1955 atrocity Bride of the Monster! THIS is the one starring ailing horror royalty Bela Lugosi (in his final speaking role in a feature film) as villainous scientist Dr Vornoff where he delivers the soliloquy “Home? I have no home. Hunted … despised … living like an animal! The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master! I will perfect my own race of people. A race of atomic supermen which will conquer the world!” You won’t want to miss THIS compelling hot mess on the big screen! Contact the venue (glittering cocktail lounge Fontaine’s in Dalston) by email to reserve your seat now on bookings@fontaines.bar Full details here.

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Born on this day: hulking Swedish wrestler turned b-movie actor Tor Johnson (Karl Erik Tore Johansson, 19 October 1902 or 1903 (sources differ) – 12 May 1971). The 6’3” 440-pound Johnson is treasured by connoisseurs as cult cinema royalty for his appearances in Ed Wood Jr b-movies like Bride of the Monster (1955) – which I just screened on 17 October at the Lobotomy Room film club! - and Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). Pictured: Johnson in Night of the Ghouls (1959).

Tor Johnson- NIGHT OF THE GHOULS (1959)

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Bride of the Monster | 1955

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"Glen or Glenda" by Ed Wood (Edward D. Wood, jr), 1953, movie poster from 1978

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Night of the Ghouls (1959)