#Bride of the Monster

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

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Edward D. Wood Jr.

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Bride of the Monster | 1955

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Idk how to work tumblr very well and I don’t want to spoil Lisa Frankenstein so hopefully this works!!

LISA FRANKENSTEIN SPOILERS!!!!⬇️⬇️⬇️

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YIPPEEE!!!!! Lisa with the brides white stripes in her hair :333

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Bride of the Monster

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

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On May 11, 1955, Bride of the Monster premiered in Hollywood, California.

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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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Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)

12/07/2024

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MST3Knitathon continues:

79. Episode 423 Bride of the Monster

Content Warning: Unfortunately, every Ed Wood movie they do contains references and comments to Ed Wood being a cross-dresser. I didn’t catch anything particularly vicious (“Wardrobe for Ed Wood provided by Mrs Wood” said over the credits is typical of the tone), but the tenor is definitely that it’s supposed to be funny to point out that this man liked wearing women’s clothing.

Summary: It’s a milestone! Our first Ed Wood movie! But the episode starts with the short Hired! Part 1. Hired! was produced as a training film for managers at Chevrolet dealerships, and is one of the more adorable shorts MST3K has done. In the first part, eager young Jimmy is hired as a new salesman and his manager gives him two binders of information to memorize about Chevrolet’s current lines and regular customers. We see Jimmy working very hard, but the binders have not taught him how to sell cars as he doesn’t know what to do with the customer list except start knocking on doors to see if they want to upgrade, and he doesn’t know enough about competitors’ cars to explain why Chevrolet models are better. At home, the manager sits on the porch and complains to his dad that Jimmy’s low sales numbers mean that young men just don’t work as hard as they used to, but dad suggests that lack of effort may not be the problem. We’ll get dad’s advice in part two, but we’ll have to wait all the way until the number one ranked episode(!) to hear it.

In the movie proper, Bela Lugosi plays a scientist who was exiled from his unnamed European homeland after proposing to use atomic energy to turn people into large and strong “supermen” who could take over the world. Right now he’s hanging out in a swamp with his two successes - a giant octopus and the imposing manservant Lobo played by Swedish wrestler and entertainer Tor Johnson - and continuing his experiments, but his test subjects often die on the table. An enterprising female reporter comes around to look into the disappearances in the swamp (some the victims of the experiments, some eaten by the octopus), and he decides to transform her into a bride for Lobo to create his race of supermen genetically. Can her police detective fiancé find her before it’s too late?

MST3K lore or notable moments: The Hired! The Musical sketch (see below)

and Crow’s second appearance as Willy the Waffle, a parody of Coily the Spring Sprite from the short A Case of Spring Fever, which the show started making fun of now even though they wouldn’t get the rights to actually show it for six more years! (We’ll get to it at 58 on the list). Here, Willy warns of the dangers of a world without advertising, but everyone is pleased by the changes.

What do I think about it’s place on the list? Ed Wood has a reputation as the creator behind the worst movies ever made, which MST3K will prove undeserved. (We have not seen any of the contenders for worst film that they covered yet, and all of them are noticeably worse than anything in Mr. Wood’s oeuvre.) He is, however, probably the most watchable of the bad movie makers. The giant animatronic octopus he rented doesn’t work, his actors aren’t properly miked so everyone without stage experience (which is most of them - he worked mainly with amateurs. Lugosi projects his voice just fine) shout their lines like they have a bad cell phone connection, and the action scenes follow a goofy cartoon logic that doesn’t match the “suspenseful” tone. But the plot is extremely followable (it’s a hallmark of other bad movie directors that they can’t get enough information on the screen for you to know what’s going on) and whether it’s something ludicrous like an octopus blowing up in a nuclear explosion that doesn’t imperil people standing fifteen feet away or one of the genuinely good moments he manages to capture like Lugosi’s speech about his isolation from his homeland, something entertaining is happening onscreen most of the time. When you combine that with a riff that made me laugh out loud more often than any other episode so far and the fantastic Hired! musical sketch, this episode is just too good to be ranked this low.