Bride of the Monster
Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the local lieutenant, vows to investigate Vornoff's supposedly haunted house.
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- Cast:
- Bela Lugosi , Loretta King , Tony McCoy , Tor Johnson , Harvey B. Dunn , George Becwar , Paul Marco
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Best movie of this year hands down!
Sadly Over-hyped
One of my all time favorites.
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
This is one of the scariest movies you will ever see. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street. The is a classic horror film. If you want to something really scary see this movie. It is scarier then The Shinning.
I don't think that most of Ed Wood's films are as bad as some people make them out to be - they are entertaining. No, they are not the greatest films but they do have entertainment value and a fan following for a reason. Bride of the Monster might be Wood's best film.We have the great Bela Lugosi as Dr. Eric Vornoff - a mad scientist out to create atomic creatures... and he echos his hand gesture from White Zombie (a nod in that direction).We also have Tor Johnson as Lobo - Lobo is very much like Johnson's character's from Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961).Bride of the Monster really is worth watching if you are into the classic sci-fi horror and like a good B Horror film.7/10
I sat down to watch this movie expecting something awful - boy was I not let down. First let's make sense of th story. Polliwogs fall up into the tree and sink in quicksand. Drinking jello-shots, torn blue jeans fill empty drinks with marshmallows. Once the marbles are finished chasing deflated pillows, penguins must burp up logs of toaster-waste. An army of warts gang up on a pair of Tuesdays and chill their frog-eyes with spaghetti sauce. (Scared yet?). Ole MacDonald and his farm sing a pistachio to sleep and staple papers to the walls. But then...yes then...I stopped dreaming and drank my milk. Mmmmm-mmmm good. Testimonial echoes beneath sheltered hamstrings and rusty face-plates...crying the silent cheers of boredom. Chisel me some jello-art and Un-smell my feet for half a league onward road hemlock and tomato plants. Phew...that was tough...but I think I summed up Ed Wood. Oh...and this is the finest movie wish I could Un-see.
Rumours abound about what may go on at a creepy mansion just out of town. The house is owned by Dr. Eric Vornoff (Bela Lugosi) who is conducting experiments to turn people into super-beings through the use of atomic power.With Tor Johnson as Lobo and directed by the eccentric Ed Wood, this film is a pure winner if you like B-movie cheese. Is it good? In the traditional sense of "good", no. But who can say no to cheesy movies and countless scenes of Lugosi making some absurd faces? What needs mentioning is the octopus from "Wake of the Red Witch", a John Wayne film. Reports are contradictory about whether or not the octopus was stolen, but more importantly -- what is the deal with this thing? When attacked by it, the victim grabs the tentacles and flails them. Not very convincing. And the mismatched footage of a real octopus? If you cannot handle this film in its normal mode, you may be happy to know it also can be viewed as an episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000". It has some historical importance as Wood's only profitable film, and allegedly this is the movie that created American International Pictures, which would bring us Roger Corman, and several other huge names over the next five decades.