I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

No need to elaborate on the plot or even to judge this film as that's already been admirably accomplished by my fellow reviewers. Just wanted to point out that the leading man in Night of the Ghouls, Kenne Duncan is reputed to have been a bit of a freak. According to the Wood biography, Nightmare of Ecstasy, Duncan (aka Dr. Akula) held great Hollywood parties which were attended by many of the Ed Wood regulars, who report that whilst the majority of the guests kept their pants on, Duncan would wander round his crib in a sagging birthday suit. What's more, they were truly humbled at the over-sized swizzle stick he proudly flaunted as he went about making sure everyone was well-oiled. I'm not kidding, read the book- a ton of other great insights.Now please enjoy our feature presentation.

Night of the Ghouls (or the more appropriately titled Revenge of the Dead) is yet another silly low-budget effort from Edward D. Wood, Jr. The plot deals with the police investigating strange goings on at a secluded house where a phony swami is bilking money out of elderly people hoping to connect with their departed loved ones. The film has many of the elements typical of Wood films, including stock footage, incompetent policemen, poor special effects, and a serious lack of talent and budget. Too bad Lugosi isn't on hand. He could have at least brought some bravado to the Dr. Acula role.Apparently this is supposed to be some kind of a sequel to Bride of the Monster. It even has Tor Johnson reprising his Lobo role from that film. His burn makeup is actually one of the more impressive elements of this film. But instead of Lugosi as a mad scientist, we get this phony Dr. Acula guy. Kenne Duncan, one of Wood's drinking buddies, is just basically a guy in a suit with a cheap turban on his head. He isn't scary or mystical, he's just kind of an a-hole to everyone around him. True he is theoretically supposed to be a phony, but this setup only allows Wood the freedom to cut even more corners than usual with the production. You say the séance seen looks cheap? Of course it does. The guy performing it is a fake! You get the picture...A good chunk of this film is actually taken from a previous short film with the police detective walking around a theater in a tuxedo. That explains the ludicrous reason they have him wearing one in this picture! "I was just on my way to the opera when I got your message...." Ha! Some of the biggest chuckles are from: Wood's stock footage not matching up with the movie theme. Criswell, who narrates and also plays a small role, is talking about juvenile delinquency and the footage we see is just of some kids dancing at some kind of 50s malt shop. The bumbling Paul Marco is also back as Officer Kelton. His lines are so terrible, you will fall over laughing! The film's centerpiece is the previously mentioned séance scene. Dr. Acula has some old buzzards on one side of a long table, and some plastic skeletons on the other. We hear an off-screen gong bang several times. A trumpet is lazily hung by a string and it keeps blurting out some off-key notes, randomly. There are a couple of random shots of a guy in black-face mumbling incoherently. Some guy with a sheet over his head randomly dances around as someone plays an old fashioned slide whistle. None of it makes sense. The old buzzards just stare ahead, not reacting to any of it in any way. In other words, this scene is everything we've come to endear about Wood films. There is a nice little plot twist at the end that makes it all worth it. Kind of. Like many wood films, this can only be viewed for novelty effect. Definitely worth a look, but Lugosi would have improved it. He may not have even been alive by the time it was filmed, however. 4 of 10 stars.The Hound.

Ghouls! The movie itself is a ghoul. It dwelled in a filmic graveyard for 23 years before some misguided soul unearthed the remains and paid to process the film. Now the creature wanders the dark halls of cable and sadistic late shows inflicting groans, snickers, and stomach-aches on masochists like me. No, it doesn't reach the inspired level of Plan 9, but it tries. Filmed in somebody's seedy garage (Wood never uses sets when a curtain will do), the goofy Wood trademarks are all present—bad acting, clueless dialog, a $1.50 budget, and his beloved lightning bolts which I take are from angry movie gods with bad aim. Then there's a pair of Wood's all- stars— the poor man's Nostradamus, Criswell, and everyone's favorite man mountain, Tor Johnson. Still, Woods' goulash does have one distinction— the worst comedy relief on record. Where Paul Marco came from I don't know, but his Patrolman Kelton makes Barney Fife look like Einstein, and about a fraction as funny. I'm just sorry our old six-gun pal Kenne Duncan needed a payday or at least bus fare to the beach. You can tell he misses those old Saturday matinees by the way he sleepwalks through his lines. Okay, on the subject of Wood, I'm beating a dead horse. So let me put down the word processor and find out when his next fun-fest is on. Oh my gosh, the biggest horror of all— I'm looking forward to it.

Ed Wood's followup to "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Lt. Bradford (Duke Moore) and patrolman Paul Kelton (Paul Marco) go investigate a deserted house where strange things are happening. There they find Dr. Acula (sigh) (Keene Duncan) who's a phony spiritualist trying to bilk wealthy people by "contacting" their dead spouses.This is the legendary Wood film that sat unreleased for 25 YEARS because Wood couldn't pay the lab bill! It has the typical Wood ingredients--a bad script, lousy acting (although Moore wasn't bad), a stubborn refusal to make sense and dreadful direction and editing. However it's not as bad (or as funny) as "Plan 9" or "Bride of the Monster" were. This is just pretty boring stuff. It has some fun moments--Tor Johnson's truly laughable makeup job and a bewildering séance (where someone is shot at multiple times and someone is knocked out cold--and no one bats an eyelash) but it's mostly just dull. Even Criswell (narrating from a coffin this time) seems to just be going through the motions. And good luck explaining what the Black Ghost is doing in this! Pretty bad...even for Wood. I give it a 1.