Review Edward D. Wood Jr.

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Was Director Ed Wood actually a genius of sorts?

Discuss his life and career here.....




 
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chainsaw_metal1

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I absolutely love this film! Apparently, there was quite a bit that was true in spirit, if not entirely true to life. The film did a horrible job of relating the life of Dolores Fuller and her relation to Ed. The worst story to come out of the whole thing was SJP insulting Ms. Fuller to her face.

 
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Shame on SJP for her mistreatment of this lovely lady.

It is nice to see the real Delores Fuller, who comes across as a true lady, with real class, unlike SJP.

Horror film collector and editor of Famous Monsters Magazine, the late Forest J. Ackerman, also went on record as saying that the real Bela never swore.
 
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It makes me appreciate the gentleman that Bela truly was. However, I get a perverse pleasure out of the thought of him calling Karloff a "limey cocksucker".
 
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Well, you never know...

He might have been a crazy kind of genius after all!

Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, writer, producer, and director.

In the 1950s, Wood made a number of low-budget films in the science fiction, comedy, and horror genres, intercutting stock footage. In the 1960s and 1970s, he made sexploitation movies and wrote over 80 pulp crime, horror and sex novels. In 1980, he was posthumously awarded a Golden Turkey Award as Worst Director of All Time, renewing public interest in his work.[1] Wood's career and camp approach has earned him and his films a cult following.

Following the publication of Rudolph Grey's 1992 oral biography Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr., Wood's life and work have undergone a public rehabilitation of sorts, leading up to director Tim Burton's biopic of Wood's life, Ed Wood (1994), a critically acclaimed film starring Johnny Depp as Wood that earned two Academy Awards.
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Watch something like Manos: The Hands of Fate, and it'll make you realize that Wood, while inept, may not actually have been that bad after all.

Glen or Glenda gets my pick as all-time favorite. I've never yet seen the sequence where Glen is visited by The Devil all the way through, because I'm so paralyzed with laughter before it's over that I can't ever catch the ending of it.
 
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Criswell - I Predict


Criswell dubbed himself the '' 20th century Nostradamus,'' based on '' trend, precedent, pattern of habit, human behavior, and the unalterable law of cycle!'' claimed 87 percent accuracy in his predictions. Today Criswell is known mainly for his opening monolog, narration, and closing comments in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space, but he also hosted his Criswell Predicts show on a local Los Angeles program, made numerous appearances on network talkshows, authored three books of predictions, released a record album of predictions, and appeared in two other Ed Wood films. There haven't been many books or films about his life. I wanted to pay hommage to a true character who embodied his self - invented persona. He was a unique individual. He was Criswell!



 
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Wikipedia's listing of the worst films ever made.....

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