Bride of the Monster

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g j I don't get why this film is so generally panned. It's not even objectively bad like Ed Wood's other films are. It's campiness has let it stand the test the time much better than most 50's horror films, which are typically a bit of a slog for a contemporary viewer due to pacing issues. Lugosi is extremely engaging and charismatic here. Warts and all, at least this is fun. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/24/23 Full Review Red T So if you ever wanted to see a bad version of a Universal Monster Movie than this is it. I will say this isn't AS BAD as Plan 9 but it's terrible. For one I actually can follow the story pretty well and the special effects especially the octopus is laughably bad, it doesn't have as much special effects use as Plan 9. The set design also is better because the plot is more grounded but its still cheap. The main 3 problems are the terrible acting, terrible cinematography, and terrible pacing. The dialogue isn't good and filled with wooden delivery, no chemistry, Lugosi's terrible performance and strange Dracula moments. The camerawork is so basic and never conveys any suspense, atmosphere, or mood with its black and white usage. Shots where there should be closeups or framing /positioning is completely lacking. As mentioned before the special effects are terrible and the set designs are forgettable. The editing isn't good either. There is lots of stock footage that is out of place and scenes that go on to long that I believe are trying to be suspenseful but just drag. The music isn't good either. It's generic, overused, and over the top with a strange amount being out of place or of key even sometimes. The best part is the boring expose in the first few minutes which is not so much good as it is just "Stable Enough" but doesn't last. I mean it's definitely a big step above Plan 9 and is a poor mans Bride of Frankenstein but there is no reason to watch this. Plan 9 is funnier and more bizarre in its cluelessness. Skip this. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/11/23 Full Review Gary D Classic Ed Wood movie, and it has Bela Lugosi. Definitely worth watching if only to at least be able to claim to have seen an Ed Wood film. This is actually one of his better ones, just don't expect too much. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/22/23 Full Review dave s Ed Wood's The Bride of the Monster is, surprisingly enough, better than most Wood productions. That's not necessarily a good thing, because it is still pretty crappy but lacks the laugh-out-loud moments that are so prevalent in his other films and make them worth watching. The production values, most notably the cinematography and exterior lighting, are pretty decent, there is less inane dialogue, there are fewer scenes that aren't relevant to the story, and the acting seems more subdued. Things slip back into Wood-mode over the last fifteen or so minutes and it is still a really sub-par movie, but at least he did the best that he could and that has to count for something, although I'm not sure what. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I mean it's Wood. Unfortunately there's less complete idiotic things like future things interesting futuristic people in the future etc. so you don't laugh out loud like some of his other work, but there's a number of such hilarious things in it. Lightning striking a spot, yet Wood using stock film from what appears to be a large bombing of something, then cutting back to 2 people standing like 20 feet from it going 'Ah well' has to fight the top spot with the fact that they used a large but inert octopus (that already existed and was used on other products, and as such looked quite believable, so even if it didn't move, gave a better acting job than some of the actors) supposedly strangling people to death with them shouting and gesturing wildly, even sometimes dragging the octopus arms to their throats themselves, while the actual octopus figure just sits there inertly, looking as bored as most of the viewers in the 1950's must have done. I wish I had a time machine, and could go back and fund Wood projects so he wouldn't have gone into the downward spiral of alcoholism and making porn movies. Not blockbuster level funding, but just enough to make him churn out things like this and plan 9 on a regular basis so future generations could have had the amusement. He seems to have been so oblivious to any criticism or any mistakes he made, you could have paid people making a theatre look full and he'd have thought they loved him and his work :) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Even by Ed Wood Jr's woeful standards this pretty much scrapes the bottom and all the contents of the barrel. A narcoleptic 'hommage' to James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein, this short but incredibly slow stinker features Bela Lugosi abducting a young woman in order to have her mate with an octopus. He is assisted by the hulking former wrestler Tor Johnson (who would go on to reprise his sleepwalking performance - and indeed the costume - in Wood's meisterwerk Plan 9 From Outer Space). You'll be battling sleep as scene after scene outstays its welcome. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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