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Release Date: 15 February, 2000 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.99 You SAVE: $1.00! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Bride of the Monster Reviews
Great Idea
The idea behind this movie is great for a horror film.
You've got the mad scientist who is still practicing his forbidden experiments in a creepy old mansion. Plus he's still being pursued and persecuted from people in his own country who originally mocked his genius.
His laboratory is accessible through a secret entrance behind the fireplace.
He's got a nice monster in the swamp for getting rid of people.
But it's the execution of the movie that some people (not me) may find disappointing.
Maybe it will be the refridgerator and stove down in the lab. I guess Bella could have made himself a nice snack in between radiating peoples' brains.
Maybe it will be the monster in the tank that just doesn't seem to be that interested in eating people.
Anyway the aging Bella gives the performance of his life. He even falls back on some of his Dracula skills to hypnotize the lovely heroine (the 'bride').
Actually as some other reviewers mentioned I'm not exactly sure what she was supposed to be the bride of. Someone suggested Bella was going to hook her up with Lobo.
Jeff Marzano
Recommended further viewing:
Brides Of Blood / Beast Of Blood
Horror Hotel
IT ! (The Terror From Beyond Space)
Invasion Of The Saucer Men
Not Of This Earth (original)
Phantasm
The Blob (with Steve McQueen)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Flesh Eaters
The Fly / The Return Of The Fly / The Curse Of The Fly
The Four Skulls Of Jonathan Drake
The Hideous Sun Demon
The Hypnotic Eye
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Indestructible Man
The Manster
The Thing (from another world)
The Thing That Couldn't Die
The Twilight Zone Collections
Bad Enough to Amuse
Ed Wood was a lousy filmaker and director. His movies are notoriously bad. That's what makes them watchable. This film is arguably one of his better attempts. That is truly frightening. That's OK because the only frightening thing about this "monster movie" is that it was supposed to be taken seriously. That in itself is amusing.
The story is of a series of mysterious dissapearances in the swamp near town. The police and a snoopy woman reporter are all there to investigate. As it turns out, the reason for the mysterious vanishings is a mad scientist fugitive from Easter Europe who is trying to use atomic energy to creat a race of atomic supermen to conquer the world. Hilarious.
Bela Lougosi plays the mad scientist. Watching him is amusing on its own. His conception of "mad scientist" seems to comprise his accent, gratuitous pseudo-scientific words and some strange throwbacks to his earlier career as Dracula. His is one of the better acting jobs.
Tor Johnson, a former pro wrestler, plays the evil sidekick and monster. His dialog consists of "ARRRRGH!" He too is fun to watch.
Perhaps the best single job of acting in this film is by the giant octopus. It is made of rubber and says nothing.
It may seem like I am blasting this film. I am when it comes to serious cinema. It is, however, so poorly done as to be worth buying and watching. This is especially true of Ed Wood fans.
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