Thursday, June 19, 2014

Night of the Ghouls (1959)

aka Revenge of the Dead

How bad is it? It's an Ed Wood film that wasn't released.
Should you see it? It's minor Wood, but yes.


Semi-sequel to "Bride of the Monster," this film starts with psychic Criswell rising from a coffin in a cemetery and announcing what's to come. A fake swami pretends to resurrect the dead, but unknowingly actually does it; he gets buried alive for his trouble. Wrestler Tor Johnson, in very bad scar makeup, menaces and Vampira lookalike Jeannie Stevens plays the Black Ghost. A detective investigates a series of murders at the house where seances are being held. There are trumpets on very visible strings, a spirit guide that's a head in a pith helmet and ghosts in sheets that manage to make the floorboards creak. Ed Wood himself makes a cameo as a corpse. This film supposedly sat on a shelf for decades, unreleased.

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