Should you see it? Yes (expect to fast forward, though).
Written by Ed Wood, this was directed by Stephen Apostoloff (A.C. Stephen) and stars many of Wood's regulars (some reviews list Tor Johnson, Vampira and even Lon Chaney, Jr. - but none of them are in the cast). A reporter couple has car trouble, wander into a cemetery, get tied up and are forced to watch topless dancers. Really - though, it's described as the torments of the dead by Criswell, the Master of the Dead. There's a mummy and a werewolf for comic relief, but almost all of the movie consists of 10 strippers dancing - badly - there's a lot of interpretive dance arm flailing - as their life stories are recounted. There's one dancer of the ten I thought attractive, Pat Barrington (billed as Barringer), who gets turned into gold for her avarice. There's one partly entertaining dance, by Texas Starr, who gets turned into a cat, wearing a catsuit with the breasts exposed [don't cats have more nipples?!] - this is reportedly the same woman who appeared in the Naked Gun films as "Melon Girl," though that seems unlikely. The dancers include a prostitute, a murderess, a slave owner... a bride, an Indian... Let's face it, there's 10 (count 'em, 10) completely interchangeable dancers. There's also inane dialogue, lurid color, cheesy sets and costumes and slow, slow, slow pacing.
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