ED WOOD'S BRIDE OF THE MONSTER
MONDAY, AUGUST 25th at 8:00 PM
It's MONDO MONDAYS at The Loft, celebrating weird, wild and wonderful flicks from the Mondo side of the silver screen! Admission is only $2.00, and don't forget to check out our yummy "Mondo Munchies" snack bucket ... fill a cup for a buck!
"Everything is just so perfectly wrong ... it's truly bizarre, truly, truly bad, but perhaps most importantly, it's a whole lot of fun. This is one of Ed Wood's 'best' films, and it definitely bears the mark of his utterly unique brand of incompetence." - MONSTER SHACK
The one-and-only King of All Bad Movie Directors, Ed Wood, Jr. presents this infamous 1955 shocker starring the great Bela Lugosi in his final starring role on the big screen!
Made prior to Wood's triumphant journey into Bad Movie history with Plan 9 From Outer Space, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER displays all of the eccentric auteur's signature touches ... terrible acting, cardboard sets, bizarre non-sequiters, awkward pacing, lots of unintended comedy, and of course, Swedish wrester Tor Johnson!
In this demented sci-fi thriller, Lugosi hams it up BIG TIME as the evil Dr. Eric Vornoff, a crazed scientist experimenting with atomic energy in his shoddy laboratory. His goal? To create a race of mutated "atomic supermen" who will do his evil bidding, of course. However, spunky lady reporter Janet Lawton (played by the spectacularly bad non-actress Loretta King Hadler, supposedly hired because she offered to put up money for the film, only to reveal later that she was flat broke) is on the case, and when she starts poking around Dr. Vornoff's lab looking for a story, she is captured by Vornoff's assistant, the hulking freak Lobo (Johnson), and she might just end up as the BRIDE OF THE MOSTER!
Featuring Lugosi's famed (and weirdly touching) "Atomic Supermen" speech (re-created in Tim Burton's film Ed Wood), Wood-regular Paul Marco as bumbling Officer Kelton, a timid leading man (Tony McCoy) cast because his father was a major investor in the film, and one of Bad Cinema's most memorable battles ... between a confused Lugosi and a malfunctioning mechanical octopus that Wood allegedly "borrowed" (stole?) from a prop vault at Republic Studios.