It quickly descends into [Wood's] signature style: few -- if any -- of the shots match, the acting is atrocious and the dialogue sings with its own unique rhythms of awfulness.
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10/31/08
Bride of the Monster (1956)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:3
Rotten:5
Average Rating:3.8/10
Runtime: 78 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A howler from Ed Wood, who brought us PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and consistently reached astonishing new lows in film-making. The grim story of a madman who puts a giant rubbery octopus in a local... [More]
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Loretta King, Bud Osborne
Director: Edward D. Wood
Reviews for Bride of the Monster
1 - 8 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Bela was such a bad actor...
10/26/06
No review available.
08/01/05
No review available.
04/16/04
More fun than its ridiculous story and brutal acting and incompetently designed sets would indicate.
12/19/03
Ed Wood sucked. He didn't suck so bad he was good, he just sucked.
04/11/03
Even taking his nonexistent budgets into account, there's no getting around the fact that Wood was simply magnificently untalented -- albeit in a glorious way.
12/01/02
Bad, bad, bad. Have you not yet been introduced to Ed Wood?
07/26/02
1 - 8 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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