Great if you like cheesy movies
Added 11/8/2009
This movie was made on the cheap, really cheap. Don't expect Plan 9 from outer space quality. It's a notch or two below that. I still found it entertaining in its own way.
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It was a nightmare of horror!
Added 3/5/2007
An old couple, taking a shortcut at night, run into "a nightmare of horror" - an attractive blonde woman with long fingernails! The old woman can't quite stop smiling long enough to look horrified, but the police are sent to investigate anyway. Lt. Bradford, a man with a passion for internal monologue, and Kelton, an incompetant buffoon, discover Dr. Acula, a man in a turban.
Acula has been swindling money from the incredibly dense with the old raising-the-dead scam using a floating trumpet and bed sheet. But what Dr. Acula doesn't know is that he accidentally has real powers to raise the dead, and the dead just might knock off his turban! Fortunately for them, he decides to evade them by running directly at them.
"Night of the Ghouls," the long-awaited sequel to "Bride of the Monster," was left unreleased for over twenty years because writer/director Ed Wood couldn't pay the film lab fees. Though not quite as "good" as "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or "Glen or Glenda?" it's definitely worth watching just to see the look on the old couple's faces when they see the "monster." It doesn't get much better than that. God bless you, Ed Wood.
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Hokey Silliness Disguised as a Movie
Added 5/25/2005
This one does have some entertainment value. It is so poorly made that watching it is good for more than an hour of laughs. That's what Ed Wood movies are for.
This particular film is a sequel to BRIDE OF THE MONSTER. Tor Johnson reprises his role as Lobo and his dialogue is just as challenging in this one: "ARRGH". Kelton the cop makes his biggest appearance yet and revels in even more opportunity to demonstrate his lack of talent as both a cop and an actor. Criswell too puts in an appearace both as narrator and ghost.
The plot line, such as it is, involves police investigating claims of ghosts at the old deserted house where BRIDE OF THE MONSTER took place. It turns out that a con man is using the place to sucker people into giving up their money in the hope that their dearly departed can be raised from the dead. What complicates matters is that there are some real ghosts running around with their own agendas.
Every step of the way you are treated to poor acting, poor directing, poor sets, poor special effects, poor dialogue and poor theatre. It all combines to give a mildly amusing treat. This film is not as amusing as BRIDE OF THE MONSTER or PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE but it is worth watching for the spectacle of it all. It is also a must for Ed Wood fans.
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Monsters to be Pitied! Monsters to be Despised!
Added 4/29/2004
"Night of the Ghouls" is Ed Wood's sequel to "Bride of the Monster" with Tor Johnson providing continuity as Lobo the lumbering mute henchman, now with a badly burned face courtesy of the immolation of Dr. Vornoff's laboratory. Thank goodness Tor was able to escape the plastic octopus and nuclear blast at the end of "Bride of the Monster." I wouldn't have thought a 400 pound Swedish wrestler capable of outrunning a mushroom cloud, but you learn something new every day!"Night of the Ghouls" starts with Wood regular Criswell in a coffin (big surprise) rambling on with verbal compost such as "For many years I have told you the almost unbelievable, related to the unreal, and showed to be more than fact." Just when that is sinking in, we get sidetracked on a ten minute plot cul-de-sac about juvenile delinquency ("Is this the major horror of our times?") illustrated with a scandalous sock hop and fist fight sequence. Logically this, of course, leads to a narrated discussion on statistics of motor vehicle accidents (watch for a cameo of Ed Wood himself as a crash victim) as kept by the National Safety Council. Huh? All this may lead you to ask, "Yes, but where are the ghouls?", and a fair question that is. We finally get to see a woman in a gauzy dress looking for all the world like a bad Stevie Nicks impersonator, frighten two very hammy old actors with her terrifying fingernails. I refer to her as the Budget Zombie, and once you've seen the movie, you will understand why. Thank goodness Wood regular Kelton the cop (Paul Marco) is on the case along with Lieutenant Daniel Bradford, professional ghost chaser. (That's the movie's actual words, honest.) Kelton spends the bulk of this film (the third in the exciting "Kelton Trilogy") shivering in a police car after a ghost frightened him so badly he was compelled to run into a tree. Needless to say, all the problems we find are as a result of nefarious activity in the 'old house at Willows Lake' (which was the former Bela and Tor residence in "Bride of the Monster", we are led to understand.) This time it is the home of fraudulent conniver 'Dr. Acula', which may be the worst single pun in movie making history (played by professional heavy Kenne Duncan.) Dr. Acula is busy conducting bogus seances, which are the second least realistic seances ever filmed, narrowly edged out by the disturbingly comical seance in "The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman." Present at the seance are a couple of skeletons, a trumpet suspended by strings playing random notes (you are clinically dead if this does not make you laugh), a ghost which is lamer than any Halloween costume ever (yes; it's a guy with a sheet on), all accompanied by a decidedly un-spooky slide whistle, and last, but certainly not least, a piece of what appears to be a Tupperware of some sort, or possibly a Salad Spinner, 'levitating' in a most entertaining way accompanied by a cat playing a zither (apparently.) You must see this scene to believe it. Oh, yes, and for dramatic effect, Dr. Acula channels an idiot who can barely speak English wearing a colander on his head to relay information on the deceased from beyond the grave to their living relatives, one of whom is wearing the most imaginative (and large) feather trimmed fedora I have ever seen. To add a touch of panache, famed Coleman Francis regular Tony Cardoza ("The Skydivers", "Red Zone Cuba") makes a special guest appearance as 'Tony.' Watch for it! This is a wonderful specimen of Wood. Though not as great as the immortal "Plan 9", "Night of the Ghouls" has its own charms, and is worth the time of any viewer interested in the history of grade Z cinema, or for that matter, anyone who just wants a good laugh. The trumpets and levitating kitchenware alone are worth the asking price of this DVD, which, by the way, is of splendid quality, though sadly lacking added features. Thank you Ed Wood for this little known gem, and thank you, Image Entertainment, for bringing us this DVD!
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Ed Woods cameo....
Added 2/12/2004
At the beginning of the movie when Ed is making use of his juvenile delinqents stock footage, check out the victim of the car that crashes off the cliff, thats Ed Wood himself peeking over the door frame as a dead man with his eyes open.....
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Great if you like cheesy movies
Added 11/8/2009
This movie was made on the cheap, really cheap. Don't expect Plan 9 from outer space quality. It's a notch or two below that. I still found it entertaining in its own way.
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It was a nightmare of horror!
Added 3/5/2007
An old couple, taking a shortcut at night, run into "a nightmare of horror" - an attractive blonde woman with long fingernails! The old woman can't quite stop smiling long enough to look horrified, but the police are sent to investigate anyway. Lt. Bradford, a man with a passion for internal monologue, and Kelton, an incompetant buffoon, discover Dr. Acula, a man in a turban.
Acula has been swindling money from the incredibly dense with the old raising-the-dead scam using a floating trumpet and bed sheet. But what Dr. Acula doesn't know is that he accidentally has real powers to raise the dead, and the dead just might knock off his turban! Fortunately for them, he decides to evade them by running directly at them.
"Night of the Ghouls," the long-awaited sequel to "Bride of the Monster," was left unreleased for over twenty years because writer/director Ed Wood couldn't pay the film lab fees. Though not quite as "good" as "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or "Glen or Glenda?" it's definitely worth watching just to see the look on the old couple's faces when they see the "monster." It doesn't get much better than that. God bless you, Ed Wood.
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Hokey Silliness Disguised as a Movie
Added 5/25/2005
This one does have some entertainment value. It is so poorly made that watching it is good for more than an hour of laughs. That's what Ed Wood movies are for.
This particular film is a sequel to BRIDE OF THE MONSTER. Tor Johnson reprises his role as Lobo and his dialogue is just as challenging in this one: "ARRGH". Kelton the cop makes his biggest appearance yet and revels in even more opportunity to demonstrate his lack of talent as both a cop and an actor. Criswell too puts in an appearace both as narrator and ghost.
The plot line, such as it is, involves police investigating claims of ghosts at the old deserted house where BRIDE OF THE MONSTER took place. It turns out that a con man is using the place to sucker people into giving up their money in the hope that their dearly departed can be raised from the dead. What complicates matters is that there are some real ghosts running around with their own agendas.
Every step of the way you are treated to poor acting, poor directing, poor sets, poor special effects, poor dialogue and poor theatre. It all combines to give a mildly amusing treat. This film is not as amusing as BRIDE OF THE MONSTER or PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE but it is worth watching for the spectacle of it all. It is also a must for Ed Wood fans.
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