Rainey Dawn I don't think that most of Ed Wood's films are as bad as some people make them out to be - they are entertaining. No, they are not the greatest films but they do have entertainment value and a fan following for a reason. Bride of the Monster might be Wood's best film.We have the great Bela Lugosi as Dr. Eric Vornoff - a mad scientist out to create atomic creatures... and he echos his hand gesture from White Zombie (a nod in that direction).We also have Tor Johnson as Lobo - Lobo is very much like Johnson's character's from Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961).Bride of the Monster really is worth watching if you are into the classic sci-fi horror and like a good B Horror film.7/10

PartialMovieViewer I sat down to watch this movie expecting something awful - boy was I not let down. First let's make sense of th story. Polliwogs fall up into the tree and sink in quicksand. Drinking jello-shots, torn blue jeans fill empty drinks with marshmallows. Once the marbles are finished chasing deflated pillows, penguins must burp up logs of toaster-waste. An army of warts gang up on a pair of Tuesdays and chill their frog-eyes with spaghetti sauce. (Scared yet?). Ole MacDonald and his farm sing a pistachio to sleep and staple papers to the walls. But then...yes then...I stopped dreaming and drank my milk. Mmmmm-mmmm good. Testimonial echoes beneath sheltered hamstrings and rusty face-plates...crying the silent cheers of boredom. Chisel me some jello-art and Un-smell my feet for half a league onward road hemlock and tomato plants. Phew...that was tough...but I think I summed up Ed Wood. Oh...and this is the finest movie wish I could Un-see.

bkoganbing Bride Of The Monster was Bela Lugosi's last completed film and was done for that legendary director of bad movies, Ed Wood, Jr. At least Lugosi didn't live to see Plan Nine From Outer Space, he was spared that humiliation.Once again Bela is a mad scientist who has a scheme to create a race of atomic supermen and he's got a great old prototype in Tor Johnson formerly the Swedish Angel of pro wrestling fame. In fact Tor's nocturnal wanderings have given rise to a monster legend in and around Lugosi's secluded digs in the woods. That and the pet giant octopus he keeps around for no discernible reason other than to dispose of unwanted guests.Bela has all kinds of people on his trail, the cops, a Lois Lane type reporter who is girlfriend to one of the cops and another scientist from Lugosi's home country who wants to bring him back so he can do his work there. Bela however is a believer that a prophet has no honor in his home country and disposes of that unwanted guest via the octopus.The octopus and Ed Wood's inability to use it somewhat realistically are the main reasons that this Ed Wood classic is remembered today. I just read a very thorough biography of Lugosi and the rubber octopus was the one John Wayne struggled with in Wake Of The Red Witch. It was the property of Republic Pictures. But Republic was slowly going out of business so Wood got the thing from Herbert J. Yates somehow, he rented it, Yates sold it to him in a fire sale, or he just gave it to him there not being a big market for giant rubber octopuses. Now that thing would bring thousands of dollars in an on line auction if it still exists. Even with a missing tentacle, broken off during the shooting of Bride Of The Monster.Not much else to recommend it, cheesy sets, acting on the junior high school level, and a man with no eye for special effects directing this epic. Still worth a few laughs though.

lepoisson-1 Having enjoyed Plan 9 many times and Glen or Glenda once, I really expected this to be a serious turkey...and it wasn't! It's not overly good, but (since it came before Plan 9) I had ASSUMED Ed Wood had used this as a movie making dress rehearsal. Wrong! Lugosi is great! Tor Johnson is certainly more believable here than in Plan 9.It's a dumb movie with a dumb monster and dumb effects, but it works...almost. It's a fun watch: grab some popcorn and your buddies, set the bar low, and enjoy. Lugosi's performance makes me wonder what Plan 9 would have been like had he lived beyond 3 days into Plan 9's filming.