does it top his finest film? PS this is my first pic I have ever posted I hope it works
Posted on 10/28/2004 7:35:04 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel
A long-lost Ed Wood film, "necromania," has apparently been found and is available on DVD.
Wonder if it's any good.
Just what the world needs. One more lousy movie. Glen or Glenda bump.
Good heavens! Take that and put it on Chat. No one cares about a soft porn trash.
Why do you think any of us care?
Sorry about that :-)
Yes his movies were thematic, artistic, and box office crap. And his personal morality left pretty much everything to be desired. But speaking as a devotee of truly bad cinema, Ed Wood is one of my antiheroes.
does it top his finest film? PS this is my first pic I have ever posted I hope it works
I thought it was a "Turn Out the Vote" production by the Kerry campaign.
It's ANOTHER Dem October Suprise!
Said while wearing a skirt and a lovely fluffy sweater.
This may knock "Plan 9" out of first place as the worst movie ever made.
BTTTTT! That's hardly Mr. Wood's strong suit, don't you agree.
The important question is will it predict the election!
Why do so many people claim Plan 9 from Outer Space is the worst movie ever made? I will readily admit that the sets, writing, acting, effects, and continuity are all pretty dreadful, as are Criswell's speeches, but there are worse movies out there. If one accepts the premise that a bunch of stupid egotistical aliens are coming to earth to warn people about the dangers of solaminite or whatever it is, and that these aliens can take over the planet with an army of three zombies, then the movie makes sense.
While there are plenty of shots where Ed Wood should have done retakes, I don't recall many shots that should have been left out altogether. While some of the stock footage clashed horribly with the purpose-shot footage, the use of stock footage was at least made sense.
While I'll confess that I've never actually seen "Manos", Hands of Fate, the review at agonybooth.com makes it very hard to believe that it could not be worse than Plan 9. According to that review, there are places in the film where characters spend minutes of screen time driving. Not doing anything toward plot or exposition. Just driving through nondescript countryside. I don't recall anything like that in Plan 9.
Uh, excuse me, but what's left to defend, then?
"Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives." 
Manos, The Hands of Fate actually grates on the viewer. If it's marginally less inept than Plan 9, it's far more pretentious. The actors fancy themselves thespians, while the Plan 9 players dared to be hams.
And yet, Manos bore the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment to hilarious effect, while Plan 9 (in the opinion of the MST3K creators) would not, because not enough action takes place.
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