If there's one person who's legendary for making bad horror movies, it's Ed Wood. And it can only help your enjoyment of Plan 9 if you watch Tim Burton's Ed Wood. In case you haven't seen it here are some things you should know:
-The movie was funded by Baptists, some of whom are in the movie.
-The Baptists objected to Tor Johnson having lines because he was unintelligible.
-The movie was written around 8 minutes of footage Bela Lugosi looking at a flower because...
-Lugosi died before production began so Ed Wood's wife's chiropractor takes his place, holding his arm over his face the whole time.
So that got me to wondering who the new Ed Wood is. If that's measured in amount of movies then the answer is Jess Franco (190). If it's measured in aliases:
Joan Almirall | Rosa M. Almirall | Rosa Maria Almirall | Rosa María Almirall | Clifford Brawn | Clifford Brown Jr. | Clifford Brown | Juan G. Cabral | Betty Carter | Candy Coster | Terry De Corsia | Rick Deconinck | Raymond Dubois | Chuck Evans | Toni Falt | Dennis Farnon | Jess Franck | J. Franco | Jesse Franco | Jess Franco | Jesús Franco | A.M. Frank | Adolf M. Frank | Anton Martin Frank | Jeff Frank | Jess Frank | Wolfgang Frank | Manfred Gregor | Jack Griffin | Robert Griffin | Lennie Hayden | Frank Hollman | Frank Hollmann | Frarik Hollmann | Rick Deconinck in Italy | B.F. Johnson | J.P. Johnson | James Lee Johnson | James P. Johnson | David J. Khune | David Khune | David Khunne II | D. Khunne Jr. | D. Khunne | David J. Khunne | David Khunne | David H. Klunne | David Kuhne | David Kunne | David Kühne | Lulu Laverne | Lulú Laverne | Franco Manera | J. Franck Manera | J. Frank Manera | Jesus Franco Manera | Jesús Manera | Jeff Manner | Roland Marceignac | A.L. Mariaux | A.L. Marioux | John O'Hara | Preston Quaid | P. Querut | Lowel Richmond | Dan L. Simon | Dan Simon | Dave Tough | Pablo Villa | Joan Vincent | Robert Zinnermann | Cole Polly in French version | James Gardner in French version
It's Jess Franco as well. Or should I say Lulu Laverne!
Bloody Moon (AKA Die Säge des Todes [translation: The Saw of Death]) is only our third Video Nasty. Video Nasties was a list of films deemed unsuitable for UK audiences. In fact, people in the UK wouldn't see the movies on that list uncut until 2001 or later. Unless they could find a bootleg. Ten of the 72 movies on the list still have not been seen uncut in that country. We've seen The Burning (Cropsy killing people with hedge trimmers) and Night of the Demon (Bigfoot killing people by pulling off their penises).
I really wish I could be there for this BMN, although Night of the Demon sounds pretty good.
ReplyDeleteThat was one of my favorite themes, bigfoot movies with 'demon' in the title. Demonwarp was the other one. That theme is up there with slugs from outer space turning people into zombies (Slither and Night of the Creeps) and women killing men with their vaginas (Lady Terminator and Teeth).
ReplyDeleteI missed out on a great theme when we watched Elves and Silent Night, Deadly Night. Elves stars Dan "Grizzly Adams" Haggerty and SN, DN is directed by the creator of Grizzly Adams. Therefore the theme could have been Grizzly Adams related Christmas horror movies.