Wood’s “Plan 9,” which was released into theaters to little fanfare in 1959, was originally titled “Grave Robbers From Outer Space.” The ahead-of-its-time plot told the story of invaders from another planet who resurrected the dead on Earth to attack the living. When the shooting of “Bride” was finished, Lugosi became one of the first Hollywood celebrities who publicly checked into a hospital to kick a drug habit. There was also a giant, man-eating octopus thrown into the mix for good measure. It starred Lugosi as a mad scientist creating a “race of atomic supermen” and hulking Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson as his mute assistant, Lobo.
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Wood’s next major movie was “Bride of the Monster” (1955).
It’s like something out of a David Lynch fever dream. Hmmm, wonder where in the world Wood got that idea? Lugosi, who really needed a paycheck at the time, pops up as some sort omnipotent overseer spouting cryptic monologues. In 1953, Wood wrote, directed and starred in the exquisitely strange, quasi-coherent “Glen or Glenda.” The exploitation flick was shot in four days and told a sympathetic story about a male cross-dresser. The Tallahassee Film Society is showing “Ed Wood” on Thursday night at All Saints Cinema as a tribute to Landau, who died earlier this month at 89, but it’s also a chance to revisit Wood’s joyously sloppy and surreal gifts to American cinema. You are wasting my time.” And, “No one gives two (bleeps) for Bela.” There’s another zinger about Boris Karloff but it can’t be quoted in this publication. Landau got to deliver such memorable lines as, “This is the most uncomfortable coffin I’ve ever been in. Martin Landau won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor playing the druggy movie star Bela Lugosi (“Dracula”), who made his final movies with Wood. In 1994, A-list Hollywood director Tim Burton helped set the record straight with the biopic “Ed Wood,” a black-and-white valentine to the Z-list filmmaker. Well, the Medveds were dead wrong but the derogatory labels stuck to Wood and “Plan 9” - and still do. They also proclaimed Wood’s exquisitely weird and idiosyncratic flick “Plan 9 From Outer Space” (1959) as Worst Picture of All Time. as the Worst Director of All Time in their popular book “The Golden Turkey Awards.” In 1980, the Brothers Medved, Harry and Michael, declared Ed Wood Jr.
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