This film is only marginally better than Wood's most famous film, Plan 9 From Outer Space. Plan 9 was rightfully voted the worst movie ever made a while back. So why would I recommend this movie?! Well, it is not because I am a masochist, but I do enjoy watching films that are so inept and stupid they are funny. However, this is NOT the same as a simply bad movie. There are many bad movies that either bore me (The Conqueror--starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan) or give me a headache (Cracking Up by Jerry Lewis) and I would NEVER recommend ANYONE seem them (except, maybe, the prisoners at Guantanamo). No, instead Bride of the Monster is one you put in with a group of friends and watch just how amateurishly made a film can be! The movie stars the down-and-out Bela Lugosi shortly before his death. He stars as an evil mad scientist and he is assisted by his henchman, Tor Johnson (both of which are ALSO in Plan 9). I really don't remember that much of the plot--just the silliness of the movie and the ending where Lugosi wrestles with a giant rubber octopus (or squid). According to Michael Medved, the creature was to have been animated but the motor broke. So, the aging Lugosi had to wrestle a dead-looking creature and ACT like it was alive--wrapping its tentacles around him and screaming hysterically! It's a sight to see--trust me!
Review of Bride of the Monster
