Bride of the Monster

No-budget "horror" movie that fails on every conceiveable level, except as riff fodder for MST3K.

Even more entertainingly bad than Plan 9! What I like about Ed Wood's movies is that they're terrible, but you don't have to be a masochist to enjoy them.

A delightfully horrid movie, with just about 0 redeeming features except for the fact that it is hilarious.

If you laughed when Lugosi fought the octopus in Burton's Ed Wood, you'll laugh harder here. Even funnier is when Tor Johnson screams and Lugosi just starts shooting him. More naive terribleness from Ed Wood, recommended if you love B-movies.

So awful, and so awesome. Goes on my list of terrible movies that I secretly enjoy, if only because of the monster shots and the bizarre fires/explosions.

Bad without being amusing. Tor Johnson is very, very large.

Hadn't actually watched the MST3K version before. Not one of their better efforts, but Wood's vision remains intact. That is, the vision of Bela Lugosi trying to strangle himself with a rubber octopus. Hilarious in itself.

I don't see what all the hate is about. People associate Ed Wood with crappy movies, but this one just doesn't seem to fit in. He did the absolute best with what he had, and I'd say that's pretty damn good. I'd watch this movie again.

terrible, but it's actually quiet funny if you have sene "Ed Wood" by Tim Burton before.

Wood directs Lugosi again as the mad scientist Eric Varnoff, out to create a race of atomic supermen by blasting rednecks in the face with radiation. Mostly pretty boring, though the laboratory and rubber octopus scenes are a scream. Plus, Lugosi actually gets to deliver a decent monologue before the end, showing us a brief glimpse of the great actor he once was.

I have to give it some creative credit, it's more enjoyable than most Hollywood trash. There's a certain magic about Ed Wood, no matter how terrible of a director he might have been. [MST3k almost tries too hard some times, but when Tor and Bela are up on that screen it all seems to come easily for our boys.]

Bela's ''I have no home'' speech is simultaneously hilarius, stupid, heartbreaking and genuine. The bits with him, Tor or the monster are great but everything else is really boring.

Charmingly inept is the best way I can describe this movie.

N/A is more appropriate, but it isn't an option. Edward was obviously not a skilled film maker, but his work has endured because it's uniquely 'terrible', and the comedy of errors resembles a personal style. His use of stock footage was occasionally creative, and visually the film is decent despite the cheap sets and ill-matching shots. The strangely gripping atmosphere is hard to pinpoint. It's both a consequence of Edward's incompetence and his cockeyed worldview. Worst director ever? Nah.

Half unintentionally funny campy B-movie, half boring exposition movie. At least Lugosi gives a pretty good performance.

This is really not such a bad film. The camera is often awkwardly placed, and the acting is hammy, but the film itself is quite busy with wonky shit and the editing is brisk. Lugosi and Johnson are both really fun villains too. I looked back and I am similarly defensive of Manos, but I'd say this one is better. You could honestly do so much worse.

Mostly sub-standard and boring when Lugosi isn't on the screen. His charisma and the graceful battle with the "monster" really make sitting through the poor parts worth it.

Sadly, it's just competent enough that there's nowhere near as much of the random insanity that makes Plan 9 such a classic.

Not good, but not entirely incompetent, like the legend of Ed Wood might suggest. Sometimes even clever in the way it uses stock footage to augment the lack of budget. Still mostly boring with some strange choices, but probably on the same level as other time-wasting b-movies of the era.

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I must say that I never would have watched that movie, if I had not seen Ed Wood, but it's funny if you have the circumstances in your mind that brought about this movie.

"Bride of the Monster," a classic '50s creature feature, embraces its low-budget roots with a blend of camp and kitsch, complete with unconvincing sets, comical creatures, and exaggerated performances, culminating in a spectacle of lightning and a mushroom cloud.

One of the cheapest, funniest horrors ever made, with a photo enlarger and some kitchen appliances standing in for Bela's mad lab equipment, a supporting cast with all the talent of finger puppets. and some of the best bad dialogue you've ever heard.

Not as fun as the better known Plan 9, this still has the joy that is one of the most inept fight scenes ever. Bela fighting a (stolen from another movie) rubber octopus :-)

This is one of the BEST movies ever made. EVER.

I guess you shouldn't knock it until you've tried to make your own.

Worth it for one of the most epic battles in movie history.

The monster shots were always good for a laugh.

Deliriously awful.

yeah another great one by "awesome Eddy". Must have for all fans. He's the best of the worst. Love it or hate it :D

No.

Maybe, if he'd had talented actors, enough budget to create good sets and not rely on stock footage, this might have been a halfway decent horror flick. But Wood had none of those things.

That is the one nice thing about birds.

Some weak signs of actual acting in a few selected seconds, otherwise completely hopeless in everything it tries to display. I loved it.

Audiences like mad scientists and octopuses and and Bela Lugosi ... at least they did in the 1940's. If there's any real sense in which Wood was a little incompetent at what he was doing, it's that he was living in the past. He'd throw in UFO's and atomic energy as a nod to 1950's genre films, but his heart was in mad doctors and monsters. It's part of what makes him endearing.

Even at just around an hour, this movie still manages to be painfully boring. What saves it from complete failure is a hands-down excellent speech from the great Lugosi.

Mst3k score: 8/10

Unless one has an aversion this this genre or these performers, I really don't understand how anyone could think this is terrible. The elitists and MST3K crowd can screw themselves, this is a fun and charming movie.

terrible..as expected