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Believe it or not, I'm going to recommend some terrible movies to watch. There are four bad films included in the "Worst of Ed Wood" DVD collection: "Plan 9 from Outer Space", "Glen or Glenda", "Jailbait", and "Bride of the Monster". I watched all on four consecutive nights. The phrase "so bad it's good" applies here. "Plan 9" is so awful that it's actually quite funny...fake spaceships with visible strings holding them up, Ed Wood's chiropractor pretending to be Bela Lugosi, Vampira silently lurching around a cemetery, supposed aliens in silk pj's. I have to admit I liked "Glen or Glenda" the best in spite of dreadful nonsensical dream sequences. "Jailbait" is a poorly portrayed episode of "Dragnet", but it has the best plot of the four. "Bride of the Monster" gets the prize for least realistic attack scenes....apparently Mr. Wood couldn't afford a killer octopus that actually moved! The actors just flailed around as though they were being consumed while the octopus did nothing. I could not quit laughing! Bela Lugosi appears in three of the four films....two with speaking roles, and the last just a few silent shots that Wood built "Plan 9" around (Lugosi died before the screenplay was finished). I couldn't help giggling as Lugosi intoned, "Bevare! Bevare!" as an insane puppetmaster in "Glen or Glenda".

Also included is a two-hour documentary on Wood. Contains all sorts of interesting tidbits on his life, which was nearly as strange as his films. Haven't had this much fun watching bad movies since the '70's, which is really saying something.