Bride of the Monster (1955) Reviews

It's the return of Indianastar Monsters Mash, Now we come to Bride of the Monster this was Ed Wood's first monster film it also stars Bela Lugosi in his last speaking role at least he has a lot of lines, The plot is about a mad scientist name Dr. Vornoff who is experimenting with nuclear mutation to create a race of super-human to conquer the world is cliche as ever he has lab assistant name Lobo played swedish wrestler Tor Johnson all he does is grunt and scream and takes many abusive from his master all the other supporting characters are really boring there's this one police officer played by Tony McCoy who say yes sir to everything but the one thing that makes this movie cool is the octopus that Lugosi keeps in his house is suppose a lake inside the house is a stock-footage of an octopus and outside there's a mechanical octopus the funny thing is both of the these shots doesn't match and it clare that you when the octopus is killing someone it's not moving the actors are doing all the work. It's one of the worst monster ever now there's two set one is lab which is cheap by today's standard and there's an hallway leading to nowhere and a crooked picture on a wall. I guess it supposed to look like a german expressionist film anyway basically what happens is that female and male leads comes and Lobo betrays his master but hims on in the ray gun turns him into a mutant and then they get into a fight where the smash bottles and push each other you can easily see the wall move that would've been edited but Ed Wood's the kind of guy that role with it anyway he cover his face the whole and acts like he's a monster Lugosi kills Lobo then he goes outside and the police shoots at him making ridiculous faces he falls into a lake attack by his monsters a lighting strikes and cause an atomic explosion it's the lowest graded monster movie ever.

"A race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world!" as quoted by Bela Lugosi's character in another of Ed Wood's famously appalling films.

That quote pretty much sums up the plot...and the absolutely appalling screenplay.

Bride of the Monster is about a crazed doctor named Eric Vornoff who is experimenting with people to create his own "master race" of atomic people to rule the world.

Premise is weak, and executed appallingly! Performances are just woeful, with Lugosi visibly past his prime, Tor Johnson doing nothing more than zombie sleep-walking and a bit of roaring, and there's a few others that do nothing more than winge and moan, and add nothing to the story.

Script is horrible...I mean how did the actors ever agree to say such lines?! And the octopus...well it's so rubber and fake I believe even a novelty store would be fiercely ashmed to so much as glance at it. The attacking scenes...laughable. The opening attack scene was just dismal, with bad editing, bad acting and above all no believability at all.

The octopus never so much as touches the guy. All other attacks throughout the film are even worse...with an actor happily sitting amongst the tenticles and pulling the lifeless tenticles onto themself.

And don't get me started on the alligator...that scene was even worse. It was different in every shot, and is never seen in the same frame as the actor.

And what's more - a snake that looks out of place and suddenly turns all stiff and rubber a second before it's killed.

Regular on set goofs are visible, with shaking sets, and fake looking props. Heck, even when things get shot there's not so much as a bullet mark on them.

Those who've seen Tim Burton's biopic of Ed Wood will be familiar with the offscreen misadventures the crew faced.

The film is another trademark bad movie from Ed Wood...so bad it's very watchable and extremely funny at times. I watched it for its comedic entertainment value, and that's the only reason anyone should watch it.