TV Guide ranks Peak TV's finest offerings, Sign up and add shows to get the latest updates about your favorite shows - Start Now. According to Fuller's recollections, Loretta King bribed Wood into casting her as Janet, with promises of securing further funding for the film.
The Monster speaks, and gives his creator a horrifying ultimatum: provide a monster mate…or perish! Characters included his wife, an old woman, the old woman's grown son, and a dwarf. He orders Lobo to transport the captive to Vornoff's private quarters. The easier explanation would be that authors Michael Medved and Harry Medved saw the film in a theater setting with inferior sound quality, or viewed a damaged print. He has decided to use her as the next subject of his experiments. Directed by Franc Roddam. One of the hunters attempts to force his entry into the house, but a giant octopus is released from its tank and sent after the intruders. Their country of origin is interested in Vornoff's groundbreaking experiments with atomic energy and wants to recruit him. Unfortunately the inaccurate claim managed to achieve urban legend status, and it keeps circulating.[5][6]. This also serves as the film's connection to Glen or Glenda (1953), where the fetish plays a more prominent role. [4] The film was reportedly completed and released through a deal with Samuel Z. Arkoff. One of his reassuring lines to Janet concerning the experiment, "It hurts, just for a moment, but then you will emerge a woman...", sounds as if preparing her for the loss of her virginity. "The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi". In response, he was branded a madman and exiled by his country. [8], The film combines elements of science fiction and horror fiction, genres which were frequently combined in films of the 1950s. [5], In a subplot of the film, there are storms every night for three months and strange weather patterns. [2], In a stretch of woods, two hunters are caught in a "raging thunderstorm". The characters attribute the phenomenon to the effects the nuclear explosions have on the atmosphere. Watch Bride Of The Monster movie trailer and get the latest cast info, photos, movie review and more on TVGuide.com. [15], This film is part of what Wood aficionados refer to as "The Kelton Trilogy", a trio of films featuring Paul Marco as Officer Kelton, a whining, reluctant policeman.
Ballantine Books. He also provided his son to star as the film's hero. The Bride of the Monster awakens. Vornoff then hypnotically places Janet back to sleep. Lobo rescues her. [6] Lugosi's fee for the film is estimated to have been 1000 dollars. The former is played by Ben Frommer (known for playing Count Bloodcount in Transylvania 6-5000), the latter is played by William Benedict (known as one of The Bowery Boys). In 1994, the biopic Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton, alleged that Wood and the filmmakers stole the mechanical octopus (previously used in the film Wake of the Red Witch) from the Republic Studios backlot, while failing to steal the motor which enabled the prop to move realistically, although, by the director's admission, the film preferred narrative interest over historical accuracy. A masterpiece of involuntary farce by twisted genius Edward D. Wood, Jr. (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE). [7], Throughout the film, the mute Lobo is implied to have an unspecified intellectual disability and to be of sub-human intelligence. The police pursue Vornoff through the woods. Fuller was thus reduced to a cameo role.
[7], Both the working title Bride of the Atom and the final title Bride of the Monster allude to the earlier film Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
[1], A sequel, entitled Night of the Ghouls, was finished in 1959, but due to last-minute financial problems, was not released until 1984. Grey notes that participants in the original events sometimes contradict one another, but he relates each person's information for posterity. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva". The scientist becomes the subject of his own human experiment. This film served as a sequel of sorts to Bride. There are now 12 missing victims, and the police still do not know what happened to them. Non-subscribers may gain access by subscribing to any of our print or electronic subscriptions
[10] In both movies, each bride at her wedding was given an orchid, which she sniffed before passing out. "Film Threat – Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume Xix (dvd)", The Golden Turkey Awards: Nominees and Winners, the Worst Achievements in Hollywood History, Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bride_of_the_Monster&oldid=983467887, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 October 2020, at 11:46. She arrives dressed as a bride, summoned through telepathy. [7], The apparent fetish of Lobo with angora wool is a reflection of Wood's own fetish for the material. [4] Later Ed Wood revived the project as The Monster of the Marshes. [17] This version is also available from Amazon Video on Demand.
Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein, and Peter Boyle as the monster. Craig rolls a rock at him and lands him in the water with the octopus.
[3], Janet awakens to find herself a prisoner of Vornoff, who uses hypnosis to put her back to sleep. Vornoff grabs Janet and escapes from the flames. At the police station, Robbins and Craig have a meeting with an intellectual from Europe, Professor Vladimir Strowski, who agrees to assist the police in investigating the Marsh, but not at night. I have no home! Since last week’s reflections on that old 1935 horror classic, “The Bride of Frankenstein,” a reader who keeps up with such things has told me Hollywood is planning a …, This item is available in full to subscribers.
Vornoff assures her that Lobo is harmless, but the giant seems fascinated with the female captive and approaches her with questionable intent. Arkoff profited from the film more than Wood, and his earnings contributed to the funding of American International Pictures. By implication, the country which exiled Vornoff in the 1930s could be Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.
Making his decision, Lobo rebels and attacks Vornoff. With Sting, Jennifer Beals, Anthony Higgins, Clancy Brown. [5], This was Bela Lugosi's last speaking role in a feature film. More Details. University Press of Kentucky. When they reach Willows House, they find it to be occupied and the current owner repeatedly denies them hospitality. [6], Craig comments that there is a stark contrast between the characters of Dick Craig and Janet Lawton. [7] In the context of the film, the strange weather is implied to be a side-effect of the experiments of Vornoff which apparently release radioactivity into the atmosphere. (TV premiere) Italy 24 December 1998 (video premiere) Poland 5 December 2005 (TV premiere) France 17 February 2015 (DVD premiere) He and Lobo physically struggle with each other, and their fight destroys the laboratory and starts a fire. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. editions by clicking HERE. He also includes Ed Wood's claim that one of his films made a profit and surmises that it was most likely Bride of the Monster, but that Wood had oversold the film and could not reimburse the backers. Weldon, Michael (1983). The film is considered to have Wood's biggest budget ($70,000).
Download the TV Guide app for iPhone, iPad and Android! [9] According to Rob Craig, in Bride Lugosi for the last time plays "a charismatic villain whose megalomania leads to downfall and destruction".
Craig views this scene as implying that supposedly "dumb" servants, can have a capacity of learning the secrets of their masters . ", "One is always considered mad, when one discovers something which others cannot grasp", and the closing "He tampered in God's domain". [7], The final scenes, with the mushroom cloud of the nuclear explosion, use stock footage from the blast of a thermonuclear weapon ("hydrogen bomb").
[19] Horror host Mr. Lobo is among the interviewees of the 27 minute documentary. The Monster, not so much.
Back in the secret laboratory, Vornoff uses a wave of his hand to summon Janet to his current location. Robbins comments that Vornoff "tampered in God's domain". [7], The dialogue of the film includes well-known lines such as "Home?
Meanwhile, Craig has entered the house and accidentally discovers the secret passage. [7] The role was reportedly intended for Dolores Fuller. [3], As the experiment is about to begin, Lobo is visibly distressed. Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (Vampire Over London) (My Son, the Vampire) Yet he successfully operates complex machinery as if trained to do so. This probably reflects actual anxiety of the 1950s about potential climate change. The owner is … [6], The story is similar to an earlier Bela Lugosi movie, The Corpse Vanishes (1942).
Janet is a "brassy girl reporter", a dynamic character with a sense of autonomy. One of the fleeing hunters is killed by the octopus, while the other is captured by the giant. As night falls and another storm begins, Janet drives alone to Lake Marsh, but visibility is poor and she drives off the road and into a ravine.
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