{"id":22201,"date":"2014-10-24T07:33:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22201"},"modified":"2016-09-03T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T11:48:04","slug":"bride-of-the-monster-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/24\/bride-of-the-monster-1955\/","title":{"rendered":"Bride of the Monster (1955)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bride-monster\"<\/a>This is the story of a man, his giant, and an Octopus. And the man\u2019s experiments involving kidnapping people and turning them in to\u2014something. I think giants. Let\u2019s go with giants. Said doctor also has a fondness for his giant octopus which, whenever he decides to leave his lab, comes across the octopus that seems to gleam at him from behind his glass. The doctor often smiles and waxes poetic about his friend that he hopes will never murder him in a shallow pool of cold swamp water. The thing I like about Ed Wood\u2019s movies is that his villains just aren\u2019t very smart.<\/p>\n

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The aliens in \u201cPlan Nine\u201d invented a reanimation device that could barely control the walking dead, and often malfunctioned. This time around Bela Lugosi\u2019s mad doctor is in the company of a barely conscious hulking giant prone to bouts of rage, that he has to whip in to submission. Not to mention the octopus. It must be a statement about Ed Wood Jr. that his villains are essentially him. They all bite off more than they can chew, and their results for their ambitious convoluted projects turn disastrous. I\u2019m not too certain what the mad doctor Eric Vornoff plans with his assembly of his atomic giants. He lives in a mansion in a swamp and is basically a feeble old man. Does he plan to take over his field of science with monsters that hold the mentality of a four year old? Is he attempting to farm octopi?<\/p>\n

And what is so \u201catomic\u201d about Vornoff\u2019s Atomic Men? Tor Johnson plays Lobo, a barely audible beast of a man who grunts and growls, not to mention gets every one of Vornoff\u2019s orders incorrect. When Vornoff kidnaps the nosy reporter Janet Lawton, Lobo forms a love for her and this creates a rift between the once psychotic pairing. Most of \u201cBride of the Monster\u201d involves a convoluted plot, a lot of rambling droning dialogue, over explanation, and high tech machinery Vornoff uses that explodes at a single bump, in the climax. And what would an Ed Wood horror film be without your patented Bela Lugosi body double? \u201cBride of the Monster\u201d is a classic Ed Wood oddity filled with gripping romances left and right. A reporter and her cop boyfriend, Dr. Vornoff and Lobo, and a detective and his pet parakeet. It\u2019s got something for everyone!<\/p>\n