{"id":22661,"date":"2016-10-09T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22661"},"modified":"2016-10-10T07:56:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T11:56:48","slug":"glen-or-the-bride-of-the-night-of-the-plan-9-from-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/09\/glen-or-the-bride-of-the-night-of-the-plan-9-from-outer-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen or the Bride of the Night of the Plan 9 from Outer Space (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"belal\"<\/a>The winner of the Best Picture Award at this year\u2019s New England Underground Film Festival, this amusing 25-minute from filmmaker Jesse Berger slices and dices scenes and dialogue from four anti-classics from the notorious Edward D. Wood Jr. \u2013 \u201cGlen or Glenda?\u201d, \u201cBride of the Monster,\u201d \u201cPlan 9 from Outer Space\u201d and \u201cNight of the Ghouls\u201d \u2013 into a wonderfully warped blend of lunacy that perfectly captures the inane spirit of Wood\u2019s work in a fraction of their running time.<\/p>\n

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With this work, Glen from \u201cGlen or Glenda?\u201d (played by Wood himself) is a homicidal transvestite that commits crimes in order to win the long-denied love from his mad scientist father (Bela Lugosi, with footage from \u201cGlen or Glenda?\u201d, \u201cBride of the Monster\u201d and his fleeting appearance in \u201cPlan 9\u201d). When Glen is not on a crime spree, he is comforted by his confused girlfriend (Dolores Fuller). Glen\u2019s father, however, is in cahoots with a pair of aliens (clever editing by Berger gives the impression of Lugosi\u2019s \u201cBride of the Monster\u201d character communicating directly with the Eros and Tana characters of \u201cPlan 9\u201d). The dimwitted police from \u201cPlan 9\u201d and \u201cNight of the Ghouls\u201d investigate these events, but the \u201cPlan 9\u201d inspector killed by the aliens becomes the slave of the \u201cBride of the Monster\u201d scientist (both roles played by Wood regular Tor Johnson).<\/p>\n

Berger\u2019s clever editing often gives new meaning to Wood\u2019s bizarre artistic statements, most notably when \u201cGlen or Glenda?\u201d psychiatrist Timothy Farrell bloviates on how \u201cmodern man is a hardworking human \u2013 throughout the day, his mind and his muscles are busy at building the modern world and its business administration\u201d while Lugosi whips Johnson in a \u201cBride of the Monster\u201d scene. Criswell\u2019s fruity \u201cPlan 9\u201d narration is liberally used, but the man himself is not on screen \u2013 nor is the \u201cPlan 9\u201d diva Vampira, sadly. But the horned demon from Glen or Glenda?\u201d turns up, a happy (if Wood-style incomprehensible) addition to this zany mix.<\/p>\n

Berger told the Dead 2 Rights website that he envisioned this work as \u201csomething someone would find on a random VHS tape at Goodwill.\u201d And while Wood\u2019s canon is the apex of bargain basement filmmaking, Berger\u2019s imaginative presentation preserves Wood\u2019s spirit in a new hysteria-laced work that will generate gales of healthy laughs.<\/p>\n

Berger’s work can be appreciated on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The winner of the Best Picture Award at this year\u2019s New England Underground Film Festival, this amusing 25-minute from filmmaker Jesse Berger slices and dices scenes and dialogue from four anti-classics from the notorious Edward D. Wood Jr. \u2013 \u201cGlen or Glenda?\u201d, \u201cBride of the Monster,\u201d \u201cPlan 9 from Outer Space\u201d and \u201cNight of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,1369],"tags":[128,312,479,1458,938],"class_list":["post-22661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-halloween-horror-month","category-retro-cinema","tag-bela-lugosi","tag-ed-wood","tag-horror-film","tag-sci-fi","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22661"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22684,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions\/22684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}