Memorable, crazy movie

best movie i've ever seen.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Edward Wood's most outrageous film (along with 'Glen or Glenda') follows the exploits of the L.A. police when they are forced to wake up so they can try to jolt into action to investigate strange goings-on at a local haunted house.The weirdness begins with the introduction of Dr. Acula (Kenny Duncan). Soon we are exposed to occupied coffins, drunken skeletons, bedsheets floating to the tooting of a kazoo, a levitating eyeball, a disembodied trumpet playing a weak slew of licks, and an enigmatic human head mouthing a drone of incoherent mumbling while wearing a metal hat.If you think this all sounds totally nuts, you're right. You may want to get blasted before attempting to sit through this delirium.Semi-sequel to Wood's 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'.

Night of the Ghouls is effectively Ed Wood's lost movie, seeing as it remained unreleased for over twenty years. For anyone who is a fan of this famous director's work, this one sure does not disappoint. It's basically Ed's attempt at a supernatural horror movie. But of course, as is the way with Wood movies, the result is extremely strange. It's basically about a charlatan clairvoyant who uses his fakery to make money out of bereaving relatives of the recently deceased, meanwhile, real malevolent ghosts hover about nearby. A cop who specializes in the paranormal is sent on the case to investigate. Much of the proceedings are narrated by the one and only Criswell who emphasizes ALL the wrong WORDS.The whole premise is as dumb as any Wood has concocted before. The principal villain is a character called Dr. Acula without the slightest hint that this is clearly a supremely idiotic name. You really get the impression that Wood believed in ideas such as this 100% and didn't for a second think they were as insane as they are. The idea of the ghost cop itself is of course deeply silly but par for the course in Wood's world. Tor Johnson turns up again with another performance, exactly the same as all the others, as does Paul Marco, who plays yet another cowardly cop. Macro's policeman is a bizarrely ridiculous character played with zero common-sense. He fires his gun at the drop of a hat, and is overall a complete cretin of a character. There are additionally a couple of female ghosts in cool Gothic clothing who hover about outside in a Vampira-lite sort of way.Probably the best scenes in Night of the Ghouls are the ones in the séance. We have a floating trumpet and flask top, a ghostly sheet and a black man in a helmet mumbling gibberish. All are accompanied with silly noises. The people in the séance consist of a few extremely deadpan grieving relatives who sit through this nonsense with not the slightest reaction. And a few skeletons also sit at the table for no real reason. Dr. Acula controls proceedings wearing a very silly hat. Tor Johnson even pops in at one point and attacks Marco's idiot cop. Again the séance guests do not even bat an eyelid. All the scenes in the séance are Wood gold.Overall I enjoyed this one very much. It has a good pacing too, and never gets boring. One of Wood's most consistently enjoyable films in my personal opinion.

An old couple, taking a shortcut at night, run into "a nightmare of horror" - an attractive blonde woman with long fingernails! The old woman can't quite stop smiling long enough to look horrified, but the police are sent to investigate anyway. Lt. Bradford, a man with a passion for internal monologue, and Kelton, an incompetent buffoon, discover Dr. Acula, a man in a turban.Acula has been swindling money from the incredibly dense with the old raising-the-dead scam using a floating trumpet and bed sheet. But what Dr. Acula doesn't know is that he accidentally has real powers to raise the dead, and the dead just might knock off his turban! Fortunately for them, he decides to evade them by running directly at them."Night of the Ghouls," the long-awaited sequel to "Bride of the Monster," was left unreleased for over twenty years because writer/director Ed Wood couldn't pay the film lab fees. Though not quite as "good" as "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or "Glen or Glenda?" it's definitely worth watching just to see the look on the old couple's faces when they see the "monster." It doesn't get much better than that. God bless you, Ed Wood.

This is the "lost" Ed Wood film. It wasn't released until 1983 because Wood couldn't pay for the development fees at the film lab. I highly doubt that this would have been the one to break him into the mainstream.The plot is that Dr. Acula (hee-hee get it?) is running a spook house in the same house that was supposedly burned down in "Bride of the Monster." Tor Johnson also plays the same character, Lobo, who was supposedly burned in the accident. And yet again, Kelton the cop mucks things up with his stupidity. Overall, I really don't think it was intended as a sequel, but in the weird world of Ed Wood just about anything could be recycled. I didn't enjoy this one as much as Wood's other films. I think that he did a better job on this than Plan 9, but it lacked something.Look for Dr. Tom Watson (this time he actually shows his face unlike when he played Bela Lugosi's stunt double), and Tony Cardoza (MST3K fans should recognize him as everyone's favorite monotone, Coleman Francis collaborator).