At first, I thought this was a sequel to "Bride Of The Monster" but that was probably because that was the only other Ed Wood movie I've seen. Yes, I saw the MST3K version. It was weird watching such a short low budget movie that had never been featured on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" or even Rifftrax. Of course, it wouldn't make sense as they didn't riff on the original. Then again, I probably would have been confused by this either way. It's about as cheesy as you'd expect, but more entertaining than most examples.At least Ed Wood's other movies had Bela Lugosi in them. I really should do more research on Tor Johnson. He did practically nothing in this entire movie. He gets shot numerous times and then kills a guy. Then he gets shot again numerous times and dies. Huh? The narration is quite laughable. I always thought it was Mitch Hedberg who came up with the joke about Dr. Acula. I doubt he saw this movie to steal from it. It is weird to have a silly name in something that's supposed to be serious. I do wonder what it would be like if Ed Wood had actually gone into comedy.The costumes are downright terrible. I guess these poor people couldn't afford any better. There were supposed to be ghosts in this, but they looked the same as everyone else. Yep, it was pretty boring. Come on, even back then, movies had more action in them. I would have given it a slightly lower rating if not for the fact that it's fun to laugh at. *

I actually liked Plan 9 From Outer Space, it's not a good movie, but it is fun and I just cannot hate it. Night of the Ghouls was a movie I couldn't get into at all really, the opening scene is great and very funny and while Ed Wood Jnr is far from a great director I just can't bring myself to say he is the worst director of all time because of the heart he brings to his pictures. Sadly, the rest doesn't work. The production values are very creaky even by today's standards with the editing slapdash and the effects and sets fake, the story is slow and meandering even for a film that is not very long, and most scenes and the dialogue are embarrassing. The acting is amateurish as well, even from Bela Lugosi. Overall, a bad film with only one good scene that saves it from total disaster. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Night of the Ghouls (1959) * 1/2 (out of 4) Edward D. Wood, Jr. directs this semi-sequel to his cult film Bride of the Monster. People are seeing ghosts all over Los Angeles so a Detective (Duke Moore) goes to investigate. He comes across the weird Dr. Acula (Kenne Duncan) as well as a burned Lobo (Tor Johnson) among others. This is a rather interesting Wood film as it's probably his best made due to a couple reasons. For starters, Wood couldn't afford to pay the lab bill so the film set unreleased for 24-years. When Wade Williams stepped in and bought the film, he had professional editors edit the movie so this here makes it look somewhat better than normal. Even in other ways the film works better from the better special effects to a couple nice shots, not to mention some nice comedy bits and not those unintentional laughs we're use to. However, the film never reaches that "so bad it's good" level so we're left with a pretty bland film that doesn't go anywhere. The film is pretty boring, which is something you don't normally say in regards to Wood. The burn make up on Tor Johnson is probably the most graphic of any film from this era and looks great.

I got about as far as I could into this Ed Wood "home movie," and finally gave up. Wood recycles footage and sets and characters and situations from his other "home movies" to tell us a story about a decrepit house where a mad doctor once made monsters. All I know is there's a cute gal in white who scares people and is in turn scared, and a Vampira-looking woman in black who kills people by covering them with her veil. Tor Johnson shows up as a badly scarred and injured Lobo from a previous film, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER. It's a tossup for worst performance. I will give it to the guy playing phony medium Dr. Acula (how's that for a clever name?). But there is plenty of bad acting to go around. And check out some of the sets! One of the scenes inside a "police station" shows a cop sitting at a desk, with a bunch of plain paneled curtains hanging on the wall behind him.