Even Ed Wood should be embarrassed and ashamed of this train wreck! This is not even really a movie per se, but instead is just an excuse to get 9 or 10 girls topless. Now as a heterosexual male, my eyes didn't mind those scenes but I was here to watch an Ed Wood horror/sci-fi movie and instead just got a showpiece for lousy dancers. Criswell acts like he's really drunk or high and Fawn Silver out acts him by a mile! She at least comes across as moderately creepy and weird which is a lot more than I can say for the Wolfman and the Mummy. Holy cow are those two an embarrassment to any Universal monster or mythical creature that preceded them! The Wolfman makeup you buy at Wal-Mart would be better than this and the Mummy sounds like a guy with a traffic cone over his head, reading lines offstage. And you won't BELIEVE the stupidity of these lines. I'm an Ed Wood completist. I had to see this film, but you don't. Had Ed Wood directed the film I think it could have been something special. Instead some obscure Bulgarian Z grade movie director behind the camera combined with Wood's awful script (I use the term script very loosely here) equals pure disaster! Honestly if they would have eliminated ALL dancing scenes they would probably have had a pretty funny and enjoyable film. The problem is they'd also have only 14 minutes...

Based on Wood's novel, this very laid back and cool nudie horror comedy is a classic. Criswell (in a Dracula cape) introduces and narrates ("some of you may faint"). A badly acting couple (Pat Barrington is the girl) drive their car at night (although in longshot it's day) looking for a graveyard. He's a novelist who explains how he needs inspiration for his horror stories (in great Ed Wood dialogue that continues at intervals throughout the film). The car crashes and they find themselves outside a graveyard where various strippers dance for Criswell, his Vampira-like assistant (The Black Ghoul) and a mummy and a wolfman (who are great fun as comic-relief). The Indian girl is first, then the streetwalker (who has a skeleton in her act and pretty much just walks around). On to the gold woman ("throw gold at her" yells Criswell) who's finally dipped in gold (she's also played by Barrington). Criswell laughs hysterically at this point (he usually just nods his head at nothing in particular). The mummy and the wolfman discover the couple watching and tie them up ("Fiends! Fiends!"). A woman dressed in leopard skin with cut outs for her tits and buttocks dances next. She's also whipped by a man. "Torture! Torture! It pleasures me" announces Criswell, and the slave girl dances. A Hawaiian girl who worshipped snakes (stock footage of a rattlesnake). A woman who killed her husband and dances with his skeleton watching (she really seems to enjoy doing the twist). The zombie woman, another one and then finally the sun comes up to turn Criswell and the ghoul into skeletons before the couple are sacrificed. An ambulance crew tends to them and it turns out maybe the whole thing was a crash-induced hallucination. But Criswell's narration suggests maybe not. Ted V. Mikels was a cameraman for this thoroughly enjoyable experience. Don't miss it! In Sexicolor! Photographer Caramico made SEX RITUALS OF THE OCCULT. Robert Derteno was the Art Director. Many more Wood/Apostoloff movies followed through the 70's.Movie reviews at: spinegrinderweb.com

Orgy of the Dead (1965) BOMB (out of 4) I spend my time watching a lot of really bad films because I really love those bad films from the past. Quite often I'm asked which is the worst of the worst and this film here always comes up in my mind. With direction by A.C. Stephens, a screenplay by Edward D. Wood, Jr. and Criswell giving out predictions you just know this thing had to turn out really bad. The movie is disguised as a horror film but in reality it's just a nudie flick but a very bad one at that. A writer takes his girlfriend on a drive to visit a cemetery so that he can get fresh ideas for a new story. Their car crashes and they awake in the cemetery where The Emperor (Criswell) forces them to watch various ghoulish girls dance around naked. We are tortured with a Hawaiian dance, a Skeleton, an Indian, a Slave, a Street walker dance and various others. In a film like this you expect all sorts of goofs and there are plenty. In the opening sequence you'll notice that the couple are driving around at night but there are several edits where it turns back into day only to turn back into night. When the girlfriend is tied up you can clearly see, at times, that she isn't really tied up but instead is just holding her hands behind her. Neither of these things bring any laughs, which is the real downfall of this turkey in that it's simply bad and never reaches a so bad it's good level. A mummy and werewolf eventually show up but they are just silly looking and are only used to dance around and act dumb. The main purpose of this film is to show nude dancing but the "dancers" are so bad at what they're doing you won't be a least bit interested. There isn't too much dialogue in the film, which is a shame since Wood usually comes up with zany lines to keep you entertained. The only mildly interesting thing about this film is the fact that Criswell is wearing Bela Lugosi's Dracula cape from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

If you are the one that is always afraid, offended, or hate horror and/or smut, then stay far away from this one!!!!! Despite its age, you still have to follow my rules, okay!!!!! But, however, since I am of age to enjoy such stuff, I'll maybe allow it for this review.This movie is great because it didn't make it to MST3K due to its subject matter (it would likely have to be totally censored to allow it). It was still cheesy like that "Monster a-Go Go," however. The movie has everything movies have - action, comedy, smut, horror - all smashed together into one heaping load of fun!!!!!Now I'll have to apologize for seeing this movie! And you'll have to, too, after seeing this and voting a "10" for it!!!!! Great fun!10/10