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Bookmark this pageNight of the Ghouls (1959)
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
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From Time Out Film Guide
If you thought cult 'artiste' Edward D Wood Jr's ironically celebrated astro-turkey Plan 9 from Outer Space was transcendently awful, you'd better brace yourself for this, deemed too shambolic to unleash on unsuspecting cinema audiences. Scenery-chewing psychic Criswell and majestically talentless ex-wrestler Johnson return in this no-budget farrago about a fake medium unwittingly resurrecting the dead. Expect yet more of the 'neo-Brechtian panache' (i.e. complete technical incompetence) that secured Wood his rep as the very worst of the worst.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
Producer: Edward D Wood Jr
Cast: Criswell, Tor Johnson, Keene Duncan, Valda Hansen, Maila 'Vampira' Nurmi, Duke Moore, John Carpenter full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 69 mins
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