Edward D. Wood Jr.
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Ed Wood (1994)
Directed by Tim Burton
influenced by Glen or Glenda (1953), Bride of the Monster (1955), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957), Revenge of the Dead (1959)
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Note an otherwise innocuous scene where Lugosi receives his pay for Glen or Glenda: the sound of money crumpling and exchanging comes from over your right shoulder.
Burton re-creates the shooting of such hilariously inept Wood classics as Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 From Outer Space, duplicating the sets and staging with a loving exactitude that makes every tacky prop and zombie performance seem revelatory.
After a chance meeting with Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau) gives him a bankable name, he obtains financing to make Glen or Glenda, the story of a transvestite struggling with his identity.
Wood's most famous films are "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (during which his star, Bela Lugosi, died and was replaced by a double with a cloak pulled over his face), and "Glen or Glenda," in which Wood himself played the transvestite title roles.
Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, and most famously Plan 9 from Outer Space, with their shaky cardboard sets, lead-balloon dialogue, wooden acting, and pie-plate flying saucers, remain the standards by which all grade-Z crapfilms are measured.
Nevertheless, the director presses on with his next feature, Bride of the Atom (later renamed Bride of the Monster), and, following that, the infamous Plan Nine from Outer Space, the film that he "will be remembered for."
Linking it to Ed Wood’s Glen or Glenda (1953), with Eraserhead’s Man in the Planet (Jack Fisk) standing in for Bela Lugosi’s puppet master from the Wood film—not to mention Eraserhead‘s overall “retro” look—also makes as much sense to me as anything else.
Heck, "Plan 9 From Outer Space" looks like "Citizen Kane" compared to this!!!
("Plan 9"'s only rival is Phil Tucker's "Robot Monster" and Ed's own "Glen or Glenda".
However, Italian audiences consider their Giallo films to be “spaghetti thrillers,” or, what most international audiences might refer to today as the B movie horror genre ( Plan 9 From Outer Space , Dead Alive , the aforementioned Cat People , Chopping Mall , etc.).
Split is structured like a retro social-issue-exploitation picture (think Sybil, or Glen or Glenda), complete with an expert who pops in to tell us that all these shocks are psychologically real.
“Those people” who “never learn” are, of course, the overweening Frankenstein-esque scientists who, as summed up in the immortal epitaph of Ed Wood’s Bride of the Monster, have “meddled in God’s domain.”
Dark Shadows (2012)
Directed by Tim Burton
influenced by Glen or Glenda (1953), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
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("Plan 9"'s only rival is Phil Tucker's "Robot Monster" and Ed's own "Glen or Glenda".
A remake of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" wouldn't be nearly as enjoyable as the original because no one could make it with a straight face.
…it’s not nearly as awful as Wood’s infamous “Plan 9 from Outer Space.”
Like Edward D. Wood Jr., proclaimed the Worst Director of All Time, he’s in love with every shot – intoxicated with the very act of making a movie.
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
influenced by Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
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With the phoniest set of performances this side of an Ed Wood flick, you might as well be watching Plan 9 From Outer Space.
It all sounds about as plausible as that lecture about Solarnite in “Plan 9 From Outer Space.”
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Directed by Chris Weitz
influenced by Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
I won't go as far as to say Taylor Lautner is a good actor, but he's an improvement over Robert Pattinson, who attempts to impersonate Bela Lugosi from Plan 9 from Outer Space.
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
Directed by Aris Iliopulos
influenced by Glen or Glenda (1953), Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
Written by the late, not-great Edward D. Wood (director of two of the worst films ever made, "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Glen or Glenda"), "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died" was one of his long-lost screenplays that was recovered years ago, but his widow, Kathleen Wood, would not agree for anyone to produce it until a director was found that would stay very close to the written page.
Written by the late, not-great Edward D. Wood (director of two of the worst films ever made, "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Glen or Glenda"), "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died" was one of his long-lost screenplays that was recovered years ago, but his widow, Kathleen Wood, would not agree for anyone to produce it until a director was found that would stay very close to the written page.