Glen or Glenda
by Edward D. Wood
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Actor: Captain DeZita, Charles Crafts, Conrad Brooks, Henry Bederski, Timothy FarrellDirector: Edward D. Wood
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 65 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Glen or Glenda
Movie Review: How Does One Rate Something Like This?
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm not sure why I watched this again recently. I was rewatching movies about Hollywood, getting through SUNSET BOULEVARD and Blake Edwards' S.O.B., I put in a few minutes of Tim Burton's ED WOOD before the heavy reality snuffed out the fun of it all....
Then I wondered: was GLEN OR GLENDA really that bad?
Yes. And more. Or worse, depending on how you measure these things.
If you know nothing about Ed Wood and his inept film career, you will be completely lost and mystified by how bad this movie is. Even if you understand Wood and his career, GLEN OR GLENDA is astonishingly bad in so many ways. You will see transvestites in the 1950s, along with Bela Lugosi, stock footage of stampeding buffalo, and Satan. Behind it all is a disjointed script justifying cross-dressing while inserting bizarre sequences where unidentified women tie each other up or rip their clothes off themselves. And then Satan shows up to do stuff.
Wow. It's bad. It's beyond bad, which is probably why it's survived. I don't think anyone could have TRIED to make a worse movie. Anyone who's studied psychology should have fun with this as well as those who enjoy really, really bad filmmaking.
"PULL THE STRING! PULL THE STRING!"
Summary of Glen or Glenda
He loved women so much, he dared to dress like one! Ed Wood strikes again. The true story of a man whose lust for women drove him to be as close to a woman as he could by trying to become one. The first film based on the strange tastes of legendary filmmaker Ed Wood, Jr., and a sordid plea for acceptance in the world of bondage and the sexually confused, decades before "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and TV's "Ellen." "Glen or Glenda?" stars famous horror icon Bela Lugosi as the "puppet master" and Ed himself in the role of Glen/Glenda. It also marks the screen debut of Wood's main squeeze at the time, Dolores Fuller, who went on to become one of Elvis's star songwriters. An important film document about the early career of a man years ahead of his time. Wildly entertaining!Is Ed Wood the worst director who ever lived? His films are campy, clumsy, and hysterically inept, but their enthusiasm and good humor overcome incoherent scripts and wooden performances with heart, soul, and an infectious sense of fun. The jaw-dropping "documentary" Glen or Glenda? is a bizarre confessional starring Wood himself as a misunderstood transvestite and Bela Lugosi as a smirking godlike narrator. "Pull ze string!" shouts Lugosi as Wood reveals his angora fetish and love of women's underwear to the world. Lugosi returns as a mad scientist revenging himself on the world ("Home? I have no home!") in Bride of the Monster, a howler of a horror picture. Tor Johnson, the hulking Swedish wrestler turned B-movie icon, made his first Wood appearance as the lumbering beast Lobo (he almost knocks over the set in one scene!) tamed by the touch of angora. Finally there's Wood's "masterpiece," the clumsy, nearly incoherent, and ridiculously cheap Plan 9 from Outer Space. A tall, skinny, blond chiropractor subs for short, raven-haired Bela Lugosi (who died after a few days of shooting), cardboard gravestones wobble as the actors walk by, and night and day randomly come and go within the same scene. --Sean Axmaker
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