Edward D. Wood, Jr.Filmography

The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr.

Actors: Dolores Fuller

Synopsis: The strange life and the wonderfully awful films of 1950's Hollywood Z movie director Ed Wood are profiled in this documentary that was conceived of and researched several years before commercial-filmmaker Tim Burton made his feature film tribute. Actually, Wood does not appear much in this film. Read More

Meat Cleaver Massacre

Actors: Christopher Lee, Larry Justin, J. Arthur Craig, James Habif, Robert Clark, Doug Senior

Synopsis: Examine the title, and you know what you're in for. A vengeful ghost, sore at Tinseltown, descends upon various nasty agents and arrogant movie stars. Top-billed Christopher Lee tries his best to maintain his dignity in a brief appearance.. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Read More

Fugitive Girls

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Five desperate women break out of a minimum security institution and search for a hidden stash of stolen loot in this adults-only feature written by cult favorite Edward D. Wood Jr. Dee (Margie Lanier) has been framed by her boyfriend, and is innocent of the liquor store holdup and murder that led Read More

The Revenge of Dr. X

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Dr. Bragan (James Craig) is a workaholic rocket scientist with NASA who is coming unglued from the stress. A colleague arranges for him to take a much needed holiday in Japan, and Bragan accepts, hoping to use this free time to pursue his first love, botany. He brings a potted Venus Flytrap with Read More

The Sensuous Wife

Actors: Edward D. Wood, Jr.

The Snow Bunnies

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Filmed back-to-back with The Cocktail Hostesses (1972), this exploitation film was one of several collaborations between Bulgarian-born director Stephen C. Apostolof (aka A.C. Stephen) and screenwriter Edward D. Wood, Jr. The usual sexual hijinks and silly dialogue are on display, featuring Read More

Take it out in Trade

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Orgy of the Dead

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Orgy of the Dead wouldn't be worth anyone's time were it not for its star and screenwriter. The star is the inimitable prognosticator Criswell; the screenwriter is the immortal Ed Wood Jr., adapting his own novel. The King of Wretched Cinema weaves an incredible tale of a writer who decides to Read More

The Shotgun Wedding

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this convoluted trifle written by the world's worst movie director, Ed Wood, a family of hillbillies find their lives aboard a foundered riverboat (where they have been living for over 30 years) disrupted by a fugitive carnival worker who wants to hide out from the law. While there, she falls Read More

The Sinister Urge

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Carl Anthony

Synopsis: A series of pornography-related murders has Lt. Carson (Kenne Duncan) frustrated, not only because the killer remains at large but also because the smut peddlers are distributing their disgusting products to high school kids at ice cream shops. They raid illicit photography studios, but it's not Read More

Night of the Ghouls

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Criswell, Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Valda Hansen

Synopsis: Night of the Ghouls (which was also known as Revenge of the Dead) was Edward D. Wood Jr.'s first attempt at making a horror film without any contribution, either in a true performance or through the presence of archival footage, from Bela Lugosi, who had died three years earlier. The plot, which Read More

The Bride and the Beast

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Austin, Lance Fuller, Johnny Roth, Steve Calvert, William Justine

Synopsis: Wedded bliss for a young couple (Lance Fuller and Charlotte Austin) is marred slightly by the bride's discovery of her husband's pet gorilla, for which she begins to develop an unnatural attraction; her husband's understandable jealousy leads him to destroy the ape. Hypnotic past-life regression Read More

Final Curtain

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

The Violent Years

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Moorhead, Barbara Weeks, Glenn Corbett

Synopsis: Parental neglect is firmly to blame in this low-budget potboiler scripted by the immortal Edward D. Wood Jr. Paula Parkins (Jean Moorhead) is a spoiled rich girl who turns to kicks when her parents become too engrossed in their careers and charity work. She leads a gang of similar-minded young Read More

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Criswell, Tor Johnson, Maila "Vampira" Nurmi, Carl Anthony, Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: With its incoherent plot, jaw-droppingly odd dialogue, inept acting, threadbare production design, and special effects so shoddy that they border on the surreal, Plan 9 From Outer Space has often been called the worst movie ever made. But it's an oddly endearing disaster; boasting genuine Read More

Bride of the Monster

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King, Harvey B. Dunn

Synopsis: To most outside observers, Bride of the Monster probably seems like a ridiculously inept horror film, and in many ways it is just that. To connoisseurs of the work of director Edward D. Wood Jr., however, it is the biggest budgeted film in his entire output, made with the resources of a normal Read More

Jail Bait

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Herbert Rawlinson, Steve Reeves, Clancy Malone

Synopsis: Jail Bait was the place where Edward D. Wood Jr.'s career as a director entered the mainstream. Having exposed the world of transvestism in Glen or Glenda, he now turned to less ambitious fare in an effort at commercial success. Loosely patterned after the television series Dragnet, Jail Bait Read More

Crossroad Avenger

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Keene, Tom Tyler

Glen or Glenda?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bela Lugosi, Daniel Davis [Edward D. Wood, Jr.], Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Tommy Haynes

Synopsis: In his heart-felt cinematic debut, Edward D. Wood, Jr. himself stars under the pseudonym Daniel Davis as a young man with a dilemma: should he tell his lovely young fiancee (played by real-life girlfriend Dolores Fuller) about his burning desire to cross-dress? She has begun to notice articles Read More

Crossroads at Laredo: The Lost Film of Edward D. Wood Jr.

Synopsis: This is the recently discovered, restored and re-edited first film of Hollywood's all-time worst filmmaker. It is the companion piece to the documentary The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr. Unlike his other sci-fi oriented films, this short is a western that is so bad that some may find it Read More

The Streets of Laredo

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Definitely not to be confused with the 1949 Paramount release starring William Holden or the Larry McMurtry 1995 television mini-series, this 20 minute unfinished "western" marked the first helpless Hollywood effort of legendary bad filmmaker Edward J. Wood, Jr. Together with a friend, 18-year-old John Crawford Thomas Read More