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Lost Ed Wood Film Unearthed
BayBlade writes "It seems a lost Ed Wood film, Necromania was recovered recently, and can now be ordered on DVD. Reuters goes into more depth."
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Considered the worst film maker of all time, Ed Wood
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I guess as soon as we start watching the movie, we will know if it's a genuine Ed Wood masterpiece
But like Picasso's (note I'm not really comparing Plabo to Ed) paintings, sometimes it takes a different era to appreciate them, especially when the person's dead.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Someone re-bury it!
Uh, how bad does a film have to be before Ed Wood won't release it?
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Yey, now we will all have a chance to see the ALL TIME WORST porno ever. I bet this will set the bar for todays pornos.
but plan9 will always have a warm place in the hearts of geeks.
------ Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
I really like plan 9 from outspace. Just was do you gays not like about it?
"Evicted from his Hollywood apartment, Wood and his wife moved into the bungalow of an actor friend. Only days after the move, Ed died of a heart attack, aged 53. Posthumously, his extensive portfolio of terrible motion pictures earned him the Golden Turkey Award for being the worst director of all time."
Is that Ed Wood's equivalent of a last "hurrah"?
The movie has an entry on IMDB, with comments dating as far back as 1999.
How did these people see the movie?
phozz"The 1971 movie is a porn film documenting the sexual enlightenment of a young couple at the hands of a coven of witches"
So this is like Blair Witch project meets Deep Throat?
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Marge, get me your address book, 4 beers, and my conversation hat.
is that no matter what..he made the movies. Obviously during his time he was a positively horrible producer but he lived his dream.....
People keep saying his "masterpiece" was Plan 9 but you REALLY should see Glen or Glenda? if for nothing else the mixture of Bela Lugosi and a buffalo stampede.
... of that Wicked porno which was along the same line as this? Modern-day woman having dreams about her past life as a witch with all kinds of lesbian sex magic and stuff.
There were some seriously yummy chicks in that movie, but I can't find it anymore.
Of course, now I'm going to have to buy Ed's movie and see just how much Wood it produces.
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So, the worst filmmaker in history left a PORNO movie which never saw daylight until now. I honestly don't know if i want to see it desperately or steer away from it completely.
He might have made lousy movies, but porn is porn!
It's actually a sad story... the guy had to turn to pr0n industry at some point, because nobody wanted to fund him anymore (I'm sure you can guess why). Here's some quotes from the Reuters article :
:) There's a trend developing here in Quebec (since about 2 years) where dumb (absurd and bad) humor = good humor... Is it the same way everywhere else? Let's hope it won't spread to movies...
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"Struggling to find backers for more mainstream work, Wood turned to smut in the 1960s, making a string of films and "loops" -- short porn flicks shown in coin-operated booths -- up until his death in 1978."
"This is an old film. It's in the '70s, they're hairy, they don't look the way we are used to now,"
"He says "Necromania" displays Wood's wit and style and he points to a scene where the main character Danny is struggling to untangle a pair of red pajama bottoms to put them on."
You KNOW you want to see it!
The movie also include for fans of Ed
That film shows the making of Wood's most famous film -- "Plan 9 From Outer Space" from 1956 -- in which actors screw up their lines and "special effects" include pie tins for flying saucers.
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First suicide girls, now this. kewl...
Seems we're getting more porn related stories. Thats a good thing if you're in doubt.
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Got Wood?
Many modern producers couldn't have breakfast for less than $7,000. The man was a genius.
Signifigantly more entertaining.
A story about a porno, and at the bottom of the slashdot page, I see a quote that says "what is the sound of one hand clapping?"
The DVD version may be new, but it's been out on VHS for quite a while...
Who owns the copyright on this movie? Wood died 26 years ago. These movies were discovered rotting in an LA warehouse. Largely ignored in his lifetime, Wood's audience has created much of the "value" of these films by perpetuating a subculture around them. There's no mention of any copyright holders in the story, even in the story of the people who discovered these copies that are being copied and distributed on DVD - all people who never even knew Wood, or participated in the "life" of these movies until after they were left for dead. If I get a $20 DVD, can't I just set it up on an MPG stream for anyone who wants to pay bandwidth costs like me?
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On a hunch, I popped open a copy of eMule and typed "Necromania" in a search (actually, I'm lazy... I copied & pasted it from the story using my mouse, but I digress...)
The results were for 100+ sources for "Necromania (E D Wood Jr 1971) VHS-Rip by Davide-466.avi". I'm not saying anyone's lying, or that the copy on emule is even the same thing (we all know it probably is, but whatever...), but the story seems to indicate that this guy went through a lot of time and effort to locate "the" copy. And I quote...
Rudolph Grey, author of a biography of the director, and a fellow Ed Wood enthusiast, movie distributor Alexander Kogan, unearthed "Necromania" in a warehouse in Los Angeles after more than 15 years of detective work.
I'm guessing the guy coulda saved a lotta time if he'd just looked on a p2p service. While it's probably not as nice as the master he found hopfully is, it doesn't appear that this movie was ever truly lost, as the article leads you to believe.
Plan 9 can't be all bad: they named an operating system after it.
See what I've been reading.
There's an episode of The Sopranos where Tony tells his shrink how he and his friends used to let a guy with a cleft palate hang around with them, just so they could snicker at his funny way of talking. (He's recently had that particular role reversed on him, which makes him feel guilty.) I think that's the same, cruel appeal that Ed Wood has. It's entertaining to snicker at a guy who manages to make every mistake a movie person could possibly make -- swooping microphones, lame dialogue, actors standing around visibly wondering what they're supposed to be doing. I've never been able to laugh at Ed Wood, perhaps for the same reason I can't laugh at people with speech defects. But whether you can laugh at the badness or not, it's definitely there.
I agree.
The "best" films I have ever seen are the ones that are truely the most bizarre.
I went to film school (many years ago) and most of us there had grown up making Super8 films.
One of the other students had a film he showed that he made in High School.
It was about a boy that falls in love with his best friend, when his best friend rejects him, he gets a Sex change operation and comes back and tries again, he gets rejected again and he throws himself off a bridge! Oh the Humanity!
This is a High School student making this around the late 1970's!
In College Film School he used to make these films about Business Men with Tortured Souls.
At school, he always wore a suit jacket and tie to class too. He had a very "efficient" way of filming, he had a pair of "clamp lights" and he would put one to the Right of the Camera and one to the Left of the Camera. Like a Copy Stand! That's how he filmed EVERYTHING! Even when the camera was moving, he had the lights moving!
Once,He accidently re-used a roll of 16mm film and shot over footage he had already shot,double-exposing it. Deadline looming, he chooses NOT to reshoot, but USES the footage! And it was Brilliant! But, of course, very Bizarre. And, of course it was another film about a Businessman with a Tortured Soul.
I have no clue where he is now, but I think I heard that after college he was working as a Weatherman at a TV station.
I wish I could remember his name!
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But like Picasso's ..., sometimes it takes a different era to appreciate them, especially when the person's dead.
Talk about Necromania:-)
Your sig is strangely appropriate. Ed Wood and Wesley Willis were kindred spirits in a lot of ways. A lot of artists like to adopt the "outsider" pose - these two guys were outsiders in every possible way, and they weren't even trying.
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