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To me, this movie is perfection.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Sorry. I can't give this a ten. But at times we must look at the subject matter and say that it took guts when we consider it is 1953 (the same year we bought a new Plymouth). The idea of crossdressing wasn't in the vocabulary of anyone I knew at that time. And, at times, the very physical being of the star here is hopelessly comic. But it treated something that was out there but never above the surface. I fund the cheesy narration endearing and fun. I was pleased to find this after hearing about it many times.

Ed Wood's "classic" surrealist docudrama romance horror semi-autobio "Glen or Glenda" joins the ranks of films like "Eraserhead" and "The Holy Mountain" in terms of pure, unadulterated weirdness. It probably wasn't intended to be so bizarre and mindbending, and that's a large part of what makes it so great. It feels like an awkward and occasionally incoherent collaboration between David Lynch and Tommy Wiseau (one of the most unlikely pairs in cinematic history!!!), and, naturally, it is an entertaining stain on the carpet of filmmaking.

Ah!... To be a transvestite, or to not be a transvestite - That, of course, is the #1 question here in 1953's "Glen or Glenda?".And if director/writer/actor, Ed Wood (who starred as this film's title character) had actually shown some signs of having a real personality - Then, maybe, just maybe, this dead-end psycho-drama about "angora sweater" fetish, and such, may have been worth a serious view.Filmed in just 4 days (and, didn't it show it?) on a budget of $20,000 (it looked more like a budget of only $200 to me) - I cannot believe that back in the paranoid 1950's - This demented, little tale highlighting the whining and snivelling of a heterosexual, male, transvestite actually got theatrical release at all - (It sure is beyond my comprehension) - But theatrical release it certainly got.... (Perhaps "Glen or Glenda?" was marketed as one of those "stranger-than-fiction" novelty pictures, or something) Anyway - For anyone who's at all interested in viewing this cross-eyed soap opera about exorcising one's cross-dressing demon - It certainly does contain its fair share of unintentional humour - And (as an added bonus) - A "Happily-Ever-After" ending that's hastily thrown into the mix, for good measure.

I might sound insane, but I'm giving an Ed Wood movie a positive score from an artistic point of view. Glen or Glenda marked Wood's first film, which he not only written and directed, but also starred in. The film was originally slated to be an biopic on Christine Jorgensen, the propriety of the first publicly known sex change operation (in this case from male to female) Wood however took over production and instead turned it into a film about his own transvestism.Weather you're conservative or liberal on issue of cross-dressing and trans-sexuality, Glen Or Glenda manages to do something which I've seen many sacred cows fail to do, create emotional interest in its main characters, and succeeds to raise question on what it means to be normal, with an issue which is just as relevant today as it was in 1953. The movie's production values are surprisingly good for a film of this caliber. The surreal dream like sequence in the 2nd half of the movie features some impressive film making techniques and manages to engage you in the character's descent into insanity. Even the film's acting is decent, certainly better than in the likes of Plan 9 from Outer Space.Lugosi's character is widely regarded to be a scientist representing God. At first I didn't understand the character's role in the movie (plus the use of stock of footage is completely random). However I was impressed with how his catch phrase which he utters throughout the course of the movie actually finds its way to having relevance with the plot. I'm not the type of person who over analyzes movies looking for their deeper meaning, but in Glen or Glenda it really came through quite obviously, and did leave an impression on me, as well as changing my opinions on Wood as a director. I can defiantly sense Ed Wood put a lot legitimate feeling into this movie, and certainly comes through in the finished product.