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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Absolutely Fantastic

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Whenever you see the name Ed Wood you know you're in for a treat of the worst written, directed or produced films ever made. His name has become synonymous with bad movies, in part because the book THE GOLDEN TURKEY AWARDS written by Harry and Michael Medved placed his film PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE as the worst movie ever made. I honestly can't think of a movie associated with Wood with the exception of the biopic directed by Tim Burton about him that was good.And yet there is a certain charm about his movies. This was the little guy determined to make a break into the film business in any way imaginable. And to tell the truth he actually did so given that we're still talking about him 39 years after he passed away. While his movies may have been bad, filled with string held hubcaps for flying saucers and cardboard tombstones that shook or fell over when anyone walked near them, you find yourself watching them whenever they pop up. You might laugh at what you're watching but you ARE watching.While both PLAN 9 and THE BRIDE OF THE MONSTER are the most famous films Wood directed he later went on to do more mundane films, mostly nudie cutie films that featured various topless women either dancing or doing burlesque routines. Remember this was when burlesque wasn't frowned upon and less sexual than what strip clubs offer these days. In 1965 Wood wrote a film and turned the directing chores over to Stephen Apostolof. That film was ORGY OF THE DEAD and has gained a reputation all its own.The film tells the story of a young couple, Bob (William Bates) and Shirley (Pat Barrington), out for a night drive to a nearby cemetery. Bob is a horror novelist and wants to go there for inspiration while Shirley just wants to go home. A crash lands them in said cemetery where strange happenings are taking place. The Emperor of the Night (Criswell) is being entertained by the Black Ghoul (Fawn Silver) beneath a full moon. That entertainment is the performances of ten different scantily clad women, all of whom eventually become topless and who have certain themes to their dances.Along for the ride, and for comic relief, are a Wolfman and Mummy, both featuring some of the worst monster make up ever. Let's just admit it, the Wolfman is a guy wearing a mask and gloves from a Halloween store. The Emperor sees Bob and Shirley and has the duo capture them and tie them up to two monuments to watch the evening's entertainment. The Black Ghoul wants to kill the two of them but throughout the night the Emperor tells her there is still time, get on with the dancing.And there you have the entire plot of the movie. At most maybe 5 pages of dialogue surrounded by 5-10 minute dancing segments. Yes, this is one of those nudie cuties I was talking about earlier. These movies were made to titillate as much as could be done back in the sixties. Considered an early form of pornography, which they were, they offered men of the time a chance to watch bare breasted babes au natural. One can imagine this movie playing in some lodge where a group of smiling guys sit and smoke cigars and drink whiskey while watching.If you're a fan of the genre or of Ed Wood then you'll want to add this one to your collection. It's been available in various formats for years but most of those have been terrible prints either cut to pieces, out of focus or in some other way a terrible print. Vinegar Syndrome has once more come to the rescue of a movie that some might not consider worth saving but that actually deserves to be preserved as a piece of film history.To start with they've remastered the film from an original 35mm camera negative to a 2k format giving us the most perfect picture this film has ever had. In addition to that the release has a number of extras including a commentary track with Ed Wood biographer Rudolph Grey and film maker Frank Henenlotter, "Impressions of Nadejda" an interview with actress/dancer Nadejda Dobrev, "Orgy of the Ted" an interview with Ted V. Mikels, a still gallery and reversible cover art.Vinegar Syndrome has been trying to capture a time in history and the films of that time period in restored editions for a while now and they're one of the better companies doing so. The time and care they've put into a film like this shows their interested in not just making a buck but in providing the best representations of the films they have the rights to as possible. Let's hope they continue to do work as good as this item.

>>> Warning: Sarcasm Emminent <<< How can you go wrong with dialog like this: "Your Puritan upbringing holds you back from my monsters, but it certainly doesn't hurt your art of kissing".The year was 1965 and one of Hollywood's most regal figures had something really HOT cooking in the kitchen, truly one for the ages, I'm talking about Ed Wood: The King of the Shlockmeister's (and renowned cross-dressing pervert) and his monstrously epic magnum-opus ORGY OF THE DEAD! A most lavish of B-productions, set in the nighted realm of a haunted cemetery and brilliantly filmed in "Gorgeous Astravision and Shocking Sexicolor" ORGY OF THE DEAD is grand in it's ability to allure and transfix - never before has one been witness to such a spectacle of thee exotic! And when you hit the play-button, a marvelously mad mix of graveyard sensuality and horror's of the night await you and all it's tantalizingly sweet tortures will indeed tickle the very fiber of your being. As your screen becomes radiantly aglow, in a divine aura of necromantical omnipotence as it BESIEGES YOUR SOUL..... and yet the orgy to end all orgies is just warming up! Ripe with lush extravagance, eye-candy is everywhere, as the ORGY OF THE DEAD casts it's sexy spell upon it's viewers young and old alike, with it's seductive charm and it's singularly spellbinding palette of sultry hue's and lush, super-sensual musical cue's. This godly, grand guignol of graveyard-goofiness possess a certain "frenzied rhythmic fury" which often reaches never-before seen or imagined levels red hot, hyper-kinetic depictions of.......... dancing naked in the moonlight, in a cemetery, to a small gaggle of Adam's Family side-characters and generic, cliché-ridden, rejects from various well-worn monster movies of the past. In other words, PURE CHEESE as only Ed Wood can do it! That being said Eddie-boy was not the big cheese/director of ORGY OF THE DEAD, but he was definitely central to it's creation.Speaking of Ed Wood, with ORGY OF THE DEAD he got yet another chance to strut his many talents, functioning as: writer, production manager, casting agent and a holder-of-cue-card's and no doubt was a glowing inspiration to have on the set; Ed proved to be a highly inspired and versatile individual, know doubt a character of many interesting facet's. Directorial duties for this infamously eccentric production, was helmed by the universally well-known, visionary, director A.C. Stephen, a legendary talent known for his uncompromising genius, comic sensibilities and overall command of the set. You'll find ORGY OF THE DEAD to be both throbbing in pace and masterful in it's play of light (and all shades in between), thus, off-setting, to brilliant effect, the lustful carnal fire that is ORGY OF THE DEAD! Over-seeing all that goes on in his nighted realm, is CRISWELL: the movies narrator, it's master-of-ceremonies and god of primal darkness and ultimately he's one VERY strange duck; who wears a cape and has extremely awesome looking "butter-sculpture hair". The nights entertainment features a bevy of tantalizing hellborn beauties, who emerge one after another from a fog-shrouded crypt in the night. The girls dance until dawn for their master's own selfish pleasure, who as one observes, seems alternatingly bored or ecstatic about the sashaying in the cemetery. Criswell's a real hoot - and a riot. The cemetery is perpetually shrouded in fog, it's ever-present, swirling, night mists ebbing and flowing, enrapturing you in it 's velvety allure..... as it constantly caresses your eyes - sinister, but stately. It's that type of dark, lurid imagery that perfectly counter-balance's the films sheer eroticism, with all it's garish lighting, glowing flesh-tones and masses of sweet flesh - writhing and undulating.The story (if you wanna call it that) is wrapped around a young couple (Bob and Shirely) who are, driving around lost at night, they swerve and go off the road, thrown clear of their car, they awaken completely uninjured (Bob sports one frivolous smudge of blue body-paint on his forehead, undoubtedly meant to be a bruise). The couple starts to walk away from their wrecked car and soon they hear some strangely enchanting sounds in the near distance, shortly thereafter they spot the enchanted graveyard and it's curiously wacky inhabitants and all it's nude hi-jinx and they waste no time in going into full-on voyeur mode. Eventually they're spotted and abducted by minions of the master, in other words, two guys in cheesy, pseudo-scary costumes. Brought before the master (that being Criswell of course) their bound to a pair of stone obelisk's, where they pretend not enjoy the rest of the show. Criswell takes quite a liking to the busty red-headed Shirely and curiously enough, Criswell's voluptuous, pale skinned, mistress of the night (sort of an Elvira precursor) is even more taken by good old Shirely (played by the gorgeous Pat Berrington/Berringer) who want's her for herself; so much so that she attempts to kill Shirely with a dagger, so she can join them in their world of the undead. But as luck would have it, the morning sun rises conveniently just in time and vanquishes the evil spirits of the night - Criswell and his minions are reduced to skeletons and ash. Pat Barrington/Barringer plays a dual-role, being both Shirely and she's also one of the dancers, the 3rd of a series ten dancers (and probably the best), titled as the "Gold Girl" and for her dance scene she's wearing a platinum blonde wig and a sequin-studded G-string. A terrific scene by the way. She was a professional belly-dancer of some regard and it certainly shows. Note* Youtube has some great, vintage, topless dancing footage of hers.Side-Note: A Shirely of another kind - By sheer coincidence, whilst writing this review I was imbibing on a "Dirty Shirley" a feather-weight concoction of cherry schnapps and 7-UP.This great vintage T & A fest is absolutely perfect for an "adult themed" Halloween party ;)

"Bob" (William Bates) is a writer who decides to visit a cemetery for inspiration on his next story. With him is his girlfriend "Shirley" (Pat Barrington) who would prefer to be just about anywhere else. Anyway, as they are driving Bob takes a turn much too fast and they are both thrown out of the vehicle just as night begins to fall. It's at this time that they both hear strange music playing near the cemetery and go to check it out. What they find is both odd and deeply disturbing. Now, as far as this movie is concerned I found it to be extremely long and tedious with the only scenes even remotely of interest being the dance routines of several "ghouls" (for want of a better word) forced to perform a striptease for an underworld demon of some sort called "the Emperor" (Criswell). It's all rather weird and nonsensical with the awkward dialogue and horrid acting being the low points of an otherwise boring movie. In short, this is a bad movie and viewers should hesitate before wasting 92 minutes of their life they will never get back.

First, let me tell you I am a fan of Edward D. Wood jr. But this film isn't even directed by him, he just wrote the script and helped as director assistant. But that was enough for me, if you know what I mean, so I ordered the "film" to watch it (as it's not easy to find such films here in Switzerland).You know, I thought that "Plan 9" was of the worst movie ever made. I had to change my mind! There is absolutely NOTHING in "Orgy of the dead". Nothing at all! All you get to see, is a bunch of "not-so-good-looking" female strippers, who perform in front of Criswell, the Cemetery Ghoul Master, or something like that.... And that's it! Of course there is some dialogue (written by Ed Wood, so you can imagine...) and there are a few moments here and there... like the wolfman. But this only makes up about 20 % of the movie. The rest, as I said is a lot of non-sense and very offensive to the viewers intelligence cr*p!!