Classic Ed D Wood film actually isn't that bad. Yes, you heard me. The story is a perfectly acceptable Mad-Scientist-in-the-woods concoction, with a senstive henchman, an investigative reporter, and her fiancee. There's even a subplot about the commies. But we watch Wood films for the little fourishes and there are plenty of those. The best is the deaths involing the monster (a fake octopus and some stock footage) - actors thrash around in it enjoyably unconvincingly. There's also the script which has the Loch Ness Monster removed to America for a mad scientist. Bela Lugosi looks a bit wasted away but is still in pretty good form and Tor Johnson is fun. Dolores Fuller, Wood's woman, has a very small role.
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