There, Wood meets his anxious, drag queen friend John “Bunny” Breckinridge (a wickedly camp Bill Murray). The movie opens with Ed Wood (Johnny Depp, in a very stylized performance) arriving at the premiere of his supernatural World War 2 play (“The Casual Company”) in a tiny, leaky-roofed theatre in Los Angeles. John “Bunny” Breckinridge (Bill Murray), Conrad Brooks (Brent Hinkley), Delores Fuller (Sarah Jessica Parker), Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) and Paul Marco (Max Casella) commiserate over less-than-glowing reviews of their latest opus…

‘This’ is the one I’ll be remembered for.” “Screw you, Ms. It’s safe to say that “Ed Wood” quickly became my all-time favorite live-action Tim Burton film, and 25 years later, it still is. I went with a friend to a nearby movie theater located not far from from the college campus near my old apartment to see Tim Burton’s black & white biopic of “Ed Wood” (1994). The core of “Ed Wood” is the friendship between Ed (Johnny Depp) and aging ‘ex-boogieman’ Bela Lugosi (the late Oscar winner Martin Landau, who won his Oscar for this performance).Ĭut to a mid-October evening back in 1994. So my own ‘research’ familiarized me with Wood’s filmography years before IMDb. I used to rent these from a long gone local video store that carried all sorts of exotic, rare movies on VHS and laserdisc (great foreign titles, too). “Night of the Ghouls” was ‘rescued’ from a film lab in the 1980s (the destitute Wood couldn’t afford the lab fees) by bad film mogul Wade Williams. I later sought some of Wood’s other films, including “Bride of the Monster” (1955), “Glen or Glenda?” (1953) and even a pseudo-sequel to “Bride of the Monster” called “Night of the Ghouls” (1959). I still remember renting “Plan Nine From Outer Space” (1956) on laserdisc back in the mid 1980s and just about crying with laughter. was already well-known to me in 1994, because I’d long been a devotee of crappy cinema. Wood Jr.’s “Bride of the Monster” (1955) this was the closest Ed Wood ever made to a ‘mainstream’ movie… and it’s still bat-s#!t crazy.

“I just want to tell stories…” The real-life Tor Johnson and Bela Lugosi on the set of Edward D.

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