Lost Ed Wood Film Unearthed 197
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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Lost Ed Wood Film Unearthed
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From Wikipedia - his legacy . . a turkey (Score:5, Interesting)
Is that Ed Wood's equivalent of a last "hurrah"?
How is this possible? (Score:5, Interesting)
The movie has an entry [imdb.com] on IMDB, with comments dating as far back as 1999.
How did these people see the movie?
phozzRe:Picasso? (Score:1, Interesting)
What are you talking about? Picasso was the first artist in a very long time to be acknowledged and paid well for his work.
Quotes (Score:5, Interesting)
"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.
And Now (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:How is this possible? (Score:5, Interesting)
Maybe this new 'lost' version has different/more hardcore material but the film was never really that hard to see. Necromania was originally a softcore feature, with hardcore inserts shot by cinematographer Ted Gorley to spice up Wood's softcore effort and make it more marketable, a very common practice in those days (Wood never actually liked to film actual hardcore scenes). As with most films of this kind, I'm sure there are tons of different edits/versions floating around, but that doesn't mean it was a "lost" film.
And anyway an hardcore version (credited to director "Don Miller") has been has been available from Alpha Blue archives for years (they sell it on VHS paired with another similar short titled Daughter of Satan). Something Weird Video also used to sell it.
The guys who announced this are trying to get mileage from to the recent DVD release of Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" -- and it looks like it worked: you think CNN and Reuters would have picked up this story otherwise?
Nothing to see, move along...
Worst movie maker of all time? Not hardly. (Score:5, Interesting)
Many modern producers couldn't have breakfast for less than $7,000. The man was a genius.
Undead Wood (Score:5, Interesting)
Boredom is not enough! (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
thanks for the memories (Score:4, Interesting)
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!
Re:Picasso? (Score:3, Interesting)
So famous that people were forging him while he was alive.
I remember a story of how he was once given a lineup of his painting and some fogeries and asked if he knew which ones were fake. He pulled out off the forgeries and also three of his own orignals. When that was mentioned to him he responded, "I can forge a Picasso just as well as anyone else."
Re:Picasso? (Score:3, Interesting)
I have been taught that Van Gogh passed a painting test and got a 0 with a note along "this painting is so bad it must have been painted by a child". To which Van Gogh answered "I've finally become a painter"
Another interresting point is that he painted a vanity, and when i think about it, if you get anything else than 0 for painting a vanity means you missed the subject.
And finally, I would say that Ed Wood is Tim Burton's best movie too.