Bride of the Monster

Bride of the Monster

Credits
Title:	Bride of the Monster
Directed by:	Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Written by:	Edward D. Wood, Jr.; Alex Gordon
Produced by:	Donald E. McCoy; Edward D. Wood, Jr.; Tony McCoy
Music by:	Frank Worth
Cinematography:	Ted Allan; William C. Thompson
Edited by:	Mike Adams
Production
Production:	Rolling M. Productions
Distributors:	Filmakers Releasing Organization
Released:	May 11th, 1955
Rating:	Approved
Running time:	69 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Bride of the Monster is an American independent feature film (barely) of the science fiction subgenre of horror with an emphasis on the "mad scientist" film trope. It was written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. with a script that was co-written by Alex Gordon. It was produced by Rolling M. Productions and released theatrically in the United States on May 11th, 1955.

Cast[]

Actor

Role

Bela Lugosi

Doctor Eric Vornoff

Tor Johnson

Lobo

Tony McCoy

Lieutenant Dick Craig

Janet Lawton

Captain Robbins

Professor Strowski

Kelton

Martin

Mac

Jake

Tillie

Margie

Newsboy

Drunk

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline to this film is "The Screen's Master of the WEIRD in his NEWEST and MOST DARING SHOCKER!"
There are a total of fourteen credited cast members in this film. 11 of them are male cast members, leaving 3 female cast members remaining.
This movie was originally titled as Bride of the Atom, which redirects to this page.
The movie ws filmed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Production on Bride of the Monster began on October 26th, 1954, but was halted in November of that year due to a lack of financing. Filming reconvened in March, 1955 and was completed that month.
Film editor Warren Adams is credited as Mike Adams in this film.
Actor Don Nagel, who plays Martin, is credited as Don Nagle in this film.
Actor William "Billy" Benedict, who plays a newsboy, is credited as William Benedict in this film.
Elements of this movie's production process were adapted into the 1994 biopic Ed Wood; in particular, the scene where Bela Lugosi clumsily struggles with the octopus.
Color restoration for this film was conducted by Legend Films. The color version was released in 2008 and has been made available on the Amazon Prime streaming platform.
This is actor Bela Lugosi's final film role as a the leading star. He will make one more movie appearance in a non-speaking role in The Black Sleep in 1956. Lugosi passed away on August 16th, 1956 at the age of 73.
The name of Captain Robbin's parakeet in this film is Fooey.
Actors Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Paul Marco and Ben Frommer also appeared in the 1957 film Plan 9 from Outer Space, which was also directed by Ed Wood.
The production crew could not get the mechanical arms on the octopus to work correctly. As a result, all of the actors who are attacked by the creature, including Bela Lugosi's character the film's climax, had to manipulate the tentacles themselves as if they were being attacked. This strategy was unconvincing and is fairly obvious to the viewer.
Bride of the Monster was spoofed in episode 5x23 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on January 23rd, 1993.
"Bride of the Monster!" is also the title to The Monster of Frankenstein #2 by Marvel Comics, published in March, 1973.
On the Internet Movie Database, Bride of the Monster has a Starmeter rating of 4.1 out of 10 based on more than 7,600 votes. This is as of January, 2024.
On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Bride of the Monster holds a 55% Tomatometer score based on 11 posted reviews. It has 6 positive reviews, and 5 negative reviews, averaging 4.80 out of 10. The film has an audience score of 28% based on more than 5,000 verified user ratings, averaging 2.5 out of 5.
On Letterboxd, Bride of the Monster has a weighted average review rating of 2.45 out of 5 based on 3,967 user votes.

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Orgy of the Dead
Plan 9 from Outer Space

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