 | The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr.
Buy used from: $1.72 This documentary is full of cool moments. (It also shows how wonderfully loyal his friends were.) It's an engaging treatment of someone who was a true dreamer and a total misfit. 83 minutes. Features a lot of extras: "Crossroads of Laredo," Ed Wood's first film --a 22-minute Western, etc.
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![Ed Wood - Look Back in Angora [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KECW63M0L._SL75_.jpg) | Ed Wood - Look Back in Angora [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.94 A+ I love this documentary! PLEASE see it. I first caught it on PBS. It's worth owning. 55 min. Short but sweet. Totally great!
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 | Glen or Glenda
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.95 David Lynch, no less, ranks this among his all-time personal favorite films. No lie. What's heartbreaking is how much this movie meant to Ed Wood. Yes, in many ways, this was his "personal film." It's a great artifact. Earnest to a fault, weirdly romantic, and uniquely individual.
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 | Plan 9 From Outer Space (Colorized)
Buy used from: $4.13 I would recommend this version of Plan 9. Contains the restored Black & White AND the colorized version. Plus, some Ed Wood home movies and some other things.
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 | Bride of the Monster
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.19 Bride of the Monster (1955)... a.k.a. Bride of the Atom ... Hey, Ed Wood really produced 3 stand-out cult films. Some funny bits in this one. But people seem to confuse this flick with "The Bride of Frankenstein" (the crown jewel of Universal horror films of the '30s). Totally different movies, of course. (I recommend both.)
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 | Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. by Rudolph Grey
Buy used from: $4.39 This biography, which is essentially an oral history of the man, had a profound effect on me. It's a story of the marginalized in Hollywood, really. Gritty, seedy at times, Bukowski-like, compelling, ultimately heartbreaking -- right up to his sad death. A MUST HAVE for Ed Wood fans. You will shed a tear by the end. I swear. Of course, it's the basis for the Tim Burton bio pic. A++
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 | Ed Wood (Special Edition)
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.95 Yep, it's fun. Johnny Depp earned my respect forever with this. Everyone shines, here. Martin Landau is inspired as Lugosi. Bill Murray deserves special mention, too. Outstanding work. Oddly this film was a box office flop, which delayed the DVD release for about a decade. And it may stand as Tim Burton's best film. A tribute to the mad dreamer in all of us.
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 | The Ed Wood Box (Glen or Glenda / Jail Bait / Bride of the Monster / Plan 9 from Outer Space / Night of the Ghouls / The Haunted World of Ed Wood)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $12.46 Cool box set. I love it. The so-called "worst filmmaker ever" gets the royal treatment here. Other filmmakers should only be so lucky.
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 | The Golden Turkey Awards: The Worst Achievements in Hollywood History by Harry Medved
Buy used from: $0.42 This condescending book was influential in the re-discovery of Ed Wood. Of course the point was to hold him up as an object of ridicule, as in "let's all laugh at this fool." Meanwhile of course neither of the Medved brothers have produced a single worthy project of their own. They were too busy laughing, maybe?
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 | Jail Bait
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $0.30 Jail Bait (1954) ... aka Hidden Face... I adore the cover art on this DVD.
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 | Night of the Ghouls
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.38 Night of the Ghouls (1959) ... aka Revenge of the Dead ... also known as ... "Dr. Acula" Ed Wood also wrote a novel version of this. This film was thought lost for years. Until it was recovered at a film lab. Ed Wood couldn't afford to pay the bill...
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 | The Sinister Urge
Buy used from: $7.99 "A Sinister Urge"(1961) ... aka Hellborn ... aka The Young and the Immoral -- directed by Ed Wood about the "smut" industry. Not available on DVD.
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 | The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 9 (Women of the Prehistoric Planet / Wild Rebels / Sinister Urge / The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies)
Buy used from: $195.00 Features "A Sinister Urge"(1961) ... aka Hellborn ... aka The Young and the Immoral -- directed by Ed Wood about the "smut" industry. I'm actually HATE "Mystery Science Theater," which I find totally juvenile and irritating.
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 | The Violent Years
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.49 (1958) Written by Ed Wood, Jr. I wonder if Russ Meyer would be inspired by this girl gang stuff? Cool title
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 | The Violent Years/Girl Gang
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.55 From "Something Weird Video" -- I own this version which comes with Girl Gang, not Ed Wood related (except in spirit). I recommend this DVD for quality and the extras: "Drive in" trailors, etc.
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 | Orgy of the Dead
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.99 (1965) This is more sexploitation oriented, with vampira-like vixens doing the ole' bump and grind in the fog and mist. Criswell shows up, reading cue cards, looking quite drunk. Sexploitation was hot at this point. There's supposed to be a novel version of this, too.
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 | The Ramrodder / Revenge of the Virgins
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $6.00 Revenge of the Virgins (1959) written by Ed Wood (as "Peter La Roche")
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 | The Bride and the Beast
Buy used from: $4.44 1958. Written by Edward D. Wood Jr.
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 | Mighty Gorga / One Million AC/DC
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $3.98 One Million AC/DC (1969)- written by Ed Wood
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 | Pretty Models All in a Row (aka The Love Feast)
Buy used from: $14.99 Pretty Models All in a Row (aka The Love Feast) (1969) - Ed Wood wrote and appears as an actor in this. A softcore flick. Of interest to Ed Wood fans. Features a documentary, too. A curiosity.
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 | Anatomy of a Psycho
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $1.98 "Anatomy Of A Psycho" based on a story written by Ed Wood, using the pseudonym Larry Lee.
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 | I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Only available for region 2 players, unfortunately. This a Spanish film supposedly based on Ed Wood's last unproduced screenplay. And it features Billy Zane of Titanic in the staring role. I actually saw this film in Spain (where my parents are from), and I definitely recommend it for the Ed Wood fan, if you can play it on your DVD player.
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 | Venus Flytrap
1970. Written by Ed Wood. A modern Frankenstein's monster story. Not so hot.
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![Deluxe Ed Wood Angora Box Set [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21E26RHWC1L._SL75_.jpg) | Deluxe Ed Wood Angora Box Set [VHS]
Buy used from: $15.50 Now this was a brilliant idea! VHS, though. But truly inspired slip cover.
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 | Killer In Drag by Ed Wood
Buy used from: $4.76 Again, Ed Wood wrote TONS of stuff, including novels like this and a crazy amount of short stories. All this novels have cool titles.
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 | Hollywood Rat Race by Ed Wood Jr.
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.85 It's hilarious that Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus and many other trade journals all reviewed this (passing over other more legitimate writers to do so). Of course, it was published long after Ed Wood's demise -- it offers "advice" on getting into the film biz. Wacky, dontcha' think?
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 | Devil Girls by Ed Wood
Buy new: $9.57 / Used from: $5.00 I'm actually curious about this one. Cool title, haha.
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 | Death of a Transvestite by Ed Wood Jr.
Buy new: $10.68 / Used from: $2.39 Another quickie novel.
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| DEATH OF A TRANSVESTITE Let Me Die in Drag! by JR., ED WOOD
Buy used from: $9.95 A quickie novel by Wood. Other books written by Wood, not listed include "Side-show Siren," "Parisian Passions," "Watts."
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 | The Worst of Ed Wood Boxed Set
Buy used from: $38.94 Contains 4 of Wood's films + the documentary "Flying Saucers over Hollywood." Quality is so-so.
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 | The Ed Wood Collection - A Salute to Incompetence
A 2 disc set with 6 of his films + "The Ed Wood Story", which is a little dreary (featuring half-hearted interviews, etc.).
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![It Came From Hollywood [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514N7KV1QCL._SL75_.jpg) | It Came From Hollywood [VHS]
Buy used from: $29.99 About "so-bad-it's-good" movies. This is one of the first films in which Ed Wood's unique oddness was featured. It's affectionate toward him, so I don't mind it....
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![Ed Wood Story: Plan 9 Companion [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/217SDGG1GWL._SL75_.jpg) | Ed Wood Story: Plan 9 Companion [VHS]
Buy used from: $11.64 Fans of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND will know who Forrest J. Ackerman is.... Now let's take it from the top: "Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives...."
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![The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr. [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514B5962BBL._SL75_.jpg) | The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr. [VHS]
Buy used from: $3.85 VHS version of the DVD film at the top of this list. I love the art on this box.
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 | Plan 9 From Outer Space/Robot Monster
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.82 This features Plan 9, plus another "so-bad-it's-surreal" movie not directed by Ed Wood, called Robot Monster. It's retro-50s Sci-fi -- but interesting.
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 | Ed Wood: Original Soundtrack Recording by Howard Shore
Buy used from: $11.98 Had to include this. (Nice movie soundtrack.)
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 | The Lascivious World of A. C. Stevens & Ed D. Wood, Jr.
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $19.20 This is on my "to see" list.
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 | Vampira The Movie
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.98 Worth checking out.
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 | Mars Attacks!
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.04 Not Ed Wood, but obviously Tim Burton was inspired by Wood to produce this. I think it's totally fun.
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 | Plan 9.1 From Outer Space
Buy new: $14.99 On my "to see" list.
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