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Rolling M Productions Executive Producer: Donald E. McCoy Associate Producer: Tony McCoy Produced and Directed By: Edward D. Wood, Jr. Original Story By: Edward D. Wood, Jr. and Alex Gordon | |
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Dr. Eric Vornoff........BELA LUGOSI Lobo........................TOR JOHNSON Lt. Dick Craig...........TONY McCOY Janet Lawton...........LORETTA KING Captain Robbins.......HARVEY B. DUNN Featuring: | |
| Run Time: 68 minutes Black & White | |
"Bride of the Monster" opens with the shot of a creepy old house at night back dropped in a blinding thunderstorm. Two rubes in raincoats approach the house seeking shelter. They go into the house uninvited where they are greeted by resident Dr. Eric Vornoff who states, " You can't stay! You're not velcome in my house! Go avay! Go! Go! Go!" Vornoff's hired muscle, Lobo, then enters the room and escorts both of the rubes back out into the driving rain. Undaunted, the two rubes return, this time armed with rifles. Lobo throws the first rube into Vornoff's octopus pen (yes, octopus pen, all mad scientists should have one) while the other rube fires shots at the plastic tentacled beast. The first rube is screaming while clinging on to the tentacles. Lobo finally grabs the second rube and takes him back to Vornoff's laboratory.
Come Up to the Lab, and See What 's on the Slab! Back at the Police Station Craig: "Who didn't?"
Robbins, picking up a rifle (Exhibit "A"): "Marsh Lake at the old Willows Place again (not to be confused with Willows Lake in "Night of the Ghouls")!"
Then in walks Craig's girlfriend and reporter Janet Robinson.
Robinson: "No human did this! It was done by the Monster at the old Willows House!"
Robbins: "So you say! There's no such thing as monsters! Monsters--it's fantastic! We believe in facts and only facts!"
Janet leaves in a huff to conduct further investigations.
Enter Professor Vladimir Strowski Strowksy: "Have you evah hed of za Loch Ness monstah? I believe zat za monstah zat kilt za two men vere za zame monstah in Loch Ness!"
Grudgingly, Lt. Craig accepts Strowski as a "partner" in his investigation of the incident at the Willows House.
When Sweet Polly Is In Trouble I Am Not Slow, It's Hip, Hip, Hip and Away I Go! Vornoff: "Don't be afraid of Lobo! He's as gentle as a kitten (Yeah - - and as ugly as home made sin!)!"
But it's obvious that Lobo has the hots for Janet, affording us to see Vornoff use his bullwhip talents on Lobo to keep his hands off the merchandise.
Enter Professor Vladimir Strowski Vornoff to Strowski: "Tah-venty years ago I vas banned from my homeland, barred from my wife ant son, never to see them again! Why? Because I suggested to you za atom elements could be used for producing super beings of untheenkable strength and size! I vas clad as a madman! A charlatan! Outlawed in za vorld ov science, which previously honored me as a genius! Now, here in zis forsaken jungle Hell I have proven zat I am all right!"
Strowski to Vornoff: "I have been sent to bring you home!"
Vornoff to Strowski: "Home?" he weeps, "I haff-a no home! Hunted! Dis-pised! Livink like an animal! Za jungle iz my home! And I vill show za world zat I can be its master! I vill perfect my own race of people! A race of atomic supermen zat vill conquer za vorld! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! (I think you get the idea)"
A Well-Fed Octopus Is A Happy Octopus Will he be too late?
Will Janet become "The Bride of the Monster?"
Rube number two, to be specific, is what's on the slab. Vornoff puts some electrode type device over the rube's head, flicks some switches in his hokey lab (the set is truly atrocious) and exclaims to the hapless, hopeless, helpless rube, "You vill soon be as beek as a giant! Or like all the others--dead!!!!" Well, needless to say, the poor rube didn't end up as "beek as a giant!"
Homicide Captain Robbins is seen reading the latest headlines: "MONSTER STRIKES AGAIN!" and "MONSTER TAKES TWO!" If he looks familiar, it's because he, and a cast of others in this movie reprise their same roles four years later in the 1959 Edward D. Wood, Jr. release "Night of the Ghouls". The other reprised roles were Tor Johnson as "Lobo", Don Nagle as "Martin", Bud Osborne as "Mac" and Paul Marco as "Officer Kelton". Visiting Captain Robbins is suave and dashing Lt. Dick Craig.
Robbins: "Did you see today's papers?"
Later that afternoon Captain Robbins introduces Lt. Craig to Professor Vladimir Strowski who claims to have information on Dr. Vornoff.
After doing some research, reporter Janet Robinson finds herself approaching the old Willows House at night, in a driving rainstorm (ain't that some smart?) when her car veers off the road smashing into some trees. Lobo extricates the unconscious bimbette from the car and, of course, totes her back to Vornoff's lab. Unharmed, Robinson wakes up on the lab slab and screams upon glimpsing Lobo.
As the "Brad-Janet-Rocky" episode is going on in the lab, Professor Strowski enters Vornoff's home uninvited, where Vornoff awaits ambushing him until he recognizes him. Yeah, Strowski and Vornoff come from the same wacko Transylvania-type country and have known each other forever. As it turns out, Strowski was sent by his Government to take Vornoff back to his native land.
Quicker than you can say "Plan Nine", Lobo grabs Strowski and throws him into the octopus pen while Vornoff watches on laughing. Strowski, like the first poor rube, grabs the plastic creature's tentacles while screaming-this is some real Academy award material here folks! Meanwhile, Lt. Craig, yet another uninvited guest in Vornoff's old Willows House goes it alone looking for Janet.
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