Ed Wood’s NECROMANIA Found
Fans of cult favorite Ed Wood (aka Edward D. Wood, Jr), unjustly labeled The Worst Filmmaker of All Time, now have one more Wood "classic" to check out: the 1971 release Necromania: A Tale of Weird Love!, a sexually explicit film about the erotic awakening of a young couple through the assistance of a coven of witches.
Necromania, Wood’s last film project as a director, was made over a period of two or three days on a budget that totaled about US$7,000. Reportedly, the only prints went missing shortly afterwards, though several copies of the film have surfaced in varying degrees of completeness in the last couple of decades.
This particular print was found by Wood biographer Rudolph Grey and fellow Ed Wood enthusiast, film distributor Alexander Kogan. Necromania was lying half-forgotten in a warehouse in Los Angeles.
Wood became posthumously famous for his series of grade-Z masterworks such as the cross-dressing drama Glen or Glenda (1953), the campy horror flick Bride of the Monster (1955), and the sci-fi cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). During his lifetime, however, he had to resort to shooting his films with the microscopic-est of budgets — since he could find no backers — and from the mid-1960s on, devoted his energies to directing and writing erotic stories.
Ed Wood died in 1978. Johnny Depp impersonated the quirky auteur in Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic Ed Wood, a critical success but a box-office disappointment.
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