Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Matthew_Capitano Edward Wood's most outrageous film (along with 'Glen or Glenda') follows the exploits of the L.A. police when they are forced to wake up so they can try to jolt into action to investigate strange goings-on at a local haunted house.The weirdness begins with the introduction of Dr. Acula (Kenny Duncan). Soon we are exposed to occupied coffins, drunken skeletons, bedsheets floating to the tooting of a kazoo, a levitating eyeball, a disembodied trumpet playing a weak slew of licks, and an enigmatic human head mouthing a drone of incoherent mumbling while wearing a metal hat.If you think this all sounds totally nuts, you're right. You may want to get blasted before attempting to sit through this delirium.Semi-sequel to Wood's 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'.

ofpsmith Okay maybe I'm being too harsh. This film isn't as enjoyable as Plan 9 From Outer Space or Bride of the Monster the other Ed Wood movies I've seen. It's not as entertaining. When I'm talking about Wood Plan 9 From Outer Space is obviously what comes up. But this film barley ever is. It's a simple plot. Dr. Acula (Get it) is a phony psychic that is a con artist that pretends to tell people that he can bring the dead back to life. And in a Wood movie, if it's supposed to be fake, then it really is. I have Halloween decorations more realistic than this. Anyway they're infiltrated by two police officers. Lieutenant Daniel Bradford (Duke Moore) and everyone's favorite Wood idiot Patrolman Paul Kelton (Paul Marco) who was in Plan 9 and Bride of the Monsters. Daniel and Paul eventually escape or something, and then the real ghosts come and attack Acula. That's about it. It's just as campy as Plan 9 but it's nowhere near as entertaining. It's not awful or anything it's just kind of boring.

Kristine The last DVD left in my Ed Wood box, Night of the Ghouls. Again, Ed Wood loved to keep me on my toes after being surprised by the last couple of films that I saw that were created by him. Glen or Glenda being a sad documentary that went into a strange warped scary movie. Plan 9 which is just as hilarious as they say it is. Bride of the Monster which is silly but meant with good intentions and a great performance by Bela Lugosi . Jail Bait which turned out to be a good film and was extremely well written. Night of the Ghouls was made after Plan 9 from Outer Space, so I know that he wasn't on his hot streak any more. But bless him, he does try, unfortunately he fell flat with this one. While it's certainly silly at times, with some over the top bad special effects, bad performances there are some laughingly bad moments. But given credit where it's due, I understood where Ed Wood was going with this story and had the creepy elements to it, they just were not met with the limited means that he should have been given.A team of scam-artist mediums make money out of unsuspecting clients until, much to their surprise, some real ghosts arrive to haunt them. I don't know if I would recommend this film, if you are looking to watch any of Ed Wood's work, I would say to go for it. But it's a bad movie, like I said, it's the actors and the special effects that really killed the whole idea of what Ed Wood had in mind. He has a couple of his regulars in here, but unfortunately not the good kind with Criswald and the ever larger than life Tor Johnson. But Ed Wood never did judge people, if he did he would never have any friends. I think the funniest thing about this film was the flying trumpet that was so obviously being hung on a string. There are walking skeletons that are obviously being propped up. Like I said, not good effects, but they get a good chuckle. Over all, not the worst movie I have ever seen in my life, but it is Ed's worst since you could give credit where it's due with his other films. However Ed Wood had passion for film and I hope that future generations will see his gift and study his work. His world may be crazy, but at least he gave it a very good try.3/10

Michael_Elliott Night of the Ghouls (1959) * 1/2 (out of 4) Edward D. Wood, Jr. directs this semi-sequel to his cult film Bride of the Monster. People are seeing ghosts all over Los Angeles so a Detective (Duke Moore) goes to investigate. He comes across the weird Dr. Acula (Kenne Duncan) as well as a burned Lobo (Tor Johnson) among others. This is a rather interesting Wood film as it's probably his best made due to a couple reasons. For starters, Wood couldn't afford to pay the lab bill so the film set unreleased for 24-years. When Wade Williams stepped in and bought the film, he had professional editors edit the movie so this here makes it look somewhat better than normal. Even in other ways the film works better from the better special effects to a couple nice shots, not to mention some nice comedy bits and not those unintentional laughs we're use to. However, the film never reaches that "so bad it's good" level so we're left with a pretty bland film that doesn't go anywhere. The film is pretty boring, which is something you don't normally say in regards to Wood. The burn make up on Tor Johnson is probably the most graphic of any film from this era and looks great.