Article: Orgy of the Dead.(video recordings)(Video Recording Review)

Orgy of the Dead

Available 5/25

Rhino Home Video, Horror, $14.99 DVD, NR.

Stars Criswell, Fawn Silver/Written by Ed Wood Jr.

Ed Wood was a great entrepreneur and a terrible filmmaker. That's never more evident than in Orgy of the Dead, a 1965 fantasy that's more soft porn than horror film.

Plot, clothing and dialogue are all flimsy premises here. Yet years before the porn-directing Mitchell brothers, Wood managed to make an "art" horror film with more gyrating, topless women than a burlesque show. The film is three years pre-ratings and would probably have gotten an 'X' in the early days of the ratings system.

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