Ed Wood (Jr.) (10 October 1924 – 10 December 1978) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and editor, who often performed many of these functions simultaneously. In the 1950s, Wood made a run of cheap and poorly produced genre films, now humorously celebrated for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, large amounts of ill-fitting stock footage, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts and outlandish plot elements, although his flair for showmanship gave his projects at least a modicum of critical success.
Wood's popularity waned soon after his biggest 'name' star, Béla Lugosi, died. He was able to salvage a saleable feature from Lugosi's last moments on film, but his career declined thereafter. Toward the end of his life, Wood made pornographic movies and wrote pulp crime, horror, and sex novels. His posthumous fame began two years after his death, when he was awarded a Golden Turkey Award as Worst Director of All Time. The lack of conventional filmmaking ability in his work has earned Wood and his films a considerable cult following.
Glen or Glenda: (1953)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuq1A_T3vWQ
Jail Bait (1954)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQ-Sp_m_54
Bride of the Monster (1955)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8YGES_Ynkk
Plan Nine from Outer Space (1956) Written and shot in 5 days!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjmFLx9bGeI
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926), sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies, is a prolific American producer and director of low-budget movies, some of which have an established critical reputation: many of his films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Corman has apprenticed many now-famous directors, stressing the importance of budgeting and resourcefulness; Corman once joked he could make a film about the fall of the Roman Empire with two extras and a sagebush.
It Conquered the World (1956)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOM0BfOE4Dw
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOTFqybQtpY&feature=PlayList&p=7241E2A9F0BE1FD8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=67
Look up the following, if you'd like: The Raven (1963), The Terror (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
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