Very disappointing...

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This movie has gotten a bad rap because the way others have seen Ed's other movies. This is a real good film & I have to say, it's Ed's best where he means it to be!! Yes, it's low budget, but when you watch, you think of having a better budget and people would have thought differently after seeing this.

It doesn't get any better than this. First class story and dialog. It really stands out. The last line alone is up there with Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. 'He tampered in God's domain!'Some great screams too, and that's just from Bela. One thinks of Frankenstein of course, but that doesn't have the layered depth that Bride does. Not only does it have Tor Johnson as the Frankenstein style monster Lobo, but it has one of the most frightening monsters to ever hit the screen. The dreaded killer octopus. I can't go near the ocean because of this film. But it's worth it.Hell, I'm just going to go with a spoiler here as I have never seen this effect used to such... effect.. in the history of motion pictures. A nuclear explosion! Wow. What great vision. It looks so real! And only meters from the cast. How did they all survive? Only the director knows. Ed Wood really knew how to create tension. You can feel like it like someone stretching your liver out through your nostril. It gave me shivers.I can see why no one has ever remade this film. Unlike say Superman, Batman or King Kong, it's simply unsurpassable. No one would dare. And not a CGI effect in sight. Ed was too much of a craftsman for that.A unique place in the history of cinema. Shame on anyone who rates it less than a 9. I'd give it a 10 if Ed Wood was in it. Perhaps one day, someone will be able to incorporate a shot from Glen or Glenda into Bride, with Tor Johnson handing Ed an angora sweater. The sphincter tightens at the thought.Genius.

I don't think that most of Ed Wood's films are as bad as some people make them out to be - they are entertaining. No, they are not the greatest films but they do have entertainment value and a fan following for a reason. Bride of the Monster might be Wood's best film.We have the great Bela Lugosi as Dr. Eric Vornoff - a mad scientist out to create atomic creatures... and he echos his hand gesture from White Zombie (a nod in that direction).We also have Tor Johnson as Lobo - Lobo is very much like Johnson's character's from Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961).Bride of the Monster really is worth watching if you are into the classic sci-fi horror and like a good B Horror film.7/10

I sat down to watch this movie expecting something awful - boy was I not let down. First let's make sense of th story. Polliwogs fall up into the tree and sink in quicksand. Drinking jello-shots, torn blue jeans fill empty drinks with marshmallows. Once the marbles are finished chasing deflated pillows, penguins must burp up logs of toaster-waste. An army of warts gang up on a pair of Tuesdays and chill their frog-eyes with spaghetti sauce. (Scared yet?). Ole MacDonald and his farm sing a pistachio to sleep and staple papers to the walls. But then...yes then...I stopped dreaming and drank my milk. Mmmmm-mmmm good. Testimonial echoes beneath sheltered hamstrings and rusty face-plates...crying the silent cheers of boredom. Chisel me some jello-art and Un-smell my feet for half a league onward road hemlock and tomato plants. Phew...that was tough...but I think I summed up Ed Wood. Oh...and this is the finest movie wish I could Un-see.