Big Box Of Wood

Ed's devotees are certain to get a "Wood"y over this one!
It's not definitive, as S'MORE ENTERTAINMENT's Ed Wood compilation, BIG BOX OF WOOD is missing (for example) his slightly autobiographic GLEN OR GLENDA (1953), and the most fragrant NIGHT OF THE GHOULS (1959).

The nearly 17 hours on 6 DVDs in this set feature six of Eddie's later SCRIPTS, as he rarely directed after 1960, including two "Bunnies" films that make their DVD debut here. Of these 11 features, Wood wrote and directed only JAIL BAIT, BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, THE SINISTER URGE and PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE.

"Trick Shooting with Kenne Duncan" is a one-man short starring the Canadian-born 'B' western and movie serial bad guy, showing off his skills with a pistol. Duncan is also the other (nameless) sergeant in the sidewalk scene from the Abbott & Costello comedy, BUCK PRIVATES (1941).

Duncan has a bit role in...

SO BAD, SO GOOD
I'm a big fan of outsider art. For me, this outré genre is best defined as something made by an amateur that attempts to pass as art yet is widely recognized as primitive and unskilled in the normal definitions of what we deem "art" --yet still holds a strong fascination.

However it may be defined, Edward Davis Wood, Jr., (1924 - 1978) both personally and professionally, remains a giant in the outsider world.

Wood's unexpected back-story does not immediately resonate with his film career. His father was a Poughkeepsie, NY, mailman and his mother so wanted a girl she dressed little Ed as such until he was 12 or so. When he was 17, he enlisted in the Marines and claimed to be among the 300 survivors (from 4000 Marines) of the November 1943, massacre at Tarawa in the South Pacific Theater, one of the most brutal in US Marine history. He said he fought while wearing a bra and panties beneath his uniform.

Wood was wounded in his leg and badly...

Completing the collection at a reasonable price
Well, you can buy this, or you can buy The Ed Wood Box (Glen or Glenda / Jail Bait / Bride of the Monster / Plan 9 from Outer Space / Night of the Ghouls / The Haunted World of Ed Wood) for between $100 and $250 new...which is ABSOLUTELY ludicrous, because the individual films sell for between $9.98 (The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr.) and $4.88 (Jail Bait)...you can get EVERY film in the Ed Wood Box for HALF of what the "Ed Wood Box" is selling for these days.

"Big Box Of Wood"...inexplicably...omits Wood's signature film, Glen or Glenda ($8.99), as well as Night of the Ghouls But it includes Orgy of the...

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