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Night of the Ghouls (1984)

Night of the Ghouls poster
Original title
Revenge of the Dead
Directed by
Ed Wood
Genre
horror film, zombie film, ghost film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
4.4 of 10 from 55 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A psychic medium conducts fake seances at a house where a murder may have happened. A police officer and a doctor investigate strange events involving a ghostly figure and a ghoul attack.

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What happens

Night of the Ghouls is an American horror film written and directed by Ed Wood, and shot between April and May 1958. The film features some reoccurring cast members and characters from the 1955 Wood-directed film Bride of the Monster, including Tor Johnson reprising his role of Lobo and Paul Marco again playing the character of Kelton the cop, while the Amazing Criswell plays himself in the film's frame story. Another returning character is Police Captain Robbins of Homicide, although the character was played by Harvey B. Dunn in Bride of the Monster, and by Johnny Carpenter in Night of the Ghouls. Following a preview screening held in 1959 at the Vista Theatre in Los Angeles, Wood felt that Night of the Ghouls required further editing. Correspondence between Wood and associate producer Anthony Cardoza indicates that Wood had plans to re-edit Night of the Ghouls, but was unable to do so because of unpaid bills owed to the film laboratory that developed the film. In the 1980s, Kansas City film hobbyist-entrepreneur and Wood fan Wade Williams located the film, paid the overdue bills to the lab, and claimed full ownership of it, releasing the film on VHS in 1984. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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