aka Bride of the Atom.Dr. Varnoff (Bela Lugosi) with the help of his assistant Lobo (Tor Johnson) is using atomic energy to try and create super beings. Local townspeople are full of stories of a monster in the swamps attacking people, so the police send Lt. Dick Craig (Tony McCoy) to investigate. Janet Lawton (Loretta King) a feisty journalist also gets involved and gets too close to the story for her own good. Varnoff deciding that she would be ideal as his bride and the first superwoman, but Lobo has taken a shine to her as well.
Full of over acting, and would be snappy dialogue, if only the actors could do more than recite the lines as if still learning them! This features a 73 year old Lugosi, in his last speaking part. Not a really bad film, just stilted, badly edited and very very cheap. But if you like bad films, this is a good one to watch. Ed Wood always seemed to strive to actually make decent films, with decent plots, unfortunately he lacked the money and his imagination was not quite good enough, but that didn't stop him trying. This alone makes his films worth a watch.
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