jail bait (1954)

aka Jailbait. Hidden Face.
"They've had my picture in the files so long it's getting moldy."
Don Gregor (Clancy Malone) is drawn into a life of crime by Vic Brady (Timothy Farrell), who then blackmails Gregor's plastic surgeon father into giving him a new face, in order to continue to evade the cops.
An inept but enjoyable attempt at film noir from the enthusiastic Ed Wood.

the violent years (1956)

"You're very observant for a pretty boy."
A young girl Paula Parkins (Jean Moorhead), feeling neglected by her parents, decides to form a girl gang and is soon robbing and raping the young men in town.
Written by Edward D. Wood Jr, this is a run of the mill JD flick, with the usual moralistic tone to justify the crimes portrayed, and include his usual sermonising - parents talk to your children!

the revenge of dr x (1970)

aka Body Of The Prey. The Devil Garden. The Double Garden. The Venus Flytrap.
"How in the hell can anybody be so utterly stupid as to build a rocket base on the coast of Florida?"
A rocket scientist (James Craig), has a nervious breakdown, and goes to Japan to recoup. Here he develops the theory that man evolved from the sea. To prove this he creates a carnivorous man-eating plant, that, of course, runs amok!
Full of fantasically bad dialogue, in a muted but still obvious Ed Wood style, (he supposedly wrote the original screenplay). Add some relentlessly jaunty and inappropriate music, and a ludicrus, man in rubber creature costume, (no self respecting Japanese monster film would be complete without one), and you have this joyous creation. Another bad meaning good film, released upon an unwanting audience.

orgy of the dead (1965)

"A pussycat is born to be whipped."
John and his girlfriend Shirley search for a cemetary to inspire his next horror story. Along the way they are involved in a car crash, and find themselves in a graveyard. A graveyard full of burlesque dancers!
Ed Wood, (who only contributed a well used script), and his motley crew, including Criswell, pad out a selection of vaguely horror related strip show acts. Along the way the wolfman and the mummy turn up in what is really just a poor excuse to show some topless women.

Glen or Glenda (1953)

aka I Led 2 Lives.
"Glen is not a homosexual. Glen is a transvestite, but he is not a homosexual."
Standard exploitation fare starts with a psychiatrist relating the stories of transvestite Glen, who is afraid tell his girlfriend about his secret fetish, and another of a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne). Oh and throwing in Bela Lugosi for the hell of it!
Classic Wood fare, where he asks for tolerance for others, whilst packing in as much stock footage as possible. Comic and tragic, sometimes both at the same time.

night of the ghouls (1959)

"Monsters! Space people! Mad doctors! They didn't teach me about such things in the police academy!"
Opens with Criswell, a real medium, who introduces the film about "monsters to be despised." Dr. Acula (Kenne Duncan) is a phony medium aided by the White Ghost (Valda Hansen), someone pretending to be a ghost, and Lobo (Tor Johnson), in horrible scar makeup. The doctor is busy swindling people by pretending to contact their dead relatives, but one night accidentally succeeds in reviving some corpses. Step in Police Lieutenant Daniel Bradford (Duke Moore), and the legendary Patrolman Kelton (Paul Marco) to sort it all out.
This low rent movie supposedly sat unreleased for 23 years as Wood couldn't pay the lab fees! A legendarily bad film, which one would expect of the follow up to 'Bride Of The Monster'.

plan 9 from outer space (1959)

AKA Grave Robbers from Outer Space.
"Can your heart stand the shocking facts about Graverobbers from Outer Space?"
Aliens land in an LA cemetery and enact 'plan 9' re-animating the dead to take over the world. Who can stop them? Why an intrepid airline pilot who lives nearby that's who!
Classic film from the 'so bad its good' stable. Marvel at the ingenuity of Ed Wood as he makes a passable film for what looks like all of $20.

bride of the monster (1955)

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.