Night Of The Ghouls

A fake medium calling himself Dr. Acula holds phony séances in a house by Willow Lake — until the dead decide to keep the appointment. Edward D. Wood Jr.’s 1959 horror, shot as Revenge of the Dead and left in the lab for decades because he couldn’t pay the bill, is the unofficial third chapter of his homemade mythos after Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 from Outer Space. Criswell rises from a coffin to narrate; Tor Johnson returns as the hulking Lobo; Paul Marco’s Patrolman Kelton once again draws the monster beat. Kenne Duncan cons the living; Valda Hansen plays a hired “white ghost” who meets a real black one. Wood’s cardboard gravestones, night-for-night fog, and earnest doom are all here. Finally freed in the 1980s, it is peak Ed Wood: a séance that accidentally works. With a specially scanned print by SCANNERS, INC.