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Necromania Directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. Produced by Ed Wood, Jr. Written by Ed Wood, Jr. Starring Maria Arnold
Rene BondEditing by Ed Wood, Jr. Distributed by Stacey Distributors Running time 51 min. (R-rated)
54 min. (X rated)Country United States Language English Budget $ 5000 Necromania (sometimes subtitled A Tale of Weird Love) is a pornographic film by Edward D. Wood, Jr., released in 1971.
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Production and rediscovery
Thought lost for years, it resurfaced in edited form on Mike Vraney's Something Weird imprint in the late 1980s, then was re-released on DVD by Fleshbot Films in 2005. Opening titles indicate "Produced & directed by Don Miller. Our cast wish to remain anonymous."
The plot (based on Wood's novel The Only House) involves a couple, Danny and Shirley, who visit necromancer Madame Heles for a witchcraft solution to Danny's erectile dysfunction.
Cast (uncredited)
- Maria Arnold as Madame Heles
- Rene Bond as Shirley
- Ric Lutze as Danny
Behind the scenes
The Amazing Criswell's coffin makes an appearance in the film, the second of Wood's films in which it does. (Night of the Ghouls is the other one.) Criswell's family was in the mortician business.
In Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr., (p. 135) Maila Nurmi, who played Vampira on TV and in Plan 9 from Outer Space, tells how she declined Wood's offer to do a nude scene, sitting up in a coffin, as Madame Heles.
Rediscovery
The film magazine Cult Movies (issue #36) printed a detailed article about the rediscovery of Wood's Necromania and The Only House in Town. The piece was written by Rudolph Grey, author of the Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy.
References
- The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1996), documentary film directed by Brett Thompson
- Rudolph Grey, Nightmare of Ecstacy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1992) ISBN 978-0922915248
External links
- Necromania at the Internet Movie Database
- Necromania at AllRovi
- Necromania at Rotten Tomatoes
Edward D. Wood, Jr. Feature films
directedGlen or Glenda (1953) • Jail Bait (1954) • Bride of the Monster (1955) • Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) • Night of the Ghouls (1959) • The Sinister Urge (1961) • Take It Out in Trade (1970) • Excited (1970) • The Only House in Town (1971) • Necromania (1971) • The Young Marrieds (1972)Short films
directedTrick Shooting with Kenne Duncan (1953) • Final Curtain (1957) • The Night the Banshee Cried (1957)Television films
directedThe Sun Was Setting (1951) • Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid (1953) • Boots (1953)Films written,
not directedThe Violent Years (1956) • The Unearthly (1957) • The Bride and the Beast (1958) • Anatomy of a Psycho (1961) • Shotgun Wedding (1963) • Orgy of the Dead (1965) • One Million AC/DC (1969) • The Love Feast (1969) • Venus Flytrap (1970) • The Undergraduate (1972) • Drop-Out Wife (1972) • Class Reunion (1972) • The Snow Bunnies (1972) • The Cocktail Hostesses (1973) • Five Loose Women (1974) • The Beach Bunnies (1976) • Hot Ice (1978)Posthumous
filmsCrossroads of Laredo (filmed 1948/released 1995) • Hellborn (filmed mid-1950s; released 1993) • Take it Out in Trade: The Outtakes (filmed 1970; released 1995) • I Woke Up Early The Day I Died (written 1970s; released 1999)Related
articlesBela Lugosi • The Golden Turkey Awards • Dolores Fuller • Conrad Brooks • Paul Marco • Tor Johnson • Vampira • Bunny Breckinridge • The Amazing Criswell • Stephen C. Apostolof • Ed Wood (biopic)Categories:- American films
- 1970s horror films
- 1970s pornographic films
- 1971 films
- Films directed by Ed Wood
- Supernatural horror films
- Pornographic film stubs
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