While PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is normally called the worst movie of all time in reality it's not even the worst movie directed by Ed Wood. This one here is worse and way less entertaining. You do get Tor Johnson showing up with a scarred-up face and beating up cops but besides that it's a pretty stupid and dull tale of a fake practitioner of the mystic arts named Dr. Acula who uses a fake ghost-lady to freak people out and rip them off. A real ghost-lady shows up, sadly this role is not played by Vampira, and justice is ultimately served by a ghost-gang which has Criswell among their number. Then all the ghouls turn into skeletons.
This along with PLAN 9 and BRIDE OF THE MONSTER(1955) is supposed to form some sort of Wood trilogy but I don't think there's really any narrative connection between any of them.
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