Honestly, a streaming service should buy the rights to this and put out an Orgy of the Dead variety show every year.
It’s a nudie cutie where women take turns dancing topless and a couple has to watch for some reason. The dialogue between the hosts and the monster characters could be perfect banter and a Greek chorus, but it just goes nowhere. It’s so captivatingly bad it could easily make your annual Halloween watch list.
I could see a modern version working so well that’s full of drag, burlesque, and whatever other weird freaky stuff you can come up with.
The 1965 version is camp, it needs to go all out gay.
You can probably find it on YouTube or other means, I got reminded about Orgy of the Dead from a Mubi email, it may not be available in your country on there though.
Wood was most likely transfeminine. She went by the chosen name of Shirley, which she used in many of her screenplays, and regularly showed up femme presenting or in genderqueer attire in public and on set. Her movie Glen and Glenda is an early example of trans lesbian representation (back then trans women where assumed to be exclusively interested in men). Her gender identity was explained away by her contemporaries with pseudopsychological nonsense like “a neomaternal comfort derived mainly from angora fabric”, but it’s pretty obvious to me she was one of us.
I was not aware of that, thanks. Guess it’s downplayed in mass media far more than I knew.
Yeah, i only learned it through a transfem friend of mine who’s the biggest queer media nerd i know and loves to infodump this kind of stuff.