08: The Skeleton Dance
Black Ghoul Introduction
The wolf man informs me that the next one is the woman who murdered her husband on their wedding night. Now she dances with his skeleton!
(How did the wolf man do this, by the way? He doesn't speak! To Ed, "continuity" probably only sounded like a cool world to use for a sci-fi picture title.)
(How did the wolf man do this, by the way? He doesn't speak! To Ed, "continuity" probably only sounded like a cool world to use for a sci-fi picture title.)
Ed Wood Crazy Talk Grade: D
Skeleton Scores with a Stripper Count: 2
Skeleton Scores with a Stripper Count: 2
Sexiness
Check this list for things you might find sexy:
If anybody wants to know what go-go dancing looked like, and how it could be made very, very silly, here's something to tie them up, Clockwork Orange style, and make them watch. They will thank you for it by cursing you and all your descendants.
- Two mounds of Jello on the hood of a truck driving down a dirt road
- The blob meets another blob, they wrestle
- Two naked and fat cats tumbling in a dryer
If anybody wants to know what go-go dancing looked like, and how it could be made very, very silly, here's something to tie them up, Clockwork Orange style, and make them watch. They will thank you for it by cursing you and all your descendants.
Grace
There's none. It's the most binary, mechanical dance of the night. Go watch a video of how pistons work in a car if you are curious!
Closeness to Theme
A plain white dress that looks nothing like a wedding dress and a veil. The veil stays, the wedding dress disappears, much like a regular wedding night sans the skeleton, Crepe-Hair Werewolf™, Icky ICU Mummy™, Criswell's drunk smile, and the Black Ghoul's boobs.
Kind of like a wedding in Vegas.
Kind of like a wedding in Vegas.
Music
Starts out by what sounds mysteriously like the modern "bride" music in the Haunted Mansion, and then segues* into Laugh-In style go-go music.
* Segue means "abruptly stops and suddenly starts", right?
The staring piece and the Haunted Mansion piece are pretty cliche, so it's doubtful there's a connection, but it just entertains me to think there might be, as the Disney story is also that the bride is a black window. Bring that up with a host next time you are at DisneyLand, they will appreciate your bit of historical guess work from a low-budget blog. Trust me, they are paid to be interested!
* Segue means "abruptly stops and suddenly starts", right?
The staring piece and the Haunted Mansion piece are pretty cliche, so it's doubtful there's a connection, but it just entertains me to think there might be, as the Disney story is also that the bride is a black window. Bring that up with a host next time you are at DisneyLand, they will appreciate your bit of historical guess work from a low-budget blog. Trust me, they are paid to be interested!
Length of Act
5 minutes. The music wraps up, Criswell nods his head, the skeleton gets another kiss (skeleton's have all the luck), then ... another minute! A strip act with a false ending! Was this movie edited by somebody with blackouts and memory lapses, or just Ed Wood?
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