{"id":50831,"date":"2020-08-29T10:38:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T17:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=50831"},"modified":"2021-01-05T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:09:29","slug":"orgy-of-the-dead-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=50831","title":{"rendered":"Orgy of the Dead (1965)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Torture! Torture! It pleasures me!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Poster-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-50832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Poster-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Poster-178x270.jpg 178w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Poster.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA writer (William Bates) and his girlfriend (Pat Barrington), seeking inspiration for Bates&#8217; horror stories, visit a cemetery where they are quickly abducted by the &#8220;Emperor of the Dead&#8221; (Criswell) and his princess (Fawn Silver) and forced to watch a series of once-dead women dance topless.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dancers<\/li>\n<li>Death and Dying<\/li>\n<li>Ed Wood Films<\/li>\n<li>Horror<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nEd Wood, Jr. wrote the screenplay for this <em>deathly<\/em> boring (sorry) stripper flick masquerading as some kind of horror revue. The acting is terrible, the dances laughable, and the screenplay practically non-existent (the only &#8220;tension&#8221; is whether Barrington and Bates will be killed and forced to join the troupe of dancing dead before the sun rises). As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s1184orgy.html\">DVD Savant<\/a> succinctly describes it, &#8220;This is basically 90 minutes of repetitious and numbing strip acts, with poor cutaways to the presiding ghouls who bicker about how much time they have before dawn or who gets to stab who.&#8221; The inclusion of a mummy (Louis Ojena) and wolfman (John Andrews) as sidekicks does absolutely nothing to alleviate the tedium. At least the cinematography is colorful, and decent use is made of a smoke machine. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atmospheric cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Cinematography.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Cinematography-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Cinematography-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Orgy-of-the-Dead-Cinematography-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNope; skip this one. Listed as a Camp Classic in the back of Peary&#8217;s book.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0054240\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s1184orgy.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1543&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/td>\n<\/li>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Torture! Torture! It pleasures me!&#8221; Synopsis: A writer (William Bates) and his girlfriend (Pat Barrington), seeking inspiration for Bates&#8217; horror stories, visit a cemetery where they are quickly abducted by the &#8220;Emperor of the Dead&#8221; (Criswell) and his princess (Fawn Silver) and forced to watch a series of once-dead women dance topless. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Dancers Death and Dying Ed Wood Films Horror Review: Ed Wood, Jr. wrote the screenplay for this deathly boring (sorry) stripper flick masquerading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=50831\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61742,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50831\/revisions\/61742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}