His posthumous fame began two years after his death, when he was awarded a Golden Turkey Award as Worst Director of All Time.

Toward the end of his life, Wood made pornographic movies and wrote pulp crime, horror, and sex novels. He was able to salvage a saleable feature from Lugosi's last moments on film, but his career declined thereafter. Wood's popularity waned soon after his biggest 'name' star, Béla Lugosi, died. In the 1950s, Wood made a run of independently produced, extremely low-budget horror, science fiction, and cowboy films, now celebrated for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts, and outlandish plot elements, although his flair for showmanship gave his productions at least a modicum of commercial success. (Octo– December 10, 1978) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and editor (often performing many of these functions simultaneously). It may change your whole outlook on the word 'Orgy of the Dead'.Edward Davis Wood, Jr. If you enjoy mindnumbing goodness check out this film. I'd say it's funny when it's not supposed to be as it is scary for all the wrong reasons. The acting is aweful and the plot doesn't seem to exist, which is right no par for this sexploitaion nightmare. Our Emperor watches the women each do a bit of a strip tease with his buddies the Mummy and the Wolfman while o ur young couple is forced to watch. As they are knocked out we see 'the Emperor of the Night' rise from his grave and demand to see some entertainment from ten, well, I guess, you would call them ghosts but they really look like naked women. They are driving at night (even though you can plainly see sunlight) and crash thier car.

The story centers around a couple driving to a graveyard so Bob can get some ideas for his next book. This was a bit of a different film from Wood, mostly know for his horror films this is some of the beginnings of his transition into, well porn. Stephens and written by the legend of film Ed Wood.

Where to start? Orgy of the Dead was directed by A.C.

Orgy of the Dead by Ed Wood