Fear #1 - No matter how much I scream, no one will ever really hear me Every act is a communication and in genre cinema, the filmmaker is confined to strict parameters, where they are encouraged to frolic but not transgress. My stance, considering how much I have engaged with Ed Wood's work and criticisms of it, is that what caused audiences to sneer and mock his malformed creations was how close they were to resembling a 'real' movie. Wood did not intend to be avant-garde. He was no Kenneth Anger. He knew what a movie was and moulded one together through the disparate parts he had to hand and liberated the rest from the movies that raised him. My favourite entries in Wood's filmography are the horror pieces: Plan 9 From Outer Space , Bride Of The Monster , Revenge Of The Dead , Final Curtain , Meatcleaver Massacre . Hell, I even like Necromania , his horror-porn flick about a man who can't satisfy his wife and enlists the help of some satanic women with vague but d...