Edwood FilmFest

Director Ed Wood's movies were so bad they were good. Even Tim Burton found a way of releasing a comedy stitching his painfully inept passion together. If you haven't seen Burton's 1994 homage to a director who had a fetish for women's clothing, I implore you, call your local DVD store and reserve it after finishing this blog. It's simply called Ed Wood and the scene when Bela Lugosi battles a plastic octopus in a kiddie pool will bust a gut. Wood died in 1978 but his foolhearty filmmaking lives on with ultra low budget shorts shot by his growing list of fans. Last night the Capital Region held their 6th annual EdWood Filmfest competition in Albany but a myriad of technical difficulties disrupted the show. 2 DVD players sh** the bed, several movies broke up and the tall dude in front of me kept tossing his head from side-to-side. An attendance of 100 was lead to believe Ed Wood's soul was haunting the Linda Norris Auditorium. Deb's, Chris's, Jane's and my patience ran dry around 11pm and we ducked out before voting for "People Choice". From what I saw Brian Farrelly and Jay Barba's "Purgatory School" brilliance took the prize.