USA, 1965
92m
35mm film, Astravision, black and white, Eastmancolor, 2.35:1
mono, English
An American horror film directed by Stephen C. Apostolof using the pseudonym A.C. Stevens. The script is by Edward D. Wood Jr.
Plot Summary
Horror writer John and his girlfriend Shirley go to a cemetary in search of inspiration. They survive a car crash and wind up in the graveyard watching the reanimated dead rise from their grave and beginning to dance, watching over by the Ruler of the Dark. They are captured and forced to take part in the strange rituals of dead.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Director: A.C. Stevens [real name: Stephen C. Apostolof]
Astra Productions, Atomic Productions Inc, Crown International Pictures
Producer: A.C. Stevens [real name: Stephen C. Apostolof]
Associate Producers: L.S. Jensen, Neil B. Stein
Production Supervisor: Tad Stafford
Assistant Production Supervisor: Donald A. Davis
Script/Novel: Edward D. Wood Jr
Assistant Director: Ted V. Mikels, Edward D. Wood Jr
Director of Photography: Robert Caramico
Assistant Camera: Robert Maxwell
Stills: Robert Wilson
Editor: Donald A. Davis
Film Editing: Consolidated Editorial Service
Lab: Film Service Laboratory Inc., Hollywood
Music: Jaime Mendoza-Nava
Sound: Dale Knight
Sound Mixer: Sam Kopetzky *
Costume Designer: Robert Darieux
Make Up: Margaret Davies
Hair: Nancy Sandovan
Art Director: Robert Lathron
Set Decorator: Ernest Bouvenkamp
Choreographer: Marc Desmond
Cast
Criswell (The Emperor)
Fawn Silver (The Black Ghoul)
Pat Barringer [real name: Pat Barrington] (Shirley/gold girl)
William Bates (Bob)
Mickey Jines (dancer)
Barbara Nordin (skeleton dance)
Bunny Glaser, Colleen O'Brien, Texas Starr, Rene De Beau (dancers)
Nadejda Dobrev (slave dance)
Stephanie Jones (Mexican dance)
Dene Starnes (zombie dance)
Louis Ojena (the mummy)
John Andrews (the wolfman/giant)
Edward Tontini (doctor)
William Bonner (2nd doctor)
Rod Lindemann (giant)
John Bealey (detective)
Arlene Spooner (nurse)
Alternative Titles
A.C. Stephens' Orgy of the Dead
Orgy of the Vampires
Links
Extracts included in
At the Sleazies (1991)
Battle of the Bombs (1985)
Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora (1994)
Sleazemania (1984)
Sleazemania: The Special Edition (1985)
References
Books
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.352 – credits
