John, a horror writer, and his girlfriend Shirley, crash their car while traveling to a cemetery in search of inspiration for John's next story. They are seized by ghouls in extremely unconvincing costumes, and taken to the "Ruler of the Dark". They are then held captive and forced to join him in viewing the "dance of the dead".
You might be surprised to find out that the "dance of the dead" is actually a long string of topless women parading through one after another. If these dancers are intended to be "the dead" then they are even less convincing that the Halloween costume-clad ghouls. In fact, they are all young, attractive, seemingly quite healthy (i.e. not deceased) women.
The acting and dialogue would be bad, if they weren't irrelevant and almost non-existent except as filler between dancers. After about an hour and a half of this (probably 15 minutes of which isn't just topless dancers) the movie ends.
Ed Wood's Orgy of the Dead hardly belongs in the horror movie section, but nonetheless that is where you will find it in video stores today, probably for lack of a better idea of where to place it. Some have hyped up Orgy of the Dead as a "classic". It has even been converted into a live show. In reality it is basically the equivalent of going to a strip club except with a smoke machine and some goofy costumes thrown in. If that's the sort of thing you are looking for, this is for you. Otherwise, I'd skip it.
1 undead stripper out of 5
Unrated: contains nudity.
Watch the Orgy of the Dead trailer.
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