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Title: Orgy of the Dead (2004) Starring: Criswell, Fawn Silver, Pat Barrington, William Bates, and Mickey Jines Director: Stephen C. Apostolof Rating: Unrated Runtime: 92 minutes Avg. Score: 4 Avg Score: Submit Comment Hits: 33

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• Posted on 2008-04-27
  Dead girls' spirits dance topless
  
  This is not a horror movie,its a nudie cutie with short cameos from a fake looking wolfman and mummy that just stand on the sidelines hopping up and down viewing the striptease dances. This movie is a well done digital remaster. The picture looks great with the colors brought out well. I wish wanna-be vampira got naked though There were a couple of nice looking girls in this..not to sound like a porn enthusiast, more of a 60s' trash cinema novelty collector I paid like 5 bucks for this dvd i would have paid 10. Well worth it,especially for collectors.
  Score: 4
• Posted on 2008-01-22
  Criswell must have needed the money.
  
  Movie rates 3 stars; DVD transfer rates 1 star.
  
  I first saw Orgy of the Dead in a 1969 Halloween film festival. Orgy was sandwiched between Reptilicus and Creature from the Black Lagoon 2.
  Gives a whole new meaning to wet my lizard, doesn't it?
  
  Frankly none of the three titles mentioned should be considered a movie.
  Orgy is nothing more than a vehicle to get twelve topless dancers strutting their stuff. The star, Criswell and his brunette sidekick, Princess of the Dead, merely introduce each act. The accompanying music is cheesy. Ed Wood could have produced a monument to jiggle if he hadn't scrimped on music royalties.
  
  A few words on Criswell, for those of you who have never heard of him.
  Born in England as Jerome Criswell Konig, he migrated to the US shortly after WW2. He had some reputation in England as a radio-based psychic,
  and quickly found a following in Hollywood.
  
  A good buddy of Ed Wood, he was a fixture in Ed Wood movies and authored several books on psychic predictions. Was he a charlatan or really psychic? Criswell predicted that JFK would not run for re-election in 1964, because of an incident in November 1963. This 1962 prediction is a matter of record seen and heard by thousands tuned in to the Jack Paar show, predecessor to Johnny Carson's Tonight show. In one of his books, though, Criswell predicted that Richard Nixon would resign (in 1970, actually four years before his downfall), to be replaced by the landslide election of Mae West, a one-term female president. When he's right, he's scary; when he's wrong, . . .
  
  If you love topless dancers, this movie is for you. Made in 1965, just before the avalanche of siliconed boobs, Orgy does present some truly lovely women. No real plot is followed, just an endless stream of topless, jiggling beauties. Some dancers are obviously pros, while others are starving actresses. Coleen O'Brien is my fave, and she did
  not appear to be starved.
  
  This DVD transfer has some problems, mainly pixelation disruptions. I was told that the disc may not even play in DVD players with low fault-tolerance. In other words, buyer beware. Not only is the movie low-ball, so is the DVD pressing.
  Score: 3
• Posted on 2007-06-13
  Mindless
  
  Do you like mindless movies with no plot nor story?....do you like mindless movies with topless dancers?...then this movie is for you then. Its not for everybody and this movie is hard to put into words, but, not worth buying...renting maybe..but, thats pushing it.
  Score: 2
• Posted on 2007-05-30
  "shake it, baby!"
  
  What a funny film! It is sometimes rather tedious due mainly to its inherent nature. However, it is so campy and utterly ridiculous that it remains amusing throughout. With chapter indexes, you can skip around to the topless dances you like the best. No worries about missing anything though. Pay attention to the different, yet consistently hilarious ways in which the women dance and, of course, Criswell's pronouncements. That's where most of the humor and charm is. Have fun!
  Score: 3
• Posted on 2007-04-27
  LET THE RITUAL BEGIN.
  
  i thought this was some tripped out B- movie with a bunch of hot, half naked females doing a dance of the dead for almost 90 minutes. Things first start out with Alan ( a novelist) and his girlfriend Shirley taking a cruise through a cemetery to think of ideas for his next horror novel when their car breaks down. They are soon taken hostage from these 2 musclehead goons and tied to a stake when the lord of the dead and his mistress appear. Soon afterwards , the dead start to appear performing a ritual dance . I guess because of the nudity this can be considered somewhat sleazy for back in the 60,s and tedious throughout.
  Score: 3