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On this day in 1924 the worst filmmaker the American Film Institute ever encountered Ed Wood was born. Like many filmmakers that cant get adequate backing for their work Wood began by making many microbudget horror movies. Those that became prominent only after his death include Bride of the Monster (1955) starring Bela Lugosi Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956) starring Lugosi and Vampira (Maila Nurmi) Night of the Ghouls (1958) The Sinister Urge (1960) and Necromania (1971).

It's a day late, but we're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Metallica, Bring Me the Horizon, Bullet for My Valentine, Parkway Drive, Underoath, All That Remains, Hot Water Music, Dr. Acula and more.

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Metallica will release a live DVD/Blu-ray entitled Quebec Magnetic on December 10 through their own label. The tracklisting can be found here.

Dr. Acula have broken up. Read statements from the band members here.

Music

Stream Parkway Drive's new album, Atlas, here. It's out this week on Epitaph Records.

Listen to a new Bullet For My Valentine song entitled "Temper Temper" here. It's the title track and first single from the UK metal band's forthcoming album, due out on February 13 via RCA Records.

Listen to a new Underoath song entitled "Sunburnt" here. It is one of two new tracks that...

We’ve got a few casting stories to share this afternoon. Briefly: Donald Faison is in talks to play Doctor Gravity in Kick-Ass 2. Malin Akerman may join Arnold Schwarzenegger in the actioner Breacher. Bruno Gunn has been cast as Brutus in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Hit the jump for more details. First up, Scrubs alum Donald Faison is looking to play a big screen doctor. Sadly this isn’t the feature film adaptation of Dr. Acula, but Deadline reports that Faison is in talks to play the superhero Doctor Gravity in Kick-Ass 2. The character is a physics professor who moonlights as the titular hero, and his signature weapon is a baseball bat-like pole called the “Gravity Pole.” Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Christohper Mintz-Plasse and Nicolas Cage are all set to return with Jeff Wadlow stepping into the director’s chair for Matthew Vaughn, who is producing while he preps X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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A Hero A Fake was formed in 2004, when three of the original members were still in high school. Who can blame them? Being in a band is so much cooler than gnashing your teeth over quadratic equations in maths or busting your balls over the combustion of potassium chlorate in chemistry. Who’d want to go home and sling their head into a revision book when they can go home and sling a guitar around their neck instead? I definitely wouldn’t have, but these guys are sort of dark horses as they carried on their education even though they were a band gaining momentum and recognition for their hard work and quickly-progressed sound. The members who were still in college would travel back and forth between college and their home town every weekend to write songs and to tour.

We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Slipknot, Lamb of God, Alice Cooper, Miss May I, Shinedown, Godsmack, The Word Alive, Seether, Skid Row and more. Don't touch that dial!

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Slipknot will release a best-of collection entitled Antennas to Hell on July 24 via Roadrunner Records. The artwork and tracklisting can be found here.

High on Fire have been forced to drop off this summer's Mayhem Festival, as frontman Matt Pike has entered treatment for alcohol rehabilitation.

Music

Stream Miss May I's new album, At Heart, here. It's out this week on Rise Records.

Listen to a new Calabrese song entitled "Coffin of Ruins" here. The horror punks' new album, Dayglo Necros, will be released on July 1.

Listen to a new Dr. Acula song entitled "Nation" here. It's the title track from their new album,...

We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Slipknot, The Devin Townsend Project, Testament, Hatebreed, Kansas, Miss May I, Anthrax, Madball, Fear Factory and more. Don't touch that dial!

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Members of Hollywood Undead reportedly jumped and beat former singer Aron "Deuce" Erlichman, who is now planning to sue.

As if you needed another reason to hate him, Axl Rose banned fans from wearing Slash T-shirts at Guns N' Roses' UK shows.

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Stream Fear Factory's new album, The Industrialist, here. The album is out this week via Candlelight Records.

Stream The Agonist's new album, Prisoners, here. The Canadian metal band's new album is out this week via Century Media Records.

Listen to Stray from the Path's cover of Green Day's "Burnout" here.

Listen to a new Whitechapel song entitled "I, Dementia" here.

You may remember this feature from Dread Central's past, and now it's back from the dead. My name is Alex Divincenzo, and I am proud to be your host with the most. Each week I will provide you with the latest music news for your listening pleasure. If you have any tips or suggestions, feel free to drop me a line.

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Converge have entered Godcity studio to record their new album, tentative titled All We Love We Leave Behind. Expect it later this year on Epitaph Records.

Byzantine have reunited and are writing a new album to be released later this year. You can learn how to donate to help fund the project here.

Comeback Kid have parted ways with guitarist Casey Hjelmberg, who has been with the group since 2006. Friend of the band Stu Ross will be filling in. Read the band's statement here.

Bryon Stroud (Fear Factory,...

The story goes that at the time of his passing in 1956, Bela Lugosi was grasping a script called Final Curtain, penned by pal Ed Wood. Final Curtain was a television pilot for an anthology series to be called Portraits Of Terror, intended to be a Twilight Zone-esque theater of the bizarre. While Lugosi would miss the boat, Wood ended up shooting the show in 1957 with a cast made up of Duke Moore, Dudley Manlove, and Jeannie Stevens. The 22-minute short concerned a cop who makes the mistake of investigating a mysterious theater late at night while on solo patrol.

Nothing became of the show, and while Wood would go on to many other projects, including his career-defining Plan 9 From Outer Space in 1959, Final Curtain was something the director often brought up, sharing footage with his friends and hangers-on, dreaming of what could have been. One of those friends was actor Paul Marco,...

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp make the world's worst director look charming, despite some historical fact-bending

Director: Tim Burton

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Edward D Wood Jr made low-budget Hollywood films in the 1950s, including Jail Bait, Night of the Ghouls and Plan 9 From Outer Space. In 1980, Plan 9 was voted the worst film of all time in the Golden Turkey awards. Wood was posthumously voted worst director.

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It's 1953, and aspiring film-maker Eddie Wood (Johnny Depp) is thrilled to hear that a producer is filming the story of a famous transsexual. The reason? Wood himself loves wearing women's clothes, particularly angora sweaters. He pitches himself as writing, directing and starring – "just like Orson Welles did in Citizen Kane". The result – Glen or Glenda? – fell slightly short of the critical acclaim bestowed upon Welles's movie. The New York Times said "It isn't quite a camp classic, although...

Seattle, Washington act Aiden who’s punk rock influence has entangled the musicians for nearly ten years have released their most recent efforts “Disguises” via Victory Records. Thus their second video release “Portrait of the Artist” the follow-up to “Hysteria” indicates the band’s directional point and where they want their music to head next. Frontman WiL Francis says that both Aiden and his solo project, William Control will have new releases by the end of this summer/early fall. As such the band also wrapped up their headlining run of The Horror Nights Tour with Get Scared, Dr. Acula, Vampires Everywhere!, and Eyes Set To Kill. The band has been busy writing,...

Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, also known as the Super Swedish Angel, was the Super Swedish Angel of death in Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” in which he played Inspector Daniel Clay, raised from the dead along with Bela Lugosi and Vampira in a bizarre alien plot to show the human race the error of its ways. He went on to also appear in Wood’s “Night of the Ghouls” and “The Beast of Yucca Flats,” ultimately appearing on-screen more than 40 times — often, in the early part of his acting career, in uncredited roles.

Choice Quotation:

Ruler (John Breckinridge): Yes, he’s a fine specimen. Are they all this powerful on planet Earth?

Eros (Dudley Manlove): This one is an exception, Excellency.

Photo: Ronald Grant Archive

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Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, also known as the Super Swedish Angel, was the Super Swedish Angel of death in Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” in which he played Inspector Daniel Clay, raised from the dead along with Bela Lugosi and Vampira in a bizarre alien plot to show the human race the error of its ways. He went on to also appear in Wood’s “Night of the Ghouls” and “The Beast of Yucca Flats,” ultimately appearing on-screen more than 40 times — often, in the early part of his acting career, in uncredited roles.

Choice Quotation:

Ruler (John Breckinridge): Yes, he’s a fine specimen. Are they all this powerful on planet Earth?

Eros (Dudley Manlove): This one is an exception, Excellency.

Photo: Ronald Grant Archive

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Welcome to Adventures in B-Movie Land, the monthly column where I take a look at some of the strangest, cheapest and worst films ever made ... and explore why you have to see them. Look for new entries during the second week of every month.

The Motion Pictures:

'Glen or Glenda' (1953), 'Jail Bait' (1954), 'Bride of the Monster' (1955), 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' (1958) and 'Night of the Ghouls' (1959).

Also Known As...

'I Led Two Lives,' 'He or She?,' 'I Changed My Sex,' 'The Hidden Face,' 'Bride of the Atom,' 'Graverobbers From Outer Space' and 'Revenge of the Dead.'

Featuring the Talented...

The legendary (and at the time, completely forgotten) Bela Lugosi, the incomprehensible Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, the incredibly inaccurate psychic Criswell, Wood's long-suffering girlfriend Dolores Fuller, Ed Wood himself...

Filed under: Columns, Cinematical

Welcome to Adventures in B-Movie Land, the monthly column where I take a look at some of the strangest, cheapest and worst films ever made ... and explore why you have to see them. Look for new entries during the second week of every month.

The Motion Pictures:

'Glen or Glenda' (1953), 'Jail Bait' (1954), 'Bride of the Monster' (1955), 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' (1958) and 'Night of the Ghouls' (1959).

Also Known As...

'I Led Two Lives,' 'He or She?,' 'I Changed My Sex,' 'The Hidden Face,' 'Bride of the Atom,' 'Graverobbers From Outer Space' and 'Revenge of the Dead.'

Featuring the Talented...

The legendary (and at the time, completely forgotten) Bela Lugosi, the incomprehensible Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, the incredibly inaccurate psychic Criswell, Wood's long-suffering girlfriend Dolores Fuller, Ed Wood himself...

Whether he was calling himself Forry, Fojak, Sgt. Ack-Ack or any other of his many noms de plume, Forrest J Ackerman delighted in spinning pseudonyms. As previously noted, he transformed his wife from Matlide Porjes into Wendayne Mondele Ackerman. This ability went all the way back to his high school days, as Fja himself related…

“The earliest pseudonym I recall having created appeared in my high school newspaper. It was at the beginning of a kind of gossip column and I used the name Ion Lee Hurd. Then when the first amateur science fiction was created, The Time Travellers had two Ls. I used Allisvillette and later the same first name but the last name of Kerlay. Soon I added Weaver Wright, Spencer Strong, Jack Ermine, Jacque de Foresterman. Once upon a time I actually dreamed a pen name which upon waking I liked so much that I adopted it; it was Dr.