Wood-tinted glass

You can thank Tim Burton for the latest bloody Ed Wood revival. He's gone and made a biopic of the (too) much celebrated "worst director of all time". Called simply Ed Wood, it opens on 26 May and stars Johnny Depp as the man with a surfeit of enthusiasm and angora sweaters (he openly indulged his transvestism) but a distinct absence of talent. Unfortunately, Burton brings us no closer to either the man or the movies, but then that isn't what the fans are after. They want kitsch, kooks and sets that wobble in a light breeze. You'll get plenty of all that in the NFT's season, Ed Wood Jr: King (and sometimes Queen) of the Mad Mad Bs, now in its second week. Tonight, you can sample his most notorious work, Plan 9 From Outer Space (above), one of three Wood films featuring a washed-up Bela Lugosi. But the question is: will you stay to the end? Wood is a phenomenon that everyone likes to namecheck but you'll be hard pressed to find someone who has stuck one of his films out to the bitter end. Frankly, I'd rather strut through Battersea in pink angora than endure Bride of the Monster, which features Lugosi wrestling an inanimate rubber octopus. But then maybe I'm just weird.

NFT, South Bank, SE1 (0171-928 3232) until 25 May. Ed Wood promo Mon, 1-3pm, HMV, 150 Oxford Street W1. Videos,

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