Ed Wood's Devil Girls Rage Across Chicago!

If Golden Turkey award-winning writer and director, Edward D. Wood, Jr., could have afforded a grave... he'd be rolling over in it. Principal shooting has finished, in Chicago, on the film Ed Wood's Devil Girls. Based on the novel Devil Girls, written by Wood in 1967 (Pad Publishing). Wood was reduced to writing soft-core porn an directing some of the worst sexploitation movies (only Ed Wood could make sex boring) to ever grace the screen from the early-sixties to his death in 1978, at the age of fifty-four. Despondent, alcoholic, and penniless, Wood prided himself in later years on the 138 pulp novels he had written, Devil Girls being chief among these. When Hollywood refused to pay attention to the mastermind behind cinematic classics like Plan 9 from Outer Space

(1956), Orgy of the Dead (1965), and Glen or Glenda (1953), Wood sunk lower and lower into heavy drinking, evictions, and the porn industry, sometimes starring in his own soft-core sex-epics.

Devil Girls is among the best of Wood's pulp novels, according to Chicago-based director and founder of the Bowlegged Man Media, Andre Perkowski. He fell into the Ed Wood-phenomenon after seeing Plan 9 at the tender age of eleven. Since this "Wood Epiphany," Perkowski has been on a crusade of sorts to bring Wood back to the theaters, or at least the video store. Pre-production on the feature-length film began 1 year ago in New Jersey with establishing shots, stunts, and other incidental, non-principal filming. The majority of the movie was done in Chicago, using a cast and crew of Chicago-based actors, camera folk, and production staff. "The choice to come to Chicago was pretty natural," explains Devil Girls writer and director, Andre Perkowski, "there are more resources here [Chicago] for independent filmakers, as well as accessibility to a wide range of production and acting talent."