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This is a usual run of the mill b movie with low budget production values and bad acting. However the plot does deserve some comment. I notice concern was expressed only when the high school athletes and the general in-crowd was affected. I guess if it was the chess club or drama club or a bunch of greasers no one would have cared. The parents are generally clueless as that trait causes the plots in movies like this to move along. The music was what you would expect in this kind of movie although that female vocalist sounded like she just arrived on a qantas airline flight from sydney. Who thought she was a good idea?

All in all this is an interesting look into the culture and morals of the fifities. At worst the movie is terrible. At best it is dated and quaint. Not a totlal waste of time.

This film has so many factual errors in it that it is hard to list them. The general drift of the film is correct but one can't take it for fact. In the film commentary burton admits it is not a documentary but an impression of ed wood's life. That is all well and good. However if a viewer did no hear this they might come away with a misconception about wood and more importantly bela lugosi. Burton kind of admits he played fast and loose with some details to spice things up, but most viewers may not realize this. You must get the dvd with the commentary and do some research into ed wood and bela lugosi to get the accurate picture. Also watch some of ed wood's movies to see how some of wood's associates behaved. Maybe this doesn't bother some people but to me, being a history nut, inaccuracy of fact rubs me the wrong way.