Jail Bait

As most of the movie lovers, I discovered Ed Wood after watching Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", and since then, I try to see all his movies. I have just watched "Jail Bait", his attempt to make a serious film-noir, and I really laughed along its 72 minutes running time. The first points that call the attention in "Jail Bait" are the ham actors and actresses, and the awful lines. The cast seems to be amateurish, and the screenplay seems to be written by a stupid teenager so ridiculous and silly the dialogs and situations are. The next point to attract me was the beauty and elegance of Theodora Thurman, in the character of the lover of the gangster Vic Brady. Another point is that it is always night along the story. The annoying music score is probably one of the worse I have ever listened in a movie. The funniest parts, in my point of view, are the arrival of Lt. Bob Lawrence to Dr. Boris Gregor's house: from the outside, the lights are turned-off, but when Marilyn Gregor opens the door, the lights are on; the death of Don Gregor is simply hilarious; and what about the surgery of Vic Brady in a sofa? This movie certainly is predictable, laughable, absurd, funny, but it is also absolutely cult. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Jail Bait – A Face do Crime" ("Jail Bait – The Face of the Crime")