History Trivia / BrideOfTheMonster

** Czech Republic: ''Atomic Bride''

* WorkingTitle: ''The Atomic Monster'' and ''Monster of the Marshes''

* NamesTheSame:
** The guy who did the sound effects is named Mike Pollock. No, not [[Creator/MikePollock that]] Mike Pollock.
** Harvey B. Dunn plays a homicide detective named Creator/TomRobbins.

* WorkingTitle: Wood's intended title was ''Bride of the Atom'', but the studio insisted on something more lurid.

* NamesTheSame: The guy who did the sound effects is named Mike Pollock. No, not [[Creator/MikePollock that]] Mike Pollock.

* ActorAllusion:
** Naturally, Ed wrote Vornoff with the ability to hypnotize women, just like Lugosi did as [[Film/{{Dracula 1931}} Count Dracula]].
** Vornoff also summons a hypnotized Janet by clasping his hands together, just as in ''[[Film/WhiteZombie White Zombie]]''.

** Due to ''The Golden Turkey Awards'', where most people first heard of Ed Wood, many believe that at one point that Dr. Vornoff declares that Lobo is a "gentle as a ''kitchen''", when he clearly does say "gentle as a ''kitten''"
** Many recall Bela Lugosi bellowing his "race of atomic supermen" speech at the top of his voice, likely due to Martin Landau playing the scene that way in ''Film/EdWood''. While Lugosi ''is'' quite the LargeHam in the actual scene, he's nowhere near as over-the-top as is often remembered. For some reason it's also remembered for 'race' being mispronounced as 'rice', even though he says the word normally.
* CreatorBacklash: Ed Wood ''really'' hated how fake Dr. Strowski's death scene looked, but there wasn't the time or money to refilm it, and so he instead resorted to various methods to make the remaining octopus attacks look a little more convincing.

* TheOtherMarty: Loretta King replaced Creator/EdWood's girlfriend Dolores Fuller, because Wood believed King when she said she could finance the rest of the film. Fuller was given a minor role, and the one instance in the film in which the two actresses interact is... [[TeethClenchedTeamwork strained, at best]]. Give Fuller credit for keeping her cool and being a professional about the whole thing.
** That's Dolores Fuller's version. Loretta King's is that Wood hired her flat out after seeing her in a play, and that Fuller was much less professional about the whole thing... (Of course, King's word is less than believable when considering she wasn't honest about ''other'' things - like being able to back the film.)
** An even weirder one: Dr. Vornoff was going to be played by... Boris Karloff. Lugosi really wanted to play Vornoff, but was told Karloff got the job and he'd be cast in a - yep, you guessed it - vampire movie. Wood was going to use Lugosi for the film ''The Vampire's Tomb''. When Lugosi found out he would be cast as Vornoff after all, he was pleased.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Wood's intended title was "Bride of the Atom," but the studio insisted on something more lurid.

** Naturally, Ed wrote Vorloff with the ability to hypnotize women, just like Lugosi did as [[Film/{{Dracula 1931}} Count Dracula]].

* RealitySubtext: The film ''Film/EdWood'' underlines it, but many people have noted that Lugosi's rise and fall in Hollywood made his speech about proving he's as good as he ever was hits home, since it was one of his last speaking scenes in his career.

** And, of course, Tor "Time For To Go To Bed" Johnson, who would later star in Wood's ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.

** Many recall Bela Lugosi bellowing his "race of atomic supermen" speech at the top of his voice, likely due to Martin Landau playing the scene that way in ''Film/EdWood''. While Lugosi ''is'' quite the LargeHam in the actual scene, he's nowhere near as over-the-top as is often remembered.

** And, of course, Tor "Time For To Go To Bed" Johnson, who would later star in Wood's ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Due to ''The Golden Turkey Awards'', where most people first heard of Ed Wood, many believe that at one point that Dr. Vornoff declares that Lobo is a "gentle as a ''kitchen''", when he clearly does say "gentle as a ''kitten''"

* TheOtherMarty: Loretta King replaced Creator/EdWood's girlfriend Dolores Fuller, because Wood [[WhatAnIdiot believed King when she said she could finance the rest of the film]]. Fuller was given a minor role, and the one instance in the film in which the two actresses interact is... [[TeethClenchedTeamwork strained, at best]]. Give Fuller credit for keeping her cool and being a professional about the whole thing.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Creator/EdWood regulars like Harvey B. Dunn (best known for missing his index finger) and Paul Marco (playing Kelton, as usual). Western serial legend Bud Osborne also appeared.
** And, of course, Tor "Time For To Go To Bed" Johnson, who would later star in Wood's ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.

* ParodyRetcon: The film has a generally less serious atmosphere (and dialogue, in particular) than most of Wood's other output. This has led to suspicions that Wood's co-writer, Alex Gordon, originally wrote the film as a parody of mad science flicks, but Wood directed it as if the plot were being played straight.

* ActorAllusion: Naturally, Ed wrote Vorloff with the ability to hypnotize women, just like Lugosi did as {{Dracula}}.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Creator/EdWood regulars like Harvey B. Dunn (best known for missing his index finger) and Paul Marco (playing Kelton, as usual). Western serial legend Bud Osborne also appeared.

** And, of course, Tor "Time For To Go To Bed" Johnson, who would later star in Wood's ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: EdWood regulars like Harvey B. Dunn (best known for missing his index finger) and Paul Marco (playing Kelton, as usual). Western serial legend Bud Osborne also appeared.
** And, of course, Tor "Time For To Go To Bed" Johnson, who would later star in Wood's ''Plan9FromOuterSpace''.