Calmly, then, he made his way to the bedroom. That garment was a fluffy, floor length, pink marabou negligee. "He picked up the gun affectionately and slipped it smoothly into the pocket of the garment he was wearing. The drag details are obviously autobiographical, esp the emphasis on hetero-drag. It's easy to imagine it being written by a bitter alcoholic frustrated by his 'lack of success' in movies. Killer in Drag was 1st published in 1965. Wood's 'career' as a director started transforming from attempts at 'mainstream' work to more pornographic material in the 1960s. I've always had the impression that as a filmmaker Wood was probably fun to work w/. I wdn't want to do it but I'm sure there're plenty out there who wd. Both of these novels turned into one movie made w/ a reasonable budget wd even stand a chance of being popular. Comparisons to Jim Thompson might be in order.
As it turned out, I've found the novels to be much more competently created than the movies.
I started reading the latter 1st but when I realized that it was the sequel to the former I switched to that being 1st.
I can relate to the work as wacky low-budget stuff but, well, it's too bad he wasn't alive in the era of affordable video production, maybe he cd've pulled it off better now.ĪNYWAY, I got a copy of Killer in Drag 1st, wondering if I might like his novels more, & then a copy of Death of a Transvestite. Tim Burton's Ed Wood fueled my appreciation for him but I still never liked the movies much. I've witnessed Jail Bait but I don't even remember that one. I liked Glen or Glenda partially because it's such an odd mixture of materials but the soundtrack, at least in the version I witnessed, is garbled to the point of being unintelligible in parts. I've never found Plan 9 from Outer Space enjoyable even as camp. I've never really shared the tendency of people to love Ed Wood as 'the worst filmmaker in the world'. By tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - January 24, 2019
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