Night of the Ghouls

1959 Crown International TV (bw). 69m.

Cast

Producer/Director/Screenwriter: Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Also released as: Revenge of the Dead

From "The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film":

Plan 9 From Outer Space fans will love this follow-up tale about the walking dead. It opens in a cemetery. Criswell, the "real" medium, rises from his coffin to tell us of "monsters to be despised." Kenne Duncan (a stuntman in serials) stars as Dr. Acula, a phony medium aided by Vlada Hansen, a bogus ghost, and big Tor Johnson, wearing rags and horrible scar makeup as Lobo. The doctor swindles people by pretending to contact dead relatives, but then accidentally succeeds in reviving a bunch of corpses that burry him alive! Vampire (Maila Nurmi) is on hand as the real black ghost. The infamous Wood directed one more film, Sinister Urge (1961).

From "Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide":

BOMB. Long-lost sequel to Bride of the Monster (and to a lesser extent, Plan 9 From Outer Space) doesn't reach the same heights of lunacy, but is still dreadful enough to tickle any bad-movie fan. "Ghosts" have been sighted in East L.A., so cops Moore and Marco are once more shoved into action; the trail leads to phony mystic Dr. Acula (Duncan, who really looks like he's in a trance). Criswell again narrates the proceedings, this time from a coffin. Sat unreleased for 23 years because Wood couldn't pay the lab bill!