TV Guide: Tor Johnson

Listing: Houdini

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:00:00 -0500

Mon Dec 14 02:00 PM TCM

Video: The Unearthly

Syfy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

"An army of mutants on a mission from Hell!" The fiendish Dr. Conway (John Carradine) experiments on depressive patients in an attempt to create ... the Seventeenth Gland! Also featuring Ed Wood standby Tor Johnson.

Video: Bride Of The Monster

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

An all time B-movie classic explodes on the screen in all its cheesy glory! Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space) directs screen legend Bela Lugosi in a bizarre tale of a mad scientist who, along with his servant Lobo (the gigantic Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, in a role he was born to play), attempts to create an army of superhuman mutants. Features the famous scene in which Lugosi "wrestles" with a giant rubber octopus. There are thrills (and laughs) aplenty in this enduring and endearing camp masterpiece.

Video: Bride Of The Monster

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Bride of the Monster - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Dr. Vornoff (Bela Lugosi) has his assistant Lobo(Tor Johnson), throw a victim into the dreaded killer octopus pit in this scene from Ed Wood, Jr.'s, Bride of the Monster (1955).

Video: Bride of the Monster - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Dr. Vornoff (Bela Lugosi) overpowers his assistant Lobo (Tor Johnson), accidentally starts a fire and escapes with his female hostage in this scene from Ed Wood, Jr.'s Bride of the Monster (1955).

Video: Beast of Yucca Flats

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Commies made him an atomic mutant! Noted Russian nuclear scientist Joseph Javorsky (Tor Johnson) escapes to the United States with "Top Secret" Soviet documents. U.S. Army personnel accompany him to the Yucca Flats Atomic Testing Grounds, but Soviet agents are in hot pursuit! They run Javorsky's car off the road, right into the bomb testing site. During the ensuing gunfight, an H-bomb detonation kills everyone except Javorsky, who is transformed into a crazed atomic-mutated beast on a bloodthirsty rampage! Inspired by the Cold War, Communist infiltration of America, and the constant threat of atomic attacks, this drive-in theater classic from the Kennedy Era stars cult favorites Tor Johnson and Conrad Brooks from "Plan 9 from Outer Space."

Video: Bride of the Monster

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Diabolical! Fiendish! Horrorific! Legendary horror icon Bela Lugosi (Dracula) stars as Dr. Eric Vornoff, who with Lobo (Tor Johnson), a crazed man-beast servant, is conducting flesh-burning radiation experiments in an attempt to create a legion of atomic supermen. Co-written, produced and directed by cult filmmaker Ed Wood, Jr., "Bride of the Monster" includes Ed's infamous stable of players: Dolores Fuller (Glen or Glenda?, Jailbait), Tor Johnson and Paul Marco (Plan 9 From Outer Space). This was Bela Lugosi's last screen performance and one of Ed Wood's best efforts.

Video: Bride of the Monster

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Plan 9 From Outer Space

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

This is it! The most popular Atomic Age cult film of the twentieth century. Winner of two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director of All Time, the immortal Edward D. Wood, Jr.! It's all here, the not-so-special effects, aliens in skating skirts zooming around in string-powered flying saucers to implement the ninth plan of Earth's conquest (the first eight failed) with an army of zombies (well, three actually), Vampira, Tor Johnson and Bela Lugosi in his legendary "postmortem" performance (with Ed's chiropractor standing in for Bela after his death).

Video: Plan 9 From Outer Space

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Beast of Yucca Flats

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Beast of Yucca Flats

CinemaNow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Commies made him an atomic mutant! Noted Russian nuclear scientist Joseph Javorsky (Tor Johnson) escapes to the United States with "Top Secret" Soviet documents.

Video: Bride of the Monster

CinemaNow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Diabolical! Fiendish! Horrorific! Legendary horror icon Bela Lugosi (Dracula) stars as Dr. Eric Vornoff, who with Lobo (Tor Johnson), a crazed man-beast servant