Ed Wood Presents
“Hello there! My name is Ed Wood, and I’m a filmmaker.”
The sizzle, in Ed’s own footage.
The worst director in history returns from the grave to tell the stories Hollywood never let him.
Ed Wood Presents is a horror-satire anthology hosted by the cult icon himself. Each episode is a stand-alone story — new characters, new genre, new ending — and Ed is already inside it when we arrive: pedaling out of a flying saucer, haunting a thrift-shop sweater, pacing a high-school library in a varsity jacket, perched on a Malibu guardrail at dawn. Like Serling and the Crypt Keeper before him, he opens and closes every story. Unlike them, he can’t stay out of it. He has notes. He has a cameo. He has a drink.
The look is 1950s B-movie grandeur with a modern budget. The voice is deadpan, affectionate, fourth-wall-breaking, and sharper than the gore. Horror and comedy don’t alternate here; they overlap. Underneath, every story plays the same three chords through a different genre: identity, performance, and nostalgia — who gets to be the star, who gets used as a prop, and what myths we still kill ourselves to uphold.
Seven stories exist in full, collected in Ed Wood Presents: An Anthology. Two more are optioned and in development. The series is made possible by an exclusive agreement with the estate of Kathy Wood, Ed’s widow: his name, his likeness, his voice, and his unpublished works. The stories themselves are original, written for Ed to tell. Ed is the host; the words are ours.
He begins as a blustering showman. He ends on Stage 9, face to face with Bela Lugosi, realizing the stories were about him all along.
Studio portrait, inscribed by Kathy Wood
47,000 words, ready to read
in development
hosted and narrated by Ed
name, likeness, voice, works
A new genre every week, in the order they appear in the book. Each one finished, each one hosted.
1Plan 10
2Drag Show of Blood
3The Ghost in the Angora
4Zombie High School Musical
5Killing John Wayne
6The Age of the Isoform
7Ed Wood vs. the Undead
In development: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not · The Mound of Madness
Optioned from outside writers. Treatments available.
The pitch, in full.
Format, tone, rights, season arc, casting approach, comps, and all nine episodes. Twenty slides. Shared with prospective partners on request.
Request the DeckProof of concept, in print.
Ed Wood Presents: An Anthology by Alec McElroy. Seven stories, 47,000 words, every episode written in full before a frame is shot. Publishing December 2026.
Read the AnthologyEd’s films belong to everyone now. Pull up a chair.
The pictures that made the legend are in the public domain. Here is the one that started it, courtesy of the Internet Archive, and the rest a click away.
“Out there, past the edge of what used to be, someone is warming a projector, threading a reel, dimming the lights. And when the new picture starts, I hope you’ll be there with me. And I hope you bring a friend.” Ed Wood · Plan 10
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Shared with prospective partners. Please don’t circulate.
With thanks to Robert Blackburn and the estate of Kathy Wood.