Editing Glen or Glenda (section)

==Critical reception==
Describing the film as "a half-mad old movie Paramount hasn't so much rescued as disinterred", critic [[Janet Maslin]] wrote in a 1981 review of the film in ''[[The New York Times]]'' that "it's dreadful enough to have a certain comic appeal", that the Lugosi character "presides over the action like some sex change deity", that it is "impassioned [and] incoherent", but noted that "there is plenty of inadvertent humor in ''Glen or Glenda,'' with its weirdo homilies, rotten acting and frequent talk of underwear."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Maslin |first1=Janet |title=Bevare! Bevare! It's Lugosi |work=The New York Times |date=22 May 1981 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/22/movies/bevare-bevare-it-s-lugosi.html |access-date=2023-10-25}}</ref> Writing in ''[[DVD Talk]]'', critic Ian Jane wrote that "Wood throws in all manner of strange stock footage of Buffalo and bound women alongside clips of Bela Lugosi freaking out", that the film is "so utterly messed up that it borders on arthouse rather than simple b-movie exploitation", but that it "holds up immensely for multiple viewings due to its total incoherence".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jane |first1=Ian |title=Ed Wood Box, The |url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/13279/ed-wood-box-the/ |website=DVD Talk |publisher=DVDTalk.com |access-date=2023-10-25}}</ref> A review by Andrea LeVasseur in ''[[AllMovie]]'' described the film as a "showcase of Wood's infamous ineptitude", and noted that "the personal stories of two transvestites are spoken with ridiculous dialogue, terrible acting, and interspersed with irrelevant stock footage. Every so often, a drug-addicted Bela Lugosi would appear with some strange and pointless narration."<ref>{{cite web |last1=LeVasseur |first1=Andrea |title=Glen or Glenda? (1953) |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/glen-or-glenda-vm436056/review |website=AllMovie |publisher=Netaktion LLC |access-date=2023-10-25}}</ref>

The critic [[Leonard Maltin]] names ''Glen or Glenda'' as "possibly the worst movie ever made".<ref name="Maltin01211">{{cite book |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Maltin |title=Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2004 |publisher=Signet |year=2003 |isbn=0-451-20940-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/leonardmaltinsmo00leon }}</ref>  Richard Barrios describes ''Glen or Glenda'' as "one of the funniest and worst movies ever made".<ref>Richard Barrios, ''Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall'', Psychology Press, 2003, {{ISBN|0-415-92328-X}}, p. 235.</ref>