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"So bad it's actually good" is the phrase that defines the work of Ed Wood. Hailed as "the worst director of all time", Edward Davis Wood Jr. will have a retrospective of his work at Fantasporto 2012. Born in America, he was a producer, director and writer of horror movies, "love stories" and science fiction films that clearly stood out in their creativity, taking into account the limited resources he had, both technical and monetary. Ed Wood was quickly to become a cult filmmaker. His films "Glen or Glenda" and "Plan 9 from Outer Space" are indicated as the "worst films in cinema history" because of the idiosyncratic dialogues, very naive special effects and continuity errors.

O festival vai também celebrar os 30 anos de "Blade Runner” de Ridley Scott, havendo ainda espaço para uma homenagem ao realizador britânico Mike Hodges, que completa 80 anos em 2012 e há quatro décadas filmou o icónico "Get Carter” com Michael Caine.