Metacritic Film

I Woke Up Early The Day I Died

Starring Billy Zane

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Cinequanon Pictures International
Comedy
90 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 3, 1999

Overcoming a nurse, and dressing in her clothes, a madman escapes from Hope Sanitarium. The film is quintessential Ed Wood with a modern twist - no dialogue, only atmospheric sounds, alternating bursts of laughter and screams, and a wonderful soundtrack. (Cinnequanon Pictures)

WRITTEN BY
Edward D. Wood Jr.

DIRECTED BY
Aris Iliopulos

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

14 / 100

Critic Reviews

40 TV Guide
An amazing artifact; the decor and lighting mix '70s tackiness with odd '50s touches, the sound design is elaborate.
30 Village Voice
That this mime show works better than it should is, in a sense, the ultimate dis.
30 The New York Times Anita Gates
It's sad and misguided and boring.
25 New York Post Rod Dreher
Presumably Zane & Co. had a lot more fun filming this inexplicable low-budget indulgence than any sane person will have watching it.
3 Mr. Showbiz
Sitting through the film is like Chinese water torture, for sure, and for reasons beyond the forced, idiotic campiness of the thing. For one thing, there is not one word of dialogue.
0 Entertainment Weekly
Just... bad. As in BAD bad.

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