An unintentionally funny tale.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956)
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Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 18
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is Ed Wood's unintentionally hilarious film in which aliens plan to take over the world by resurrecting only three corpses. Horror icon Bela Lugosi died during production... PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is Ed Wood's unintentionally hilarious film in which aliens plan to take over the world by resurrecting only three corpses. Horror icon Bela Lugosi died during production and was replaced by a chiropractor who hid his face behind a cape. The film also features Vampira and wrestler Tor Johnson. Quite possibly the best bad movie ever made, PLAN 9, with its hubcap flying saucers on strings, is sure to entertain. [More]
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Tor Johnson, Vampira
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Tor Johnson, Vampira, Paul Marco, Dudley Manlove
Director: Edward D. Wood
Director: Edward D. Wood
Reviews for Plan 9 from Outer Space
Far too entertaining to be considered as the very worst film ever made.
Like the greatest cinema poets, [Wood] always managed to work in his own particular pet pleasures or concerns, and that odd, ear-bending dialogue is almost like a bizarre kind of open-verse poetry.
J. Hoberman of the Village Voice has made a case for Wood as an unconscious avant-gardist; there's no denying that his blunders are unusually creative and oddly expressive.
It all ends with famous psychic Criswell asking the audience, 'Can you prove it didn't happen? God help us in the future'. Prophetic.
It is hopelessly inept and incompetent, but has a place in the canon, albeit a lowly one. It lets us know how badly things can go wrong, and how passion is not always enough.
Unintentionally one of the funniest movies ever made and actually worth the rental price for sheer, silly fun. Pay special attention to the less than authentic gravestones.
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