An unintentionally funny tale.
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07/27/07
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... [More]
Reviews for Plan 9 from Outer Space
Far too entertaining to be considered as the very worst film ever made.
06/08/07
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.
04/30/07
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.
03/28/07
Hardly The Remains of the Day, but some would claim it's more fun.
03/28/07
It all ends with famous psychic Criswell asking the audience, 'Can you prove it didn't happen? God help us in the future'. Prophetic.
02/09/06
Yes, it's so awful it's almost good. Here is the birth of camp in cinema.
10/07/05
staggeringly, unmissably bad
08/26/05
The ultimate cult flick.
08/12/05
No review available.
07/01/05
No review available.
05/19/05
No review available.
04/01/05
It's mind-numbingly brilliant in its overwhelming, soul-destroying badness.
02/22/05
Not nearly as awful as everyone seems to think it is.
10/10/04
Only because it's so awful, it's good.
07/01/04
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.
03/09/04
...if you don’t find yourself giggling you’re not of this Earth.
02/27/04
When it's really bad, it's good. The rest is just dull.
02/25/04
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.
02/23/04
No review available.
09/26/03
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