Plan 9 from Outer Space

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Summary: The genious of Wood
Review: This movie I would put up against Titanic, Star Wars, or The Sound of Music. Everyone laughs at the mistakes and bad acting in this movie, but they weren't mistakes! They were subliminal hints and artistic freedom. Ed Wood is a genious and Plan 9 proves it.

The continuous changing from day to night in multiple scenes shows our fragile existance and how short life really is. Ed was trying to say "You don't have to be just a day person or a night person. Life is precious and you should live it to the fullest." He proved this point by hiring Bela to be in the movie despite his poor health. Yes he was replaced halfway through the movie after his death, but Ed was saying "No one is indespensible. If you die you are replaced." This is a beautiful message, espescially to those who's ego or head is just too big.

Vampira, beautiful and sureal, cannot be denied star billing in this flick. She has not one line. Ed was saying 'Women be silent!". Not that he was a cheuvanist, but he liked to wear women's clothes (true story!). SO if he ever got caught wearing one of his female friend's clothing, he'd want her to keep quiet and not tell anyone.

All in all, this film will leave you spellbound. The horror, the drama, and the insight to the human psyche are all here. All hail Ed Wood and his greatest achievment "Plan 9 From Outer Space"!!!!!!!

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Summary: So bad I turned it off, and I have a relative in it!
Review: When I popped in Plan 9, I was watching it only because I had a relative in the movie. It was so bad I turned it off about 2/3 of the way through the movie, and for the 20 minutes before that I just quit paying attention.

The plot should warn anyone off the movie: Aliens have attempted 8 times to turn the people of earth into Zombies and they failed. Not wanting to give up, the attempt plan 9. It makes me think they must be part cat or something, 9 plans, 9 lives, what's the difference?

At this point the entire movie is hazy, I know the flying saucers are pie tins and scenes switch from day to night with no real reasoning, but the rest is pretty far gone. A lot of people will say that's what's makes is such a great movie, but I don't think it could warrant 5 stars no matter how you hacked it.

The relative I have in the movie is the stand in for Bela Lugosi. He went by the stage name Tom Mason, and was Bela Lugosi's wife's chiropractor. He might have been Ed Wood's wife/girlfriend's chiropractor, no one's ever told me which one. Either way he was a poor stand in for Lugosi. But I guess when you're convinced you're going to live forever starting in a B grade movie that rehashes shots of the actual vampire from other movies is just one thing on life's to-do list. This movie shouldn't be on any list, except maybe a bad movie list.

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Summary: How do you rate a mvie like this?
Review: I am torn between giving it one star for just dreadful movie making or five stars for entertainemnt value. Five stars it is!

Arguing about whether or not this is the all time worst movie is a bit pointless, no one will ever agree on it. It's kinda like picking the best movie ever or ordering pizza, to each their own. All I know is that this movie is the most amateurish, pretentious, FUNNY thing I have seen in a long long time.

The "plot" involves three ghouls in a cardboard graveyard. They have been reanimated by a group of aliens to take over the world. But no one is supposed to see them. But they're going to march on the capital. All three of them. The movie doesn't get any better from here.

Inspector Daniel Clay (you guessed it, Ed Wood's Swedish wrestler) is one of the ghouls, he is joined by Vampira and BelaLegosi/Ed Wood's wife's chiropractor. It's up to our intrepid heroes to stop the pyjama clad aliens from doing whatever it is they think they are doing.

Armed only with their brains (snicker) our intrepid group enters the alien ship. (why this is square when the enter and round when the get inside must be a scret of alien technology) There they meet a dimunative alien bossy-boots who goes on to deliver the most howlingly funny dialogue in a whole film of classic howlers.

I am of course referring to the STUPID STUPID STUPID conversation.

But this film offers other joys:

"Inspector Clay is dead, murdered, and SOMEBODY is responsible" (the cop then goes on to scratch his neck with the barrel of his revolver, with his finger in the trigger!)
"I am emptied a full clip into him" (This line would have been fine if it weren't for the fact that our hero was using a revolver)
The famous pillow dialogue during which a wife tells her husband that when he is gone, she touches his pillow and that way she isn't so lonely. (o-KAY!) Then she refuses to lock her door knowing there are ghouls in the area. Hey, no one said these people were smart

Even if this isn't the #1 turkey of all time, it comes pretty close so try it out.

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Summary: Quite Simply: A Miricle
Review: This is in no way the worst movie ever made. Casablanca was almost not made the masterpiece it is because the stars were almost all second or third choices, the script was being written during shooting, the director had no specific artistic vision, and the sources for the story elements were as varied as they were topical. To put it bluntly: Casablanca was an accident, and so was Plan 9 from Outer Space. In neither case was anyone trying to make a great film, but that's exactly what we got, both times. Plan 9 must be one of the funniest movies ever made, and miraculous in its ability to sustain that hilarity through every second of this supposedly "bad" movie. There is not a boring moment. I truly don't believe any film, intentionally or not, is this funny. If Casablanca is the second greatest American Film ever made, Plan 9 from Outer Space must be at least the third. OK, forth maybe . . .

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Summary: So Cheesy it smells
Review: This movie is a classic because it is so horrible, it becomes really funny. It's a bad, corny movie, but you can't help but continue watching it. Part of the fun is realizing that this movie wasn't made as a comedy, yet it seems like it was. You can watch it over and over and never get enough. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Out of this world!
Review: "Plan 9 From Outer Space" has been dubbed the worst film ever made. I can't disagree with that. Here are just a few of the things that qualifies it for that title.

- When the police drives from the town to the cemetary time somehow switches from night to day back to night.

- The Swedish accent of wrestler Tor Johnson, playing a police officer / walking corpse.

- The six feet tall, blonde chiropractor that replaced deceased Bela Lugosi.

- The plates-glued-together UFO's with strings completely visible.

- The cardboard tombstones that wiggle.

- The cemetery ground, obviously a piece of fabric covered with leaves.

- The plot, or rather lack thereof.

- The dialogue, hilariosly funny only because it's meant to be serious.

- The actors. Nuff said.

Still, it's also one of the best films ever made. Ed Wood Jr. was a filmmaker with a passion. He wanted to make films, so he made films. You can't help but respect that. That's why this movie deserves five stars, and "Deathstalker III: Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell" deserves none.

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Summary: You have to see it to believe it!
Review: This is the film that has long been pegged as THE worst movie ever made. But if you discount dialouge, acting, lighting, plot, continuity, special effects or star power then you have one heck of a movie! Sample dialouge, wife to husband as he's about to go research what's going on in the cemetary: "The saucers are up there, and the cemetary's out there, but I'll be locked up in there". It's all too funny! The basic "plot" is that there are space aliens (who look just like you or I) who are out to raise the dead on earth, this is their ninth attempt at this (thus the title). The film starts off with the night time funeral of Bela Lugosi's wife. (Bela died after filming 12 minutes of the movie, he was replaced but you'll hardly notice!) That afternoon the old man (Lugosi) returns home and decides he can't live without his wife and leaves the house only to be hit by a car. That night his funeral is held, he then, along with his wife Vampira, become ghouls out to get the living!! None of this makes any sense, but watch the film anyway and see how scenes go from day to night and back again (Ed Wood felt that no one would notice!) Watch as stock footage is used that has nothing to do with the film. Listen to the voice over that tries to make sense of the home movie footage used that Wood shot of Lugosi prior to the movie being written. It's all just way too funny. Although it was intended as a horror/science fiction film it is actually a great comedy.

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Summary: 'PLAN 9' soooo bad, it's GOOD!
Review: Edward D. Wood Jr.'s "PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE" is absolutely the WORST MOVIE EVER MADE! And for that very reason, it's fantastic!

If you were ever looking for a really bad movie, badly made, badly acted, horrible special effects crudely intermixed with stock footage, wretched, cheap sets, 'Plan 9' is it! This is the lowest of the low as far as '50's B-Movies went.

But there are actually many 'pluses' to 'PLAN 9'. 'PLAN 9' is quite notable as it is the last screen role that the late-great Bela Lugosi ("Dracula") was featured in. Wood's direction and screenwriting are very humorous considering this was the period of U.S. History when nuclear war, space, and the future dominated the pop culture scene, so much of the dialogue is quite laughable today.

Furthermore, Tim Burton successfully resurrected the uncanny story and characters of Wood and his hodge-podge ensemble of Hollywood misfits and transvestites in 1993's "Ed Wood" with Johnny Depp and Martin Landau.

"Plan 9" should be sitting on every movie buff's shelf (it is mine!). It stands as a tribute to all those terrible '50's B-Movies, and our American obsession for the slightly quirky '50's pop-culture. Get "Plan 9", and see it for yourself, if you dare!

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Summary: Absolutely horrible--but funny as ever
Review: Here he is at his best (worst)--Ed Wood: the notorious man for being hailed as the worst director of all time. And in Plan 9 From Outer Space, we get to see Ed's ability to create the worst movies that can possibly be made. Everyone has their favorite parts about the ineptitude of this movie. My particular favorite is Ed's inability to want to re-shoot scenes thus resulting on final film as the actors bumping into sets, and stumbling around. Another favorite is the fact of putting Bela Lugosi's name on the credits where all we see of him is a matter of moments in the beginning--and then a caped hidden mad that is supposed to be Bela (which was Ed's wifes chiropracter; who had no acting skill beforehand and was just chosen at random. When one looks at this movie the list is endless of things that make it the worst movie of all time. However, I do give it 3 stars for providing an extremely entertaining show for everyone. It is sad to believe that Ed intended upon this being a great movie, and that everyone today has loved it for its ability to show how bad a film really can be. Sorry Ed, but we cant help but laugh at your attempt. Enjoy the worst movie of all time that turned out to be an extreme mockery of the movie industry.

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Summary: A mistake in most reviews
Review: Most reviews speak of Bela Lugosi's untimely death before or during productions. Fact of the matter is that Bela never was connected to this movie. Ed Wood just needed a star to attract the crowd and since he had some strange footage lying around, he created the beginning of this movie from this footage. That is why the beginning is so funny !! We see a picture of Bela Lugosi walking around in a black dracula-like cloak, picking a flower, walking out of the picture and then we here the sound of an accident. For the rest of this film his character is played by the producer's wife's chiropractor.

This movie is great to watch with a bunch of friends.