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Plan 9 from Outer Space | 
 enlarge | Actors: Carl Anthony, Bill Ash, John Breckinridge, Conrad Brooks, David De Mering
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  252 reviews
Sales Rank: 16083
Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 78 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 8504
ISBN: 6305760403
UPC: 014381850420
EAN: 9786305760405
ASIN: 6305760403
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Release Date: February 15, 2000
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Sometimes a movie achieves such legendary status that it can't quite live up to its reputation. Plan 9 from Outer Space is not one of these movies. It is just as magnificently terrible as you've heard. Plan 9 is the story of space aliens who try to conquer the Earth through resurrection of the dead. Psychic Criswell narrates ("Future events such as these will affect you in the future!") as police rush through the cemetery, occasionally clipping the cardboard tombstones in their zeal to find the source of the mysterious goings-on. More than just a bad film, Plan 9 is something of a one- stop clearinghouse for poor cinematic techniques: The time shifts whimsically from midnight to afternoon sun, Tor Johnson flails desperately in an attempt to rise from his coffin, and flying saucers zoom past on clearly visible strings. Fading star Bela Lugosi tragically died during filming, but such a small hurdle could not stop writer-producer-director Ed Wood. Lugosi is ingeniously replaced with a man who holds a cape across his face and might as well have "NOT BELA LUGOSI" stamped on his forehead. Plan 9 is so sweetly well- intentioned in both its message and its execution that it's impossible not to love it. And if you don't, well, as Eros says, "You people of Earth are idiots!" --Ali Davis
Description
This is it! The most popular Atomic Age cult film of the twentieth century. Winner of two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director of All Time, the immortal Edward D. Wood, Jr.! It's all here, the not-so-special effects, aliens in skating skirts zooming around in string-powered flying saucers to implement the ninth plan of Earth's conquest (the first eight failed) with an army of zombies (well, three actually), Vampira, Tor Johnson and Bela Lugosi in his legendary "postmortem" performance (with Ed's chiropractor standing in for Bela after his death). This truly original movie, Ed Wood's "Citizen Kane," is a hymn to all those who have ever tried to create something intelligent and meaningful, only to fail miserably every step of the way.
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 Best worst movie I've ever seen November 16, 2008
B. Seel (Belvidere, NJ USA)
There's a reason this movie won the Turkey award more than once. It's so bad it's hysterical. It's definitely a must-see
A classic bad movie November 4, 2008
Alex TB
The phrase "worst movie ever" may be thrown around lightly in the world of film, but if you ask any given expert or film fan what the worst film ever made is, the chances are actually very good that they will mention Plan 9 From Outer Space. It is a movie that people talk about for a reason. Something this quotable or statistically loathed has to have something running for it, and it is true, this movie just might be the worst in existence. It probably isn't the funniest in terms of poor quality, or even the most obvious, but it is a classic horrible movie. Astoundingly horrible. Written by cult hero Ed Wood, the movie is about bureaucratic aliens raising a select few zombies from the earth in hopes to take over the world, or at least save it from making the universe explode (a controversy that at first seems interesting until the viewer realizes how grossly implausible and stupid it is). And I suppose this detail might fairly represent how down-to-business this movie is in terms of it's poor quality. From the getgo, people say stupid things, act poorly, and spot deliciously cheesy wobbling flying saucers in the sky. The magnitude of silly quotes in this movie is really uncountable. There was one good actor, Bela Lugosi, possibly the greatest hero of this entire genre. But he was given a part that held absolutely no significance to the movie and involved no dialog, the part of an old man who shortly after death was zombified by the aliens. At first this seems pretty awesome, because his specialty is bad movies. And in fact, he uses the same cape that he used in the original Dracula back in the day. But he died halfway through filming, and another extra was forced to wear the cape and hold it over his face, as if his part actually mattered or anything. Anyway, this movie definitely deserves it's title, and perhaps through the years of bad movies and endless questioning, it might still be the worst movie ever made. Ed Wood would accept no less.
Solarbenite? August 19, 2008
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
How could anyone not love this thing? After all, it has Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Chriswell and a cast of extraterrestrial queens. To top it off it was produced by the 'worst' director of all time, Ed Wood.
Of course it's terrible. If approached anything like cinematic quality it would have been bad. As it is, however, it's terrific, especially if you've knocked down three or four beers in advance. The sets are cheesy, the special effects a joke, the acting ridiculous and the jokes over the top. Aliens, the chief of whom is a total swish, are angry at earth people for not recognizing that they are real. They also believe that earthlings--despite the fact that we are incredibly stupid, juvenile idiots--are about to develop technologies that will destroy the Universe. Therefore, in an equal measure of pique and fear, they must destroy the human race. Not that they haven't tried it before..eight times before, to be exact...and have failed every time. Now they spring their ultimate plan--Plan 9--which is doomed to failure, also.
So how is it that earthlings might destroy the Universe. Read this carefully Al Gore. We are on the verge of discovering Solarbenite, which will ignite the sun's rays, set up a chain reaction, blow up the sun and then every planet in the Universe. Too complicated for you? Well, the aliens explain it in terms that the idiot earthlings can uncerstand. "Imagine a gas can and a ball. Pour the gas from the can in a line to the ball. Put a match to the ball. The ball is the earth and ignites burning back to the can, which is the sun. The sun explodes, blowing up all the planets and then, in a catastrophic chain reaction, every planet in the Universe." What a terrific alternative energy source. Why did it take Ed Woods to figure it out?
Anyway, the flying saucer extraterrestrials set out to destroy the human race by reanimating dead bodies buried in one particular graveyard. Vampira and Bela Lugosi, both recently deceased, are resurrected along with the murdered Chief of Police. These zombies then stumble around in the dark clumsily trying to murder people. Well, it all might have worked out just fine had not several of our earthling heroes not stumbled into a flying saucer than looks a lot like somebody's house. There's a fight, the saucer catches fire and, after our heroes make a quick departure, blows up while escaping into outer space. Therefore, and fortunately for the earth, Plan 9 is foiled. No doubt, however, there will be Plans 10 and 11 but unfortunately without Bela Lugosi. He died while filming this masterpiece, necessitating his replacement with a 'stunt' double.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Not as hilariously awful as I was told May 9, 2008
Martin R. Goss
After hearing different people tell me Plan 9 was the most unequivocally awful film they ever saw, I finally bought a copy and watched it, and it wasn't nearly as awful as some of the other badfilm I've seen (badfilm = corny, cliched dialog + cheesy props & effects + the film takes itself seriously). If you watch the interviews which come right after the film, it becomes less awful when you realize Ed Wood made a halfway decent film with what little he had to work with. The Blair Witch kids did as much forty years later, but nobody laughed at THEM. Plan 9 does have a workable plot, and it's a shame Ed Wood suffered such an ignominious demise.
Plan 9 is not a movie for viewers hoping to find a film peppered with side-splitting gaffes.
Let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent! May 8, 2008
Tony Harris (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this movie. I keep watching it over and over. It's really not a bad movie at all. "The Goonies" was a bad movie, not this. It's just delightfully offbeat. Tor Johnson is a gem in his zombie contact lenses, Vampira is a cinch waisted stunner, killing by merely shaking her hands. And then there's Bela Lugosi, who was already dead when this movie was released playing a man risen from the dead...shear poetry. The best line comes from the pilots wife...."You'll be up there, and the graveyards out there, but I'll be in there."-Perfect
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