Plan 9 from Outer Space
1959 Directed by Edward D. Wood Jr.
Synopsis
Unspeakable Horrors From Outer Space Paralyze The Living And Resurrect The Dead!
In California, an old man (Bela Lugosi) grieves the loss of his wife (Vampira) and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay (Tor Johnson) that was murdered by the couple. Their intention is not to conquest Earth but to stop mankind from developing the powerful bomb "Solobonite" that would threaten the universe. When the population of Hollywood and Washington DC sees flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife and a policeman try to stop the aliens.
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There is always the vague hope that when you start watching a film that has been heralded as one of the worst ever that it will somehow not be that bad.
This film has a cockpit of a plane that consists of two wooden chairs and a curtain.
Yep, that's all hope gone out of the window.
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It's so damn bad...
but so damn good at the same time.
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Plan 9 From Outer Space is often amusingly bad, that I can't deny.
And with its moments of earnest narrative sincerity, occasional beautiful phrases such as the aliens' saying of Earth people "their souls are too controlled", its failed high ambition in uniting space-aliens, vampires and zombies in one grand scheme, it brought back to me the off-key tenderness of Ed Wood the film - and it ends up an exemplar of so-bad-it's-good camp.
But the rubbish editing sometimes makes Plan 9 incoherent, which can't help spoil the fun a little.
[Acknowledgement: Susan Sontag's Notes on Camp, for some of the attributes of camp in the second paragraph.]
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I can't help but love this movie. I know it's bad in so many ways.I know it's acted appallingly,I know the script is insane, i know the sets are wobbly and made of cardboard,i know the camera is jerky as fuck,i know the entire plan of the tittle makes no sense what so ever,i know it's made by an incompetent loon with zero talent . I know all this and i still think Plan 9 is one of the funniest movies i've seen. It's one huge blooper real,and i love it. Get some mates round and pop it on with some cold ones and have a ball.
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Extremely difficult to rate. It's bad, enjoyably so. Recommended.
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How should I rate a film that is so bad but at the same time among my Top 10 of all time?
So I give it 1.5 for the entertainment value and 0.5 for it's quality. The movies by Ed Wood may not be what you call "good", but they are really entertaining and "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is the best of them all.
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4 for Wacky!
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A very bad film (especially due to the ridiculous changes of night and daytime and the effects of actor Bela Lugosi's death), but that's what makes it extremely hilarious at the same time. I just can't watch this without cracking up every 5 minutes and that's the reason why it is still one of my favourite films.
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While being very entertainingly bad, it actually wasn't as bad as I thought, considering its reputation as the worst film ever made. I think most of what's given the film that title is its incredibly laughable special effects, with hubcap flying saucers, cardboard tombstones and the airplane cockpit which I don't know how to explain other than say it looks nothing like a plane cockpit. Some terrible acting and strange dialogue too also gives some good laughs ("Stupid, stupid!).
However the biggest fault with this movie is that a lot of the scenes can be very boring too. While the completely preposterous story should be an absolute gold mine for unintentional comedy (and in a few cases it is) there…
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The legends are true. Packed with technical gaffes, this disjointed horror film is so bad it turns into parody. It offers inept direction, melodramatic, wackily trite dialogue, terrible, wooden, melodramatic acting (Dudley Manlove is a particular riot), inappropriate music, and choppy editing. More enjoyable with a group.
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Really horrible and painful to watch on one's own but loads of fun when viewed with a crowd.
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I'm going to go ahead and pretend I occasionally looked up from my phone while watching this.
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Fun and kitch. It's a movie that will never get old.
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it's less entertaining than you think it will be
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A silly plot, terrible writing, bad acting, and bad directing. Throw in the bad-even-by-1959-standards special effects, and it’s easy for me to say that Plan 9 From Outer Space is absolutely, without question, the… second worst film I’ve ever seen. Bad as it is, it’s still got a long way to go before being as bad as Manos: The Hands of Fate. Read full review.