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Plan 9 from Outer Space
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
Brand: HOME VIDEO
EAN: 9786303170497
Format: Black & White, EP, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6303170498
Label: Rhino / Wea
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Model: R32173
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: April 18, 1995
Running Time: 79 minutes
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Theatrical Release Date: 1959-07
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not as hilariously awful as I was told
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent!
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 ... Read More
Rating: - outer space movie review
I purchased the item for my husband, he likes movies like that he enjoys it so I would say that it was a good movie and it was in excellent condition and arrived in a timely manner.
Rating: - The movie you hate to love
This is a great copy to have of the "worst film ever made." The colorized version is surprisingly good and it includes the BW version as well (for the purists). The "qualities" of the film are, of course, legendary. I suppose everyone has their own favorite moments, but for me it is the use of bathroom shower curtains in lieu of a door in the cockpit of the airplane. Frankly, the production values are so outrageously cheap that it almost plays like a spoof of bad films. Except, God love him, Ed Wood ... Read More
Rating: - Awesomely campy
My husband is a lover of all the old sci-fi movies and he bought this and I laughed at first, but I got sucked in. This movie is so bad you can't look away! From the hubcap spaceships to the cardboard cockpit in the military plane and the awful dialogue. Vampira and Bela Lugosi totally make the movie. Especially sad (and funny) is that Lugosi died during filming and they had some scenes done, but for others they used Ed Wood's wife's chiropractor as his double, he moved around with a cape covering his ... Read More
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