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List Price: $9.99 Our Price: $9.99 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 1958 DVD Release : 15 February, 2000 |
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Plan 9 from Outer Space description 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 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | So Bad It's Good? Not even close. |
| I was born in the early 60's and grew up appreciating classic B&W chilling classics, such as The Outer Limits and Vincent Price movies, and other late 60's classics like Planet of the Apes (1968). So when I saw this at the library, I was intrigued. The cover art looked like classic 50's, and I liked that. The text on the back said "so bad, it's good". That was a joke.
Think of someone putting cold soup made with rotten veggies in front of you and telling you, "it's so bad, it's good!". No, it's just rotten swill with zero value. This "movie" pales even to a hacked together Stooges episode where 10% of it was new, and the rest recycled footage. At least those botched attempts cobbled together a reasonable story. This waste of time doesn't even come close to satisfying that simple criteria. Beyond that, the sets are draped sheets over plywood walls, thrown together in what must have been minutes. The acting is non-existant, and Legosi is a cigar store Indian, as usual. If you wish to see a creative, chilling good flick from the 50's, don't waste your time on this pile of rot. It was a total hack job when it was released, and it aged very poorly. Instead, check out "Night of the Demons" aka "Curse of the Demons", or well crafted B&W horror movies like that. |
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