VHS : Plan 9 from Outer Space
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starring: Carl Anthony, Bill Ash, John Breckinridge, Conrad Brooks, David De Mering
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305399353
Format: Black & White, EP, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6305399352
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: June 01, 1999
Running Time: 79 minutes
Sales Rank: 28897
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Theatrical Release Date: 1959-07
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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:  - Best worst movie I've ever seen
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
Rating: - A classic bad movie
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, ... Read More
Rating: - Solarbenite?
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 ... Read More
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 as ... 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 there, ... Read More
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