He was also meant to headline his latest film, originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space (that title fell foul of Wood’s Baptist financial backers). Most famously, Wood managed to cadge horror icon Bela Lugosi on a steep decline in his fortunes and shoehorn him into a couple of his movies ( Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Atom) prior to Plan 9 from Outer Space. “Performances” is a strong word, because Ed Wood’s directorial style was so notoriously slapdash that he barely had time to elicit any actual acting from his hodgepodge cast. With flying saucers (looking suspiciously like hub caps painted silver) menacing Hollywood, square-jawed pilot Jeff Trent comes to the rescue. This plan is so lame that you have to wonder how shit the previous eight plans were. So they implement plan 9, which involves raising a trio of very slow and bumbling corpses from the grave to make them think again.
They’ve tried contacting the governments of Earth but the top brass don’t want to hear it.
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All of which makes Plan 9 from Outer Space essential viewing for cult movie fans…Ī couple of aliens in silk blouses are worried about mankind developing a “Solaranite” bomb capable of setting light to … *checks notes* … sunlight and destroying the universe (“Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!”)
The film’s problems are so numerous that it’s hard to pinpoint why it is so bad – the dialogue is nonsensical, the logic is garbled, the performances are non-existent, the sets are so cheap that it makes a school nativity play look like a Hollywood blockbuster. If this guy could get a film made, surely there’s hope for everyone. That’s not to say many haven’t tried – one critic called the film “a triumph of will over talent” – a strangely backhanded compliment that is also one of the most inspiring things about the movie for wannabe filmmakers. Starring: Bela Lugosi (sort of), Gregory Walcott, Tor Johnson, Vampira, CriswellĮd Wood’s endearingly threadbare magnum opus is so uniquely bad that it defies any rational criticism. “Greetings, my friend! We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives…”
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