Plan 9 from Outer Space
by Edward D. Wood Jr.
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Actor: Bela Lugosi, Dudley Manlove, Tor Johnson, VampiraDirector: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Brand: LEG
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: LF00416
Studio: Legend Films
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- Starring Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson and Vampira The Best "Worst Movie Ever Made" Ed Wood's cultic has been hailed as the worst film of all time, but it's one of the most hilariously entertaining movies you'll ever see. Aliens from outer space reanimate the Earth's dead in an attempt to save the human race. Will their 9th plan work? With string-powered flying saucers, la
Movie Reviews of Plan 9 from Outer Space
Movie Review: So Bad It's Good
Summary: 5 Stars
Ed Wood's legendary stinker should require no introduction. After all, what other movie can be considered among cinema's most important by virtue of being so irredeemably terrible? Starring archival footage of a post-mortem Bela Lugosi, unedited single-take scenes, live script-reading and the worst special effects ever conceived by man (eat your heart out, Mr. Lucas)--all of these elements conspire to ensure that you've seen better quality videos produced on certain well-known websites. Yet all of these ridiculous elements conspire to create one of the funniest movies of all time, even if it is unintentionally so.
Now Legend Films has arrived on the scene to breathe new life into this "masterpiece" through its advanced colorization process. Honestly, while watching this DVD you will not be able to tell that the color was added decades after the fact. Legend has had its ups and downs in terms of color saturation and believable palate, but they clearly brought their best effort to Plan 9--it looks as though it was filmed yesterday. Also included on the DVD is the original black and white version, but even as a fan of the classics, I strongly urge you to consider watching the color version first--it is simply that much better.
The special features really put this DVD over the top, though. Included (as is the case with many Legend Films DVDs) is an audio commentary in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 vein by the show's star, Mike Nelson. As you can imagine, Mike avails himself of the lush material presented by Plan 9, to hilarious result. Even people who have never seen Mystery Science Theater before will undoubtedly find this commentary hilarious, particularly if they are movie fans. Also worth a mention is a short video of Director Ed Wood doing a vintage striptease (Ed, it appears, was as interesting in life as his movies might suggest) and Mike Nelson's comedic explanation of Plans 1 through 8 (for the curious).
Summary of Plan 9 from Outer Space
Ed Wood's cult classic has been hailed as the worst film of all time, but it's one of the most hilariously entertaining movies you'll ever see. Aliens from outer space reanimate the Earth's dead in an attempt to save the human race. With string-powered flying saucers, laughable dialogue, shrewd alien logic and priceless special effects, they can't go wrong. Or can they? (Hint: They do.) Plan 9 is a movie so beautifully bad, it's great. Now you can watch it in color for the first time!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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