Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

'Plan 9' is the epitome of 'so bad it is good' movies. Really something that only (anti)genius mind of Edward D. Wood Jr. could conceive. You have to give credit to the film for its creativeness and message. Unfortunately, Ed Wood lacked the skill (talent) and money (for obvious reasons) to fully realize his ambitious ideas as plausible and coherent movies. The story line is messy, Bela Lugosi is briefly in it only because Wood had some unused footage of him, all the other actors are concentrated keeping on straight faces while saying their lines so the acting is wooden. Cheap sets (curtains in spaceship) and awful special effects. Still, the film is too damned entertaining to be considered 'worst film of all times' (Ed Wood's own 'Night of the Ghouls' is much more dreadful). The general plot - aliens are resurrecting the dead from the grave to conquer the World - is outrageously intriguing.'Plan 9 from Outer Space' cemented Ed Wood into the history of cinema and into people's concusses as the worst director of all times. This is the label his legacy has to wear forever. There are many directors of his level of ineptitude, but few of them are so entertaining and interesting.No matter what anyone says, Edward D. Wood Jr. is one of the most creative (using hubcaps as flying saucers over stock footage - that is creativeness) and influential filmmakers of all times. True Z-movie hero, an (anti)auteur, rebel and unconscious avantgardist.

This film features the worst actor (Dudley Manlove) in cinematic history. It has the worst director (Ed Wood). The flying saucers were bought at the toy store. The script stinks. Even the stock footage is mediocre.The result is a flick that is entertaining from start to finish, and never dull. Its sheer badness is its strength. When Dudley Manlove lectures the earthmen and yells "Youre stupid minds! Stuipid! STUPID!!!" I always marvel at how STUPID he is to be shouting it at an enraged six foot four hunk of muscle named Tom Keene. His alien technology appears to never have calculated the physics of a broken jaw.It has been said that Ed Wood's films do not have special effects. Rather, they have symbols to show where special effects would be if Ed could afford them. This was never clearer than the final scene, where the burning flying saucer flys away and explodes. The saucer was not one of the toys. Rather, it was two paper plates glued together, sprayed with lighter fluid, and set on fire. Why would Ed have burned a valuable toy when he could have kept it and given it away for Christmas?Criswell's pretentious narration was the best part of the film. This phony psychic was always a hit on the Jonny Carson show, because he was so preposterous.Vampira was hot! She could suck my blood any day of the week.400 pound Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, whom Vampira called "a great big hunnybun", never looked better than when he rose from the grave.This movie is maximum camp. If you have never seen it your life is not complete.

Well, The Amazing Criswell's words in the very beginning of the movie do prepare the ground for what you're about to see. And it definitely is not pleasant for many out there. But for an unexplained reason... it was for me.The movie's cons are it's pros: the plot is so absurd that is actually brilliant, the acting and the lines are so poor that they just make you laugh all the time and the goofs throughout the movie (visible boom microphone, spinning around in order to avoid a curtain e.t.c.) make you ask for more.Cult figures such as Bela Lugosi (who's Plan 9 from Outer Space is his last movie), Vampira and The Amazing Criswell embrace Ed Wood's absurd world but they're not the only ones. Several Baptists were involved in the production on the film, which by the way, was Ed Wood's pride.

This film's reputation has long preceded it and due to this you may be disappointed when viewing this awful cheap science fiction film. Yes, it is badly made in almost every sense and this makes it highly watchable, but it's hardly the so-bad-it's-good masterpiece that most people proclaim it to be. Instead, it's a laughable and derivative alien invasion flick which makes the most out of a small set filled with cardboard gravestones and some incredibly hokey-looking flying saucers which wobble about all over the screen.If you're looking for some of the poorest special effects ever witnessed, look no further. Or how about a talent less cast of non-actors and actresses who find it hard to keep a straight face? Ed Wood did well to assemble a few familiar faces to give it that cult appeal, including strangely beautiful zombie woman Vampira, phoney psychic Criswell, Swedish meathead Tor Johnson, who visibly struggles with his dialogue, and aged horror star Bela Lugosi in what was to be his final role. Except the joke is that Lugosi was only around to shoot a few shots in a graveyard, so a stunt-double is employed for most of the film, walking around with his cape up over his face to disguise his identity. The trouble is, this doesn't fool anybody for a second! Poor Lugosi gets dissolved into a skeleton in one of the film's frequently ludicrous - and thereby hilarious - scenes.The one thing I liked about this film was Tor Johnson's appearance as a zombie, which was pretty scary looking. Otherwise it's abysmal all the way: a nonsensical plot, a lack of pacing and storyline, an inability to decide whether to play it straight or for laughs all help to relegate it to the dustbin of movie history. The sets are cheap and unbelievable and the special effects look like they were created by a four year old. This film has to be seen due to it's reputation, but it's pretty disappointing in the end and lacks the unintentional humour which often makes a so-bad-it's-good classic. This is just plain weird.