Plan 9 From Outer Space [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of Plan 9 From Outer Space [VHS]
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).
Movie Review: Best worst movie I've ever seen
Summary: 5 Stars
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-seeMovie Review: A classic bad movie
Summary: 5 Stars
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, or even the most obvious, but it is a classic horrible movie. Astoundingly horrible. Written by cult hero Ed Wood, the movie is about bureaucratic aliens raising a select few zombies from the earth in hopes to take over the world, or at least save it from making the universe explode (a controversy that at first seems interesting until the viewer realizes how grossly implausible and stupid it is). And I suppose this detail might fairly represent how down-to-business this movie is in terms of it's poor quality. From the getgo, people say stupid things, act poorly, and spot deliciously cheesy wobbling flying saucers in the sky. The magnitude of silly quotes in this movie is really uncountable. There was one good actor, Bela Lugosi, possibly the greatest hero of this entire genre. But he was given a part that held absolutely no significance to the movie and involved no dialog, the part of an old man who shortly after death was zombified by the aliens. At first this seems pretty awesome, because his specialty is bad movies. And in fact, he uses the same cape that he used in the original Dracula back in the day. But he died halfway through filming, and another extra was forced to wear the cape and hold it over his face, as if his part actually mattered or anything. Anyway, this movie definitely deserves it's title, and perhaps through the years of bad movies and endless questioning, it might still be the worst movie ever made. Ed Wood would accept no less.Movie Review: Solarbenite?
Summary: 5 Stars
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 the top. Aliens, the chief of whom is a total swish, are angry at earth people for not recognizing that they are real. They also believe that earthlings--despite the fact that we are incredibly stupid, juvenile idiots--are about to develop technologies that will destroy the Universe. Therefore, in an equal measure of pique and fear, they must destroy the human race. Not that they haven't tried it before..eight times before, to be exact...and have failed every time. Now they spring their ultimate plan--Plan 9--which is doomed to failure, also.
So how is it that earthlings might destroy the Universe. Read this carefully Al Gore. We are on the verge of discovering Solarbenite, which will ignite the sun's rays, set up a chain reaction, blow up the sun and then every planet in the Universe. Too complicated for you? Well, the aliens explain it in terms that the idiot earthlings can uncerstand. "Imagine a gas can and a ball. Pour the gas from the can in a line to the ball. Put a match to the ball. The ball is the earth and ignites burning back to the can, which is the sun. The sun explodes, blowing up all the planets and then, in a catastrophic chain reaction, every planet in the Universe." What a terrific alternative energy source. Why did it take Ed Woods to figure it out?
Anyway, the flying saucer extraterrestrials set out to destroy the human race by reanimating dead bodies buried in one particular graveyard. Vampira and Bela Lugosi, both recently deceased, are resurrected along with the murdered Chief of Police. These zombies then stumble around in the dark clumsily trying to murder people. Well, it all might have worked out just fine had not several of our earthling heroes not stumbled into a flying saucer than looks a lot like somebody's house. There's a fight, the saucer catches fire and, after our heroes make a quick departure, blows up while escaping into outer space. Therefore, and fortunately for the earth, Plan 9 is foiled. No doubt, however, there will be Plans 10 and 11 but unfortunately without Bela Lugosi. He died while filming this masterpiece, necessitating his replacement with a 'stunt' double.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Movie Review: Not as hilariously awful as I was told
Summary: 5 Stars
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 much forty years later, but nobody laughed at THEM. Plan 9 does have a workable plot, and it's a shame Ed Wood suffered such an ignominious demise.
Plan 9 is not a movie for viewers hoping to find a film peppered with side-splitting gaffes.