Plan 9 from Outer Space

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.

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, but I'll be in there."-Perfect

I purchased the item for my husband, he likes movies like that he enjoys it so I would say that it was a good movie and it was in excellent condition and arrived in a timely manner.

This is a great copy to have of the "worst film ever made." The colorized version is surprisingly good and it includes the BW version as well (for the purists). The "qualities" of the film are, of course, legendary. I suppose everyone has their own favorite moments, but for me it is the use of bathroom shower curtains in lieu of a door in the cockpit of the airplane. Frankly, the production values are so outrageously cheap that it almost plays like a spoof of bad films. Except, God love him, Ed Wood was serious about this one. Personally, the film is a keeper for me because it includes Criswell (childhood memories of "Criswell Predicts") and Vampira (again, nostalgia from Los Angeles TV in the '50s). But most of all, because it is Bela Lugosi's last film. It is hard to imagine life without a film like "Plan 9 From Outer Space." I couldn't, in good conscience, give this 5 stars, but for nostalgia, rollicking laughs that were not intended, and for the sincerity and love of film-making by a clueless director, it certainly merits 4.

My husband is a lover of all the old sci-fi movies and he bought this and I laughed at first, but I got sucked in. This movie is so bad you can't look away! From the hubcap spaceships to the cardboard cockpit in the military plane and the awful dialogue. Vampira and Bela Lugosi totally make the movie. Especially sad (and funny) is that Lugosi died during filming and they had some scenes done, but for others they used Ed Wood's wife's chiropractor as his double, he moved around with a cape covering his face. Awesome. Not quite as bad as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (IMO) but right up there!