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Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956)

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Reviews Counted: 29

Fresh: 18

Rotten:11

Average Rating: 4.7/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is Ed Wood's unintentionally hilarious film in which aliens plan to take over the world by resurrecting only three corpses. Horror icon Bela Lugosi died during production... PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is Ed Wood's unintentionally hilarious film in which aliens plan to take over the world by resurrecting only three corpses. Horror icon Bela Lugosi died during production and was replaced by a chiropractor who hid his face behind a cape. The film also features Vampira and wrestler Tor Johnson. Quite possibly the best bad movie ever made, PLAN 9, with its hubcap flying saucers on strings, is sure to entertain. [More]

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Tor Johnson, Vampira

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Tor Johnson, Vampira, Paul Marco, Dudley Manlove

Director: Edward D. Wood

Director: Edward D. Wood

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Nov 30, 1999

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An unintentionally funny tale.

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07/27/07
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Far too entertaining to be considered as the very worst film ever made.

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06/08/07
Phil Hall
Film Threat

Like the greatest cinema poets, [Wood] always managed to work in his own particular pet pleasures or concerns, and that odd, ear-bending dialogue is almost like a bizarre kind of open-verse poetry.

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04/30/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

J. Hoberman of the Village Voice has made a case for Wood as an unconscious avant-gardist; there's no denying that his blunders are unusually creative and oddly expressive.

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03/28/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Hardly The Remains of the Day, but some would claim it's more fun.

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03/28/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It all ends with famous psychic Criswell asking the audience, 'Can you prove it didn't happen? God help us in the future'. Prophetic.

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02/09/06
Derek Adams
Time Out

Yes, it's so awful it's almost good. Here is the birth of camp in cinema.

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10/07/05
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

staggeringly, unmissably bad

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08/26/05
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

The ultimate cult flick.

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08/12/05
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

No review available.

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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
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No review available.

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05/19/05
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

No review available.

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04/01/05
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

It's mind-numbingly brilliant in its overwhelming, soul-destroying badness.

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02/22/05
Widgett Walls
Needcoffee.com

Not nearly as awful as everyone seems to think it is.

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10/10/04
Matt Bailey
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Only because it's so awful, it's good.

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07/01/04
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)

It is hopelessly inept and incompetent, but has a place in the canon, albeit a lowly one. It lets us know how badly things can go wrong, and how passion is not always enough.

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03/09/04
James O'Ehley
Sci-Fi Movie Page

...if you don’t find yourself giggling you’re not of this Earth.

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02/27/04
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

When it's really bad, it's good. The rest is just dull.

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02/25/04
Edward Johnson-Ott
NUVO Newsweekly

Unintentionally one of the funniest movies ever made and actually worth the rental price for sheer, silly fun. Pay special attention to the less than authentic gravestones.

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02/23/04
Dan Lybarger
Nitrate Online

No review available.

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09/26/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
 
 
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