Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
Directed by Edward D. Wood Jr.
In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife, and dies the day after she is buried. However, the space soldier Eros and his mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both, alongside the strong Inspector Clay, who was murdered by the alien-controlled dead couple. When the populations of Hollywood and Washington D.C. see flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife, and a policeman try to stop the aliens.
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Burton re-creates the shooting of such hilariously inept Wood classics as Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 From Outer Space, duplicating the sets and staging with a loving exactitude that makes every tacky prop and zombie performance seem revelatory.
The movie veers into greatness in a scene where Wood storms off the set of Plan 9 from Outer Space (in drag), and goes to a bar, where Orson Welles (brilliantly played by Vincent D'Onofrio) is also having a drink.
Director Tim Burton was raised on a diet of schlock horror films that included such Ed Wood classics as Bride of the Monster, Night of the Ghouls and Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, and most famously Plan 9 from Outer Space, with their shaky cardboard sets, lead-balloon dialogue, wooden acting, and pie-plate flying saucers, remain the standards by which all grade-Z crapfilms are measured.
A remake of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" wouldn't be nearly as enjoyable as the original because no one could make it with a straight face.
Heck, "Plan 9 From Outer Space" looks like "Citizen Kane" compared to this!!!
("Plan 9"'s only rival is Phil Tucker's "Robot Monster" and Ed's own "Glen or Glenda".
However, Italian audiences consider their Giallo films to be “spaghetti thrillers,” or, what most international audiences might refer to today as the B movie horror genre ( Plan 9 From Outer Space , Dead Alive , the aforementioned Cat People , Chopping Mall , etc.).
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…it’s not nearly as awful as Wood’s infamous “Plan 9 from Outer Space.”
…surely the worst scarefest since fiasco director extraordinaire Ed Wood taught us how bad bad could be in 1959’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space.”
Like Edward D. Wood Jr., proclaimed the Worst Director of All Time, he’s in love with every shot – intoxicated with the very act of making a movie.
With the phoniest set of performances this side of an Ed Wood flick, you might as well be watching Plan 9 From Outer Space.
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It all sounds about as plausible as that lecture about Solarnite in “Plan 9 From Outer Space.”
I won't go as far as to say Taylor Lautner is a good actor, but he's an improvement over Robert Pattinson, who attempts to impersonate Bela Lugosi from Plan 9 from Outer Space.