VIDEO: Plan Nine From Outer Space (the WHOLE movie)!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Enjoy:

[Stuart G]

1. Ok funseakers...here is the scoop on this film..Plan 9 from Outer Space...

I have seen this film...
here is when and how....

In the early 90s, I sponsored a Sci Fi Cub at the high school that I taught at..
The students picked the film to watch one week, and I picked it another..or we voted on what to watch...

So, one week, I see this film at the library, and I knew it was considered one of the worst films ever made...
So...we pick it..and start to watch it...and..well.........
There 6 or 7 students at the start, and by the end...(oh, we had a rule..you don't have to stay, if you don't want to)..so
by the end there were 3 of us left........

IT IS THE MOST BOREING 78 MINUTES OF FILM EVER MADE.....I DARE ANYONE TO WATCH IT ALL...

GOOD LUCK

OH, I am not trying to trash this film...
That was my experience with it...If someone has another view..I would like to hear it..
Sorry if I was too negative on it.....Stuart

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. It's NOT boring

Some people appreciate fine wine while others drink Coors out of the can.

This movie is like a fine wine. Enjoy your Coors!

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. Some people appreciate fine wine while others drink fine wine out of the can. FTFY.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. MMMM...canned wine.

At the end of a hard day, nothing beats kicking off the shoes and slippin' a bendy straw into an ice-cold FLOOT.

[derby378]

19. Oh, come on...

Who doesn't enjoy 78 minutes of Epic Fail? It's so earnest in its badness that I can't help but love it. Sorta.

[begin_within]

2. I've watched it 5 times, I think, so far

It won the "Golden Turkey Award" for worst film of all time. What makes it funny are the idiotic story and script, the grade-school-level acting, the cheesy special effects, the use of stock footage, the inept filming and bizarre editing... it's really a comic masterpiece, though unintentionally. Many little things, the tacky shower curtain used for the airplane cabin, the tombstones that wobble as people run past them, the intercutting of of police car footage in the daylight with graveyard footage at night, the flying saucers that are obviously just pie pans on fire, the inane "stupid stupid" speech near the end, and the fact that Bela Lugosi died during the filming, so they made it seem as if he had been hit by a car, a stand-in was used for the remaning scenes. I think it you just sit and watch it by yourself, you will just sit there in a daze at how bad it is, without really laughing. But if you get a group of people together you will probably have the room roaring with laughter within minutes. I think watching it is a social event. I once had the privilege of watching it in a theater with the "L.A. Connection" comedy troupe sitting in the front row, improvising dialog for it live, with a live musician and the movie's original soundtrack muted. That was a hoot too, but it's not necessary to have that in order to enjoy it. It's just so bad in every aspect of filmmaking that in itself is enough.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I've probably watched it 100 times

I learned about it for the first time from the "Golden Turkey" book...and one day it came on at like 2 in the morning or something and I had just gotten a VHS recorder. I recorded the thin, commercials and all, and played the tape to death. I later purchased a commercial copy on VHS, and when it became available, another copy on DVD.

The Image Entertainment DVD has an EXCELLENT two hour documentary called "Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The Plan 9 Companion." It features pretty much everyone who was in the movie except for Lugosi.

[begin_within]

5. Thanks,

I'll check out that documentary. You'd probably like the book "Nightmare of Ecstasy" which is about Edward D. Wood, Jr. and his films. And of course the film "Ed Wood" and especially Martin Landau's performance which was in my opinion the best acting performance of the 1990s. Have you seen "Glen or Glenda?" It's a panic.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. I've seen pretty much all of Wood's films (plus "Ed Wood")

Plan Nine, Bride of the Monster, Jail Bait, Night of The Ghouls, Glen or Glenda, Orgy of the Dead (featuring Plan 9's Criswell), Sinister Urge, (regular and MST3K versions), The Violent Years. I guess you could say I am an "Ed Wood fan."

[frogmarch]

7. Did MST3K riff it?

It seems to me they did, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I saw the movie Ed Wood!

[sakabatou]

8. Yes.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/261362/rifftrax-features-plan-9-from-outer-space

[frogmarch]

13. Thanks!

Now to go watch it.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. If only Ed Wood could have...

made a movie as good as "Ed Wood."

[nuxvomica]

10. It's the "Citizen Kane" of so-bad-it's-good movies

Both challenging and affirming the auteur theory of cinema, IMHO.

[Paladin]

11. Nicely Put.

Any of you who haven't seen this bizarre classic---you owe it to yourselves. And then catch "Ed Wood," with Johnny Depp as the film's off-kilter creator. Great stuff.....

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. Ed never let the lack of talent (or a budget) stand in his way

One of my favorite parts of the "Ed Wood" movie is the reaction shots from the cast as Ed comes up with one boneheaded idea after another. It's too bad a little of the fame/infamy he's found didn't make its way into his life while he was still here to enjoy it. By the end he'd lost everything and he, his wife, and his dogs...who had all been evicted from a tiny, filthy little L.A. apartment...were shaking up with a pal. He died, somewhat peacefully, of heart failure while sitting on the sofa watching a football game.

[nuxvomica]

16. Even before I saw the biopic, what struck me about Plan 9...

Was that here was a director who loved making movies. You see the same sense of delight in Welles' movies, and Hitchcock's, and many other directors' but not all. I don't think anyone who loves the cinema can ignore this film. Thanks for posting it.

[whistler162]

17. It's a killer film...

well it was Bela Lugosi's last film and no one has proven that the filming didn't kill him!

[edbermac]

18. I have the video tape of that. The magnum opus of bad cinema!

Ed Wood's finest hour!