Plan Nine From Outer Space. This movie so bad it's GOOD!

[P&R Fan]

I watched this movie again tonight, and like it better every time I see it. It was made in 1959 and stars Bela Lugosi in his last movie. I understand he died while shooting it, and had to be replaced by another actor who always held his cape over his face.
It was voted the worst movie ever made, and it certainly is. But that's what makes it so darn entertaining.
Anybody else ever seen this bad boy?
Jim

 

[Gunslinger808]

And you just gotta love the head scratch with a S&W!

 

[LVSteve]

Classic B movie sci-fi. Everybody should see it at least once. Is this the one with the genuine hubcap UFOs?

 

[DWalt]

I think Lugosi's replacement was the director's dentist, not an actor at all.

 

[P&R Fan]

Classic B movie sci-fi. Everybody should see it at least once. Is this the one with the genuine hubcap UFOs?

Yep. That's 1959 special effects in action.
Jim

 

[cougar14]

Anyone who appreciated this movie for what it was, also needs to see "Ed Wood" with Johnny Depp.

 

[snubbyfan]

That movie's so bad it wasn't released, it escaped.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

It is number one worst film in the last fifty years in the book The Golden Turkey Awards. I love it. After Legosi died mid movie they just hired another guy who happened to be a foot taller to walk around with the cape over half his face. Ed Wood supposedly used pie plates on strings for the brilliant flying saucer special effect. Almost as good as Close Encounters! My favorit part is when the main "alien" says something like, "Humans are stupid, stupid, STUPID!!" Director Ed Wood said that the big bald guy Tor Johnson would break his toilet seat whenever he came over.
Here's an equally bad, I mean good one, Robot Monster! This is the one where they couldn't aford a decent alien outfit so they found some guy who owned a gorilla suit and had him wear this deep sea helmet looking thing over his head. Here's the entire movie on you tube! Great post. I'm glad I'm not the only guy who likes unintentionally bad movies.
Robot Monster (1953) Full Movie - YouTube

 

[vytoland]

yep, ive seen it more than once.....one of the all time goodies........

 

[UncleEd]

Ditto for seeing "Ed Wood" with Johnny Depp.

Martin Landau portrayed Bela Lugosi in a very touching role.

Now, don't forget Wood's "Glen or Glenda"

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Ditto for seeing "Ed Wood" with Johnny Depp.

Martin Landau portrayed Bela Lugosi in a very touching role.

Now, don't forget Wood's "Glen or Glenda"

Martin Landau sure earned his oscar for this one. You're right. It was sad and pathetic but done with dignity. Even making this pile of ****, Legosi ( Landau) was as proffesional as ever. This is a great movie, though Johnny Depp in drag wearing angora sweaters was hard to deal with. Ed Wood was in WW2 and supposedly parachuted into France on D-Day wearing women's underwear under his uniform. A myth, you say? Maybe. But if you can make a movie as horribly bad/good as Plan Nine, I guess you could do anything.

 

[jlrhiner]

Martin Landau sure earned his oscar for this one. You're right. It was sad and pathetic but done with dignity. Even making this pile of ****, Legosi ( Landau) was as proffesional as ever. This is a great movie, though Johnny Depp in drag wearing angora sweaters was hard to deal with. Ed Wood was in WW2 and supposedly parachuted into France on D-Day wearing women's underwear under his uniform. A myth, you say? Maybe. But if you can make a movie as horribly bad/good as Plan Nine, I guess you could do anything.

Actually, he was in the Marines. He enlisted right after Pearl Harbor, and served until the end of the war. He later claimed to have been on Guadalcanal, all the time wearing panties and a bra. However, I don't think the records support this.

Marines, what can you say? (AND you probably shouldn't!)

 

[CajunBass]

Anybody else ever seen this bad boy?
Jim

Seen it? I used to have it on videotape. I suspect my youngest son has it now.

 

[Foodfuzz]

Yep. That's 1959 special effects in action.
Jim

State of the art! You didn't even see any hands or fingers flying the plate. Don't forget that other classic. "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" I was never so hungry for a BLT !

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

Plan 9 was dethroned as thwe worst movie ever made...

...a while back.
The current belt holder in this category is "MANOS: The Hands Of Fate."

Done on a budget of 53 cents and a 16mm camera by a fertilizer salesman in El Paso, Texas as part of a wager, this celluloid abomination makes ANYTHING done by Ed Wood look like freakin Shakespeare.

Not shown in prisons due to issues on cruel and unusual punishment. Watching it in its entirety causes the brain to shut down...followed by screams of MAKE IT STOP!

 

[jlrhiner]

You know I'm gonna have to see that, don'cha?

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Tor Johnson's son Carl is one of the policemen in the movie-he actually was one at the time. He said of Ed Wood "He wanted to make movies in the worst way possible-and that's exactly how me made them!"
My favorite scene is the police car that switches back and forth from a '57 Ford to a '58 and back.

 

[Frank237]

One of my other favorites , almost as horrible as "Plan 9".

A Japanese film I believe called "Prince of Space". Used on "Mystery Science Theatre 3K" as one of their featured movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcAa2pRoV6E

"Your weapons are useless against me"!

FN in MT