Even if you're fed up to the back teeth with bad movie faddists, this is worth seeing. The worst sin of these cheapies is that they are excruciatingly dull, but Plan 9 is a rare low-budget turkey which manages to be consistently entertaining, thanks to Wood’s distinctive ranting dialogue (‘wouldn't it be better to kill a few now than, with their meddling, permit them to destroy the entire universe?’), amazing narration from noted psychic Criswell ('can you prove it didn't happen?'), camp performances (weedy alien villain Manlove keeps throwing hissy fits), wobbly graveyard sets, paper-plate flying saucers, a grotesquely ramshackle plot, talking-point weirdnesses like the use of home movie test footage of the late Bela Lugosi posing in a graveyard (then being doubled behind an upflung cape by a chiropractor for the rest of the film), acres of ill-used military stock footage, and the sheer bizarro presence of wasp-waisted Vampira and shambling hulk Tor Johnson as alien-influenced zombies. Actually, it’s not even the worst low-budget science fiction film of the 1950s – as a look at The Astounding She Monster, The Incredible Petrified World or Phantom From 10,000 Leagues will confirm. Peter Gunn: See No Evil (1960) : Shot once in the back and four times in the chest by Herschel Bernardi to stop Tor from crushing Craig Stevens in a padded room Lou Krugman and John Sebastian had locked them into.Thanks to several mocking books about terrible movies in general and director Ed Wood in particular, this has become generally accepted as the worst film ever made – though it is, in its own way, certainly no worse than, say, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, The Care Bears Movie, Deep Throat or Top Gun.The Beast of Yucca Flats (The Atomic Monster Girl Madness) (1961) : Shot in the back by Larry Aten while Tor is trying to strangle Bing Stafford in the desert he dies shortly afterwards, as a rabbit hops over to him and nuzzles his face.
Classic Quote: "One thing's for sure.Inspector Clay's dead - murdered - AND SOMEBODY'S RESPONSIBLE!" ( Thanks to Anton)
Tom Mason and Maila 'Vampira' Nurmi) in the graveyard he later is brought back to life as a zombie, and is eventually turned into a skeleton when the aliens' spaceship blows up, destroying the control that had resurrected him.
By causing chaos, the aliens hope the crisis will force humanity to listen to them otherwise, the aliens will destroy mankind with armies of the undead. (The 1959 sequel Night of the Ghouls revealed that Tor survived, but it's clear that the original film intended this as a death scene.) ( Thanks to Anton) The aliens implement 'Plan 9', a scheme to resurrect the Earth's dead, referred to as 'ghouls'.
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