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Plot Description:
Universally hailed as the worst movie ever made, this 1959 colossal bomb is also one of the funniest. Directed by the infamous B-movie director, Ed Wood, Plan 9 concerns aliens from outer space who are robbing graves in the San Fernando Valley and turning these corpses into murdering zombies. Actor Bela Lugosi died after two days of filming and was replaced by a taller, younger actor wearing a cape in front of his face. HEAR the horrifically bad dialogue! STUDY Vampira's one facial expression for yourself! SEE hubcaps and burning paper plates used as spacecrafts! HOWL with uncontrollable laughter! And remember, it's all based on "sworn testimony"!
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Rated: NR
Genre: horror
Runtime: 189 minutes
Original Theatrical Release:
July, 1959
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Movie Trivia
- Funded by a Baptist church, the entire cast let themselves be baptized.
- The aliens obligingly fly by the ABC, CBS, and NBC buildings in Los Angeles.
- The police cars and uniforms are authentic: one of the actor's sons was a policeman and supplied the equipment.
- Bela Lugosi died four days after shooting began Wood abandoned the project and rewrote the script to accommodate all the footage shot in a cemetery and outside Tor Johnson's house in the new production. Béla Lugosi's part was taken over by Tom Mason (II), Wood's wife's chiropractor, who was significantly taller than Lugosi, and played the part with a cape covering his face.
- Wood's original (and preferred) title for his masterpiece was "Grave Robbers from Outer Space."
- Internationally recognized as the worst movie ever made.
- A video release, making note of the actor's death before production began, lists on the cassette box, "Almost Starring Bela Legosi".
- The scar worn by actor Tor Johnson had to be moved every day, as it caused severe skin irritation.
Movie Mistakes
- Continuity: Criswell's opening narration begins: "Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future." A moment later, though, he is placing the same events in the past, telling how "what happened on that fateful day" must no longer be kept secret.
- Revealing mistakes: The grass wrinkles and the gravestones flap in the wind and topple over.
- Continuity: The white wrought-iron patio furniture moves itself from the patio to the bedroom.
- Continuity: Day changes to night and back and forth in the same scene, many times.
- Continuity: When going to the graveyard, the police car changes to an obviously different police car.
- Revealing mistakes: Obvious double for Bela Lugosi (see trivia entry).
- Miscellaneous: The detective points his gun at himself several times.
- Revealing mistakes: When the space ships fly over the cemetery early on in the movie they knock down several people in the cemetery.
- Factual Errors: When listening to the message from outer space, the message abruptly stops due to "atmospheric conditions in outer space." There is no atmosphere in space, it is a vacuum.
- Revealing mistakes: The airplane set and the interplanetary headquarters set are obviously two sides of the same set.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Three flying saucers and one mother ship are shown, yet the humans win the battle after destroying only one saucer because the leader recalled the other ships.
- Continuity: The general explains that humans need a special computer to understand alien language, but in the showdown aboard the flying saucer, they understand each other perfectly.
- Crew or equipment visible: Clearly visible lines holding the flying saucers.
- Continuity: At the beginning of the film they are burying the Ghoul Man's wife. Yet she is seen watching the funeral.
- Anachronisms: Stock footage of rocket launchers is used to show the attack on the flying saucers, which are up in the air. The rocket launchers are ground-to-ground weapons.
- Continuity: Stock footage shows a completely different cemetery.
- Continuity: While Kelton is in Clay's opened grave, the tombstone that fell in a few scenes earlier isn't there.
- Continuity: Colonel Edwards arrives at Jeff and Paula's house with the detective, but he wasn't in the car when it pulled up.
- Continuity: A man at the old man's funeral says that it's "getting dark." It's already pitch black.
- Continuity: Jeff describes the flying saucers as "cigar-shaped." They're saucer-shaped.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: The priest at the funeral never opens his mouth to say a word.
- Revealing mistakes: When Bela Lugosi walks off the screen, it's obviously a freeze frame--the swaying tree suddenly freezes.
- Continuity: Even though the old man walks into the street and gets hit by a car, his shadow is still on the ground.
- Continuity: A strong wind from the flying saucer's exhaust is strong enough to blow Jeff and Paula to the ground, but not strong enough to move their hair.
- Revealing mistakes: The flying saucers cast HUGE shadows as they leave their "planet" - an obvious inflatable toy.
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