Plan 9 From Outer Space<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n1. IT WAS BELA LUGOSI\u2019S LAST MOVIE.
\n<\/span><\/strong>A lifelong Bela Lugosi fan, Ed Wood was able to cast his idol in 1953\u2019s Glen or Glenda<\/em>. Two years later, the director gave him a Dr. Frankenstein-like role in Bride of the Monster<\/em>. For his next film, Wood once again wanted Lugosi to take center stage. At the California home of Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson\u2014who\u2019d also appeared in Bride of the Monster<\/em>\u2014Wood shot a handful of very brief scenes, all starring Lugosi. Depending on who\u2019s telling the story, this footage was either intended for Plan 9<\/em> or for an unmade movie called The Vampire\u2019s Tomb<\/em>. Regardless, Lugosi sadly didn\u2019t live to see any of it reach the silver screen. The horror icon died of a heart attack in August 16, 1956. Endlessly resourceful, Wood threw all of his existing Lugosi shots into Plan 9 from Outer Space<\/em>.<\/p>\n2. A CHIROPRACTOR PLAYED LUGOSI\u2019S DOUBLE.<\/span><\/strong>
\nProduction on Plan 9 from Outer Space<\/em> began in earnest after Lugosi\u2019s death. Since he was no longer around to film certain scenes, Wood recruited chiropractor Tom Mason as a substitute. Physically, he wasn\u2019t a perfect stand-in; Mason was noticeably taller than Lugosi (a fact that Wood tried to disguise by having him hunch over). But the good doctor made sure to mask his face under a cape at all times.<\/p>\n4. IN SOME VERSIONS OF THE FILM, YOU CAN SEE THE SHADOW OF A BOOM MIKE IN THE BACKGROUND.<\/span><\/strong>
\nPerhaps unsurprisingly, Plan 9<\/em> has numerous bloopers. For example, the grave scenes use plywood tombstones, which wobble throughout the movie. But Wood\u2019s team wasn\u2019t responsible for every error. Early on, we see our hero\u2014pilot Jeff Trent\u2014flying a plane when a huge burst of light almost blinds him. Viewers may also notice that, as he recoils, a boom microphone shadow appears on the back wall of the cockpit. Look carefully, and you\u2019ll also observe that Trent\u2019s co-pilot is holding a copy of the script in his lap. Both of these gaffes were created when Plan 9<\/em> was converted to a film and TV-friendly format. Neither the script nor the boom mike shadow appeared in the original theatrical version. Unfortunately, the aspect ratio changes made to Plan 9 for<\/em> its video and TV releases suddenly rendered both of these things visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Mancini\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 10 Out-of-This-World\u00a0Facts About Plan 9 From Outer Space. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 1. IT WAS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15346,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344\/revisions\/15346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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