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Plan 9 From Outer Space <\/strong><\/em>(1957)<\/p>\n Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: \u00a0Edward D. Wood Jr. Stars: Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Tor Johnson, Lyle Talbot, Conrad Brooks, Maila Nurmi, Bela Lugosi, Edward D. Wood Jr. <\/strong>and Criswell<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: Unspeakable Horrors From Outer Space Paralyze The Living And Resurrect The Dead!<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/p>\n Aliens are worried that humans will produce a doomsday bomb that could destroy the universe.\u00a0 To stop them, the aliens put into motion Plan 9.\u00a0 They resurrect the recent dead.\u00a0 Humans will be so horrified that they will follow the aliens’ directives.\u00a0 If not, the aliens will use the zombies to destroy them!<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Plan 9 From Outer Space<\/em> is Bela Lugosi’s last film.\u00a0 Ed Wood and Lugosi were friends.\u00a0 They had filmed snippets of scenes for an Ed Wood movie in development.\u00a0 Bela Lugosi died and Ed Wood decided to incorporate these clips into Plan 9<\/em>.\u00a0 Wood also used the fact that Plan 9<\/em> would be Lugosi’s last film to induce some of the actors to join the project.<\/p>\n It’s funny to note that scenes featuring Lugosi’s character not played by Lugosi were completed by Wood’s wife’s chiropractor.\u00a0 He was much taller and looked nothing like Bela Lugosi.\u00a0 So Ed Wood told him to hunch over and always keep the cape in front of his face.\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n The film was made on a miniscule budget.\u00a0 Tor Johnson’s home was used as a location.\u00a0 Johnson’s son was a San Fernando Police officer.\u00a0 They got use of the police car and uniforms through him.\u00a0 The alien’s flying saucer was adapted from a popular UFO model kit.\u00a0 Bela Lugosi supplied his own cape (from playing Dracula on stage). The gravestones were made of cardboard or styrofoam and can be seen wiggling when actors brushed against them.<\/p>\n Harry Thomas did the make-up for Plan 9<\/em>.\u00a0 He become upset and asked his name be removed from the credits.\u00a0 Thomas wanted the aliens to have elongated chins using appliances he would make, cat’s eye lenses (special contacts) and green hair (wigs). Ed Wood said that those ideas would be too expensive.\u00a0 Ironically, the year before Henry Thomas worked on Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments<\/em> which was the most expensive movie ever made to that time.<\/p>\n Plan 9 From Outer Space<\/em> gained popularity after being named The Worst Film Ever Made.\u00a0 It is a bad film, but far from the worst ever made.\u00a0 The low budget, bad script, Lugosi stand-in, wooden performances, outlandish idea for a movie and more make for a humorous viewing, especially with friends.<\/p>\n Plan 9 From Outer Space <\/strong><\/em>(1957) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957) Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. Screenplay: \u00a0Edward D. 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