Whenever I see Plan 9 I have to recommend Ed Wood to anyone who’ll listen. Tim Burton was at his peak when he directed it, and it’s a far cry from the family friendly flicks like “Batman” or “Edward Scissorhands” he was doing at the time. Easily the best thing Burton’s done, and the cast is awesome.
I agree. Martin Landau is so mesmerizing as Bela Lugosi I have always forgotten how the real Lugosi looked like, he’s that good. The only other instance of this I can remember is Helen Mirren as the Queen.
extra trivia bit - Vincent D’Onofrio played Orson Welles in a little cameo by the end of the movie - he later did a short film fictionalizing the way Welles came up with the cuckoo clock speech for The Third Man. It is very silly but VD goes hard.
It’s been described as the worst movie of all time. But it’s definitely worth watching. And it’ll still be watched when all the superhero slop they produce these days will be long forgotten.
It is, in fact, the worst movie ever made. I accept this whole heartedly.
I had to watch this for a college English class and that 90 minute class was the longest ten hours of my life.
Watching time flip from night to day between sentences of dialog is just classic Ed Wood, and Tor knocking over the styrofoam grave stones is just icing on the cake.
What makes it worth watching is just to experience how stunningly terrible a movie it is. Really no words do it justice.
It’s a lot of fun and you can feel everybody poured their hearts into the project. It might be VERY rough all around but you have to respect Wood for pulling it off. It could’ve been WAY worse.
MST3K almost didn’t do this one, because it is too easy
there is a lot of on the surface stuff and but watching Plan 9 is also very insightful from the mechanical perspective - like how to do things right and what can go wrong at different production stages. This movie is versatile as hell
