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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Image Entertainment
Salesrank: 14080
Released: February 15, 2000 |
| Our Price: $6.65 |
| Used Price: $3.83 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This is it! The most popular Atomic Age cult film of the twentieth century. Winner of two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director of All Time, the immortal Edward D. Wood, Jr.! It's all here, the not-so-special effects, aliens in skating skirts zooming around in string-powered flying saucers to implement the ninth plan of Earth's conquest (the first eight failed) with an army of zombies (well, three actually), Vampira, Tor Johnson and Bela Lugosi in his legendary "postmortem" performance (with Ed's chiropractor standing in for Bela after his death). This truly original movie, Ed Wood's "Citizen Kane," is a hymn to all those who have ever tried to create something intelligent and meaningful, only to fail miserably every step of the way.
Description of Plan 9 from Outer Space:
Sometimes a movie achieves such legendary status that it can't quite live up to its reputation. Plan 9 from Outer Space is not one of these movies. It is just as magnificently terrible as you've heard. Plan 9 is the story of space aliens who try to conquer the Earth through resurrection of the dead. Psychic Criswell narrates ("Future events such as these will affect you in the future!") as police rush through the cemetery, occasionally clipping the cardboard tombstones in their zeal to find the source of the mysterious goings-on. More than just a bad film, Plan 9 is something of a one- stop clearinghouse for poor cinematic techniques: The time shifts whimsically from midnight to afternoon sun, Tor Johnson flails desperately in an attempt to rise from his coffin, and flying saucers zoom past on clearly visible strings. Fading star Bela Lugosi tragically died during filming, but such a small hurdle could not stop writer-producer-director Ed Wood. Lugosi is ingeniously replaced with a man who holds a cape across his face and might as well have "NOT BELA LUGOSI" stamped on his forehead. Plan 9 is so sweetly well- intentioned in both its message and its execution that it's impossible not to love it. And if you don't, well, as Eros says, "You people of Earth are idiots!" --Ali Davis
Plan 9 from Outer Space Reviews:
It's been remade!!!!! 
2009-12-09 - Would you believe it, it's been remade under the title "Grave Robbers from Outer Space", set for release fall of '10. Look it up on IMBD dotcom.
Yeah, buy it, but get it as part of the Ed Wood Box or the twopack with "Robot Monster", better deal.
Plan 9 From Outer Space. 
2009-11-23 - Plan 9 From Outer Space,2004 DVD,In Color and In Black white,Legend Films, Plan 9 is in fact the Worst Movie I have ever seen along with che and fidel movies,and what hollywood usually tries to pass off as art,Oliver Stone films are horrible, But at least you know what you get with Plan 9, it's horrible yes,Bad editing,Acting,Directing,etc.
But Vampira is in It,Bela is in it. and it's kind of entertaining to see despite the plot. I had to watch it being A Misfits Fan. And since it was $3.99 at the Big Lots Store. As for the special features,nothing really special about it, there is one called what happen to Plan 1-8 ? and one of them I found typical hollywood liberal stuff, shows Bush the Day of 9/11 doing nothing,so I wasn't amused, and of course Ed woods' lost films, where he is dressed in Drag(EWW) gross. what a weirdo. oh well.
Worst Movie Ever? Nah 
2009-10-04 - Yes the film sucks, but it's such campy fun how can you resist? If for no other reason check it out to see Bela Lugosi don Dracula's cape for the last time and wander around a cemetery in broad daylight waiting for hapless victims. Or enjoy the head alien berating the film's hero by explaining his dastardly plan and then yelling "Stupid!" "Stupid!". 'Plan 9', as our narrator Criswell explains, is a plan conceived by aliens to resurrect the dead in order to convince humans of their existence and power. They fly their saucers over Hollywood Boulevard, before devising a plan to parade the newly dead on the steps of the state capital. Three people are successfully resurrected: a sexy/creepy woman (Vampira) wearing a flowing black gown complete with plunging neckline, the lead cop on the case (Tor Johnson) who was struck down by spaceships and my personal favorite The Dead Old Man (Lugosi). Turns out Vampira and the Old Man were married and now thanks to the aliens they have been reunited. The three walking dead roam Hollywood and attempt to scare anyone who crosses their path and then bring them back to the spaceship. There's no point elaborating more on the plot because it doesn't matter. The Passport DVD has it's good and bad points. The bonuses include a trailer gallery for other Ed Wood films and a bonus documentary consisting of interviews with actors who have played Wood or Lugosi (Johnny Depp and Martin Landau) and family members of Wood and his stock company of actors (Wood's ex-wife, Vampira and Bela Lugosi's son). The downside is that the picture and audio are atrocious. Plus, Passport's annoying logo, PIP, is in the right hand corner the whole time. It's pretty distracting. Once you get past that, watch the trailer gallery and you'll agree with Depp that Wood paved the way for other cult directors like Tim Burton, John Waters and David Lynch. A fun DVD.
Best Crappy Movie Ever!!!
2009-10-01 - Read the title of the review. If you have no sense of humor or you are a movie snob, do not buy this.
Add another star in the sky and another Ace to the deck!
2009-09-05 - Best Ace album ... so far!
"Outspace" has all the thunder of anything Ace has put out.
The lyrics are cryptic and seem to revolve around certain doom.
