Classic Cult Theater: Plan 9 from Outer Space Part 4

[SuperRyansan]

I KNEW IT! we wont be raised as zombies....but a vampires!

[MattyTheJet]

@SuperRyansan Or Alien/Vampire/Zombie hybrids!

[jwild611]

So can someone explain to me the Bela Lugosi thing? I realize the earlier shot in the film was the stand in but at 2:09...that was Bela right??? Then in the next scene at the house(face covered) it was back to the stand-in...am I correct?

[jimbobbodmin]

@jwild611 yes you are

[MattyTheJet]

@jwild611 Yeah, Beli died during or went into hospital and died right after filming and all the scenes with Bela Lugosi are from the first few days of shooting.

[pepinator2000]

No matter what critics say, this 5:13 is a cool image.

[SuperKeywi]

Love how it goes from day to night to day again in a few seconds.

[luridplanet]

The pilot's wife has the dumbest lines ever: "You mean the kind from up THERE?" "The flying saucer with be up THERE,but I'll be in THERE"

[groovyastrodude]

I hereby dub the male zombie in this scene "The Snuggie Monster." Also, in b4, why the hell does the lady run into the cemetery? I mean, let's think about this. She could lock the door, thus preventing TSM from escaping, and then call a pay phone once she's safe outside. But apparently these characters are forever doomed to be the victims of bad plot devices.

[encel85]

When Tor Johnson is "leaving" the tomb is acually the best part of the whole movie. Hilarious.

[xXpinkravenXx]

vampira is marvellous!

[bLuDcLoT06]

wtf she runs out her front door and ends up in the graveyard?!

my brain is hurting tryin to piece this movie together

[knowpassword]

the plane has no steering wheel!

[phillysportz3]

1. Why the hell didnt she lock her door?

2. Why the hell would she run TO the cemetary?

3. Why the hell am I watching this?

[stillfindingmyway]

No words can describe the quality of this film.

[boxingglovelove]

Balling it up in Albuquerque? I'm down with that!

[signoftheapocalypse]

I think the co-pilot is reading from his script at the beginning of this part...

[EBursey]

Tor's face @ 5:30 is priceless. There's less brain activty there than in a Welsh village...

[Radioheadhead90]

What the fuck is going on!?

Im lost, this film is so incoherent lol

[jamilioestevez]

It's dark out, it's light out... oh man, this is painful.... Bless his heart for trying.

[drummeronmars]

This is so damn funny! I can´t stop laughing. Ha! ha! ha! Gotta love those special effects back then. Go Wood!

[PeaceofChaos361]

the editing in the cockpit scene is hilarious...

Of course, im kind of nostalgic for bad, old, campy movies like this

[sam06s2b]

ahahahaha. the cross at 3.30! loves it.

[sam06s2b]

*5.30

[BloodyLivingVampire]

Considering it was made about 50 years ago it's a bit, just a bit, a good movie... maybe it seems so awful to us because we're so used to excellent special effects and all that kind of stuff but it requires a lot of imagination and Ed Wood had it! It was an outstanding thought making a science fiction - horror movie... no one has done it so far apart from Ed!!

[Zaothus]

No one? Are you familiar with "Alien"? Or John Carpenter's "The Thing," just to name two examples?

There are plenty of cheesy B-movies from the 50s, but this gets singled out because it's technically appalling by the standards of any era. Frankly, I've been more impressed by films made by Georges Melies 50 years prior even to this.

[BloodyLivingVampire]

"The Thing" is about a clown who eats humans??

[Zaothus]

Um... no.

[Randomness099]

You're thinking of "It"

[Spudkuddler]

Sorry, actually the stand in was a chiropractor not a barber.

[Spudkuddler]

The best part of this segment is that Lugosi had died by the time this part was filmed. They used Ed's barber as the stand-in; though he had very little physically in common with Bela. Ed was persistent and not to be dissuaded by a little thing like the death of his leading actor.

[ph34rmaster04]

It was his new girlfriend's chiropractor, not his barber, and they only let him show the upper half of his face because he "had Lugosi's ears." The rest of his face was too thin to look enough like Lugosi. However, Ed Wood did use the chiropractor in some of his later movies, where he let him show his whole face.

[chaoticslaughter88]

thats tight how the fat guy revives maybe if he had maggots and other bodily fluids ozzing out would make it better pretty good movie so far

[lyrandar01]

I love how the reuse the same short clip of footage, in a different graveyard during the day

[evilone047]

Has anyone ever noticed how fast Tor Johnson gets buried, like all in the same day that he died? They just find him dead and then what, throw him right in an empty grave that they found?

[masterohumans]

hollywood has made worse films. sometimes their movies feel like mad libs. Not this though. Although it is bad i like it.

[Freddo9867]

Now why in the hell would she run into the graveyard in the first place?

[sarge2006]

As a fan of MST3K, I've sat through some pretty bad movies. Manos, Monster-a-Go-Go, Terror from the Year 5000, and any number of Roger Corman productions. Some bad movies are really terrible in the literal sense of the word, almost unwatchable. Others are charming, unabashed, and nievely proud. They do their best to please us and would blush at their own mistakes, if they saw them. No matter how poor the special effects, the acting, or editing, Ed Wood has made me smile.

[Freddo9867]

I'll have to agree with you here. I think that Ed Wood's movies let his passion for film making shine through. He really wants to spin a tale and have you enjoy it, while many others seem to only churn out movies for the profit, without regard to whether or not people will enjoy. However, to be considered one of the worst directors of all time and still have people watching your movies 50 years later is quite an accomplishment, and in that regard Edward D Wood Jr. has been a success.

[Randomness099]

You couldn't have said it better.

[Spudkuddler]

Well said sarge. Excellent comment.

[wasteoftime88]

exactly, thank you for making that point. i love MST3K and i've seen some terrible movies too but I happen to find this movie hilarious. =)