One of the truly worst movies ever made..Worst of the worst.."Plan 9 From Outer Space"

[Stuart G]

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/

...directed by, Ed Wood...starring Bela Lugosi....Release date: July 22, 1959 (USA)

I showed it once to an after school Sci Fi club. It was so boring. And very very very....slow, and slower ...and boring................................................and more boring.............But you may like it?????

....Well known as a very lousy film, many say it is the worst....So you have been warned. Here is how not to make a movie. Bela was at the end of his career. Nothing more to say....You may want to show people this one for it is the ....slowest.....most boring ...and perhaps the most stupid movie I have ever seen.

Oh, and did I say it was ......boring?....I need to add this..got some time? Here is the entire movie...Yes, the entire movie....1hour 18minutes...found at YouTube..(takes a moment to appear)

..Plan 9 from Outer Space, ...also called ...Grave Robbers from Outer Space..1hour, 18min

[Kablooie]

1. Lugosi died during production so the director enlisted his Dentist to finish the shoot.

[Stuart G]

4. ..Thank You for adding that...We need to let the viewers know what it is..

....Have you seen this work of .....art?........or should I say ....f..rt ? Actually a fart is much better and smells better than this boring...very boring movie....

[yellowdogintexas]

49. I have seen a live production - sort of, written and performed by a local theater group

The Hip Pocket Theater presents "Hubcaps Aflame Over Hollywood" which was actually the story of Ed Wood, using 'plan 9' as the framework.

This group is so much fun anyway, live theater in the outdoors, inventive costumes, original scripts, hysterical props and more. If you are ever in Fort Worth in the summer give them a try

This play was so much fun. The title is based on the method Wood used to get the flying saucer effect. True to form, the troupe was crazily creative in all aspects.

[kimbutgar]

2. The movie about ED woods was better than his own movie.

[defacto7]

5. Yeah, I liked the Johnny Depp movie on his life.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. My favorite scene:

[defacto7]

3. Boring too.

[Maeve]

6. I've watched it dozens of times

It's been done in at least two versions by the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" guys. It is at least hilariously bad, as opposed to the simply bad that are so many movies...and "Can you prove that it didn't happen?"
And remember, my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.

[Stuart G]

8. How...may I ask,,,could you watch it ...dozens of times?

[Maeve]

17. Well...there are a couple of answers to that

and

I find it funny in its silliness (and try it with commentary and/or a group in a humorous mood!)

[Stuart G]

19. Guess what?.I found a link, and you can watch it again, for free..I added it to orignal post.

The full movie that you can watch now..is 1 hour and 18 minutes,..see original post..

[Maeve]

22. Oh, I own a copy or two of it (not sure if I still have it on VHS or not)

My husband and I like laughing at really bad movies and have since college in the 1970's. We taught the kids to crack on the stupid in movies from early on--shower curtains as walls?? Constant switching from daylight to dark?? How about the strings on that flying object!!???

And for sheer silliness, try Pia Zadora's first movie, "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"!

[SCantiGOP]

18. I've watched it

A couple of drinks or a couple of tokes and it is one of the funniest movies you will ever see.

My favorite scene was when someone goes from the main compartment of the space ship to the front cockpit section by pushing aside what is obviously a cheap shower curtain.

[Stuart G]

21. ...You can watch it again...see original post..entire film! (the entire film at YouTube)

[pansypoo53219]

23. always better w/ mystie 3000. oh torgo.

[Maeve]

24. If you have Roku or a smart tv

Or watch thru the internet...there is Pluto TV, a free (with commercials) app that has channels devoted to MST3K and Rifftrax. Usually our first stop in the evening when deciding what to watch.

[pansypoo53219]

35. i have cable. sigh.

[Maeve]

36. You can still see it on your computer

Not advertizing. Just passing on a friendly app. Google it

[flamin lib]

7. Wood had a soft spot for Lugosi as well as Karloff.

Plan 9 was put together from edits to other movies with enough new scenes to loosely stitch the out takes together.

Ed Wood was a strange fellow at best.

[Drum]

9. True true, but...

...what about the awful “Battlefield Earth”??

[Stuart G]

11. I saw that one, it was also boring...and ...awful too. (don't remember much) too long...

I don't think I was paying attention..

[SCantiGOP]

20. Battlefield Earth is an actual movie with actors and sets

Plan 9 is what you would expect to get if you gave a bunch of 15 year old a bag of weed, a camcorder and a $100 budget.

[Rustynaerduwell]

12. Not as boring as

The English Patient.

[Laffy Kat]

44. OMG, yes! I am totally with Elaine on that one:

[wackadoo wabbit]

13. Definitely a bad movie, but, IMHO, not the very worst. The truly worst movie was "Robot Monster"

It's not as famous as Plan 9, but it should be. The monster's costume was a gorilla suit bottom and a diver's helmet top. (I vaguely remember reading somewhere that that was because they couldn't afford a full gorilla suit.) I think it was filmed in four days. It really is worth seeing.

I agree, Plan 9 was boring. Robot Monster, on the other hand, was so bad that it was almost good.

[Stuart G]

14. According to the internet......."Robot Monster" ...made a lot of money.

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS494US495&q=Robot+Monster%2c#spf=1582242320577

had a Budget: 16,000 USD

and took in at the box office...........$1,000,000 No, I do not know if this is the truth..

If you google "Robot Monsters" you get the following:
_________________________________________________________________________________________
An alien that looks like a gorilla with a helmet has almost completely wiped out the human species from the face of Earth. As he hunts down the final six survivors, he ends up falling in love with the young woman of the group.


Release date: June 10, 1953 (USA)

Director: Phil Tucker
Budget: 16,000 USD
Box office: 1 million USD
Music composed by: Elmer Bernstein
length: 1hour and 2 minutes.

guess what? You can watch the entire movie,.. Robot Monsters,... at this link:

[wackadoo wabbit]

28. Thank you for the link!

I haven't seen it in decades. It'll be fun to see if it's really as laughingly bad as I remember.

[flotsam]

16. Trivia:

According to the Medved brothers' book "The Golden Turkey Awards", director Phil Tucker attempted suicide after the film was released because critical reaction was so negative. He put a gun next to his head, pulled the trigger, and missed.

[wackadoo wabbit]

29. Somehow that seems appropriate

I know I shouldn't have laughed, but I did.

[xmas74]

33. I take it you've never watched

Manos:Hands of Fate.

[wackadoo wabbit]

40. I'd forgotten about that one

I actually did see it, on MST3K. You're right, it was pretty hideous! But Robot Monster still wins, IMHO. C'mon, a gorilla suit with a diver's helmet? And what was up with the dinosaurs fighting at the end?

[xmas74]

43. It was brilliant

If you smoked yourself stupid first.

[Docreed2003]

54. This lmao

Manos:Hands of Fate is craptastically bad...but MST3K did a great job with it. That's one of my fave episodes

[lastlib]

37. ZARDOZ is the Worst Ever. Hands. Down.

Beyond bad. Beyond horrible.

[wackadoo wabbit]

39. I actually saw that when it first came out

Zardoz and Blazing Saddles were both playing at the same theater. I wanted to see Blazing Saddles (I've always been a Mel Brooks fan), but my date insisted on Zardoz.

I don't think there was a second date.

[First Speaker]

41. I totally disagree. It's a great SF film...

...with fascinating concepts. But it was over the head of most of the reviewers of the time. Hard-core SF fans, on the whole, grokked it. But you have to pay attention.

[sdfernando]

15. Its all in how you approach watching the movie. /nt

[rurallib]

25. Heard a story that it was supposed to be 'Planet 9' but

someone forgot to buy the letters 'et' for the title.

[GanjaGrower]

26. Mystery Science Theater 3000 did the whole movie

It’s absolutely hysterical (especially if you’re high)

[edbermac]

27. What? It's a masterpiece!!

I’d rank it right up there with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Look at the woman, she can barely keep a straight face.

[Sneederbunk]

30. Got a higher IMDB rating than Cats.

[aka-chmeee]

31. My vote has always gone to "From Hell It Came"

But this is awful!

[xmas74]

32. Incorrect.

Plan 9 is fantastic, if you love Z grade movies. I saw a theatre production of it a few years ago. I laughed so hard I wished I'd worn a maxi pad, if not a Depend. (Ten pound babies play havoc on your bladder.)

Cats was awful. Breaking Dawn was horrid. I've never made it past twenty minutes of The Notebook without passing out and loudly snoring. Plan 9, Santa Claus vs the Martians,etc are all so campy they're hysterical.

[Paladin]

34. It's a bad movie---with loads of entertainment value.

There are plenty of other bad movies that can't make the same claim.

[Marthe48]

38. We bought a copy on DVD

knowing it was one of the worst movies ever made. We bought some beer and watched it for laughs. Watched the Ed Wood movie when it came out, too.

When I was a teenager, I'd stay up all night on Fridays and watch monster movies on CBS in Cleveland. The movies were first hosted by Ghoulardi, (claim to fame: my Mom went to school with him) and later by Hoolihan and Big Chuck. Their short videos between the movies were super popular. Everyone liked the Kielbasi Kid. You can see some of the silliness if you search You Tube.

Thanks for jarring loose some memories

[First Speaker]

42. I can think of a worse one--"Monsignor", with--alas--poor Christopher Reeve...

...stuck in a piece of god-awful tripe. "Plan 9" has camp entertainment value. "Monsignor" is like being trapped in an elevator with Donald Trump for three hours.

[a kennedy]

45. Whew.......I thought you were talking about District Nine.......

I loved that movie.

[Stuart G]

47. I missed that one. Did I miss something? What do you think?

I do like the idea of "exploding birds"

[underpants]

51. Wow. The roundhouse kick was just some kind of special

Just indiscriminately firing handguns into the air and never reloading.

The clapping scene.

[underpants]

55. There were 3!??!

Searching through YouTube I found there there was a Birdemic 3.

[Paladin]

50. "Myra Breckinridge" (1970)

Worst movie I've ever seen. Gore Vidal rightfully disowned this sick attempt at bringing his novel to the screen.

The only movie I've ever been to where people coming out of the prior showing, were begging, pleading with those of us waiting to go in, to get our money back. Wish I'd taken that advice, rather than seeing it.

[d_b]

52. Behold

I give you

[SeattleVet]

53. The Room

A full-blown case-study in bad acting, scriptwriting, directing, and editing.