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’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
