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Post by Kwik Kash on Jul 24, 2006 12:34:56 GMT -5
This is a legendary film, considered to be the worst of the worst, but a cult favorite nonetheless. What do you all think? Discuss.
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Post by d3M0n on Jul 24, 2006 13:07:25 GMT -5
I know it was Lugosi's last film but other than that I haven't seen it yet. Are you saying it's good or bad?
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Post by Kwik Kash on Jul 24, 2006 13:33:47 GMT -5
I know it was Lugosi's last film but other than that I haven't seen it yet. Are you saying it's good or bad? It's been considered the worst movie of all time, they use lawn furniture with aluminum foil for spaceships. Ed Wood was using next to nothing for a budget to make this, and Lugosi died during it, so they used someone else to take his place to finish... only the new guy looked NOTHING like Lugosi, was too tall, hair a different color and style, and to conceal this they had his face half-way covered with the cape. It's hilarious for being so terrible, but some people like it for it being just that -- comically bad.
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Post by d3M0n on Jul 24, 2006 15:05:19 GMT -5
But what's it about what do they talk about?
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Post by Kwik Kash on Jul 24, 2006 15:14:35 GMT -5
But what's it about what do they talk about? Plot:The film is introduced and narrated by television psychic The Amazing Criswell, and involves aliens who attempt to conquer the Earth by resurrecting corpses from a cemetery.
The aliens have divined that the human race will soon develop the ultimate weapon: a bomb made of solarbenite that can "explode the particles of sunlight" and ultimately destroy the universe. They have attempted eight times to persuade humanity not to build the bomb, but find themselves unable to even get humanity's attention. "Plan 9", their plan to resurrect the dead, is their final, desperate attempt. Unbelievably, this is all claimed to be based on sworn testimony, even though Criswell says it takes place in the future.
At the end of the film, the aliens are defeated, although according to the film's internal "logic" this is a Bad Thing because it will allow the humans to develop the solaranite bomb and destroy the universe.
In many respects, the film is a remake of the science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still albeit with horror elements attached.
The film is infamous for "almost starring" (as modern releases invariably phrase it) Bela Lugosi. The scenes featuring Lugosi were not shot with this film in mind at all. They likely were test shots from a proposed Wood film "The Ghoul Goes West"; when Lugosi was released from rehab, he told an interviewier he was about to begin work on that said film. Wood essentially wrote it into the Plan 9 screenplay after Lugosi died in 1956 and re-wrote it so that his "character" returns from the dead as a vampire. However, this role was filled by the late Dr. Tom Mason, his wife Kathy O'Hara's chiropractor. Dr. Mason, in reality, looked nothing like Lugosi and was far taller. Reportedly Wood was amazed by how Mason's nose and eyes were Lugosi-like. Wood attempted (unsuccessfully) to hide the subterfuge by having Mason perform all his scenes while holding his cape in front of his face. However, in another Wood film shot later that year, Night of the Ghouls, Mason was allowed to show his face. These were his first and last films. Goofs:- "Night" and "day" shots are interspersed constantly within the same scene (for example, Paula Trent runs in darkness through the cemetery, while the old man's corpse chases her in daylight). - One porthole on the alien spaceship shows a cloudy day (shown during a scene set at night), while the others show only blackness. - Mason's attempts to hide the fact that he is not Lugosi are wildly unsuccessful. As an early version of Leonard Maltin's movie guidebook put it, "Lugosi died during production, and it shows." (Lugosi actually died before production ever started.) - Criswell's opening narration redundantly informs the viewer how "future events such as these will affect you in the future", and then immediately switches to saying that the story has already "happened on that fateful day". - In the numerous graveyard scenes, as characters brush against tombstones, the stones wobble and, in one case, fall over. - During a scene in an airplane cockpit, a flash of light from a flying saucer reveals the shadow of the boom mike. Also in this scene, the actress playing the flight attendant bumps into the curtain several times while waiting for her cue. - The flying saucers (visibly wobbling on strings) cast shadows over the "space" backdrop. - When Tor Johnson drops the girl in the cemetery, a pillow is clearly visible beneath her. - Most notably in the first scenes, string is clearly visible from the top of the wobbly saucer to the top of the screen.
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Post by Bloodycamper on Jul 24, 2006 15:23:57 GMT -5
Sounds like a film that needs to be seen no matter how dire it is, purley for intreague...
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on Jul 24, 2006 15:37:00 GMT -5
I really want to get this on DVD.
I have heard a lot about it, but haven't got the chance to see it.
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Post by d3M0n on Jul 24, 2006 21:22:30 GMT -5
Wow the goofs list is horrendous! I can't believe how bad those are... sounds like this guy Ed Wood was a joke... how the hell did he even get to talk to ? He must be the luckiest guy on earth...
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Post by Drayton Sawyer on Jul 24, 2006 21:39:09 GMT -5
I'm guessing it went the way it did in the movie Ed Wood.
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Post by d3M0n on Jul 24, 2006 21:57:43 GMT -5
Unfortunately I haven't seen Ed Wood, I have a lot of catching up to do with a good few of films out there.
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Post by Wolf on Jul 25, 2006 0:08:21 GMT -5
:oI realy need to see this
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Post by T I M™ on Jul 25, 2006 2:42:38 GMT -5
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Post by Wolf on Jul 25, 2006 2:55:37 GMT -5
Ok now I need to see it even more.
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on Jul 25, 2006 10:01:26 GMT -5
I have a movie Ed Wood wrote called Orgy Of The Dead on VHS.
It is probably one of the worst movies ever made.
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Post by d3M0n on Jul 25, 2006 10:03:32 GMT -5
Why did this guy get so much work if he sucked so bad?
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Post by Kwik Kash on Jul 25, 2006 10:11:18 GMT -5
Why did this guy get so much work if he sucked so bad? The same thing can be said and asked of Uwe Boll...
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on Jul 25, 2006 10:17:26 GMT -5
I haven't had the displeasure of seeing a Uwe Boll film. Back to Ed, he thought he was making masterpieces.
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Post by d3M0n on Jul 25, 2006 11:06:38 GMT -5
Okay well I just went to Best Buy and bought this movie... I had to get the high end version because that's all they had. It is in color (or black and white) and it says it just got restord to it's best look ever... This is what I bought LINK it was $16 and change after tax I am holding Kwik Kash responcible for this movie and if it is unwatchable he will have to provide me with a refund. I'll make it $16 even and he can send it to my PayPal account, if he doesn't have one we'll work something else out so I can get my money.
I'm going to watch it now and tell you how it was and whether or not KK will be sending me $16
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on Jul 25, 2006 11:11:57 GMT -5
Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown... the mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you, the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony, of the miserable souls, who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty. Let us reward the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts of grave robbers from outer space?
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on Jul 25, 2006 11:15:14 GMT -5
Some trivia about Night Of The Ghouls, another Ed Wood film: Edward D. Wood Jr. was so broke he couldn't pay the film lab to develop this movie. It wasn't until 1983 (long after Wood had died) that entrepreneur Wade Williams paid the 24-year-old lab bill, and the movie was finally released. When Wade Williams acquired the rights to Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), Wood's widow, Kathy, told him of this never-released film that was being held by a post-production house because the lab fees hadn't been paid. Williams paid the fees and acquired this film as well. www.imdb.com/title/tt0156843/trivia
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