Plan 9

009: Plan 9 From Outer Space

Good gravy, what to add...Plan 9 needs a disclaimer, "If you liked Ed Wood, you will most assuredly not like this movie." Plan 9 would be more excusable if people haven't over the course of decades released low low budget movies that didn't suck terribly.

A notorious dud when it came out in 1959, there's no reason for Plan 9 to age well, (besides the plot/special effects [that felt strange to write]) sci-fi pulp thrillers that would have provided a crossover audience don't exist in print on a large scale anymore. Come to think of it, there wasn't much in the way of too tight spacesuits in this film was there? Hell, flesh in Hollywood has always been cheap and plentiful. Wood didn't even get that right.

To fall short of the pulp sleaze content when this was released was more likely the reason for its ignominy than the crappy effects. All effects were crappy back then, even though some of its offenses appear truly egregious now, I'm just going to assume the gap between awesome effects and terrible effects was much slimmer in the 50's. As for the plot...

I saw this baby a long time ago, and feel it exemplifies the danger of watching a good documentary/docu-drama that was inspired by a classic (that moonlights as a dud). The danger being that you might actually watch the classic.

PS How'd you like that. 100% out of my ass.