Plan 9 from Outer Space
Short description
Extraterrestrials arrive on Earth fearing that human scientific progress and nuclear weapons could destroy the universe. After failing to reach an agreement with government authorities, the aliens use a device to resurrect dead people from a cemetery to serve their goals. As flying saucers appear over Washington D.C. and Hollywood, a group consisting of a colonel, a police lieutenant, and a commercial pilot with his wife attempt to stop the alien threat.
Directed, written, and produced by Edward D. Wood Jr., this 1957 horror and science fiction film was produced by Reynolds Pictures. The cast features Gregory Walcott as Jeff Trent and Mona McKinnon as Paula Trent, alongside Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony, and Paul Marco, with a total of 30 credited performers.
The film has a runtime of 78 minutes. On TMDB, it holds a rating of 4.2/10 based on 626 votes. Film critics gave the movie a higher score of 5.7/10 from 38 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was funded by a Baptist church, and all the actors voluntarily became Baptists.
- The film was originally supposed to be called “Grave Robbers from Outer Space,” but church representatives rejected this title and Voodoo had to come up with a new one.
- Filming ended in 1956, but it took three years to find a distributor for the film.
- The film was awarded the "Golden Turkey" award for worst film of all time.
- Bela Lugosi died after about 10 minutes of the film had been shot, which led Edward D. Wood Jr. to use archive footage of Lugosi in his Dracula cape. A Lugosi double named Tom Mason was also introduced into the film to portray the famous actor.
- During the filming of the movie, the cockpit was filmed as follows: the pilots sat on garden chairs, and a shower curtain was hung behind them. The flying saucers over the model of Hollywood are cheap toy models bought at a toy store.
- A coffin belonging to Wood's friend, Amazing Criswell, was used in the film, and according to Criswell, he slept in that coffin.
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