Plan 9 From Outer Space

chas · Post by **chas** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:11 pm

Dale wrote:
Kevin L. Rietmann wrote:Are you a B Movie buff, Dale?
Well, not exactly. I'm a sort of a D movie fan. I don't like merely bad movies. I do like TREMENDOUSLY egregiously bad movies.

I wouldn't say that a movie needs to be bad enough to be good -- I think good-bad is a different type from bad-bad, rather than a different degree.
Similar to mamakash above, my criterion for a good-bad movie is whether it would make a good Mystery Science Theater episode. Manos is a classic, but I think my all-time favorite is one of Bert I Gordon's early movies (I want to say the Amazing Colossal Man, but I don't think so). There was absolutely NO dialogue on-camera. Everybody who was talking was shot from the back. At one point Tomservo says something to the effect, Bert I Gordon didn't master syncing the audio track to the lips till his next movie. Every time there was dialogue after (there really wasn't much, not much action either) that I just about lost it laughing my ass off. THAT's a great crappy movie.

I was really bummed when Joel left MST3k. It was never the same after that.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:51 pm

I dind't know it was a real movie. I thought it was just something they made up on Seinfled.

Post by **Dale** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:06 pm

I've seen Plan 9 a dozen times or more. I love it with all my heart. A great double feature is Plan 9 and then Ed Wood. You can't go wrong.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:13 pm

Plan 9 was poor Bela Lugosi's last movie. He died halfway through the filming and rather than reshoot his scenes with a different actor they got some guy to slink around in pseudo-vampire garb with his caped arm draped sinisterly across his face for the rest of the movie.
Vampires or zombies come and go from crypts which look like cardboard boxes from a refrigerator spray painted.
In one scene of an airplane cockpit, the pilot and co-pilot are sitting in front of the door to the cabin which is covered by what looks like a plastic shower curtain. They are supposedly flying the plane, but they have no control stick or yoke..
You HAVE to love a movie that bad!

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:25 pm

chas wrote:Similar to mamakash above, my criterion for a good-bad movie is whether it would make a good Mystery Science Theater episode.

Yes, absolutely; another good one is whether Joe Bob Briggs reviewed it.

Post by **Dale** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:45 pm

Plan 9 is in the public domain and is available in its entirety at

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9656489183

Dale

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:48 pm

Google might ought to double check. There were issues with its copyright status, why Internet Archive took it down from their site.

mamakash · Post by **mamakash** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:48 pm

chas wrote:I think my all-time favorite is one of Bert I Gordon's early movies (I want to say the Amazing Colossal Man, but I don't think so). There was absolutely NO dialogue on-camera. Everybody who was talking was shot from the back.

Bert I Gordon movie . . . shot from the back? Hmm. I'm not too sure on that one. You know, he did make "The Magic Sword" which was Mystied, but was pretty decent to watch. There are a couple movies I can think of that have very little dialogue but are mostly narrated. "Attack of the the eye creatures"(yes, that IS the title that appears on the title screen) was Bill Rebane's oily, lurid, smoldering pile of dog doo. Bill has worked in the medium of crap for other films . . . he obviously takes pride in it. I remember there being a lot of narration along with distrurbing images of big haired girls, sexual innuendos, a farmer who shoots smoothers on sight and a male character who sleeps in a dress.
The other film I'm thinking of was "The Creeping Terror", a movie simply so boring and poorly written it simply can not be watched. The Mystie Treatment does not soften the blow. This ENTIRE movie is narrated. It may as well have been a silent movie. In a crash landing, these weird carpet covered monsters come to earth and eat humans. The actors basically crawl into the monsters and scream. At one point they eat some rotund old guy whose grandson has wandered off. Anyway, the grandpa keeps barking out "Bobby? Bobby?" Besides that, the actors don't have lines. I guess the film makers couldn't get actors who could commit a script to memory.

I like to go onto the Internet Movie Database and pull up movie reviews on the worst movies I've seen. I like to see how people rate and review them. I get a good laugh.

http://www.imdb.com

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:51 pm

Dale wrote: I do like TREMENDOUSLY egregiously bad movies.

Then you're going to have to just suck it up and go see "Snakes on a Plane," which I think has the potential to be "Plan 9 of the New Millenium."

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:14 am

My sister saw a movie she didn't recommend called, "Devil Dogs from Hell." She said the video store guy kept it behind the counter and you had to request it. I think she saw someone returning it. Whatever. So, of course, I asked the store guy about the movie. He concurred with my sister that it was really terrible and didn't recommend I rent it. And, yes, he kept it behind the counter. I never bothered to watch it. Anyone seen it?
Tony

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:54 am

Dale wrote:
Kevin L. Rietmann wrote:Are you a B Movie buff, Dale?
Well, not exactly. I'm a sort of a D movie fan. I don't like merely bad movies. I do like TREMENDOUSLY egregiously bad movies.

Dale

Dale, have you seen "The Cars That Ate Paris"? This was one of Oz' many contributions in the key of D - I believe some of the actors went on to participate in another D-grader called "Mad Max". In my opinion Mad Max was the inferior - it didn't have a spike-infested Volkswagon going around skewering people.

Post by **Dale** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:09 am

gonzo914 wrote:
Dale wrote: I do like TREMENDOUSLY egregiously bad movies.
Then you're going to have to just suck it up and go see "Snakes on a Plane," which I think has the potential to be "Plan 9 of the New Millenium."

No, I can't. It has snakes in it. And planes. And Samuel L. Jackson, who I used to like until he started appearing in 38% of all movies.

Dale

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:15 am

Mitch wrote:
Dale wrote:
Kevin L. Rietmann wrote:Are you a B Movie buff, Dale?
Well, not exactly. I'm a sort of a D movie fan. I don't like merely bad movies. I do like TREMENDOUSLY egregiously bad movies.

Dale
Dale, have you seen "The Cars That Ate Paris"? This was one of Oz' many contributions in the key of D - I believe some of the actors went on to participate in another D-grader called "Mad Max". In my opinion Mad Max was the inferior - it didn't have a spike-infested Volkswagon going around skewering people.

Yep, The Cars that Ate Paris was a watchable film. There ought to be a word that means to watch it with a huge, disbelieving grin.
And yes, Mad Max was pretty poor. Mad Max 2 on the other hand was a load of fun.

doogieman · Post by **doogieman** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:00 am

How about another category - "Never heard of it"

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