This is legendarily bad director, Edward D. Wood Jr.’s most famous film which attempts to tell the story of aliens attacking the Earth and resurrecting the dead to destroy the living.It was as bad as I was expecting. The dialogue is terrible, the acting is unbelievably poor, the directing shows a complete lack of ability, shots change from day to night randomly within scenes and you can see the strings holding up the “spaceship”. To begin with, this means that the film unintentionally delivers some laughs; however, I found that this novelty soon wore off and it became a very long seventy-nine minutes.
Despite this, I would definitely recommend the film to anyone that has seen, and enjoyed, Tm Burton’s Ed Wood (1994) – or anyone that plans to see it. After seeing Plan 9 from Outer Space you can appreciate how accurate Burton is in recreating scenes from the film. Likewise, seeing this film gives context to Burton’s story of Ed Wood Jr.’s determination to write, produce and direct films. As Burton’s film teaches us, when Wood’s star, Bela Lugosi, died during the filming, Plan 9... was still finished, using a replacement actor who covered his face with his arm so that the audience could not tell the difference.
