Monster of the Day #1091

Is that the same detective that was pointing his police revolver at different members of the cast while wildly gesturing? I always giggle when he scratches his stomach with the muzzle of his own gun, talk about failing your firearm safety course!

I always kind of liked “future events such as these will affect you in the future”, and “Visits? That would imply visitors”. Plan 9 just keeps on giving.

Lots of laffs but, last time I viewed I decided “You, who wear the uniform of your country. You see, I wear the uniform of my country” wins in the category of “funniest quote that requires you to be watching the film”.

GONE WITH THE WIND had 3 directors. PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE only had one. That says it all right there.

it was a dark and stormy day for night

What makes that line funny to me is that is exactly how the actress delivers the line, just a straight read of the sentence off the script with no attempt to add inflection to “there”.

“ball it up in Albuquerque” gets the same dead read.

She would fast for three days to cinch her waist down that tight before her show. The minute the cameras were off, she’d dart over to the hash house across the street from the studio and gorge herself. It was during one of those food binges that she met Criswell. Presumably, he introduced her to Wood.

Wood knew he had a good thing with Vampira in his cast, and subsequently created stand-in characters when Nurmi decided she’d better bow out of pictures following the shooting of PLAN 9.

That’s nothing, I remember him scratching his head with the barrel! As one reviewer put it, “The inevitable results if the gun went off would not only be horrific but downright poetic, since anyone that stupid never used their brain much in the first place!”

YOW! I love a woman with a slender tiny waist but she was pushing it a little too far- I swear I think I could put my hands on her waist and touch my fingers and thumbs together!

My favorite, still, is “Flying saucer? You mean the kind from up there?”
“Yeah, or its counterpart.” I just cannot grasp what that second bit of dialogue is supposed to mean.

Wood had a special talent, it must be said. I briefly considered writing a Woodian script for a project, and quickly abandoned the idea. I have an ear for realistic dialog, and couldn’t begin to wrap my mind around the process of actually writing something so alien!

She also wore a heavy rubber corset/girdle to bring the waist down to that size and, according to an interview I read a number of years age, rubbed meat tenderizer into her waist as well in hopes of whittling it away. Can’t see how that would do anything but irritate the hell out of your skin, but whatever. I do believe she continued waist training even on the days she wasn’t onscreen, to ensure she stayed wasp waisted for the show.

Agreed. For example, MANOS *wishes* it was half as entertaining as Plan 9.

Manos? Heck, Plan 9 is more entertaining–and makes more sense–than every movie ever made by The Asylum.

Bless you! There is hope!

It would be the corset that was the key factor, I think. Reportedly, tightlacing can physically change a woman’s body.

Not to demean Ed Wood–seriously–but Plan 9 makes perfect sense if you think of it as a film written and directed by 8-year-olds, who managed to get their parents, teachers, etc to act in it. The whole “why a crypt and not a grave” thing is exactly the sort of thing a kid would feel he had to explain, while other factors (different cars, day-night-day, etc) wouldn’t require any bother.

That’s one of my definitions of what makes a movie ‘so bad it’s good’ as opposed to a simple bad movie- it has to be fun.