Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore

Aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires to stop human kind from creating the Solaranite (a sort of sun-driven bomb).

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Unrated, 1 hr. 19 min.

Directed by: Edward D. Wood Jr.

Release Date: January 1, 1959

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DVD Release Date: May 18, 1999

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  • July 25, 2009
    I saw about 5 min of this and just about died! My grandma came in and was like "where did you find this!" lol it was on tv. SOO CHEESE-TASIC!
  • June 7, 2009
    Terrible continuity!!!!! A bad movie that is still a must-see, but that doesn't mean I can give it more stars than this. I saw this at midnight on the big screen as part of a cult film series at a local indie movie theater. Oh, and it was a colorized version with some home mov...( read more)ies and samples of Ed Wood's commercial work attached. There was also a very funny lead-in to the movie illustrating the failed attempts of "Plans 1-8." Rocky Horror was playing on the screen next door. Of course everyone came dressed up for that cult film, but there weren't any extreme fans dressed up as characters from this movie. I enjoyed myself laughing in disbelief at the bad acting, editing, writing, sci-fi, and special effects! I could support the idea that this is the worst movie ever.
  • January 6, 2009
    Unintentionally funny. So good because it's oh so bad. All hail Ed Wood!
  • July 25, 2008
    My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts of grave robbers from outer space? hilariously bad but i'm sure i've seen worse films than this...
  • July 21, 2008
    How do you REALLY rate this film. It's amazing and terrible all at the same time.
  • November 7, 2009
    Started off so bad that it was funny, but then it was just bad and uninteresting.
  • November 3, 2009
    Is it a bad movie? Yes but there is a certain charm to it and for that alone it gets 1.5 stars.
  • November 2, 2009
    This is so bad..it's brilliant.The SFX look like they were made by Blue Peter and the acting sublimley awful.The continuity is an art form in it's self.
  • October 29, 2009
    Hardly the worst movie of all time. It does have its own DIY charm.
  • October 15, 2009
    Plan 9 may be the greatest accidental comedy ever made. It goes beyond "so bad it's good" and enters into mad genius territory. The phrase "bad idea" never seems to have found it's way into Ed Woods vocabulary. Everything about this movie makes me laugh. The acting, the dialo...( read more)gue, the sets, and the editing are atrocious (I guess four wrongs make a right). To me Ed Wood will always be one of the greatest directors ever, not because of skill, which as we all know he didn't have, but because of his determination. Here's a guy who had proven himself to be a horrible filmmaker, yet he still managed to get backers thanks to his refusal to take no for an answer. It drives me nuts when people compare him to Uwe Boll. First of all, Boll never had to fight to get one of his pieces of shit made, he gets all of his funding from the German Gov't. Second of all, his movies are so bad they're not even worth making fun of. Ed Wood, on the other hand, fought hard for his crap. His movies have an admirable innocence about them. They are completely free of pretension (and sanity). This is one movie that every movie fan should see at least once in their lifetime, and if, like me, you love campy horror movies then this is sure to become one of your favorites.

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  • ton24968
    July 21, 2008
    Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown... the mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you, the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony, of the miserable souls, who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty. Let us reward the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts of grave robbers from outer space?
  • QueenCityFilms
    March 16, 2008
    This movie chews shit and blows ass. An instant clasic!
  • sweetprettyredskingyal
    November 7, 2006
    its so wonderfully lame! lol

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