Bad Movie Club: Plan 9 from Outer Space

1959 sci-fi classic

Bad Movie Rating: 5/5 (Fred: 5/5; Josh: 5/5; Jeremy: 5/5; Libby: 5/5; Libby: no rating)

Rating: 2/20

Plot: I already wrote elegantly about this right here.

I've seen a lot of bad movies, and although this movie deserves its reputation as a bad movie classic, it's not the worst movie ever made. See? Just look at that rating. It's twice as good as Birdemic: Shock and Terror, Ben & Arthur, and The Room. This has everything that a bad movie aficionado could possibly want, save bad child acting.

Terrible special effects? Check.
"Science" that would have Copernicus spinning in his grave? Check.
Bad acting? Check.
Continuity errors? Check.
Awful dialogue? Check.
Questionable character motivations? Check.
Borrowed music and stock footage? Check.
Hilariously cheap sets? Check.

You watch this movie--or any movie that Ed Wood Jr. had anything to do with--and you just know that it was made by somebody who was very special, one of those minds that comes along less frequently than Haley's Comet. Some of my BMC colleagues hadn't seen this, and it's probably a must for any bad movie club. I'm happy to give it a spin every few years.

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