Mark Weiss wrote:
> I'll second this--a must-see.
>
> It's not the worst sci fi film of all times, however. That distinction
> belongs to The Monolith Monsters, killer piles of stones from outer
> space.
>
> Mark
I beg to differ. I forgot the champion cheapo sci-fi film of all time,
Plan 9 From Outer Space, directed by the inimitable Ed Wood. I bought a
VHS of this junkoid film after watching the movie of Ed Wood's life.
When I my wife and I split up in 1997 I left her Plan 9 and I took
Citizen Kane. I won, bastard that I am:-). No, actually I forgot it
was there. Either way, it's appalling. Bela Lugosi, the elegant
Dracula of 1931, was the only "name," and by 1955 he was a burned out
old junkie who died before the filming was done (the body double didn't
even have Lugosi's build, he was Mrs. Wood's dentist). The best
parts--first, the paper plates that were supposed to by flying saucers
but were still obviously from the planet Chinette; and the space alien
who decomposes on some guy's patio, followed by the man exclaiming "How
about that?"
I recall that some group at Harvard voted Plan 9 the worst film ever
made. I suppose it can fight it out with Lepus and a big-budget dog (as
opposed to a rabbit), The Silver Chalice, a film so bad that even Paul
Newman has refused to talk about it.
Steve Buscemi wasn't in any of these, either.
ken
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