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Like his creative progeny Tommy Wiseau and Neal Breen, Wood wasn’t about to let the fact that he couldn’t do anything keep him from attempting to do everything. Plan 9 looks like it cost about a dollar yet Wood inexplicably but adorably chose a style of film-special effects-intensive science fiction about a war between aliens and earthlings-that requires a sizable budget and a skilled battalion of craftsman to do adequately, let alone well. So I can’t tell you how much malevolent joy it brought me that over the course of just two sentences and thirty two words Criswell repeats the word “future” no less than three times. If you’re going to use the same words, for the love of god, please space them out a little. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?”Īs a writer, one of the worst things you can do is repeat yourself. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal.

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That is why you are here.Īnd now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. This begins with Criswell’s opening narration, which is delivered directly to the camera in a state of barely controlled hysteria: “Greetings, my friend. Plan 9 was the original best worst movie.Īt this point I have seen Ed Wood so many times that it starts to feel like Plan 9 From Outer Space is lifting scenes wholesale from Tim Burton’s cult classic rather than the other way around.

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Indeed, the enduring cult of Plan 9 is rooted in the transparently false but irresistible notion that it’s not just a bad movie, but literally the worst movie ever made. When the Medved brothers dubbed Plan 9 From Outer Space the worst movie ever made in their influential 1980 book The Golden Turkey Awards, and Wood the worst director, it introduced a bold new dynamic: trash aficionados wanting to see a movie specifically because it’s terrible, not despite being terrible. It’s hard to overstate the role Plan 9 From Outer Space and its eccentric creator have played in the birth and evolution of bad movie culture. Now I have the extraordinary honor of getting to write about Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space.

This column compelled my to finally watch Manos: The Hands of Fate after somehow going my whole life without experiencing it. You know I like to watch and what I like to write about and your picks suit my idiosyncrasies nicely, if not perfectly.

I have been fortunate in that the choices you beautiful people have made for this column are very on-brand. This generous patron is now paying for me to watch and write about the cult animated show Batman Beyond and I also recently began even more screamingly essential deep dives into the complete filmographies of troubled video vixen Tawny Kitaen and troubled former Noxzema pitch-woman Rebecca Gayheart.

I’m deep into a project on the films of the late, great, fervently mourned David Bowie and I have now watched and written about every movie Sam Peckinpah made over the course of his tumultuous, wildly melodramatic psychodrama of a life and career.

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Or you can be like three kind patrons and use this column to commission a series of pieces about a filmmaker or actor. The price goes down to seventy-five dollars for all subsequent choices. It’s the career and site-sustaining column that gives YOU, the kindly, Christ-like, unbelievably sexy Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place patron, an opportunity to choose a movie that I must watch, and then write about, in exchange for a one-time, one hundred dollar pledge to the site’s Patreon account. Welcome, friends, to the latest entry in Control Nathan Rabin 4.0.