Ed Wood, Jr.'s "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959) - feat. Béla Lugosi & Lyle Talbot

Описание: High above the Earth, an alien race decides that humanity’s reckless development of a doomsday weapon called the “solaronite bomb” threatens the entire universe. Their desperate strategy—Plan 9—is to resurrect the dead and unleash them upon the living, hoping fear will force mankind to listen before it destroys itself. The alien commander Eros (Dudley Manlove) and his fellow emissary Tanna (Joanna Lee) supervise the mission from a hovering saucer while a mysterious narrator known as Criswell (Criswell) warns that future events may soon become past history.

Their first experiments take place in a lonely cemetery where an elderly mourner, the unnamed ghoul (Béla Lugosi), wanders among the tombstones shortly before his own death. Afterward the aliens implement Plan 9 by resurrecting the dead. An old man (Vampira) rises from his grave, soon joined by the eerie Vampire Girl (Vampira). Among the newly awakened dead is Inspector Clay (Tor Johnson), a hulking police officer recently buried after being shot in the line of duty. These revenants stalk the night, terrifying nearby residents.

Police officer Lt. John Harper (Duke Moore) investigates strange lights and reports of grave robbing. Meanwhile airline pilot Jeff Trent (Gregory Walcott) and his wife Paula Trent (Mona McKinnon) witness flying saucers streaking through the sky during a routine flight. Their testimony brings them into contact with the military, where Colonel Tom Edwards (Tom Keene) and other officials begin to suspect extraterrestrial involvement. Soldiers are sent to guard the cemetery, but the resurrected Inspector Clay proves nearly unstoppable, killing officers and spreading panic.

As Jeff and Paula search for answers, the flying saucers land nearby and Eros attempts to contact humanity. Frustrated by the military’s hostility, the aliens accelerate Plan 9, unleashing the undead more openly. When Jeff stumbles into the saucer, he confronts Eros directly and learns the aliens’ grim warning: mankind’s scientific arrogance will lead to the creation of solaronite, a substance capable of igniting sunlight and destroying the universe itself.

Eros explains that resurrecting the dead was meant only to frighten humanity into listening. The plan unravels when a struggle erupts aboard the saucer. The ship’s controls are damaged, causing it to explode and crash. With the alien craft destroyed, the resurrected dead collapse and Plan 9 fails, leaving mankind free to risk its own annihilation.

A 1957 American Black & White independent science fiction-horror film (aka "The Vampire's Tomb" and "Grave Robbers from Outer Space") written, produced & directed, and edited by Ed Wood Jr., cinematography William C. Thompson, starring Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Carl Anthony, Paul Marco, Tor Johnson as Inspector, Dudley Manlove,, John Breckinridge, Lyle Talbot, David De Mering, Norma McCarty, Bill Ash, Lynn Lemon, Ben Frommer, Conrad Brooks, Maila Nurmi, and Béla Lugosi. Screen debut appearance of Joanna Lee. Final screen appearance of Tom Keene. Released by Distributors Corporation of America.

Narrated by the Amazing Criswell, he star of the KLAC Channel 13 (later KCOP-13) television series Criswell Predicts (1953). No episodes of the television show are known to survive. A phrase of the introduction, "Future events such as these will affect you in the future", was Criswell's signature line, used in his newspaper and magazine columns.Criswell wrote all of the film's narration himself. He found the narration Edward D. Wood Jr. wrote too boring.

Tor Johnson was a professional wrestler. He can be seen plying his trade when a television broadcast of a match is shown on the orphanage's new television in "Angels in the Outfield" (1951). Tor's son, Karl Johnson, an officer in the San Fernando Police Department, makes an uncredited appearance in the film, and provided police cars and uniforms.

Final film of Béla Lugosi. Ed Wood Jr. shot random footage of Lugosi with no plot in mind and wrote a screenplay that could incorporate the existing footage. Lugosi supplied his own costume. He wore one of the capes he used when portraying Dracula on stage and.died before the film was finished and was doubled by Tom Mason, Wood's wife's chiropractor, who was significantly taller than Lugosi, and played the part with a cape covering his face.

Ed Wood makes a cameo appearance as a Man Holding Newspaper (uncredited). Executive producer J. Edward Reynolds, who headed the group of Baptists financing the film, and associate producer Hugh Thomas Jr. appear as Gravediggers. Funded by a Baptist church, several members of the cast let themselves be baptized. Gregory Walcott was at the time a busy Hollywood contract player who attended the same Baptist church as executive producer J. Edward Reynolds.

The epitome of a so-bad-it's-good movie, celebrated for its staggering ineptitude. Considered the worst film in the history of cinema. Recommended for serious film buffs.