Review – Plan 9 from Outer Space

This both is and isn’t as bad as I’d heard it was. Of course it’s plenty awful, a badness beyond Glen or Glenda? In an exploitation documentary a certain amount of terribleness is to be expected. But in a narrative drama, well, this is just pure incompetent silliness. It’s also more than a little sad, especially as the last movie Bela Lugosi ever made (to the extent that he can even be said to be in it, as he died fairly early in the production). And worst of all, the humor of the whole mess gets old long before the running time expires. Overall this is plenty awful, but I’ll take an earnest dreadfulness over an uncaring hack job any day of the week. See if desperate