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Plan 9 From Outer Space - see the original before the REMAKE!

Flying saucers over Hollywood once more?

It takes a lot of balls to attempt to remake the "worst film of all time", a film so perfect in its imperfection that over half a century later we're still talking about it. Writer/director John Johnson appears to see something more profound in the story and is currently filming a remake of the movie, simply entitled Plan 9 which will be darker and more serious in tone, and without the camp elements of the original.

As always, our minds are open but we do have to ask....is this really necessary??

For more info on the project visit www.plan9movie.com. Website includes casting news, production photos and a history of the project.

Midnight Movies will be screening Ed Wood's ORIGINAL Plan 9 From Outer Space on Friday the 17th June in The Sugar Club, Dublin at the stroke of midnight. Get down early for a good seat, great music, fresh cinema popcorn and of course a few drinks!

Here's a teaser trailer for Plan 9 remake!


Plan 9 Teaser Trailer from Darkstone Entertainment on Vimeo.

The shocking truth, Plan 9 From Outer Space is a great film

Some things are best watched at 3am, wrapped in the warm glow of drunkenness. Plan 9 From Outer Space is one of them.

Chances are, you know about this film already. Worst film ever made blah blah UFOs made from hub-caps and paper plates blah blah a chiropractor holding a cloak over his face doubling for Bela Lugosi. Forget the blah blah blah. You know about this film – but do you really understand?

Sometimes, sitting in an expensive French restaurant, staring down at the perfectly present cordon bleu cuisine on your plate, you realise you’d kill for a kebab and chips. Sometimes, at a nightclub, the most attractive woman in the place isn’t the most perfect beauty, but the awkward girl with dodgy teeth and two left feet. Sometimes, “Spock’s Brain” is the finest piece of science fiction television ever made, and nothing else will do.

It’s not about irony. Fuck irony. It’s about how a complex set of variables can come together to create a need that will only be satisfied by imperfection. Usually these variables include six pints of beer, but so what? Sometimes we need to cast aside our critical faculties and wallow in base pleasures.

For something like this, the rules are simple: if it’s entertaining, it’s good. If it’s not entertaining, it’s bad. Simple as that. The worst crime is sober mediocrity. You could never accuse Plan 9 of being mediocre (Or Ian of being sober – Ed). Scenes switch from day to night and back again. The sets are diabolical. The acting is on a par with that of your average school nativity play. Every component is shoddy, yet the whole still possesses an irresistable naive charm.

Get pissed. Watch this at 3am. It’ll make you very happy, because then – can your hearts stand the shocking truth? – Plan 9 From Outer Space is a great film.

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/11/01/freakshow-plan-9-from-outer-space/

FLYING SAUCERS OVER DUBLIN!!!

You don't believe us...see for yourself...



And you doubted us...

See you Friday the 17th for even less convincing flying saucers in Ed Wood's wonderful Plan 9 From Outer Space!!

Love from Culch.ie!

Midnight Movies: Plan 9 From Outer Space

Friday, June 10th, 2011

On Friday the 17th in The Sugar Club, Midnight Movies are screening the endearingly bizarre and legendary mess of a film, Plan 9 From Outer Space, written and directed by Ed Wood. After attending their recent screening of Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! I can attest to the fact that the Midnight Movies crew put on a great show. Popcorn and cola bottle sweets are sold from table to table and a mish-mash of trailers for films like Blacula andBarbarella preceded that particular feature film in a genius build-up of anticipation. This upcoming movie night is guaranteed to please fans of sci-fi and horror, fans of bad films and fans of bad sci-fi/horror films most of all.

Plan 9 was made in 1959 and features Bela Lugosi in a posthumous role that’s mostly made up of footage shot by Wood for other, unfinished, and completely unrelated projects. The storyline focuses on aliens setting up shop on Earth in order to stop the humans from creating an apocalyptic weapon that could destroy the whole universe. The alien beings decide to put Plan 9 into motion, a dastardly scheme which for some reason involves bringing the dead back to life, to roam about eating/mauling/aggressively hugging those who cross their paths. The plot doesn’t really matter though. What keeps you entertained the whole way though are the enormous continuity clangers (It’s daytime! It’s nighttime! Wait, it’s daytime again!), the wobbly set pieces toppling over, the flying saucers on string and the chiropractor that was landed into the film halfway through as Bela Lugosi’s character.

Tim Burton’s Ed Wood is definitely worth a watch, either before or after seeing Plan 9, as it gives the fascinating backstory to what is now notoriously known as “The Worst Film Ever Made”, as well as showing what a genuinely enthusiastic film maker Ed actually was.

Tickets for Plan 9 From Outer Space at The Sugar Club are €9 (€7 for students) and doors open at 11.30. Midnight Movies on Twitter and Facebook.

http://www.culch.ie/2011/06/10/midnight-movies-plan-9-from-outer-space/

Midnight Movies Presents: PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE

THEY CAME FROM THE BOWELS OF HELL, A TRANSFORMED RACE OF WALKING DEAD! ZOMBIES GUIDED BY A MASTER PLAN FOR COMPLETE DOMINATION OF PLANET EARTH... WELCOME TO.... PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE...

At Midnight, Friday the 17th, Midnight Movies will have its second outing with “the worst film ever made” — Ed Wood’s notorious cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space.

The ultimate “so bad it’s hilarious!” film comes complete with dodgy dialogue, wobbling tombstones and flying saucers on strings. Invaders from outer space launch Plan 9, their most evil plan yet to raise the dead and enslave the human race.

Marvel at the passionate incompetence of Ed Wood, who wouldn’t let anything such as budget or logic get in the way of making the film! Gaze upon the last terrible performance of Hollywood horror maestro Bela Lugosi! Avert your eyes at the role of TV’s famous horror host Vampira!


The only way to watch this outrageous and bizarre movie is at the stroke of midnight with booze and a rowdy audience! So come join us in The Sugar Club for a late drink, real cinema popcorn, and special cinematic surprises!

Friday the 17th of June
The Sugar Club, Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2
Tickets priced €9 or €7 students (strictly over 18)
Doors open at 11.30pm
Film starts: Midnight followed by retro music.
To book a table mail midnightmovienight@gmail.com or put a post on our Facebook page (minimum 5 per table)

Star of Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! to introduce Midnight Movies

 

"I'm of legal age for whiskey, voting and loving. Now the next election is two years away, and my love life ain't getting much better, so how about some of that one-hundred-percent!"Billie (Lori Williams).

We are delighted to announce that Lori Williams, who stars as the blonde bombshell Billie in Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!  will be introducing the film via Skype as well as a doing a Q & A so we can find out first hand exactly what it was like filming one of the biggest cult films ever and with one of the worlds most notorious film directors, Russ Meyer.