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Plan 9 at the Bardavon “The Kick Starter Kick off”
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Plan 9 from Outer Space (originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space) is a 1956 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Poughkeepsie’s own Ed Wood. It premiered in 1957 and was released in 1959. The film features Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson and Maila “Vampira” Nurmi. The film bills Bela Lugosi posthumously as a star, although silent footage of the actor had been shot by Wood for other, unfinished projects just before Lugosi’s death in 1956.
The plot of the film involves extraterrestrial beings who are seeking to stop humans from creating a doomsday weapon that would destroy the universe. In the course of doing so, the aliens implement “Plan 9”, a scheme to resurrect Earth’s dead as what modern audiences would consider zombies (called “ghouls” in the film itself) to get the planet’s attention, causing chaos.
For years the film played on television in relative obscurity, until 1980, when authors Michael and Harry Medved dubbed Plan 9 from Outer Space the “worst movie ever made”. Wood was posthumously awarded the Medveds’ Golden Turkey Award as the worst director ever.
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Film: Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) Director: Ed Wood, Jr. Actor Portrayed: Maila Nurmi Licensing The original 1959 version of this film is public domain, although there may be a copyright on the musical score (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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