FILM RANKINGS UPDATED AFTER EVERY EPISODE!!!
Today’s film is Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957), a bold cinematic experiment in what happens when you have no budget, no continuity, and absolutely no idea how outer space (or plots) work. Aliens in figure skating uniforms arrive to stop highly disorganized and disoriented humans from destroying the universe. In a bewildering twist of storytelling genius, they believe the best way to do this by using three very confused zombies. Sets collapse if you look at them too hard, and half the cast seems genuinely unsure about why they’re there. Bela Lugosi somehow stars despite being dead, Criswell opens with a monologue about “future events such as these” like he’s reading from a haunted Mad Libs book, Tor Johnson moves through the film like someone who just learned what legs are, and isn’t entirely convinced they’re working properly, and Vampira glides around in a shredded dress like she just lost a knife fight with a curtain. It’s sincere, incompetent, and accidentally iconic. This truly is cinema’s most beautiful trainwreck.
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Episode Segments:
- Welcome
- Outside The Podcast Discussion
- Breaking News
- What Is This Film About? - Synopsis and Themes &Insights (curated by Sunni)
- Vital Statistics
- Things That Happen In The Film
- Inspirations (Curated by James)
- Trivia
- Critical Reception (Including our rankings)
- Final Thoughts
Music:
Exit The Premises, Loping Stings, Aerosol Of My Love
By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breaking News Intro
By: Luis Humanoide (Via pixabay)
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