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In 1956, [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]] produced, directed and wrote a movie that was to change the world irrevocably, resurrect [[Bela Lugosi]]'s ailing film career and be known forever as the greatest motion picture of all time. As it turned out, however, Bela Lugosi was [[Dead Star Walking]] and Ed Wood Jr. was a terrible writer and director, [[Giftedly Bad|a man of unlimited drive and determination but absolutely no talent]]. But for just those qualities, it is often considered [[So Bad It's Good|The Worst Movie Of All Time]]. Hey, in this case, one out of three ain't bad.
A classic tale of [[Human Aliens|aliens]] creating [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies]] via administering "[[Techno Babble|long distance electrodes shot into the pineal and pituitary gland of the recent dead]]". The police department investigate the mysterious rising of a dead old man (played alternately by Bela Lugosi and [[Fake Shemp|a much taller, younger man pretending to be Bela Lugosi]], aided by a cape on his head), his suspiciously young wife and Police Inspector Clay, who's "a big boy now, Johnny". Meanwhile, "army brass" battles the aliens with a combination of [[Stock Footage]] of artillery and impressive looking-through-binoculars in front of a curtain, only to reveal that the aliens have sent them messages that are often cut off by "[[Space Does Not Work That Way|atmospheric conditions in outer space]]".
The aliens land and meet with the police, the pilot and an army colonel and belittle the humans for their "''stupid'' minds! Stupid, ''stupid''!" The head alien, [[Sadly Mythtaken|Eros]], explains that humanity will "stumble across" a way to explode [[Unit Confusion|particles of sunlight]], thus eventually destroying the universe. The movie climaxes with a fight between Eros and the pilot and the spaceship taking off, leaving the reanimated corpses as skeletons before exploding in mid air. As they leave, Criswell says:
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Two remakes are being made [[Milestone Celebration|in honor of the film's 50th anniversary]], and they are very different. One, produced by Drunkenflesh Films, will be known as ''Grave Robbers from Outer Space'', and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o93o0-_7Tvc aims to be a dark and modernized version, but low-budget like the original] and released direct-to-video in time for Halloween. Another, produced by Darkstone Entertainment, is simply called ''Plan 9''—based on the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJh-gdpJxJo trailer], with [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|James Rolfe in the cast]]. It looks to be the movie Ed Wood had in his head..
Due to [[Small Reference Pools]], '''''Plan 9 from Outer Space''''' is frequently used as a shorthand for "really bad movie", especially by film critics. For example, a movie review might read "''Good Movie'' is ''Plan Nine'' compared to ''Excellent Movie''."
Also see ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'', ''[[The Room]]'', ''[[Troll 2]]'' and ''[[Birdemic]]'' for some of ''Plan Nine'''s biggest competitors for Worst Movie Ever. Contrast with ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (though [[Tim Burton]] actually dared to ''compare'' ''Plan 9'' with ''Citizen Kane'' in ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]''.)
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* [[Age-Appropriate Angst]]: The alien leader who looks like a man in his fifties. Both the dialog and the way the actor delivers it makes him come off like a ten year old who's just had his video games taken away. The actress playing his assistant can be seen laughing in the background during one of these tantrums.
** Wood had to have known this was going to happen; the actor was a famous drag queen, and a good friend of Wood's.
* [[America Saves the Day]]: Toy flying saucers menacing your world? Defeat it with some California town folk and military stock footage. Said saucers only menaced one military company for all of five minutes and seemed most interested in screwing with one specific cemetery in one California town. You can't blame the rest of the world for not wanting to get involved.
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* [[Camp Straight]]: Criswell, amazingly enough.
* [[Can't Argue with Elves|Can't Argue with Aliens]]: Mostly just because they suck at arguing. "No, ''you'' hold on!"
* [[Captain Obvious]]:
{{quote|"Inspector Clay is dead... murdered. And ''somebody'' is responsible!"
"Visits? Well, that would indicate visitors!"
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*** [[Space Does Not Work That Way|...but no atmosphere.]]
* [[Spinning Paper]]: Also played straight.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Hilariously, this film, the legendary ''bad'' fifties sci-fi movie, has almost ''exactly the same plot'' as ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]],'' the quintessential sci-fi film of the era.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: One of the reasons the aliens are so incompetent is that Eros is willing to shout down Tanna, despite the fact that she's been assigned to his ship. The source of the aliens' food is [[MST3K Mantra|never revealed]], so one can only really assume that she's been put there on equal terms.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: If this is Plan 9, it's left for people to wonder what Plan 8 was. Say it phonetically.
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