What Happened To The First 8 Plans?

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)

"Can your heart stand the shocking facts about Graverobbers from Outer Space?" That's the question on the lips of the narrator of this tale about flying saucers, zombies and cardboard tombstones. A pair of aliens, angered by the "stupid minds" of planet Earth, set up shop in a California cemetery. Their plan: to animate an army of the dead to march on the capitals of the world. (The fact that they have only managed to resurrect three zombies to date has not discouraged them.) An intrepid airline pilot living near the cemetery must rescue his wife from this low-budget terror. Hilarity ensues. "Can you prove it *didn't* happen?"

Trivia: Named 'Worst Film of All Time' in the book "The Golden Turkey Awards". Bela Lugosi appears in footage shot just before his death, but with no script in mind. Edward D. Wood Jr. wrote the script to accommodate all the footage shot in a cemetery and outside Tor Johnson's house in the new production. Lugosi was doubled by Tom Mason, Wood's wife's chiropractor, who was significantly taller than Lugosi, and played the part with a cape covering his face. A video release, making note of the actor's death before production began, lists on the cassette box, "Almost Starring Bela Legosi". This same box also touted the film as being "science fiction gold".

Well, you couldn't have expected me to watch Ed Wood and NOT watch his masterpiece. This movie is so bad, it is funny. It's like going to a NASCAR race to see the crash, knowing it is coming, but not being able to look away. From a dectective who keeps absentmindedly pointing his gun at himself and other officers, to a man clad in a cape and covering his face a la Dracula so that he can stand in for the dead star Lugosi, to footage of Lugosi himself walking through the same graveyard four to five times (at least) {you can tell that it was different takes of the same scene that Ed Wood just used to fill in at different times} to a very large detective with a swedish accent (Tor Johnson was swedish and the accent made it very hard to 1. understand him, and 2. hear him flub his lines). Did I mention that at times you can see the string holding up the flying saucers? Or that the saucers wobble so much that anything flying in them would have been pounded to death on the walls. This movie is bad...awesomely bad.

Oh! Wait! I forgot to tell you the best part! The reason the aliens are trying so hard to warn us is that the human race is on the verge of creating a weapon that if used, even once, will destroy not only the Earth, but the whole universe. So what to we do? We beat them up and sent them crying to their Daddy, so we are free to destroy the universe if we dadgum want to. No alien is gonna tell US what to do, by gum!