Tim Burton’s movies have a memorable visual style that keeps fans coming back to them again and again. The Batman director himself was asked what makes his movies different and his response was unusual. Burton noted that even people who aren’t film buffs can sense his aesthetic.
Tim Burton’s movies take inspiration from a slew of oddities
Burton’s films combine some of the dark, distorted visuals of silent horror films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with elements of fairy tales and Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion creations. He’s also heavily pulled from Gothic fiction, such as the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations starring horror legend Vincent Price. While he usually makes color films, he still emphasizes black and white in his color palettes. Even when his movies have subpar stories, they’re usually interesting to look at, whether you are touring the spooky 18th-century woods of...
Tim Burton’s movies take inspiration from a slew of oddities
Burton’s films combine some of the dark, distorted visuals of silent horror films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with elements of fairy tales and Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion creations. He’s also heavily pulled from Gothic fiction, such as the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations starring horror legend Vincent Price. While he usually makes color films, he still emphasizes black and white in his color palettes. Even when his movies have subpar stories, they’re usually interesting to look at, whether you are touring the spooky 18th-century woods of...
- 8/11/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Biographical movies usually celebrate the great people of history. In contrast, one of Tim Burton’s movies highlights an obscure figure who wasn’t very good at making art. During an interview, the Batman director revealed that he was a huge fan of the movie in question even though it bombed. He also said he would be willing to live in that movie, alongside two of his other projects.
Tim Burton made a movie about movies in the weirdest way possible
Great directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Federico Fellini, and Bob Fosse have all made movies about the glories of making movies. When Burton made his crack at that subgenre, he took a different approach. He decided to lionize Edward D. Wood, Jr., a B-movie maestro who is often considered the worst film director of all time. Rather than knocking Wood down for making schlock like Plan 9 from...
Tim Burton made a movie about movies in the weirdest way possible
Great directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Federico Fellini, and Bob Fosse have all made movies about the glories of making movies. When Burton made his crack at that subgenre, he took a different approach. He decided to lionize Edward D. Wood, Jr., a B-movie maestro who is often considered the worst film director of all time. Rather than knocking Wood down for making schlock like Plan 9 from...
- 8/10/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
A B-movie actor wrote an infamous song for Elvis Presley’s Blue Hawaii. She tried to write a title song for the film, but that never happened. Regardless, she gained some celebrity as her films became infamous.
Elvis Presley’s ‘Blue Hawaii’ includes a song by director Ed Wood’s girlfriend
Dolores Fuller was an actor who had a relationship with Ed Wood, the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space. That film is widely considered one of the worst movies ever made, though it has a strong cult following among people who like camp classics. Fuller appeared in secondary roles in some of Wood’s films, such as Glen or Glenda and Bride of the Monster.
During an interview with Elvis Australia, Fuller discussed her songwriting career. “Well I have to attribute my break in getting into songwriting for [movie producer] Hal Wallis,” she said. “He was an old friend of mine,...
Elvis Presley’s ‘Blue Hawaii’ includes a song by director Ed Wood’s girlfriend
Dolores Fuller was an actor who had a relationship with Ed Wood, the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space. That film is widely considered one of the worst movies ever made, though it has a strong cult following among people who like camp classics. Fuller appeared in secondary roles in some of Wood’s films, such as Glen or Glenda and Bride of the Monster.
During an interview with Elvis Australia, Fuller discussed her songwriting career. “Well I have to attribute my break in getting into songwriting for [movie producer] Hal Wallis,” she said. “He was an old friend of mine,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter, Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Liam Neeson in Schindler’s ListImage: Universal Pictures, MGM, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures
As we prepare to learn about the story of the man who created the atomic bomb in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic Oppenheimer,...
As we prepare to learn about the story of the man who created the atomic bomb in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic Oppenheimer,...
- 7/20/2023
- by Cindy White and Mark Keizer
- avclub.com
July brings new channels to Pluto TV, including the Godzilla Channel, which features 30 films, such as “Godzilla Vs. King Chidorah” and “Godzilla vs. Biollante,” as well as the 1998-2000 animated adventure “Godzilla: The Series.” The Hollywood Squares Channel is also debuting. Celebrities in nine separate tic-tac-toe boxes provide right — and wrong — answers to contestants longing to hear “circle gets the square!”
July continues the streamer’s Summer Popcorn Movies with the “Mission Impossible” franchise starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, an agent of the Impossible Missions Force (Imf). Cruise has played the super-fit spy since 1996, as well as produced the series. The seventh iteration, “Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1,” has a theatrical release date of July 12.
Check out the first “Mission Impossible” trailer
“The Soldier’s Story,” a gripping 1984 drama nominated for three Academy Awards, is a jarring mystery about the death of a black sergeant stationed at a...
July continues the streamer’s Summer Popcorn Movies with the “Mission Impossible” franchise starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, an agent of the Impossible Missions Force (Imf). Cruise has played the super-fit spy since 1996, as well as produced the series. The seventh iteration, “Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1,” has a theatrical release date of July 12.
Check out the first “Mission Impossible” trailer
“The Soldier’s Story,” a gripping 1984 drama nominated for three Academy Awards, is a jarring mystery about the death of a black sergeant stationed at a...
- 6/30/2023
- by Fern Siegel
- The Streamable
Elvis Presley songs weren’t always great. For example, he recorded a track about talking shrimp. He also released a song where he humiliated a man for eating too much.
Elvis Presley | Archive Photos / Stringer 5. ‘Song of the Shrimp’
Elvis’ movie Girls! Girls! Girls! is less than inspired. It features one great song: “Return to Sender.” Sadly, the track is clumsily employed in the film, where it plays over a suspenseful scene even though it’s a bright pop song.
The other notable song from Girls! Girls! Girls! is “Song of the Shrimp.” It’s a song about talking shrimp. It’s a bad song, partially because there’s no way anyone could write a good song about talking shrimp. Strangely, it sounds a tad like “Kiss the Girl” from Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Elvis recorded songs in many genres but calypso was out of his range. The fake accent here is so offensive.
Elvis Presley | Archive Photos / Stringer 5. ‘Song of the Shrimp’
Elvis’ movie Girls! Girls! Girls! is less than inspired. It features one great song: “Return to Sender.” Sadly, the track is clumsily employed in the film, where it plays over a suspenseful scene even though it’s a bright pop song.
The other notable song from Girls! Girls! Girls! is “Song of the Shrimp.” It’s a song about talking shrimp. It’s a bad song, partially because there’s no way anyone could write a good song about talking shrimp. Strangely, it sounds a tad like “Kiss the Girl” from Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Elvis recorded songs in many genres but calypso was out of his range. The fake accent here is so offensive.
- 2/27/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Baz Luhrmann’s movie Elvis became a smash hit. Despite this, it wasn’t the first or only movie with a similar style or subject matter. Here are a few films you might want to watch if you loved the movie.
Elvis Presley | Gab Archive / Contributor 5. ‘The King’
Luhrmann’s Elvis is celebratory in many ways. It also portrays the subject of Elvis and race in the most positive light possible. That’s to be expected given that the film was produced by Priscilla Presley.
The King is a documentary that looks at Elvis and race from a more critical perspective. It uses the “Can’t Help Falling in Love” singer’s legacy as a metaphor for the history of the United States. It features interviews with many notable figures, including Van Jones, Chuck D from Public Enemy, and others. The King didn’t get much attention upon release, but it...
Elvis Presley | Gab Archive / Contributor 5. ‘The King’
Luhrmann’s Elvis is celebratory in many ways. It also portrays the subject of Elvis and race in the most positive light possible. That’s to be expected given that the film was produced by Priscilla Presley.
The King is a documentary that looks at Elvis and race from a more critical perspective. It uses the “Can’t Help Falling in Love” singer’s legacy as a metaphor for the history of the United States. It features interviews with many notable figures, including Van Jones, Chuck D from Public Enemy, and others. The King didn’t get much attention upon release, but it...
- 2/22/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Aptly named for the acidic smell of deteriorating film, Vinegar Syndrome made an auspicious debut in 2013 with its inaugural release, The Lost Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis. In the decade since, they have unearthed, restored, and distributed hundreds of cult, exploitation, horror, action, and adult films.
Popping in a new Vinegar Syndrome disc is a bit like cinematic Russian roulette. It’s always interesting, but you never know if you’re going to get an obscure masterpiece, a campy B-movie, a so-bad-it’s-good slice of fun, or a dud. The unknown is half the fun, and discovering those diamonds in the rough makes it worthwhile.
In celebration of their anniversary, I’m highlighting 10 hidden gems from Vinegar Syndrome’s first 10 years.
To narrow the choices, I’m ignoring the heavy hitters like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 and The Amityville Horror, box sets like Forgotten Gialli and Home Grown Horrors,...
Popping in a new Vinegar Syndrome disc is a bit like cinematic Russian roulette. It’s always interesting, but you never know if you’re going to get an obscure masterpiece, a campy B-movie, a so-bad-it’s-good slice of fun, or a dud. The unknown is half the fun, and discovering those diamonds in the rough makes it worthwhile.
In celebration of their anniversary, I’m highlighting 10 hidden gems from Vinegar Syndrome’s first 10 years.
To narrow the choices, I’m ignoring the heavy hitters like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 and The Amityville Horror, box sets like Forgotten Gialli and Home Grown Horrors,...
- 2/17/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
I love “so bad, they’re good” movies. From canonical classics like Plan 9 From Outer Space and The Room to deeply flawed gems like Miami Connection and Samurai Cop, the best “so bad, they’re good” movies are more than simple guilty pleasures. As that designation suggests, they’re movies that make it genuinely hard to answer the seemingly simple question “Is it good?”
When it comes to gaming, though, it’s always been tougher to find proper “so bad, they’re good” titles. Games like Deadly Premonition, Metal Wolf Chaos, and Harvest all arguably belong in that category, but most bad games are just fundamentally unenjoyable experiences that are fun to mock. Games that fall so far into “bad” that they somehow end up landing closer to “good” are rare.
That’s what makes Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin so special. In some ways, it’s a legitimately good game.
When it comes to gaming, though, it’s always been tougher to find proper “so bad, they’re good” titles. Games like Deadly Premonition, Metal Wolf Chaos, and Harvest all arguably belong in that category, but most bad games are just fundamentally unenjoyable experiences that are fun to mock. Games that fall so far into “bad” that they somehow end up landing closer to “good” are rare.
That’s what makes Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin so special. In some ways, it’s a legitimately good game.
- 3/23/2022
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
Krystin Ver Linden’s debut movie Alice arrives with the assurance that it is based on true events, one of those vague guarantees that lingers in the back of your mind while the movie unspools and what you think you’re watching turns out to be something very, very different. Factuality is often a moot point in cinema—with his legendarily terrible 1957 space vampire flick Plan 9 from Outer Space, Ed Wood even tried reverse-psychology, asking viewers, “Can you prove that it didn’t happen?” But with a slick slave drama-slash-revenge thriller it immediately raises questions of taste and decency: is this really the proper vehicle for a meditation on Civil Rights? Surprisingly, Ver Linden’s film walks that tightrope very well. There are wobbles for sure, but the commitment from her cast keep its intentions pure even when the storytelling falters, which is often.
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- 1/24/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a reason George Lucas wouldn’t let people play with Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs toys, and it’s not what you think.
In the Star Wars universe, the empire always strikes back, but sometimes preemptively. Princess Vespa scooters, Lone Starr Pez dispensers, Barf air bags, and Prince Valium chewables are just a few things the retail market never got the chance to see because Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs merchandise never got off the launchpad.
“Merchandising is where the real money from the movie is made,” the learned Yogurt explains in the 1987 science fiction comedy. “Spaceballs the T-shirt! Spaceballs the coloring book! Spaceballs the lunchbox! Spaceballs the breakfast cereal! Spaceballs the flame-thrower! (The kids really love that one.)”
Brooks may be a comic genius, but he missed out on the most lucrative aspect of filmmaking: the toys. Sure, he proved how to make more money from a flop than a hit...
In the Star Wars universe, the empire always strikes back, but sometimes preemptively. Princess Vespa scooters, Lone Starr Pez dispensers, Barf air bags, and Prince Valium chewables are just a few things the retail market never got the chance to see because Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs merchandise never got off the launchpad.
“Merchandising is where the real money from the movie is made,” the learned Yogurt explains in the 1987 science fiction comedy. “Spaceballs the T-shirt! Spaceballs the coloring book! Spaceballs the lunchbox! Spaceballs the breakfast cereal! Spaceballs the flame-thrower! (The kids really love that one.)”
Brooks may be a comic genius, but he missed out on the most lucrative aspect of filmmaking: the toys. Sure, he proved how to make more money from a flop than a hit...
- 1/2/2022
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
This Army of the Dead article contains spoilers.
Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead packed a punch on Netflix the weekend of its release. By the following Monday, the Justice League director’s zombie heist epic was well on its way to becoming one of the streaming service’s top 10 most watched movies of all time. What does that mean? That there’s a good chance we’ll be getting a sequel in due time.
A sequel announcement won’t come as much of a surprise to those fans who’ve been following along, though. After all, Army of the Dead was always meant to be the opening salvo for a new zombie cinematic universe for the streamer, including two prequel projects already in the works — an anime series called Lost Vegas and the movie Army of Thieves, which follows master safecracker Ludwig Dieter before he joined Scott Ward’s team.
Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead packed a punch on Netflix the weekend of its release. By the following Monday, the Justice League director’s zombie heist epic was well on its way to becoming one of the streaming service’s top 10 most watched movies of all time. What does that mean? That there’s a good chance we’ll be getting a sequel in due time.
A sequel announcement won’t come as much of a surprise to those fans who’ve been following along, though. After all, Army of the Dead was always meant to be the opening salvo for a new zombie cinematic universe for the streamer, including two prequel projects already in the works — an anime series called Lost Vegas and the movie Army of Thieves, which follows master safecracker Ludwig Dieter before he joined Scott Ward’s team.
- 6/2/2021
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Soon we’re going to be watching Zack Snyder leave behind the quest for a “grown-up” superhero movie and return to his old playground, the zombie movie. Army of the Dead looks like a huge amount of fun and leaves us wondering why nobody has made a zombie heist movie before, but one of the plot details that has leaked about the film is that Area 51 plays a significant role.
This suggests that the zombie plague may be extraterrestrial in origin. Like most subversions of the zombie apocalypse genre (although Army of the Dead promises a much smaller and more contained “apocalypse” so that all that cash they steal is still worth something) this is actually a plot twist you can trace back to the earliest roots of the genre.
In Night of the Living Dead, the zombie apocalypse is the result of strange radiation emerging from a probe that has returned from Venus.
This suggests that the zombie plague may be extraterrestrial in origin. Like most subversions of the zombie apocalypse genre (although Army of the Dead promises a much smaller and more contained “apocalypse” so that all that cash they steal is still worth something) this is actually a plot twist you can trace back to the earliest roots of the genre.
In Night of the Living Dead, the zombie apocalypse is the result of strange radiation emerging from a probe that has returned from Venus.
- 5/18/2021
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
UFOs are often visible, but not always. Sometimes they make noise, sometimes they are silent. If you’ve never seen a flying saucer, that is proof they are everywhere. This is one of the many amazing things we learn in TCM’s upcoming table read of Ed Wood’s masterwork, Plan 9 from Outer Space.
We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aero-plane, the telephone, the electric light, vitamins, radio, and even television. But it took a while to get the joke about Plan 9 from Outer Space. Written and directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. in 1959, it was a little-known independent film with a direct line through directors who carried on the DIY-filmmaking spirit like John Cassavetes, Melvin Van Peebles and John Waters. The Cult of Plan 9 began when Ed Wood was posthumously awarded a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time in 1980. Though this has been disputed.
We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aero-plane, the telephone, the electric light, vitamins, radio, and even television. But it took a while to get the joke about Plan 9 from Outer Space. Written and directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. in 1959, it was a little-known independent film with a direct line through directors who carried on the DIY-filmmaking spirit like John Cassavetes, Melvin Van Peebles and John Waters. The Cult of Plan 9 began when Ed Wood was posthumously awarded a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time in 1980. Though this has been disputed.
- 5/7/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Maria Bamford, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bob Odenkirk lead reading of Ed Wood’s movie as part of TCM Classic Film Festival Friday
A flying saucer? You mean… from up there? Yes! Flying saucers were seen circling Hollywood Blvd. as a group of stars gathered for a table read of “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” Ed Wood’s cult film that has been dubbed one of the worst movies of all time.
It’s all part of the TCM Classic Film Festival, for which comedians like Maria Bamford, Bob Odenkirk and Bobcat Goldthwait will read aloud the script to the maligned masterpiece. TheWrap obtained an exclusive clip from what is sure to be the silly shlockfest ahead of its premiere on Friday, May 7.
The above clip shows comedians Laraine Newman, Dana Gould and Kat Aagesen setting up the impending alien attack and resurrection of the dead, complete with an eerie and canny theremin in the score.
A flying saucer? You mean… from up there? Yes! Flying saucers were seen circling Hollywood Blvd. as a group of stars gathered for a table read of “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” Ed Wood’s cult film that has been dubbed one of the worst movies of all time.
It’s all part of the TCM Classic Film Festival, for which comedians like Maria Bamford, Bob Odenkirk and Bobcat Goldthwait will read aloud the script to the maligned masterpiece. TheWrap obtained an exclusive clip from what is sure to be the silly shlockfest ahead of its premiere on Friday, May 7.
The above clip shows comedians Laraine Newman, Dana Gould and Kat Aagesen setting up the impending alien attack and resurrection of the dead, complete with an eerie and canny theremin in the score.
- 5/4/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
This horror story about an MI5 agent and a gang supplying girls for ritual sacrifice is on a par with the monumentally terrible Plan 9 from Outer Space
There are bad movies, the kind of third-rate film-making we see all the time, and then there are transcendentally bad movies that can only result from deep, fanatical attachment to the material. Director, writer and producer Chris Sanders here achieves something on a par with Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space or Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. His Nest of Vampires is a little-England horror-thriller with a plot as over-larded as an Elvis sandwich, uniformly appalling acting, and the same almost beatific earnestness as those two legendary films.
MI5 agent Kit Valentine (Tom Fairfoot) leaves his London stamping ground to shake down some unnamed English town for a human trafficking ring that – after his wife is murdered – has abducted his daughter.
There are bad movies, the kind of third-rate film-making we see all the time, and then there are transcendentally bad movies that can only result from deep, fanatical attachment to the material. Director, writer and producer Chris Sanders here achieves something on a par with Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space or Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. His Nest of Vampires is a little-England horror-thriller with a plot as over-larded as an Elvis sandwich, uniformly appalling acting, and the same almost beatific earnestness as those two legendary films.
MI5 agent Kit Valentine (Tom Fairfoot) leaves his London stamping ground to shake down some unnamed English town for a human trafficking ring that – after his wife is murdered – has abducted his daughter.
- 3/16/2021
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Zack Snyder‘s career comes full circle with the upcoming Netflix zombie extravaganza Army of the Dead, a film almost two decades in the making. The filmmaker best known for Justice League and Watchmen first cut his teeth on a feature-length project with Dawn of the Dead, Universal Picture’s high-octane remake of the George A. Romero horror classic. A much more action-packed and grim take on Romero’s mall-set zombie shenanigans, the 2004 re-imagining remains Snyder’s best flick.
Originally conceived as an even darker follow-up to the Dawn remake before ending up in development hell, Army of the Dead is now the first chapter in a new zombie shared universe for Netflix, which is also producing a prequel film and an anime series that explore other aspects of Snyder’s latest undead creation. No, it doesn’t seem to be directly connected to Romero’s own series of films,...
Originally conceived as an even darker follow-up to the Dawn remake before ending up in development hell, Army of the Dead is now the first chapter in a new zombie shared universe for Netflix, which is also producing a prequel film and an anime series that explore other aspects of Snyder’s latest undead creation. No, it doesn’t seem to be directly connected to Romero’s own series of films,...
- 2/25/2021
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
When a desperate film producer tries an ancient herbal remedy on his stand-in star, a strange curse takes effect. in the midnight hour, the star is transformed into a ferocious beast which rampages through Hollywood. Sounds so bad it might be good, right? Wrong. It's just bad.
Bargain basement Eighties star C Thomas Howell (remember him?) plays the producer, Breen Nash, whose troubles begin when he accidentally kills mysteriously popular actor and social disaster Huckle Saxton (James Duval). He finds a lookalike (also played by Duval) and plans to make a simple substitution in order to save his film, but the lookalike has scars which, we're told, no make-up can cover (something nobody who has worked with make-up will believe for a second). Rather than, say, put him in a mask (or use the Plan 9 From Outer Space method and have him hold a cloak over his face), Nash decides.
Bargain basement Eighties star C Thomas Howell (remember him?) plays the producer, Breen Nash, whose troubles begin when he accidentally kills mysteriously popular actor and social disaster Huckle Saxton (James Duval). He finds a lookalike (also played by Duval) and plans to make a simple substitution in order to save his film, but the lookalike has scars which, we're told, no make-up can cover (something nobody who has worked with make-up will believe for a second). Rather than, say, put him in a mask (or use the Plan 9 From Outer Space method and have him hold a cloak over his face), Nash decides.
- 11/24/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The team at Loot Crate is always looking for fun themes and unique items for genre fans and this January's Loot Fright crate is a "Sci-Fright," featuring all kinds of sci-fi goodies. We have all the details on the new crate and an exclusive look at the Alien t-shirt and Color Out of Space blacklight cloth below. This crate will be available starting November 15th (tonight) at 9:00 pm Pst.
*News Alert* This just in - Loot Crate has been invaded by aliens. The long-time subscription service for fans was taken over by horrors never before seen on the planet Earth. The attack apparently took place at 9:14am Pst inside Loot Headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, a scene that can only be described by one onlooker as, “a f-ing bloodbath.”
Thousands of crates, figures, T-shirts and other pieces of awesome subscription service items were seen being thrown out of...
*News Alert* This just in - Loot Crate has been invaded by aliens. The long-time subscription service for fans was taken over by horrors never before seen on the planet Earth. The attack apparently took place at 9:14am Pst inside Loot Headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, a scene that can only be described by one onlooker as, “a f-ing bloodbath.”
Thousands of crates, figures, T-shirts and other pieces of awesome subscription service items were seen being thrown out of...
- 11/15/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. They are the walrus.
This week’s wine-and-movie pairings focus our pandemic-weary lens on Japanese kaiju films. Kaiju is a Japanese word meaning “strange beast.” It does not refer to Two Hands Wine and their Sexy Beast Cabernet Sauvignon. The word describes the genre of monster films which started in the mid-1950s with Godzilla, as well as the creatures themselves. Godzilla was born from the nuclear fears of the day, only a decade after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over the years, numerous kaiju films have depicted the horrors of the nuclear age as monsters either born or unleashed by radiation.
http://www.nowandzin.com/2019/11/a-beast-of-cabernet.html
Half Human hails from 1955, although it didn’t wash up on American shores until a few years later.
This week’s wine-and-movie pairings focus our pandemic-weary lens on Japanese kaiju films. Kaiju is a Japanese word meaning “strange beast.” It does not refer to Two Hands Wine and their Sexy Beast Cabernet Sauvignon. The word describes the genre of monster films which started in the mid-1950s with Godzilla, as well as the creatures themselves. Godzilla was born from the nuclear fears of the day, only a decade after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over the years, numerous kaiju films have depicted the horrors of the nuclear age as monsters either born or unleashed by radiation.
http://www.nowandzin.com/2019/11/a-beast-of-cabernet.html
Half Human hails from 1955, although it didn’t wash up on American shores until a few years later.
- 6/21/2020
- by Randy Fuller
- Trailers from Hell
OTTThis is truly a rare gem that needs to be used as a warning for future filmmakers about just how wrong they can go. Saraswati DatarWhen I was in film school, we learnt about this Hollywood film called Plan 9 from Outer Space that was ridiculed for being one of the worst films ever made. The makers were even given a posthumous Golden Turkey award. I think it’s only fair that poor dead Ed Wood who made Plan 9, rises from his grave to present his award to Shirish Kunder for making Mrs Serial Killer, now streaming on Netflix. Shirish who credits himself as the writer, editor, director and music composer deserves to be applauded. I mean how rarely do we get to see a film that is appallingly bad in every department? To add to the excitement, it’s also anti-adoption, anti-pre-marital sex, and anti-single moms. This is truly...
- 5/2/2020
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
The makers of Veep bring human error to outer space as Avenue 5 takes off on a three year mission.
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This Avenue 5 review contains no spoilers.
Set your phasers on fun when you watch Armando Iannucci's new HBO series Avenue 5. While it may not be quite the replacement for Veep as it intends, it is as effectively improved over "Avenue 3" as Plan 9 from Outer Space was better than the previous eight plans which were dropped for cult classic status. The series will not be as weighty as the cutting political satire of Veep, but weight factors heavily into the show's arc. Captain Ryan Clark, played by Hugh Laurie, is a lightweight skipper on a recreational space vehicle.
Space tourism is finally reaching America. Next year, Nasa will let private citizens walk around the International Space Station. It will cost about $35,000 a day and...
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This Avenue 5 review contains no spoilers.
Set your phasers on fun when you watch Armando Iannucci's new HBO series Avenue 5. While it may not be quite the replacement for Veep as it intends, it is as effectively improved over "Avenue 3" as Plan 9 from Outer Space was better than the previous eight plans which were dropped for cult classic status. The series will not be as weighty as the cutting political satire of Veep, but weight factors heavily into the show's arc. Captain Ryan Clark, played by Hugh Laurie, is a lightweight skipper on a recreational space vehicle.
Space tourism is finally reaching America. Next year, Nasa will let private citizens walk around the International Space Station. It will cost about $35,000 a day and...
- 1/3/2020
- Den of Geek
A stand-up comedian who wrote for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, Dana Gould embraces horror as well as humor through his longtime love of creature features, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and things that go bump in the night. It's fitting, then, that Gould, along with a cast of fellow comedians, is bringing both laughs and scares to the stage in New York this weekend for a live reading of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space at the first annual Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival.
Ahead of the live reading on Friday, October 11th at 9:00pm at the Tarrytown Music Hall, Daily Dead had the pleasure of talking with Gould about bringing Plan 9 From Outer Space to life on stage with his friends, and he also discussed the plans he had for the fourth season of Stan Against Evil, getting to play a role on the new Creepshow series,...
Ahead of the live reading on Friday, October 11th at 9:00pm at the Tarrytown Music Hall, Daily Dead had the pleasure of talking with Gould about bringing Plan 9 From Outer Space to life on stage with his friends, and he also discussed the plans he had for the fourth season of Stan Against Evil, getting to play a role on the new Creepshow series,...
- 10/10/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Tony Sokol Oct 10, 2019
Legendary Comics will graphically interpret iconic vampire novel in "Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi."
Cinema's premiere Count Dracula will be donning his opera cape again. Bela Lugosi had a love-hate relationship with the bloodsucking role that made him an icon. He occasionally felt straitjacketed by the horrific typecasting, but he loved the cape so much he wore it in several films including Plan 9 from Outer Space, and was buried in it. A new adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula will once again drape his form with the elegant attire. Legendary Comics will publish the original graphic novel Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The novel, which promises to faithfully adapt Bram Stoker’s supernatural classic, will feature art from El Garing and art direction from publisher Kerry Gammill. The title character will be inked to star Lugosi. Bram Stoker's Dracula...
Legendary Comics will graphically interpret iconic vampire novel in "Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi."
Cinema's premiere Count Dracula will be donning his opera cape again. Bela Lugosi had a love-hate relationship with the bloodsucking role that made him an icon. He occasionally felt straitjacketed by the horrific typecasting, but he loved the cape so much he wore it in several films including Plan 9 from Outer Space, and was buried in it. A new adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula will once again drape his form with the elegant attire. Legendary Comics will publish the original graphic novel Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The novel, which promises to faithfully adapt Bram Stoker’s supernatural classic, will feature art from El Garing and art direction from publisher Kerry Gammill. The title character will be inked to star Lugosi. Bram Stoker's Dracula...
- 10/10/2019
- Den of Geek
Halloween begins early in New York this year with the first annual Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival, kicking off this week in Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown. In addition to showcasing Washington Irving’s iconic story that introduced readers to the headless horseman, the festival will be home to all manner of macabre celebrations, including a live stage reading of Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space and a performance of Jeffrey Combs' one-man show Nevermore: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe.
Go here to read the full schedule for Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival, visit their website for more info, and read the official press release for additional details:
Press Release: Sleepy Hollow, NY – The first annual Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival (Shiff) taking place in Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown, New York, on October 10-13, 2019, has just released its full program of events!
Taking place at the historic Tarrytown Music Hall and Warner Library,...
Go here to read the full schedule for Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival, visit their website for more info, and read the official press release for additional details:
Press Release: Sleepy Hollow, NY – The first annual Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival (Shiff) taking place in Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown, New York, on October 10-13, 2019, has just released its full program of events!
Taking place at the historic Tarrytown Music Hall and Warner Library,...
- 10/9/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Hnn Productions is celebrating the official start of Halloween season with the costume documentary Halloween in a Box, coming to VOD on October 1st. Also: Collection Complete episode 3 release details, Serial Killer Cabaret from the Nevermore Theatre, and the announcement of the opening of haunt attraction Zombie Den.
Halloween in a Box Release Details: "Halloween in a Box, a documentary focusing on Halloween costume manufacturers gets distributor and release date.
Hnn Productions is excited to announce its documentary, Halloween in a Box will be distributed by film company Indie Rights on October 1, 2019, on various VOD platforms including Amazon. This documentary marks the company’s first release and has been called a labor of love by Director/Producer Rob Caprilozzi. “Halloween has always been a beloved holiday for children of all ages and nothing beat the wildly popular costumes-in-a-box from companies such as Ben Cooper Inc., Collegeville, and Halco,” according to Caprilozzi.
Halloween in a Box Release Details: "Halloween in a Box, a documentary focusing on Halloween costume manufacturers gets distributor and release date.
Hnn Productions is excited to announce its documentary, Halloween in a Box will be distributed by film company Indie Rights on October 1, 2019, on various VOD platforms including Amazon. This documentary marks the company’s first release and has been called a labor of love by Director/Producer Rob Caprilozzi. “Halloween has always been a beloved holiday for children of all ages and nothing beat the wildly popular costumes-in-a-box from companies such as Ben Cooper Inc., Collegeville, and Halco,” according to Caprilozzi.
- 9/27/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Rebecca Ferguson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rafe Spall, Laurent Bourgeois, Larry Bourgeois | Written by Matt Holloway, Art Marcum | Directed by F. Gary Gray
Men in Black: International is the fourth entry into the rebooted Men in Black series. Released seven years after the last Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones instalment with Men in Black 3. Franchise director Barry Sonnenfeld is absent this time around, as are leads Smith and Jones. Taking their respective places are Fast and Furious 8 and Straight Outta Compton director, F. Gary Gray in the director’s chair, with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in the lead roles, after their much-applauded collaboration in Taikia Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok.
F. Gary Gray’s film follows Tessa Thompson’s Molly. Molly is caught up in the intergalactic protection of the earth by the Men in Black. Assimilating into the Brooklyn branch...
Men in Black: International is the fourth entry into the rebooted Men in Black series. Released seven years after the last Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones instalment with Men in Black 3. Franchise director Barry Sonnenfeld is absent this time around, as are leads Smith and Jones. Taking their respective places are Fast and Furious 8 and Straight Outta Compton director, F. Gary Gray in the director’s chair, with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in the lead roles, after their much-applauded collaboration in Taikia Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok.
F. Gary Gray’s film follows Tessa Thompson’s Molly. Molly is caught up in the intergalactic protection of the earth by the Men in Black. Assimilating into the Brooklyn branch...
- 8/28/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Over Thanksgiving, we had new Mystery Science Theater 3000 for which to be thankful. Netflix dropped a new season of six episodes, titled The Gauntlet. Jonah Heston (Jonah Ray) and the robots were forced to watch six movies back to back and riff on them, although Netflix allowed people to watch them movie by movie. Those […]
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- 12/3/2018
- by Fred Topel
- Slash Film
BitMovio Sets Out to Grow Horror Film Genre with Sponsorship of Horror Film Festival and Series of New Content Partnerships BitMovio to sponsor FANtastic Horror Film Festival, signs leading Indie Horror film-makers, and brings interactivity to horror classics like Nosferatu, Night of the Living Dead and Plan 9 from Outer Space BitMovio (www.bitmov.io), an emerging …
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- 10/20/2018
- by Mike Joy
- Horror News
Gavin Jasper Aug 13, 2019
Since 2009, the guys from MST3K have given us many theatrical get-togethers featuring so many bad movies as RiffTrax.
In 1996, Universal Pictures released Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. While it’s gone on to find love in the aftermath, the whole situation was handled badly in many ways and it ended up being a box office dud. The idea was solid, though. If MST3K worked so well on TV and gathered such a fanbase, it would probably be an extra great experience to enjoy its style in a movie theater surrounded by other laughing fans.
Ten years later, long after MST3K seemed gone for good, Mike Nelson created his own take on bad movie riffing called RiffTrax. It gained steam thanks to the help of his old running buddies Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, as well as celebrity guests like Neil Patrick Harris and Joel McHale.
Since 2009, the guys from MST3K have given us many theatrical get-togethers featuring so many bad movies as RiffTrax.
In 1996, Universal Pictures released Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. While it’s gone on to find love in the aftermath, the whole situation was handled badly in many ways and it ended up being a box office dud. The idea was solid, though. If MST3K worked so well on TV and gathered such a fanbase, it would probably be an extra great experience to enjoy its style in a movie theater surrounded by other laughing fans.
Ten years later, long after MST3K seemed gone for good, Mike Nelson created his own take on bad movie riffing called RiffTrax. It gained steam thanks to the help of his old running buddies Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, as well as celebrity guests like Neil Patrick Harris and Joel McHale.
- 8/19/2018
- Den of Geek
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies who have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Jack Blessing (1951-2017) - Actor. Best known for TV series including Moonlighting, he also appears in the movies Talladega Nights, Thirteen Days and Heaven's Gate. Recently he worked in Adr, doing voice work for Hell or High Water and the two parts of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. He actually died of pancreatic cancer on November 14. (THR) Conrad Brooks (1931-2017) - Actor. One of Ed Wood's regular actors, he plays a policeman in Plan 9 from Outer Space and also appears...
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- 1/3/2018
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Directed by Peter Hurd, The Control Group will be released on DVD this May from Wild Eye Releasing. Also: season four of The Walking Dead is set to air on Universo, and the Splathouse podcast team discuss Ed Wood's cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space.
The Control Group Release Details: Press Release: "New York, NY - Wild Eye Releasing has announced the North American Cable and Digital HD release of Peter Hurd's The Control Group. Starring Brad Dourif (The Child's Play series, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Lord of the Rings) as a mad scientist, The Control Group follows kidnapped coeds as they attempt to escape from his grasp. Writer-director Peter Hurd's debut feature is now available on cable and digital platforms, including iTunes, Dish Network, Vudu, Xbox, Google Play, and YouTube. A DVD release is planned for May.
Five college students wake up in an abandoned,...
The Control Group Release Details: Press Release: "New York, NY - Wild Eye Releasing has announced the North American Cable and Digital HD release of Peter Hurd's The Control Group. Starring Brad Dourif (The Child's Play series, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Lord of the Rings) as a mad scientist, The Control Group follows kidnapped coeds as they attempt to escape from his grasp. Writer-director Peter Hurd's debut feature is now available on cable and digital platforms, including iTunes, Dish Network, Vudu, Xbox, Google Play, and YouTube. A DVD release is planned for May.
Five college students wake up in an abandoned,...
- 3/27/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
We all know that Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space is supposed to be one of the worst movies ever made, but did you know that there may actually be much more to it than that? Wood may have… Continue Reading →
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- 4/7/2016
- by David Gelmini
- DreadCentral.com
Ed Wood’s 1959 masterwork Plan 9 From Outer Space is nowhere near the worst movie ever made, as anyone who’s seen it might testify. What can be said about it? It defied any traditional movie-making conventions and does it without any shame whatsoever. Wood had to have the cast baptized in order to make this bizarre film, and that’s the least strange thing about it. The original title Grave Robbers from Outer Spacewas later ditched, but Criswell mentions it during the intro nevertheless.
Plan 9 was promoted as “almost starring Bela Lugosi” because he died before the film could even get finished, and the footage of Lugosi from this film was originally filmed by Wood to be included as a part of his movie The Ghoul On The Moon, which never got made, so Wood just shoehorned those scenes (which just involve Lugosi walking around with a cane...
Plan 9 was promoted as “almost starring Bela Lugosi” because he died before the film could even get finished, and the footage of Lugosi from this film was originally filmed by Wood to be included as a part of his movie The Ghoul On The Moon, which never got made, so Wood just shoehorned those scenes (which just involve Lugosi walking around with a cane...
- 11/25/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
So you think you know the whole story behind legendary director Ed Wood’s classic B-movie Plan 9 from Outer Space? Filmmaker Jose Prendes and the producers behind the mind-melting Shining documentary Room 237 blow the proverbial lid off one of… Continue Reading →
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- 10/29/2015
- by Todd Rigney
- DreadCentral.com
“Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives!”
Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space screens Thursday September 3rd at 7:00pm at Schlafly Bottleworks
Ed Wood’s 1959 masterwork Plan 9 From Outer Space is nowhere near the worst movie ever made, as anyone who’s seen it might testify. What can be said about it? It defies any traditional movie-making conventions and does it without any shame whatsoever. Wood had to have the cast baptized in order to make this bizarre film, and that’s the least strange thing about it. The original title Grave Robbers from Outer Space was later ditched, but Criswell mentions it during the intro nevertheless.
Plan 9 is promoted as “almost starring Bela Lugosi” because he died before the film could even get finished, and...
Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space screens Thursday September 3rd at 7:00pm at Schlafly Bottleworks
Ed Wood’s 1959 masterwork Plan 9 From Outer Space is nowhere near the worst movie ever made, as anyone who’s seen it might testify. What can be said about it? It defies any traditional movie-making conventions and does it without any shame whatsoever. Wood had to have the cast baptized in order to make this bizarre film, and that’s the least strange thing about it. The original title Grave Robbers from Outer Space was later ditched, but Criswell mentions it during the intro nevertheless.
Plan 9 is promoted as “almost starring Bela Lugosi” because he died before the film could even get finished, and...
- 9/25/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
What If Man Of Steel Fans Defended Other Terrible Films? After seeing all the tactics that Man Of Murder fanboys have use to defend the film for the last two years, I began to wonder what would happen if they started defending other lousy films. Here's the likely result: ========================================================== Plan 9 from Outer Space Review Plan 9 should be called Sham 9! by DisappointedMovieGoer I just got around to seeing this pathetic excuse for a "movie" and I'm sorry I did. Just wow. I'm sorry, I really wanted to like Plan 9, but this was terrible. Worst horror movie I've ever seen. Maybe the worst film, period. People had warned me about seeing Ed Wood films before but sadly I didn't listen. Where to start? The script is a joke and the director is a total fail. This film made no sense whatsoever. It goes from night to day back to...
- 8/28/2015
- ComicBookMovie.com
Gravebit: A New Series by John Johnson
John Johnson has been making movies since the early 2000s. Known for his work on the “Skeleton Key” series and the “Plan 9″ remake, he has also created a bunch of web series. “Spade,” “Spooky Tales From The Dark”, “Bath Salts”, “House on the Hill”, and now “Gravebit”. From his press release:John Johnson and Darkstone ...
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John Johnson has been making movies since the early 2000s. Known for his work on the “Skeleton Key” series and the “Plan 9″ remake, he has also created a bunch of web series. “Spade,” “Spooky Tales From The Dark”, “Bath Salts”, “House on the Hill”, and now “Gravebit”. From his press release:John Johnson and Darkstone ...
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- 5/20/2015
- by Jonathan A Moody
- Horror News
Gregory Walcott, an admired actor who appeared in such memorable films as Mister Roberts, The Eiger Sanction, Norma Rae and, unfortunately for him, Ed Wood’s lamentable Plan 9 From Outer Space, has died. He was 87. Walcott, who starred as pilot Jeff Trent in Plan 9, considered one of the worst films ever made, died Friday of natural causes at his longtime Canoga Park home in Los Angeles, his son, Men in Black puppeteer Todd Mattox, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. In a 1998 interview with Filmax magazine’s Dwayne Epstein, Walcott recalled being asked by a friend, fledgling producer J. Edwards
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- 3/22/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here is your chance to own some of the best personal items belonging to arguably cinema's worst director: A collection of notebooks, candid photos, press clippings and more amassed by infamous B-movie extraordinaire Ed Wood, the filmmaker responsible for the critically reviled cult classics Plan 9 From Outer Space and Glen or Glenda and the inspiration behind the Tim Burton biopic of the same name, has hit the auction block.
Rr Auction in Boston is selling the contents of a leather briefcase and two trunks that Wood used to store his "various publicity-related ephemera,...
Rr Auction in Boston is selling the contents of a leather briefcase and two trunks that Wood used to store his "various publicity-related ephemera,...
- 3/13/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Early on in Plan 9, a character complains that a remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space is the mother of all bad ideas. And really, it's hard to think of anything that could top Ed Wood's incompetent, legendary cheesefest for sheer camp value. But then again, pretty much anything can be considered an improvement.Writer/director/actor John Johnson decided to give it a shot, and wisely knew that if something isn't broke, it doesn't need fixing. Ten minutes in, and you've already got purposely bad special effects, self-aware bad acting and boobs. That should tell you all about this movie's M.O.In this update, the town of Nilbog (how's that for a bad movie reference?) is hit by an energy pulse that reanimates the dead, all part...
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- 2/15/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Monster Pictures have released the first trailer for Plan 9, a modern re-imaginationing of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space, which hits DVD in Australia on February 18th.
Starring Brian Krause (Charmed, Sleepwalkers), James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd) and Matthew Ewald (Galidor); as well as horror icons such as Camille Keaton (I Spit on Your Grave), Addy Miller (The Walking Dead) and Michael Christopher (Dawn of the Dead), Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story… The beginning of an invasion!
However, instead of lasers, space ships, and epic force, these aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their own army set with but one goal. To wipe out all mankind! Only the towns folk on this Halloween night stand in the way of total domination. From the police department, to those trapped in a convenient store,...
Starring Brian Krause (Charmed, Sleepwalkers), James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd) and Matthew Ewald (Galidor); as well as horror icons such as Camille Keaton (I Spit on Your Grave), Addy Miller (The Walking Dead) and Michael Christopher (Dawn of the Dead), Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story… The beginning of an invasion!
However, instead of lasers, space ships, and epic force, these aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their own army set with but one goal. To wipe out all mankind! Only the towns folk on this Halloween night stand in the way of total domination. From the police department, to those trapped in a convenient store,...
- 1/18/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
A remake of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) has been completed. The remake's title has been reduced to Plan 9. And, the film has been partially developed by John Johnson (Skeleton Key 3: The Organ Trail). The film stars: Brian Krause (Sleepwalkers), James Rolfe and Matthew Ewald. As well, Monster Pictures will distribute this title on DVD in February. A preview of that release is hosted here. The remake, just like the original, deals with an alien invasion. An extraterrestrial force utilizes the recently deceased, to do the fighting for them. Now, the entire world is in peril as the dead come back to life. Few will survive this bloodbath! The first trailer for Plan 9 hosts several actions shots. The alien zombie army uses everything in its arsenal to trap and later capture the few survivors who remain. B-movieish, the full trailer for Plan 9 is hosted below.
- 1/13/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Monster Pictures have officially debuted the new poster art for Plan 9, a modern re-imaginationing of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space, which hits DVD in Australia on February 19th.
Starring Brian Krause (Charmed, Sleepwalkers), James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd) and Matthew Ewald (Galidor); as well as horror icons such as Camille Keaton (I Spit on Your Grave), Addy Miller (The Walking Dead) and Michael Christopher (Dawn of the Dead), Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story… The beginning of an invasion!
However, instead of lasers, space ships, and epic force, these aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their own army set with but one goal. To wipe out all mankind! Only the towns folk on this Halloween night stand in the way of total domination. From the police department,...
Starring Brian Krause (Charmed, Sleepwalkers), James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd) and Matthew Ewald (Galidor); as well as horror icons such as Camille Keaton (I Spit on Your Grave), Addy Miller (The Walking Dead) and Michael Christopher (Dawn of the Dead), Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story… The beginning of an invasion!
However, instead of lasers, space ships, and epic force, these aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their own army set with but one goal. To wipe out all mankind! Only the towns folk on this Halloween night stand in the way of total domination. From the police department,...
- 12/29/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Melbourne, Au – 29th of December – Monster Pictures is thrilled to release the poster art for Plan 9, a modern re-imaginationing of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space. Plan 9 invades on DVD on the 19th of Feb and will be available for pre-order from Jb Hi-fi from Jan 5th.
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- 12/29/2014
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
No, the title isn’t a typo or an oxymoron. As much as I love a great, well-made movie, there’s a darker part of me that almost loves a bad movie more — but not just any bad movie. It has to be so bad, it’s enjoyable to sit through and mock, a la the classic ’90s television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K for short). In other words, it has to be so bad, it’s good.
Maybe it’s the pure, perverted thrill of schadenfreude (thanks Germany for creating that word!), or maybe it’s the strange high you get after seeing a car crash — that “Thank-God-it-wasn’t-me” feeling – and however you try to explain it, there’s a good reason these movies are on this list. Here then, are 6 of the Best Worst Movies. I picked one from each decade, starting from the ’50s on up…...
Maybe it’s the pure, perverted thrill of schadenfreude (thanks Germany for creating that word!), or maybe it’s the strange high you get after seeing a car crash — that “Thank-God-it-wasn’t-me” feeling – and however you try to explain it, there’s a good reason these movies are on this list. Here then, are 6 of the Best Worst Movies. I picked one from each decade, starting from the ’50s on up…...
- 8/29/2013
- by Michael Perone
- Obsessed with Film
With the post production for Plan 9 almost complete, Darkstone Entertainment held its first private cast and crew screening August 24th, 2013 at the Grandin Theater, located in Roanoke, Virginia where the film was shot. Now that director John Johnson film has successfully launched with its first screening, Plan 9 will be going to market, shopping for distribution to find it the proper home.
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- 8/28/2013
- by Doc Rotten
- Horror News
In case you haven't heard, someone thought it would be a good idea to remake Ed Wood's classic sci-fi horror film, Plan 9 From Outer Space. This movie has been in production for over 3 years. It's never made sense to me as to why this movie was getting remade. I know the original film is supposed to go down in history as one of the worst movies ever made, but that's what made it so charmingly awesome.
The movie is simply called Plan 9, and I assume they are trying to capture that bad movie charm. I'm not sure though, it might just be a naturally bad looking film. Writer and director John Johnson had this to say about the clip you're about the watch,
I wanted to release this scene to kinda give a better feel of what the movie holds. We showed plenty of zombie mayhem in...
The movie is simply called Plan 9, and I assume they are trying to capture that bad movie charm. I'm not sure though, it might just be a naturally bad looking film. Writer and director John Johnson had this to say about the clip you're about the watch,
I wanted to release this scene to kinda give a better feel of what the movie holds. We showed plenty of zombie mayhem in...
- 6/18/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
On tap right now is some good old fashioned indie splatter in the form of some new stills and even a trailer for the upcoming flick Open House, not to be confused with the other flick of the same name with "True Blood"'s Stephen Moyer.
Open House is directed by Brian Troxell, who is currently in post-production on his latest film, Intrusive Behavior, and the cast includes Jessica Cameron (Silent Night, Camel Spiders), Savana Jade Wehunt ("The Walking Dead"), Mel Heflin (Plan 9, The Pit), Russ Forga (Ft. Slaughterdale), Jennifer Ward, and Jimmy Dempster (Intrusive Behavior, Undead Apocalypse).
The script for Open House was written by Michael Clinkenbeard, and the film is being produced by Johnna Troxell, Ylian Snyder, and Brian Shirley.
Synopsis:
When Wardell Subotsky was 8 years old, his mother made ends meet by working as a real estate agent. After witnessing her countless sexual favors to get the properties sold,...
Open House is directed by Brian Troxell, who is currently in post-production on his latest film, Intrusive Behavior, and the cast includes Jessica Cameron (Silent Night, Camel Spiders), Savana Jade Wehunt ("The Walking Dead"), Mel Heflin (Plan 9, The Pit), Russ Forga (Ft. Slaughterdale), Jennifer Ward, and Jimmy Dempster (Intrusive Behavior, Undead Apocalypse).
The script for Open House was written by Michael Clinkenbeard, and the film is being produced by Johnna Troxell, Ylian Snyder, and Brian Shirley.
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When Wardell Subotsky was 8 years old, his mother made ends meet by working as a real estate agent. After witnessing her countless sexual favors to get the properties sold,...
- 6/11/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
"This isn't a horror movie, boys." Despite earnest filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr.'s best efforts, his best-known film, the cult classic Plan 9 From Outer Space, is generally considered one of the worst movies ever made. But even this dubious distinction isn't enough to safeguard Plan 9 from a remake. Darkstone Entertainment is giving the narrative about aliens who resurrect the earth's dead into zombies a resurrection of its own. And like Wood's zombies, Plan 9 From Outer Space has come back twisted and wrong. Ugh, I'd rather see the original in 3D. Giant Freakin Robot shares the clip of the remake's first look above, and notes that the film's writer-director John Johnson, who has a long slate of lesser-known horror titles to his credit, isn't looking to play up the campy features of the original. Basically, he's looking to strip away the major reason the poorly made movie...
- 6/6/2013
- cinemablend.com
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