‘Plan 9’ deserves a place in cosmos
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SCENES wildly oscillating between night and day! Dollar store UFO models! A chiropractor with his face covered standing in for the recently deceased Bela Lugosi [“When Horror Meets Horrible, It’s All Camp,” March 11]! Despite these celebrated negative elements of Ed Wood’s 1959 cult entry, “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” I submit that this production was by no means the worst film of all time.
This film was entertaining from start to finish, with no slow moments, an excellent musical score, solid acting by all involved and a credible sci-fi plot involving aliens resurrecting Earth’s dead to use as warriors against mankind (the “Plan 9” in the title). Moreover, the narration by TV psychic Criswell was truly engrossing.
While admittedly not the topmost sci-fi/horror film ever produced, it was certainly far from being the bottommost!
May the power of the cosmos be with you!
FRANKLIN RUEHL
Glendale
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