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Nerull · 10-05-2003, 11:13 PM

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Originally posted by SomeGuy:
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I haven't seen that one, but many movie critics point to Plan 9 From Outer Space as being the Worst Movie Ever Made. Aliens raising the dead to be their zombie army to conquer Earth.... [img]graemlins/erm.gif[/img]

Didn't one of the actors die when they were making the movie and they just replaced him? And weren't the flying saucers just paper plates? And when they exploded didn't they just take a lighter and set them on fire? and couldn't you see the strings? Oh and Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes was pretty bad too. [/QUOTE]Plan 9 info:

This was Bela Legosi's last film. He had not been acting for years (he was quite washed up as an actor). He died a couple days into filming. Ed Wood (the director) got his wife's chiropractor to fill in, and had him walk around holding a cape up to cover his face in hopes that people wouldn't notice it was a different person.
The flying saucers were pie trays, if I remember right, and yes you could see the strings.
I don't consider this one of the worst films of all time. It would be one thing if they had spent a fortune on it, and it bombed. This thing was made on almost no budget, so it's not like they could spend money on good actors or good special effects (for the time). You would not expect it to be a good movie, just based on the constraints. That's why I give Robert Rodriguez all the credit in the world for making a pretty good movie (El Mariachi) on $7,000.00. You just don't expect a good movie if you don't have anything to spend on it.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is designed to be cheesy. All of those Troma movies are the same way. If they are designed to be cheesy and purposely bad, you shouldn't really put them on the list as a bad movie (they are succeeding at what they set out to do).