I just saw Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) for the first time in my life the other night. Written, directed and produced by Ed Wood. LOL. It was a riot. Cardboard sets, shit falling over, wardrobe screw ups, tons of stock footage, it looked like they edited the film with a bloody lawn mower. continuity screwups big time. Man, Ed wasn’t even trying. LOL.
Space invaders, zombies, Vampira the Vampire (a schtick she milked for the next 50 years), Bela Lugosi on his last legs. It looked like Wood hijacked the rest of the cast from the beatnik borough in West Hollywood with a butterfly net. The acting… well, there was no acting. They just read their lines the best they could. It was sooooooo bad. Hilarious.
He got like twenty of his cast to agree to be baptized into the Baptist Church and the church gave him $60,000 to make the film. Tit for tat. LOL. The preacher even got to do a marriage scene in the graveyard. I’m sure most of the money was spent on partying on the set. But how did he ever get a distributor? How did he ever get that thing into theaters? They must’ve had some real kick ass weed in LA in those days. I laughed my ass off and I was watching it straight. My sides still hurt.