Plan 9

I, like many of you, heard about this for years. The idea was to make the movie that Ed Wood, Jr would have made if he had had a decent budget. So, you now had a group of people with a decent budget, a plan to re-make the worst movie of all time & turn it into the vision Wood wanted. And, instead, tried to re-make every zombie movie around, but with new improved zombies - they move fast.

Big problem. This is not a "remake" of a beloved horrible movie, but a totally new movie with some elements of the original. Too many people, way too long (103 min compared to 79 min original) too many sub plots, too many zombies, & not enough space aliens. A re-make would have fixed the time travel in the original - day turning into night & vice versa all during (& in the middle of) the same scene. Maybe a less flimsy crypt for The Old Man, one that doesn't look like it can barely hold 2 people, much less a coffin & one person. And what's up with Plan 9? It was Plan #9 on the alien's list of how to conquer the world - raise the recently dead & attack the living. Let's just say that Plan 9 had nothing to do with aliens conquering the earth.

There was, for me at least, one bright spot. Mister Lobo, who played Criswell. Over the top, not too good, but he does provide the relief the movie needs.

If you're like me & enjoy some original PLAN 9 (watching it now), but would like to see what may have happened if Ed Wood, Jr had had a bigger budget, watch this movie. Believe me, some of the material in this movie may have been in a high(er) budget movie.

This film rated 6.3 when watched, 2 days later I see its 4.7 The film is very annoying on a number of reasons - it jumps around in timelines unclearly, the acting is not natural, the characters do not relate together on a credible scale and the whole story is unfinished without imparting viewer satisfaction or completion.

It smacks of a teenage splatter movie where they all enter the darkened room without turning the light on and get slaughtered one by one...it was not trying to be, but that was the result.

It didn't achieve on an intellectual scale what they were trying to do, and the entertainment factor was missing too. Just annoying really.

I'm not sure what possessed anyone to do a remake of Plan 9, and this version is hardly watchable at all. The attempt to take the base story and take it seriously was simply a mistake. If you want entertainment, watch the original movie, which is so awful, it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

I have seen a lot of zombie/horror films and I have to say that this one was very palatable. The acting was sub par and the story line was pretty good for been a low budget film. I laughed a few good times out loud at the crazy things that no sane or even insane person would do. But isn't that what makes a good campy horror film. "Dont go in there!" "Shoot him, don't walk away" and so on. Worth the time if you have the time. If you want to go watch a mainstream horror film and be bored half way though, then by God, go and do that. But I like to be entertained to the point of not switching it off after 10 minutes. I always give movies 5 minutes, then 5 minutes more if I am intrigued. I stuck with this till the end, no second guessing!

I had the opportunity to watch the 2015 movie "Plan 9" here in 2025, and opted to do so, without really knowing what I was getting myself into.

The story is adequate, but it sort of settles into a monotonous slump and never really gets off the runway. Watchable, yes, but the movie was just lacking a certain ingredient to bedazzle the audience and take the audience on a thrill-ride. Granted, I haven't watched the 1957 movie 1957 movie "Plan 9 from Outer Space" from writer and director Edward D. Wood Jr., so I don't know how much of a direct remake this 2015 movie was, or if it was an homage movie if not a remake.

Of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, the only familiar face on the screen for me was actor Brian Krause. The majority of the acting performances in the movie were fair, but you're not in for an evening of Shakespearian theater here.

While I did find that the special effects and make-up and prosthetic effects in the movie were adequate, much of the effects had a rather low budget and low key feel to it, for better or worse. However, there wasn't really much of any consistency between the infected, because some had milky-glazed-over eyes, whereas others had their regular eye color. I love how the corpses that came out of the graves were spotless clean, not a single speck of dirt on them. Yeah, that was very logical, and what a rookie mistake for director John Johnson to make.

"Plan 9" is a low budget sci-fi horror movie in the higher ends of the low budget scale. There is something about it which makes it watchable enough, but you're not in for a stellar viewing experience.

My rating of director John Johnson's 2015 "Plan 9" lands on a flat five out of ten stars.