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2 unusual facts about Plan 9 From Outer Space


Gonks Go Beat

The film was released on DVD in the UK in 2007 by Optimum Home Entertainment, who tipped the wink to its intended audience by describing it as "the Plan 9 from Outer Space of film musicals", a description originally coined by the UK film critic Mark Kermode.

Tom Mason

Best known as the stand-in for the recently deceased Bela Lugosi in Wood's movie Plan 9 from Outer Space, Mason, who was taller than and bore a questionable physical resemblance to Lugosi, hunched over and held a cape over his face in all of his scenes.


Aurora Browne

Aurora co-produced and acted the role of Vampira in the Toronto Fringe Festival production of Ed Wood's classic Plan 9 From Outer Space named Plan Live! From Outer Space.

Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny

As Plan 9 is named after the Ed Wood film Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glenda is presumably named after Wood's film Glen or Glenda.

Gregory Walcott

He is perhaps best known for having appeared in the 1959 Ed Wood film, the cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Is It ... Man or Astroman?

Alien Visitors contains dialogue audio samples from the b-movies Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and the television series The Outer Limits.

Stephen C. Apostolof

It features the legendary oracle The Amazing Criswell (known from Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space) and burlesque queen Pat Barrington (later to star in Harry H. Novak's The Agony of Love).


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