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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema: Plan 9 from Outer Space

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe finally discuss a film that almost defies description: “Plan 9 From Outer Space.” Yes, it’s Ed Wood’s 1957 cinematic monolith featuring Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Vampira and the Amazing Criswell!

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0:00.0

My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

0:04.5

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

0:10.1

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

0:12.6

And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth.

0:18.1

And why John Carpenter movies are so good.

0:20.6

You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.

0:26.6

And that's fine, you know, no judgment.

0:28.4

But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:58.4

The podcast and that's what you really missed brings you back to the choir room for a gloriously gleeky rewatch of all six masterfully musical seasons of Glee.

1:19.4

Join cast members Kevin MacKale and Jenna Uschkewitz for never before heard stories from the cast, crew, celebrities and you, the fans from McKinley High to New York City, from the choir room to nationals and from the Super Bowl to a world tour.

1:32.9

Listen to and that's what you really missed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:39.4

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:46.4

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lam.

1:56.4

And this is Joe McCormick and it's finally time for our very first Edward movie on Weird House Cinema.

2:04.4

And today's selection is perhaps the reigning world champion of the Schlachtegon. It is the 1957 undead saucer invasion film, Plan 9 from Outer Space, a movie in which Fussy Aliens attempt to conquer planet Earth by creating approximately three zombies at a local cemetery in Los Angeles.

2:27.4

And wondering how long it would take us to do an Edward movie and we debated whether we should do this, do this one or bride of the monster or they're both fantastic.

2:37.4

But I think this might be a sort of emotional episode for me because Plan 9 is not only one of the best and most famously bad movies of all time.

2:47.4

And I also played a very special role in my life. So Rob, I don't know if I've ever told you this before, but when my wife Rachel and I were very first hanging out when we were in high school, this was before we were technically dating, I don't know what the term in your high school time in place was, it was going out for us.

3:04.4

So before we were going out, one of the first times we ever got together was to watch Plan 9 from Outer Space in the basement of my parents house.

3:12.4

Oh, well that's sweet. Yeah, so we already knew each other. We had some friends in common, but for some reason we decided we needed to see this movie and I still remember vividly a bunch of failed attempts to acquire a copy like we went to blockbuster video thinking, oh yeah, okay, it's blockbuster surely they will have planned nine from Outer Space.

3:32.4

And what a shock they did not this would have been I think around 2002 so they could have hooked us up with 37 copies of Mr. Deeds if we wanted, but they did not have any Edward movies in stock.

3:45.4

And eventually we figured out that one of Rachel's friends had a bootleg VHS tape of it. We finally got our hands on it and wow, it was so perfect like the aliens wearing the costumes with the medieval sigils like you know, bunny Breckenridge with the axe and

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