Ed's Cosmology

I'm not into "cult films" as such; but I always wanted a peek at "Plan 9 From Outer Space."  My blessed Philadelphia Friend hooked me up to this ever so cool website with 450 free movies!  Yippee!

This guy bookends the film with a vaguely scary, vaguely threatening speech.  Do we dare believe the movie?  Is it a reenactment or what?  And who is this guy?  I LOVE his curl.

 Here's "the old man" who is the first victim of the plan.  He's been brought back from the dead to capture living humans.  Live ones can think is the advantage?  Anyway, Bela Lugosi plays the guy, for the most part, except for after he died.  Then there are some cool scenes where Ed Wood himself prances around shielding most of his face with a cape.  Sssshhhh.  We're not supposed to notice.

This is the old man's wife.  Yeah.  Like Dracula could  EVER get Vampira.  She doesn't really do much.  Keeps up that startled stare rather well and holds her arms in the most cunning circle shape I've ever seen outside a ballet movie.  Unbelievably long fingernails.  And the teensiest waist line!!!

 These are the space guys.  The one in the left hand corner is the leader and a true snot.

These are some human pilots who spot the space craft.  At one point the guy on the left actually lifts his control stick thing off the floor.  I don't think that was supposed to happen.

And this is the boss human out in the field commanding our weak and ineffective human forces.

So, what did these space guys want anyway?  Remember, I admit I'm not an Ed Wood cult-ie and my back was killing me toward the end.  I kept thinking my brother Frankie could have done this same thing at our house.  I think the bad space guys wanted the people of Earth to pay attention to them and stop pretending they didn't exist.  Seems reasonable.

Okey Dokey.