The dialogue is by turns stilted, sermonizing and hokey. Cement is visible beneath the fake grass.
Look closely and you’ll see the graveyard in the film has cardboard tombstones. Scenes go from day to night and back, which have led some to think Wood was either naive to the concept of returning at the same time on the next day to recapture similar light or simply had such meager funding that he was forced to shoot each scene until it was done, no matter what. The flying saucers are hubcaps on wires being yanked in front of a painted backdrop.
The movie’s badness still makes the 44-year-old Nelson “laugh spontaneously.” In it, alien invaders reanimate corpses. Last year’s event also zinged “Plan 9 From Outer Space.” It’s another thing to sit in the theater and watch it communally.” “It’s one thing to watch it on TV in the living room. It follows a similar event last year in San Diego, where Nelson lives after spending most of his life in the Midwest. It will be shown live in most of the country, but West Coast fans will see it on tape delay at 8 p.m. The special event, dubbed “RiffTrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space,” will be beamed to more than 430 theaters nationwide, including the Century 16 in Ventura, the Arlington in Santa Barbara and others within driving distance. Their target on the roasting spit that night is catnip for comedians: “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” the 1959 Ed Wood sci-fi/horror film often deemed the worst movie ever made. Next Thursday night, Nelson - the former head writer and a host of “MST3K” - and some show cronies will gather for a reunion of sorts at a Nashville theater. Poking fun at cinema’s bumbling B-side was the stock in trade for “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” the Peabody Award-winning cult show (called “MST3K” by devotees) that ran from 1988 to 1999, first on a Minneapolis UHF station, then on what became Comedy Central and lastly on the Sci Fi Channel. Garden-variety bad movies, the ones we just shrug at in their listless mediocrity, need not apply. Nelson knows bad movies - and bad here means stupefyingly bad, so bad that they’re funny in their deathless ineptitude, or “unintentionally hilarious” as Nelson dubbed it in a recent interview. We come to this space today to neither praise nor bury bad movies, but to barbecue them in bon mots and laugh heartily along with Mike Nelson and his old “Mystery Science Theater 3000” pals.
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