Capital Celluloid 2022 — Day 179: Thu Jun 30

Plan 9 From Outer Space (Wood, 1957): Castle Cinema, 7.30pm


This 16mm presentation is from the Cine-Real team.

Chicago Reader review:
Bela Lugosi died during the making of this low-budget science fiction programmer, but that didn’t faze director Edward Wood: the Lugosi footage, which consists of the actor skulking around a suburban garage, is replayed over and over, to highly surreal effect. Wood is notorious for his 1952 transvestite saga Glen or Glenda? (aka I Changed My Sex), but for my money this 1959 effort is twice as strange and appealing in its undisguised incompetence. J. Hoberman of the Village Voice has made a case for Wood as an unconscious avant-gardist; there’s no denying that his blunders are unusually creative and oddly expressive. With Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Joanna Lee, and, of course, Lyle Talbot.

Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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