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Writer/director/producer/editor Ed Wood‘s 1957 film Plan 9 from Outer Space has long been considered to be one of the worst movies ever made, if not the worst of the worst… although most genre fans have seen a lot worse than that one. Composer and B-movie fanatic Somtow Sucharitkul is clearly a fan of the film, as The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that he is giving Plan 9 from Outer Space an opera adaptation!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Plan 9 from Outer Space: A Really Grand Opera by Somtow Sucharitkul is “currently in the libretto stage. Rehearsals will begin in earnest next year. Sucharitkul plans to release a teaser suite from the opera next fall and to premiere the full opera in 2024. Torsten Neumann, director of the Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading indie film fest, is producing.”

Sucharitkul had this to say about his opera plans: “Plan 9 is,...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: This past weekend saw the release of “Mute” and “Annihilation,” two original science-fiction movies that were made on studio budgets (an increasingly rare breed). With that in mind, what is the best sci-fi movie that most people haven’t seen?

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“Advantageous.” Jennifer Phang directed this amazing sci-fi drama that centers Gwen, an Asian-American mother (Jacqueline Kim, who’s also the co-writer of the film) who has to come to terms with her “advanced” age in a youth-obsessed society. She has to resort to drastic and untraditional measures in order to ensure that her young daughter...

Earlier this year we clued you guys in on Cult Movie Mania's weekly Screaming Cinema Series in Tampa, Florida, and coming in May could be their best night yet as they are hosting a screening of Ed Wood’s "lost" film Final Curtain. Read on for the details.

From the Press Release:

The CultMovieMania.com website is proud to announce an historic screening of Ed Wood’s Final Curtain at the Tampa Pitcher Show theater on Friday, May 4th, 2012, as part of the Cult Movie Mania Screaming Cinema Series - our 9th screening presentation. Final Curtain will be the grand finale along with the horror featurettes Filthy and The Psycho Dish in a special Live Theater “Horror Anthology” Stage Show, featuring top Florida acting talent.

“Ed Wood’s Final Curtain has been a lost film since 1957,” states Andy Lalino, organizer of the Cult Movie Mania Screaming Cinema Series. “It was...

The story goes that at the time of his passing in 1956, Bela Lugosi was grasping a script called Final Curtain, penned by pal Ed Wood. Final Curtain was a television pilot for an anthology series to be called Portraits Of Terror, intended to be a Twilight Zone-esque theater of the bizarre. While Lugosi would miss the boat, Wood ended up shooting the show in 1957 with a cast made up of Duke Moore, Dudley Manlove, and Jeannie Stevens. The 22-minute short concerned a cop who makes the mistake of investigating a mysterious theater late at night while on solo patrol.

Nothing became of the show, and while Wood would go on to many other projects, including his career-defining Plan 9 From Outer Space in 1959, Final Curtain was something the director often brought up, sharing footage with his friends and hangers-on, dreaming of what could have been. One of those friends was actor Paul Marco,...

Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, also known as the Super Swedish Angel, was the Super Swedish Angel of death in Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” in which he played Inspector Daniel Clay, raised from the dead along with Bela Lugosi and Vampira in a bizarre alien plot to show the human race the error of its ways. He went on to also appear in Wood’s “Night of the Ghouls” and “The Beast of Yucca Flats,” ultimately appearing on-screen more than 40 times — often, in the early part of his acting career, in uncredited roles.

Choice Quotation:

Ruler (John Breckinridge): Yes, he’s a fine specimen. Are they all this powerful on planet Earth?

Eros (Dudley Manlove): This one is an exception, Excellency.

Photo: Ronald Grant Archive

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Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson, also known as the Super Swedish Angel, was the Super Swedish Angel of death in Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” in which he played Inspector Daniel Clay, raised from the dead along with Bela Lugosi and Vampira in a bizarre alien plot to show the human race the error of its ways. He went on to also appear in Wood’s “Night of the Ghouls” and “The Beast of Yucca Flats,” ultimately appearing on-screen more than 40 times — often, in the early part of his acting career, in uncredited roles.

Choice Quotation:

Ruler (John Breckinridge): Yes, he’s a fine specimen. Are they all this powerful on planet Earth?

Eros (Dudley Manlove): This one is an exception, Excellency.

Photo: Ronald Grant Archive

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End—Point of beginning, Webster.

Let's be honest: you're never going to watch Creation of the Humanoids, a 1962 zero-budget sci-fi stiff hand-tooled by loving amateurs, in which inept actors, including cult icon Dudley Manlove (Plan 9 From Outer Space: "Stupid stupid stupid!") stand stock-still for minutes at time, mouthing unspeakable dialogue.

But let's not be honest, let's be optimistic: you might be tempted. On learning that this was Andy Warhol's favourite film (pop fact number one) or that it anticipates all the most interesting ideas of Blade Runner (by twenty years) or that it achieves a kind of reeling, coshed euphoria through shuffling between genius and ineptitude at 24fps (blink fast and miss the good bits, blink fast starting one frame later and miss the bad bits), you might seek this movie out. It can be obtained.

So we have to proceed carefully, with spoiler-free observations above the...