Need movie suggestions to round out Plan 9 From Outer Space

[StaggerLee]

I want to rent this one since I've never seen it and I absolutely love the Ed Wood movie.

Gimme some titles that would round out my Friday evening double or possibly triple feature night.

Ready.
Set.
Go!

:popcorn:

[Capn Sunshine]

1. FemaleTrouble- John Waters

Just saw it, Just brilliant in that over the top ambulance full of drunken clowns careening off a cliff kind of way.

John Waters

[StaggerLee]

4. Wow

Sounds great. Puttin' it on my must see list.

Saw Pecker about six years ago. Loved it!

[jonnyblitz]

27. that's my favorite john waters movie, pink flamingos is my

second favorite. divine rules! :thumbsup:

[LynneSin]

2. How about Chariots of Fire or Ghandi

You'll have something to dumb you down and then something to bring you back up

I've always wanted to see that movie though!

[StaggerLee]

5. Two movies I've never seen believe it or not

I hear both are fabulous. Gonna bump them both up on my must see list.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. You want Bad Old SF/horror or classics?

If BOSF, y'gotta get "It Came from Outer Space." Awful. Simply awful. Or "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (but not if you're an arachnophobe), "The Amazing Colossal Man" or "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" (the original). Oh, and one of my favorites, "The Day of the Triffids."

There's plenty of BOSF out there. Y'just gotta look for it and understand keywords like "aliens," "atomic," "moon," "Planet X" and stuff.

The good ones include "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "When Worlds Collide," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (the original), "Forbidden Planet," "The Blob" (good acting despite the lurid title) and "The Day the Earth Caught Fire," a well-done British classic.

[StaggerLee]

6. BOSF as long as it isn't painful

Noting all of your titles.

Would you consider Soilent Green as BOSF? I've never seen it but I've heard folks quote it here on DU and elsewhere.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I've never seen 'Soylent Green'

I know — shame on me. :spank:

From what I know of it, though, I'd consider it a semi-classic.

Oh... check out "A Boy and His Dog" for some pretty good surrealism. Post-apocalyptic without all the torn-up Aussie cars and leather fetishes.

[Zookeeper]

8. Robot Monster is a great-bad movie. Monster in a gorilla suit...

and a diving helmet who says, "You are HU-man. I am RO-man."

Other good-baddies: The Brain that Wouldn't Die. (Woman's head is kept alive and talking in her boyfriend's labratory.)

The Attack of the Killer Shrews. (Skinny dogs wearing rugs, and hand puppets dressed like skinny dogs wearing rugs, attack people stuck on an island.)

Creature from the Haunted Sea. (Roger Corman. Intentionally funny and weird.)

And if you want to make it an Ed Wood evening, check out "Glen or Glenda."

Have fun!!!

[StaggerLee]

10. Gonna print out this thread and make with the highlighter!

Thanks!

:thumbsup:

[KatyaR]

48. The Brain That Wouldn't Die--one of my favorites!!

It's so bizarre in such a kinda sleezy way.

"Carnival of Souls" would be a good choice--good and creepy but with a tint of "B" movie-ness.

[Zookeeper]

49. "Carnival of Souls" is such a creepy movie!

Although I have had friends who watched it with me and didn't find it eerie at all. We never share the same taste in movies, so I suppose it makes sense. I love the scenes at the amusement park. (How can anyone not find those creepy!?!)

If I remember correctly, "Carnival of Souls" was unseen for decades...just stuck in a vault and forgotten.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

9. Go the Troma way!

Lloyd Kaufman (& Michael Herz, etc) is a genius filmmaker. Seriously!

The Toxic Avenger (parts 2 & 3 are not worth worrying with IMO)
Sgt Kabukiman NYPD
Class of Nuke Em High
Tromeo & Juliet
Terror Firmer
Citizen Toxie: Toxic Avenger Part VI

(the last 3 are really good films if you like splatstick & Farrelly Brothers style humour, though I love them all in my own little way)

and then there's the Troma produced/distributed stuff which is watchable in a MST3K way:

Surf Nazis Must Die
Redneck Zombies
Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy

... and plenty more where that came from, including decent fare like Trey Parker's first film "Cannibal: The Musical and Dario Argento's "The Stendhal Syndrome. You can buy these generally dirt cheap - it only costs me about £5 (P&P included) to import most Troma titles from the US to the UK.

http://www.troma.com/

Finally, I discovered a wonderful little slasher film called "Slumber Party Massacre" a year or so ago and have popped it on countless times since.

[StaggerLee]

11. Toxi Avenger

I've seen bits and parts of those. My ex-wife was a big Troma fan. I actually saw the trailer for Sgt. Kabukiman when I was in the Philippines many years ago. The whole audience cracked up.

Duly noted and thank you!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

69. Can't believe I forgot to mention "Pervirella"

which is a huge disservice to the British film industry as it's a gem of a cult movie and introduced the world to the great Emily Booth*



Here's a conflicting couple of reviews:

"Fans of low budget, quasi-erotic B films should get a kick out of this little production."
http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=3206

"Whats wrong with Pervirella? Everything."
http://www.dvdconfidential.com/2002/03/dvd-review-pervirella-d.html



*coming soon to a screen near you soon in Jake "Razor Blade Smile" West's "Evil Aliens":
http://www.evilaliensthemovie.co.uk/

[leftofthedial]

12. The Blob

Steve McQueen

[StaggerLee]

14. Good call

I was just thinking, I may have to set aside an evening dedicated to the man. A Steve McQueen extravaganza of sorts.

:hi:

[enigmatic]

13. "Blood Feast"

directed by the legendary Herschell Gordon Lewis, and starring the incomparable Mal Arnold. A true "classic":)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Feast

[StaggerLee]

19. Thanks for the link

I KNOW this title's in the Cult section of my local vendor/lender shop.

That's a movie poster that's hard to miss.

:)

[Giant Robot]

15. And no one has yet to say

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes??!

[xmas74]

16. That was my first thought. n/t

[StaggerLee]

20. Definitely will check that one out

My younger cousin made me and my mom rent that one when I was home on leave in 1987 but I never got the chance to watch it.

Wow. Has it really been that long?

[m_welby]

17. It conquered the World

a classic !

The monster is sort of an upside down ice cream cone with teeth all around the bottom !!


with apologies to FZ

"I ate a hot dog
it tasted real good
hen I watched a movie
from holly wood"

[StaggerLee]

23. the bad props

are all part of the charm!

:hi:

[EstimatedProphet]

18. Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster

[DanCa]

26. Funny I was thinking of saying Bo Gess (sp)

I dont know why.

[StaggerLee]

35. Glen or Glenda

Got my eye on her, er, him.

:D

[DanCa]

21. Them.!

What's not to like about a movie with giant aunts in it.
Hmm Come to think of it I haven't seen a giant chicken film in a long while either :D

[MissMillie]

24. GMTA

:hi:

[tigereye]

62. that is pretty scary

saw it recently.

[MsAnthropy]

22. Reefer Madness

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Oh, god, I love those

I've got that one, "Cocaine Fiends," "Marihuana" and "Assassin of Youth" on DVD. Camp classics.

[StaggerLee]

31. Absolute cult classic

The guy playin' the piano a million miles a second cracked me up as teenager and cracks me up to this day.

:rofl:

[Deep13]

33. Have you heard the Mike Nelson narration?

He was on Mystery Science Theater and does a feature commentary. "Nobody notices that the piano player is going bat shit insane."

[Aristus]

25. My family watched "Plan 9" just the other night, with my step-daughter's

fiancee joining us. I don't think he quite got the point that Ed Wood was a serious film maker. That he just had no CLUE that he had no talent. Wood thought he was making great epic films.

[Squeech]

28. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

The idea upthread about John Waters is pretty good too-- you might consider Serial Mom or Crybaby or Hairspray...

[StaggerLee]

58. Crybaby is a trip

I was looking towards Serial Mom. Waters' movies are going on my list for sure.

[mikeytherat]

30. 200 Motels

Centerville...a nice place to live.

mikey_the_rat

[Zookeeper]

43. Oh yeah....

"CENTERVILLE.....a real nice place to raise your kids up."

(I live near a "Centerville" and always think of that when I see the name.)

[DBoon]

46. "its a lot like Glendale"

I think of 200 Motels a lot when I'm in Glendale

[Deep13]

32. warm-up Look Back in Angora

or the Ed Wood film by Tim Burton.

Get the Legend Films version of Plan 9 if you can. Watch it with commentary from Mystery Science Theater's Mike Nelson. My wife entered us in a contest to have our names appear in the Legend Film's colorized version. Our names appear on the headstone next to the keeled-over Tor Johnson and in the end credits. As a chaser, how about the incoherent Glen or Glenda. Just plain bizarre.

Have plenty of Scotch ready.

[Zookeeper]

44. That is the coolest thing I've ever heard!

You and Mrs. D. are famous and destined to hold a place in the annals of movie trivia!

[Deep13]

56. Okay, well how about this?

During the 2004 campaign I was very concerned that Kerry was running Al Gore's campaign all over again, being afraid to be to confrontational. I sent his campaign manager a letter saying I donated a lot of money to the campaign and had some concerns. One of my suggestions was to get the idea into people's heads that invading Iraq because of 9/11 would be like FDR invading Mexico as a response to Pearl Harbor. During the first debate, JK actually made that same analogy.

[tigereye]

63. hmm

we always provided our own MST- style- drunken -3 am -commentary for Plan 9. Although I bet Mike's is better. I'll have to look for that!

[sarge43]

34. So many stinkers, so little time.

Space Mutiny - a large shedding bowzer that MST3K left for dead. In fact, get the MST3K version. As much fun as you can have with a tub of popcorn in your lap.

If you can find it, Woods' Glen and Glenda. Major weird.

Damnation Alley "Killer Cockroaches!!"

[mikeytherat]

36. Ah, Space Mutiny

"Sounds like someone's got himself a DX-7 keyboard."

"Calgon, blow me away!"

"Well, you have to admit it was a rare meeting where something actually got accomplished."

One of my faves.

mikey_the_rat

[sarge43]

37. Railing Deaths Body Counts

Dueling Zambonies

Hunk Slabcheese

The Senior Citizen's Disco

(as memory serves) "If he doesn't stop that, he's going pop his skull right out of his skin."

The dead Ensign Red Shirt who reappears a few scenes later (Obviously forgot to hire a script girl or an editor or just about anyone who had a speaking acquaintance with film making.)

Cameron Mitchell as Santa Claus

It's a true get high and laugh your ass off cin du merde.

[Deep13]

40. I'd like to confuse bok choy with cabbage.

[formerrepuke]

38. 'Reform School Girls'.. starring Wendy O. Williams

[Deep13]

39. ...as a forty-year-old teenager. nt

[sarge43]

41. Another must for Cin du Merde Night.

(drum roll here) The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies! The title says it all; in fact the title may be the best thing about this drooling hound.

Oh yes, a bit of totally unnecessary trivia: Who wrote the score for Robot Monster?

Yes, that's right, the late, great Elmer Bernstein; same man who wrote the scores for To Kill a Mockingbird and The Magnificent Seven. I imagine RM was never included on his resume.

[Zookeeper]

45. He also wrote the score for "Cat Women on the Moon." n/t

[sarge43]

47. Wow. That is a mixed bag. n/t

[Zookeeper]

50. Bernstein was a Hollywood liberal who was blacklisted...

by the big studios (for a while). My guess is that he did the music for those "B" ("Z"?) movies to put food on his table.

[sarge43]

59. Your guess sounds exactly right.. n/t

[Chovexani]

42. Cecil B. Demented

A great Waters film. :D

[Digit]

51. Return of the Killer Tomatoes, of course!

[tuvor]

52. Robot Monster

I wouldn't use up the bandwidth if I didn't mean it.

[azurnoir]

53. from beyond or

night of the leapus (giant killer rabbits)

[TreasonousBastard]

54. They Saved Hitler's Brain is...

possibly the worst movie ever made. Looks like they took bits and pieces of stuff off the cutting room floor and spliced them together.

Angry Red Planet is not nearly as bad, but still no better than Robot Monster and almost as bad as Plan 9.

Mars Attacks might be good fun to kill the bad taste of the others. Good fun like the Blob or Killer Tomatoes there.

[hyphenate]

55. Glen or Glenda

Gods and Monsters
Terror in the Aisles
the original Cat People


Silent Running
Dark Star
Spaceballs

[StaggerLee]

57. Thanks everyone! (bookmarked)

Thanks for all the valuable input.

More posts are welcome though.

:)

[peekaloo]

60. Motel Hell

[AllegroRondo]

61. Manos, the Hands of Fate

truly one of the worst films ever made.

[StaggerLee]

68. Saw it a few weeks ago (The MST3K version)

Painful. Painful. Painful.

:hi:

[jpgray]

64. Look no further than "It Conquered the World"

Doesn't need to be in its MST3K form to be enjoyed--the screenwriter actually had some semblance of talent, though the allegory is anti-commie pap. Plus you have pseudo-respectable b-listers Peter Graves and Lee Van Cleef, and the Corman Queen Beverly Garland to read the lines. Good stuff!

[tigereye]

65. Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

hysterical. Not kid safe, though.

[elehhhhna]

66. Hot Rods To Hell is superb, but I'd just

Watch Plan 9 twice. There's so much to see! It's a masterpiece.

[BobEPeru]

67. Here are several

Maniac (1934) (Check out the violation of the Hayes Code)
Wizards (The cartoon by Ralph Bakshi, his best film is Street Fight, but good luck finding it)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price: You'll love it)
Blood For Dracula (Andy Warhols Dracula)
Alice in Acidland (If you can find it, you won't believe it)
Zombie2 (Italian undead gorefest from the 70s)

I'll add another vote for Carnival of Souls.
Any of these are great fun.

[jane_pippin]

70. Did anybody mention "Wild Guitar" 'starring' Arch Hall Jr.?

A young Arch Hall, Jr. is given a shot at the big time by the unscrupulous owner of a small record company played by Arch Hall...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056693/

It's absolutely awful, as are most movies featuring Arch.

[Zookeeper]

71. We have "Wild Guitar" on VHS. It's a gem!

Not as good, but amusing is "Teenage Zombies," which is notable for having teenagers, but no zombies.

Also, "Hot Rod Girl," starrring Chuck Conners as the concerned cop trying to keep wild, hot-roddin' kids from killing themselves.

Back to Sci-fi: "Devil Girl from Mars." The Devil Girl looks a bit like a young Agnes Moorhead and stomps around wearing a skin-tight black "pleather"-ish looking outfit. Her assignment: Find the Earth's strongest and bravest men and force them into breeding with beautiful Martian women. (Tough job, but somebody has to do it...)