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Plan 9 from Outer Space

film by Wood [1959]

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examples of camp

  • Camping it up
    In camp: Camp classics in film

    Mildred Pierce (1945) Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Valley of the Dolls (1967) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Mommie Dearest (1981) Dynasty (1981–89)

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role of Lugosi

  • Dracula
    In Bela Lugosi

    …of the Monster (1956), and Plan 9 from Outer Space (filmed 1956, released 1959), all now unintentionally hilarious cult favourites. Lugosi was buried, as he wished, wearing the long black cape that he had worn in Dracula.

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zombies

  • The Walking Dead
    In zombie: History

    …infamous Ed Wood-directed cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and Invisible Invaders (1959), in which aliens attempt to enslave the dead. By the 1940s zombies had also become a regular feature in comic books and pulp magazines, and it was in these media that they came to be…

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