Plan 9 From Outer Space [Blu-ray]- PRE-ORDER-19-OCTOBER-2026

Despite being voted ‘the worst film ever made’, Edward D Wood Jr’s micro-budget 1950s science fiction epic continues

to delight its fans and confound its critics. Inimitably written and directed by indefatigable independent filmmaker Wood,

this self-proclaimed masterpiece tells the strange tale of alien invaders piloting flimsy flying saucers on a muddled-up

mission to resurrect earth’s dead. Opportunistically juxtaposing pre-existing footage of a recently deceased Bela

(Dracula) Lugosi with new scenes featuring Wood’s friends, business associates, Hollywood has-beens and hangers-on,

amidst a claustrophobic cemetery-set crammed with cardboard tombstones, Plan 9 occupies a unique cinematic space.

It’s a dream-realm where ineptitude and inspiration collide; where conventional criticism – as well as time, space and

logic – no longer rule supreme. Can you prove it didn’t happen?

Also included is Bride of the Monster, finally making its worldwide Blu ray debut. Lovingly written by Wood for his idol,

Lugosi, it immortalises the master of screen menace – who usefully remained alive throughout production – in his last

great performance. As haunted, homeless genius Dr Eric Vornoff, he’s hell-bent on an ungodly mission to create atomic

superbeings, whilst feeding anybody who gets in the way to his rather rubbery giant octopus.

Extras

· Restored by the BFI and presented in High Definition

· Bride of the Monster (1955, 69 mins): arguably Ed Wood’s most ambitious film sees a classic ‘mad scientist’ tale

unfold in classic Wood style!

· Plan 9 From Outer Space presented in 1.85:1 and 1.37:1

· Newly recorded audio commentary on Plan 9 From Outer Space by writer and artist Ken Hollings and the BFI’s Vic

Pratt

· Archive audio commentary on Plan 9 From Outer Space by filmmaker David De Cocteau and writer Ted Newsom

(1.37:1 version only)

· Criswell Predicts 2026 (2026, 11 mins): Ken Hollings celebrates Ed’s enduring masterwork in this vivid video

essay

· Mark Kermode on Plan 9 (2026, 4 mins): the critic introduces the film

· Out of Step: Other Worlds are Watching Us (1957, 13 mins): intrepid television journalist Daniel Farson

investigates the British saucer flap in this groundbreaking Rediffusion documentary programme

· Kadoyng (Ian Shand, 1972, 60 mins): another mysterious visitor from Outer Space with a plan to sort out stupid

humans arrives in 1970s England, in this fabulous Children’s Film Foundation feature

· All About Ed: Archive interviews with family and friends (2011, 96 mins): interviews with Dolores Fuller, Kathy

Wood, Stephen C Apostolof and Joe Robertson

· Bela Lugosi Leaving the Sanitarium (1955, 5 mins): rare footage of the master of horror chatting to reporters

following his 1955 rehabilitation - introduced by Ted Newsom

· Newly recorded audio commentary on Bride of the Monster by the BFI’s William Fowler and Vic Pratt

· Archive audio commentary on Bride of the Monster by filmmaker David DeCocteau and writer Ted Newsom

· White Lite (1968, 3 mins): you’re invited to ‘meet anti-matter and the bride of the monster’ in this far-out

experimental film homage to Wood’s Bride of the Monster by artist Jeff Keen

· Theatrical trailers

· Image galleries

· Reversible sleeve featuring original poster for Bride of the Monster

· **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet featuring new writing by Will Sloan, Jaye Hudson, Mark Pilkington,

Vic Pratt, William Fowler, Jane Giles and Jan Manthey