If you're watching a drama, it's best to really connect and feel for the characters. In order to enjoy a movie, you must be in the right state of mind. I think the whole thing is one big outtake. people off the street, maybe? Such classic lines they gave them, such as the pilot's wife saying 'They're out there, and they're up there, and I'll be in here,' in that fantastic nasal twang.Īre you the type of person who enjoys film outtakes, where an actor blows their lines, and has to redo it? Then this is the film for you.

Who were those other actors, anyway? I know about Tor and Vampira, but the pilot's wife, the pilot, the cops who scratche d their heads with their guns. Lugosi was simply called 'the dead old man'. maybe if that man knows what he's doing! Wobbling hubcaps for spaceships, a shower curtain for a plane's cockpit, and the star of the movie never had a name. Should a movie ever be written, directed, and produced by the same man? Well.

I liked it, simply because it was a bad movie trying to take itself seriously, and failing in a big way. The only one who could really act at all in this movie was Bela Lugosi, and I wonder how it would have turned out if he had lived to complete it. This is like a kid's amateur video production, or a school play. I rated this movie as good, because I laughed through the whole thing. This portrait of Tor in the heavens was rendered for the back cover of the 2012 reprint of Drew Friedman's first book, Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental.Supposed to be scary not funny.get ready to laugh! Actress Valda Hansen, who co-starred with Johnson in Revenge of the Dead (1959), described Tor as 'like a big sugar bun.' Wrestler George 'The Animal' Steele portrayed Tor in Tim Burton's Ed Wood biopic. No matter, his cult status was secured by Plan 9 and his immortality burnished by recurring posthumous appearances in the early comics of Drew Friedman.ĭespite his brutish on-screen persona, Johnson garnered affection for his cooperative, gentlemanly off-screen demeanor: Tor often went for drinks with his wrestling opponents, and he and his wife Greta were renowned for hosting lavish Swedish dinners. Prior to Plan 9, Johnson had worked in 29 films since 1934 (including the Crosby-Hope classic Road to Rio), but after his legendary star turn for Wood's cameras, he appeared in just one more released film.

Tor Johnson (1903-1971) was a pro wrestler ('The Super Swedish Angel') immortalized by his role as police inspector-cum-zombie Daniel Clay in Ed Wood, Jr.'s bizarre 1959 film Plan 9 From Outer Space.

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