NEON MARQUEE PRESENTS: 'ROBOT MONSTER (1953) + PLAN FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) ' LIVESTREAM (Fri 2/26)
For our next Livestream join us for a Double Feature that’ll send you back in time to the 50s; complete with retro trailer pre-show and an old style intermission! It’s back to back B-Movie sci-fi with two of the worst (but incredibly hilarious) movies of the genre kicking off with ROBOT MONSTER (1953) featuring perhaps the goofiest ‘alien’ ever put on film (a gorilla suit with a papier-mâché space helmet) menacing the apparent last human on earth. Never mind the fact that some curious onlookers wander into frame, and that the entire film seems like it was shot over a weekend in a quarry in California. Dime store special effects feature throughout naturally!
After intermission, it’s the Citizen Kane of bad movies with Ed Wood’s legendary PLAN FROM OUTER SPACE (1959) in which a race of humanoid aliens (which are just humans actors) arrive on earth to concoct a plan to take over the world by raising the dead resulting in a movie that really doesn’t know what genre it wants to be. The film features some of the flimsiest sets you’ll likely see like a plane cockpit consisting of a plywood wall, curtain and two sticks for steering, and most notably, the final performance of horror royalty Bela Lugosi. The actor died midway through production and was replaced by a stand in who had to keep his face covered the entire time! The result is a baffling film that is undoubtedly full of passion from director Ed Wood
