Plan 9 From Outer Space to be released on BD March 6! Review

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Plan 9 From Outer Space Blu-ray

Plan 9 From Outer Space Blu-ray Review


Legend Films will release this on 6-Mar-2012

Format: Widescreen
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Legend Films,Inc
Run Time: 158 minutes (B&W and Color version of the film)

[Monterey Jack]

All right, Vampira in HD!

[Stratton]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

All right, Vampira in HD!

Don't you want to shoot a second take, just for protection? Why, that was perfect!!!!

[P@t_Mtl]

Oh my lord! The ultra crappy set design and effects of Ed Wood will be so obvious on Blu-ray

Be prepare to see lots of wires

[NeoMaximuz]

Loving it!

[Markiejones]

i cant wait for this

[zeze]

Review is up. Seems that the disc is pretty good. I personally had my doubts considering the transfers we had on the past formats. Glad I was wrong.

Plan 9 From Outer Space Blu-ray

[whitesheik]

Originally Posted by zeze

Review is up. Seems that the disc is pretty good. I personally had my doubts considering the transfers we had on the past formats. Glad I was wrong.

Plan 9 From Outer Space Blu-ray

Quality is good, and once again the aspect ratio is completely wrong. How hard is it to make this 1.85 as it should be. That's how it was shown, and it's obvious in every single shot of the film, no matter how inept, that it's the wrong ratio. Disgusting.

[Deciazulado]

Sadly Imdb has lots of OAR's wrong (but at least they seem to have changed pre-widescreen sound movies (Academy) from 1.33 to 1.37), but for others, they haven't, for example the Scope SMPTE standard changed from 2.35 to 2.39 after 1971. And it appears every European movie is automatically assumed and listed as 1.66 (Maybe it is an automatic thing) and several movies shot in 35 anamorphic show up listed as 2.20 instead like if they were 70mm films, etc.

As for Academy vs Widescreen, according to I think either Jack Theakston's and/or Robert Furmanek's (3-D researchers and more) and others research of studio documentation and periodicals of the time by the end of the 50's 95%+ of theaters had converted to widescreen.
I don't have a direct link atm so i'm just copying this from tcm:

have demonstrated that not only had all the studios mandated widescreen photography for all their productions starting in 1953, but that by the end of 1954 95% of the nation's theaters had completed the conversion to widescreen exhibition. I'll just cite one representative quote from Theakston made in 2008 on Dave Kehr's blog:

"And speaking of 1954, it’s interesting to note that by January of 1954, according to trade magazines at the time, 54% of the nations theaters had already or were planning to go wide-screen. The number was almost 95% by the end of the year, with the remaining 5% being theaters running 16mm and foreign features.

Was it possible that these theaters could run multiple ratios? Yes, all it meant was raising in the masking and curtains and changing the lenses. But by the late ’50s, with all US studios shooting for wide-screen, there was no use for a 1.37 lens other than re-issues, and many theaters didn’t carry them."

[Atari Charles]

I received this Plan 9 from Outer Space on blu-ray today and I do plan to watch it very soon. I do think the film should be transferred in the Original Aspect Ratio. It is neat to have the open mat release though, to see what was not intended for the audience to see. So why not a release with both the OAR and the Open Mat Aspect Ratio?

Also the pixelation people mention during the cockpit scene which happens prior to 5:30. there are a couple of instances, especially in the area of the copilot where strange artifacting occurs. This should have been ironed out before release.

What I do think is a major screw-up is not including the two-hour documentary, "Flying Saucers Over Hollywood," originally included on the first-run Image Entertainment DVD, which could have made the release the definitive one to get. Wouldn't this documentary fit on the blu-ray and if not couldn't Legend use a dual layer blu-ray? The unfortunate part is now I have to keep my Plan 9 DVD to keep the documentary. Too bad. Maybe this is a copyright issue and hence why Legend could not include it.

I do like the Image DVD cover much more than the Legend Blu-ray cover.

[El_Fez]

What other Ed Wood flicks are on Blu? There the porno that VS release a couple of months ago - but is that and Plan 9 it?

[bigshot]

Originally Posted by El_Fez

What other Ed Wood flicks are on Blu? There the porno that VS release a couple of months ago - but is that and Plan 9 it?

Orgy of the Dead isn't really a porno. It's just has strippers in it. It's a worthy sequel to Plan 9. Criswell is the star of Orgy of the Dead.

[El_Fez]

Originally Posted by bigshot

Orgy of the Dead isn't really a porno. It's just has strippers in it. It's a worthy sequel to Plan 9. Criswell is the star of Orgy of the Dead.

Ah, perhaps it was one of the other flicks of his I was thinking of. Which one was at the film festival that had a sexist bomb go off right before the screening?

[SMOOT]

Properly framed 1.85-to-1 Blu-rays of both "Bride of the Monster" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space" would be fun.

[bigshot]

I think you're thinking of Take It Out In Trade. That one is more hardcore. Orgy of the Dead is just a fun nudie cutie.

[billy35]

Has anyone mentioned the photoshoped picture in colorized version?

from dvd beaver

Don't know if you caught this (I didn't see it mentioned in your review), but at 30:47 into the colorization version, a picture on the wall behind the bed is "photoshoped" over with a some other picture of a man and woman. The corruption only lasts a moment in this one scene...

Pretty weird stuff from Legend.

[themadbutcher]

Originally Posted by billy35

Has anyone mentioned the photoshoped picture in colorized version?

from dvd beaver


Pretty weird stuff from Legend.

Don't quote me on this, but I seem to recall the people in the added photograph were contest winners of some kind, or crowdfunding contributors.

[bigshot]

Small labels do stuff like that to mark their films to try and claim that it's a re copyrighted derivative work. They are happy to claim public domain privileges, but they don't want to contribute to the public domain themselves. It's like a dog pissing on a tree to mark its territory. The customers have to put up with the mustaches on the Mona Lisas.

[bigshot]

The advantage to the blu-ray is that you can set your player to zoom it up to 1.85 and see it the way theaters actually projected it. I don't want the film that way all the time, because it crops off the mattresses on the floor in the graveyard and the tops of sets where the walls don't go all the way up. But it's nice as an option, and zooming it in still is HD- just 720p instead of 1080p. If you try to zoom in the DVD it gets really fuzzy.

[WaverBoy]

Just got the Image DVD for cheap, looks good for an ancient DVD, with decent detail for the format and nice black levels. And I’m blind, the documentary is of course absolutely listed on the back, and I’m very glad to have it on disc at last. It’s so good.