Plan 9 from Outer Space Blu-ray
'Plan 9 from Outer Space' + 'Bride of the Monster' Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. (1957 + 1955) BFI Blu-ray | 4K restorations
Voted 'the worst film ever made', Edward Wood's micro-budget sci-fi epic continues to delight fans and confound critics.
For this strange story of alien invaders in flimsy flying saucers on a muddled-up mission to resurrect earth's dead, director Wood juxtaposed pre-existing footage of his idol, the recently deceased Bela Lugosi (Dracula), with new scenes featuring business associates, Hollywood has-beens and hangers-on. Amidst a claustrophobic cemetery set, crammed with cardboard tombstones, Plan 9 occupies a unique cinematic dream-realm where ineptitude and inspiration collide, where conventional criticism, time, space and logic no longer rule supreme.
Also included is Bride of the Monster, making its worldwide Blu-ray debut. Lovingly written by Wood for Lugosi, it immortalises the screen's master of menace — who usefully remained alive throughout production — in his last great performance as haunted, homeless genius Dr. Eric Vornoff. Adrift and forsaken in a jungle hell, he's on an ungodly mission to create atomic superbeings — throwing anybody who gets in the way to his awful octopus.
Special features include:
- 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
- Introduction by film critic Mark Kermode
- 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
- Archive interviews with family and friends of Ed Wood (2011, 96 mins)
- 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 Monsterby 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
- 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
