History Trivia / Plan9FromOuterSpace

* AuthorExistenceFailure: A famous example. Creator/BelaLugosi died after filming only a few seconds of footage completely independent of the plot, and was rather obviously replaced by Wood's wife's chiropractor, who covered everything below the eyes.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: This film has a lot of similarities with ''Film/InvisibleInvaders''. In both films the aliens are scared about the humans experimenting with weapons of mass destruction and technology they don't truly understand, so they reanimate corpses in order to kill the living until humanity surrender. Both films were released in the same year and although 'Plan 9...' was filmed 3 years earlier, 'Invisible Invaders' appeared on theaters a month before. At first 'Invaders' got much better reviews and became a [[VindicatedByCable TV]] CultClassic, but the film felt into obscurity while 'Plan 9' became a huge cult sensation in the 80's.

** ''Series/TheXFiles:''' Mulder has seen the movie 42 times. He claims the sheer badness of it numbs his brain and helps him think about cases he's working on. Scully thinks it's just sad.

* NamesTheSame: No, the film's costume designer is not ''that'' Dick Cheney.
%%* NoBudget: Does it really need to be spelled out for you? %%Yes, it does.

**   Cheaply built sets like the graveyard and plane cockpit either suffered from technical inaccuracies or (in the case of the former) were prone to falling over when the actors got too close to them. Props and set pieces were also reused between scenes, which explains why the interiors of the flying saucers have wooden desks and radar equipment, or how their exteriors reuse the interior's walls but inverted.
**   Speaking of the flying saucers, they were store bought miniatures that Wood had repainted and suspended with incredibly visible fishing lines. They would frequently wobble around and occasionally casted shadows on the backdrops whenever they moved.

** ''{{Series/Probe}}'''s "[[Recap/ProbePlan10FromOuterSpace Plan 10 from Outer Space]]": The title is a reference to this movie.

* ReferencedBy: ''{{Series/Probe}}'''s "[[Recap/ProbePlan10FromOuterSpace Plan 10 from Outer Space]]": The title is a reference to this movie.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: This films has a lot of similarities with ''Film/InvisibleInvaders''. In both films the aliens are scared about the humans experimenting with weapons of mass destruction and technology they don't truly understand, so they reanimate corpses in order to kill the living until humanity surrender. Both films were released in the same year and although 'Plan 9...' was filmed 3 years earlier, 'Invisible Invaders' appeared on theaters a month before. At first 'Invaders' got much better reviews and became a [[VindicatedByCable TV]] CultClassic, but the film felt into obscurity while 'Plan 9' became a huge cult sensation in the 80's.

* ReferencedBy: ''{{Series/Probe}}'''s "[[Recap/ProbePlan10FromOuterSpace Plan 10 from Outer Space]]": The title is a reference to the infamous ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'', a movie about an alien invasion.

* NoBudget: Wood was so far over his head with producing the film for $25,000 that it's hard to really put into words how badly it turned out.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: A famous example. Bela Lugosi died after filming only a few seconds of footage completely independent of the plot, and was rather obviously replaced by Wood's wife's chiropractor, who covered everything below the eyes.

* NoBudget: Does it really need to be spelled out for you?

* StuntCasting: Bela Lugosi, ''after'' he died, no less.

* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Completed in 1956, released in 1959.

* TheOtherMarty: Unwisely averted; the trope exists for a reason.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Eros never said "A particle of sunlight contains ''many'' atoms!"; the actual quote is "A ray of sunlight is made up of ''many'' atoms!".

* ScienceMarchesOn: What appears to be another of the film's science blunders is Eros stating that after the H-bomb, the only explosion left to be discovered is the Solaranite, which has a pretty major omission in that no-one in this universe seems to have conceived of an antimatter bomb. It's hard to entirely fault Wood for not adding this in, however, as almost nobody outside of the scientific community had heard of antimatter in the mid-50s.

* CommonKnowledge: The flying saucers are actual toy flying saucers rather than the pie tins and paper plates that they're often mocked as.

* AuthorExistanceFailure: A famous example. Bela Lugosi died after filming only a few seconds of footage completely independent of the plot, and was rather obviously replaced by Wood's wife's chiropractor, who covered everything below the eyes.

** In a non-verbal one, the flying saucers are actual toy flying saucers rather than the pie tins and paper plates that they're often mocked as.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The film was financed by a group of Baptist ministers, who insisted Wood's preferred title ''Grave Robbers from Outer Space'' be changed to something less blasphemous.
** Actually, this is a myth. The Baptists were fine with the original title--it changed, rather mysteriously, as the film was shunted around from distribution company to distribution company. Some suggest this might have been [[TheCon to avoid paying the Baptists back...]]

* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Completed in 1956, released in 1959.

* TheOtherMarty: Unwisely averted; the trope exists for a reason.

** Actually, this is a myth. The Baptists were fine with the original title--it changed, rather mysteriously, as the film was shunted around from distribution company to distribution company. Some suggest this might have been [[TheCon to avoid paying the Baptists back...]]