History YMMV / Plan9FromOuterSpace

* OlderThanTheyThink: Criswell's opening line -- "We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives" -- is often held up as one of Wood's classically clunky lines. In actual fact, Criswell used that as the intro line for his TV show for several years before ''Plan 9'' was filmed (and continued to do so afterward), though he usually gave it a much wryer delivery than he does in ''Plan 9'' -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2uV1KLuhvY witness it in action]] in his appearance on the Johnny Carson New Year's Special in 1966.

** The red lights appear and dissapear depending on what set the cars are on.

** Penn Jillette has declared that ''Plan 9'' is not a bad movie because its message is relevant. He claims the worst movie ever made is ''Film/TheBigChill''.

* HarsherInHindsight: Ed Wood's cameo as a drunken bum, which is pretty much what he would become in his later years.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: If, and only if, such a device were plausible - then these visiting aliens would have a good point in trying to prevent it from being built. [[PoorCommunicationKills They really need to work on their methods though...]]

* {{Woolseyism}}: The fact that some subtitled versions have better writing than the actual movie is less of a show of the translators' skills and more damning evidence of the movie's own ineptitude. Just being able to truncate the redundant dialogue and make some phrases sound much more natural is an improvement already.

* TearJerker: You wouldn't think this film would have any, but if you've seen the film ''Film/EdWood'', then the scene with Lugosi outside his house will likely be this for you. The narration about the old man leaving "never to return" just makes it worse.
** Lugosi's performance in the opening funeral scene is quite effective.

** Penn Jillette has declared that ''Plan 9'' is not a bad movie because its message is relevant. He claims the worst movie ever made is ''TheBigChill''.

** The red lights appear and dissapear depending what set the cars are on.

* TearJerker: You wouldn't think this film would have any, but if you've seen the film ''Ed Wood'', then the scene with Lugosi outside his house will likely be this for you. The narration about the old man leaving "never to return" just makes it worse.

*** To be fare, Ed Wood had NoBudget.

* {{Tearjerker}}: You wouldn't think this film would have any, but if you've seen the film ''Ed Wood'', then the scene with Lugosi outside his house will likely be this for you. The narration about the old man leaving "never to return" just makes it worse.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: If and only if such a device were plausible - then these visiting aliens would have a good point in trying to prevent it from being built. [[PoorCommunicationKills They really need to work on their methods though...]]

* StrawmanHasAPoint: If and only if such a device were plausible - then these visiting aliens would have a good point in trying to prevent it from being built. [[PoorCommunicationKills They really need to work on their methods though...]]

* CrowningMomentofFunny:
Colonel Tom Edwards: Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our earth?
Eros: Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The tombstones ''wobble'' when people hit them. Also, the flying saucers which are ''square'' when they land and are visibly suspended from strings.