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PICK YOUR FAVORITE FILM:

If you want a film added to this poll make a comment about it and I'll add it to the list. Also you can now change your vote if you wish.

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THEY SAVED HITLERS BRAIN
ROBOT VS THE AZTEC MUMMY

Well now, I just cannot make up my mind between Plan 9 and Robot Monster. Both are equally bad, and entertaining as all get out.

Well, given the choices, I put Plan 9 first with Robot Monster as a very very close second.
These are both definitive classics of the genre, and why I even bother coming here in the first place.
yeegah!!
much love
peter johnson/denny crane

Manos is not as well made as the others, but I love the kitschy characters!

Had to go with Beast Of Yucca Flats.  Thor Johnson, no audio other than a bad voiceover and terrible acting.  This one nearly killed me during my first viewing.  It gets my vote for that alone.

cant say I've seen even 1 of those films  :question:

I heard plan 9 is supposed to be pretty terrible though.

You are a regular on THIS SITE and have not heard of ANY of those?

(or were you kidding?)

If you were serious, and are a Bad Movies fan, go out and get/rent any of them TODAY.  Classics.

I'll have to go with Robot Monster, if just for the whole guy-in-a-gorilla-suit-with-a-deep-sea-diving-helmet-and-Lawrence-Welk-Bubble-Machine/Radio vibe. Also, for its connection with The Beverly Hillbillies (Ro-man also played the gorilla that appeared on several Hillbillies episodes).

I've also got to go with Robot Monster, simply because I saw it many more times as a kid and have more memories of watching it than the others. I just love Ro-Man's self reflection monologues.

It had to be Robot Monster (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/robotmonster/) for me.  The scene where he questions himself about killing the girl, "I cannot, yet I must.  At what point on the graph do must and cannot meet?" is awesomely funny.  In fact, there is a whole bag of funny lines.  These are in addition to the gorilla suit, with a deep sea diving helmet and TV antenna, costume.

I say Plan 9.  Its so iconic, overblown, full of "high concept,  well intentioned, low-budget,  yet still so BAD. And being in the FUTURE where we spend the rest of our lives, we were effcected by these future events! 
-Ed

Plan 9 followed by Robot Monster :hot:

I voted for Plan 9 because it's the only one on the list that I've seen.

By the way, how do you start a poll?
I've got some really good ideas for future polls!    :bouncegiggle:

Quote from: Ashthecat on November 13, 2006, 06:51:21 PM
I voted for Plan 9 because it's the only one on the list that I've seen.

By the way, how do you start a poll?
I've got some really good ideas for future polls!    :bouncegiggle:

Aha!
I figured out how to create polls.

I'll be putting one up soon.   :smile:

SO SCOTT GAVE A BASIC LIST OF SOME OF THE GENUINE CLASSICS OF THE GENRE --
bUT IT WAS A LIMITED LIST --
yes!!!
sEE THOSE
BUT ALSO "THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN!!""
ETC. ETC.
PETER CRANE DENNY AIIEEE!!!

Hey, I did the "move" thing on my last post & nothing's moving
also, all same color --
Do I have to sacrifice another damn goat?
peter luddite/denny nontechnical

Quote from: peter johnson on November 13, 2006, 10:25:54 PM
peter luddite/denny nontechnical

LOL

:bouncegiggle:

I picked PLAN 9 as well-but I,too,wish the list could have been larger.The BRAIN that WOULDN'T DIE would have been #1. BRAIN from PLANET AROS was good to.I must have a thing about movies with "brain" in the title....BRAAAAIIIINS!!!!

Your right the list should be larger. I was thinking THE ROBOT VS THE AZTEC MUMMY as well. Always loved the title alone and the film has it's moments also.  :smile:

(http://www.hauntedhacienda.com/imx/films/1957momiarobot/momia_robot_265x381.jpg)

Quote from: Ed on November 13, 2006, 01:32:06 PM
I say Plan 9.  Its so iconic, overblown, full of "high concept,  well intentioned, low-budget,  yet still so BAD. And being in the FUTURE where we spend the rest of our lives, we were effcected by these future events! 
-Ed

:thumbup: Gotta agree, though, Robot Monster is a classic. For sheer repeated viewing pleasure, its "Well, inspector Clay is dead....murdered...and somebodys responsable" for me!
"Your stupid minds! Stupid,stupid!.."

Voted for Plan 9, but that's more due to me not having alot of access to the other films and thus not seeing them.  Manos and Robot Monster have been on my 'must buy if I see it regardless' list though for a while.

You can find a DVD copy of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE for $10 most any place and ROBOT MONSTER, BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, MANOS HANDS OF FATE, EEGAH for $5.99 on DVD from oldies.com or just about any DVD location.

If you really want to see them now then PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and the other films can be watched in segments on Youtube. The other films on Youtube from the poll are the Mystery Theater 3000 versions.

Best to see these B-Classics on a your TV.

All good selections but I went with Manos: The Hands of Fate.   There's just something about Torgo that can't be denied.  And there's nothing like a movie created by a manuer(sp?) salesman!

If you want a film added to this poll make a comment about it and I'll add it to the list. Also you can now change your vote if you wish.

Just added:

THEY SAVED HITLERS BRAIN
ROBOT VS THE AZTEC MUMMY

An easy choice, as so far, I've only seen one of them, "Plan 9 from Outer Space."

while I'm glad you put both Robot Monster and Manos on the list, I have to say The Brain That Wouldn't/ Couldn't/ Didn't Die would be my number one pick. Manos would probably come in second (I'm sure Andrew found watching the non-MST3k version like waiting for paint to peel, but once I've seen a movie given the treatment, I can watch the regular version and hear all the comments added in my head... kind of weird when I think about it...).

I would pick teenage caveman, the one with Robert Vaughn, I've heard of but never watched Robot Monster. I believe that the gorrilla with a diving helmet is in this movie too, in fact it wouldn't surprise me to find out this is Robot Monster with a new name.

Welcome to the board Dennis. I haven't seen TEENAGE CAVEMAN yet, but wouldn't mind checking it out. Only recieve 3 stars at imdb.  :smile:

Quote from: DENNIS on November 21, 2006, 09:44:48 PM
I would pick teenage caveman, the one with Robert Vaughn, I've heard of but never watched Robot Monster. I believe that the gorrilla with a diving helmet is in this movie too, in fact it wouldn't surprise me to find out this is Robot Monster with a new name.

You are thinking about the costume from Night of the Blood Beast. (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/bloodbeast/)  It also appears in "Teenage Caveman."

Thinking back on this movie what I remember about the creature is that it was quite silly looking and then turned out to be a survivor of a nuclear war in a radiation suit. What I rember most clearly is that Mr. Vaughn didn't look like a teenager, was always clean and cleanly shaved and always had perfect hair.
He looked more like Napoleon Solo at a halloween party than a caveman. The same is true of all the ladies in this movie, for me this is what makes the movie so bad it's funny. 

Glad that Brain wouldn't die was put up because thats the one I would vote for. I have seen Manos and Plan 9 but their not really my favorites.

THE BRAIN THAT WOULD'T DIE is also one of my favorite B-Movies. Also put up some other Ed Wood films as they deserve it.

(http://circonvolutes.hautetfort.com/images/medium_Joseph_Green_-_The_Brain_that_wouldn_t_die.jpg)

Here, here!  Well spoken, Isaac .  . .
I would say here that the choice of this for a topic was quite good, if only because it showed up the ALARMING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD
who are yet to see some of the true classics of the genre . . .
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as we have a chance to edumacate here, but Iwas still shocked . . .
peter johnson/denny smelling salts

Welcome to the board Isaac. PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is proving to the film of the ages. You have Tor Johnson, Vampira, Criswell, and even horror great Bela Lugosi who literallly comes back from the dead to make this film.

(http://www.kybernografoi.gr/issues/no10/kt/edwood.jpg)

Hmm, I 'avent seen all these fliks, so I cant really pick a Fave. I suppose out of the ones that i HAVE seen my favorite would be "Robot Monster".

Peter Johnson at least 5 of these films can be seen in their entirety on Youtube. They have no excuse. They must pass through the fires of truely bad(good) movies. It's an initiation process. There are different degrees that can be obtained here at badmovies.org.

• Grand Master
• Master
• Teacher
• Advanced Student
• Novice

Plan 9 has to be it. The question I have about it is, how did Ed Wood get that Baptist church to fund it?

If you read "Nightmare of Ecstasy", it seems to have been a combination of Wood selling the film to the Baptists as some kind of "end-time/repentance warning" movie, and promising the church elders parts in the film -- You see them as the gravediggers and at Lugosi's funeral --
peter johnson/denny crane

How can you leave out "The Creeping Terror" ?  What could possibly be more entertaining than watching someone fall down and wait for a guy with a carpet over him try to catch up.  And then there's the "sound track".  It's hard to find production quality like that nowadays.

Quote from: Derf on November 11, 2006, 12:21:57 PM
I'll have to go with Robot Monster, if just for the whole guy-in-a-gorilla-suit-with-a-deep-sea-diving-helmet-and-Lawrence-Welk-Bubble-Machine/Radio vibe. Also, for its connection with The Beverly Hillbillies (Ro-man also played the gorilla that appeared on several Hillbillies episodes).

Yeah, I agree.  Robot Monster is the Citizen Kane of "guy-in-a-gorilla-suit-with-a-deep-sea-diving-helmet-and-Lawrence-Welk-Bubble-Machine/Radio" movies, without a doubt.

I went with The Brain That Woudn't die.

Bride of the Monster for sure. It's perfect 50's z-grade cheese.

Plan 9, then Manos, then Robot Monster

I think Plan 9 From Outer Space owns them all!!!  :bouncegiggle:

Plan 9

More of a Manos fan.

-Jimmybob

Voted for Robot Monster but honestly on another day I might well have voted for Beast From Yucca Flats, Plan 9 or The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

I see this thread has been revived from  4 years ago!  What?  No love for "They Saved Hitler's Brain"??  I'm ticking the box just so it gets a vote - Really, has everyone seen this?
peter johnson/denny crane

i realized after it was a poll, but i thought it was a general question

so i think "Zombies of the Stratosphere" because it is so serious about such silly things

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDttSKY2zqE

i mean i could have said "barbarella" wink wink

Voted Plan 9 because it pretty much defines the genre. I think we all have seen the movie once.