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George Johnson
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"Salvatore" <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> wrote in message
news:kdsb8j$3109$1@yojimbo.hack...
> On 2013-01-04, Joseph Nebus <nebusj-@-rpi-.edu> wrote:
>> "Curse you, Don Tickles, Notary Public!"
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>> It's a rerun, but if you hadn't seen it before, that's at
>> least as good. They're reshowing _Plan 9 From Outer Space_ the week
>> after that, too.
>>
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> I haven't seen _Plan 9 From Outer Space_, so I may just skip the _Manos_
> premiere and wait a week.
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> Blah blah bleh...
> GCS/CM d(-)@>-- s+:- !a C++$ UBL++++$ L+$ W+++$ w M++ Y++ b++
Well, if you want to look at "PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE" in a far more
enlightened mindset.
PLAN 9 was the first serious ZOMBIE MOVIE.
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"Plan 9 from Outer Space" (originally titled "Grave Robbers from Outer
Space") (1959)
The plot of the film involves extraterrestrial beings who are seeking to
stop humans from creating a doomsday weapon that would destroy the universe.
In the course of doing so, the aliens implement "Plan 9", a scheme to
resurrect Earth's dead as what modern audiences would consider zombies
(called "ghouls" in the film itself) to get the planet's attention, causing
chaos.
In San Fernando, California, two gravediggers are filling the grave of
the young wife of an unnamed old man. Hearing a strange noise, they decide
to leave the cemetery but are attacked and killed by the resurrected corpse
of the young woman. Meanwhile, in the skies nearby, a pilot named Jeff Trent
and his co-pilot Danny encounter a flying saucer.
Absorbed in his grief over his wife's death, the old man walks into the path
of an oncoming automobile. At his funeral, mourners discover the bodies of
the gravediggers. Inspector Daniel Clay and other police officers come to
the cemetery to investigate. While searching the graveyard, Clay encounters
the female zombie, now joined by the reanimated corpse of the old man, and
is killed.
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In short, what is the plot of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead"
(1968)?
Radio reports explain that a state of mass murder is sweeping across the
East Coast of the United States. When Ben finds a television, the emergency
broadcaster reports that the recently deceased have become reanimated and
are consuming the flesh of the living. Experts, scientists, and the United
States military do not know the cause, though one scientist suspects
radioactive contamination from a space probe returning from Venus that
exploded in the Earth's atmosphere.
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One movie led fairly directly to the other. In fact you could logically
consider "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) as a SEQUEL to
"Plan 9 from Outer Space" (originally titled "Grave Robbers from Outer
Space") (1959). Except "Night of the Living Dead" was a far-too-successful
implementation of the "Reactivate the undead plan". In this case, PLAN 9
tells the backstory of what caused the dead to rise from their inert state
to consume the flesh of the living. Extending the thought, when the villain
of PLAN 9 died, the plan continued, the reanimated dead continued to infect
the living plus reanimate the dead and the radiation of the UFO from PLAN 9
continued to orbit the planet reanimating the recently dead by that method
as well.
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE the original "Zombies Devour the World" movie
with "Night of the Living Dead" merely the logical continuation of PLAN 9
after the masterminds of the plan died (and logically were reanimated to
become instinct-driven thoughtless human-flesh-devouring zombies). The ship
in PLAN 9 went boom at the end of the movie, but did not necessarily stop
emitting the "reanimate the recently dead" radiation which caused "Night of
the Living Dead" (and all the sequel branch out movies to that keystone
movie) thereafter.
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