Ed Wood — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

In Its Own Weird, Wonderful Way, Plan 9 From Outer Space Is a Miracle

In honor of Ed Wood’s birthday I am rerunning a piece collected in The Joy of Trash on Plan 9 from Outer Space, his masterpiece.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMay 11, 2023Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi, bad movie culture

1954's Killers From Space is Like Plan 9 From Outer Space Except It Was Directed By Billy Wilder's Talentless Brother

Did you know that Billy Wilder had a brother whose movies fucking sucked? It’s true!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinMay 4, 2023Peter Graves, Ed Wood, Billy Wilder, aliens

The Curious Pre-Cancellation of Jeremy Saville

Loqueesha writer-director-star Jeremy Saville might have joined the ranks of Neil Breen and Tommy Wiseau as an ironically celebrated trash movie auteur if he hadn’t been pre-cancelled for his flagrant racism and sexism.