Originally Posted by
Ravens_cry
I never really liked the idea of a 'deliberately' B-movie, though there is some good ones.
It's the difference between a child's scribble and a well-trained artist emulating a child's scribble. The latter has a certain nudge, nudge, wink, wink oh-look-what-we did-here, quality, while the former, however bad, has a certain earnest badness about it.
Plan 9 From Outer Space is a horrible, terrible film, in almost every way that can possibly described, and yet, and yet you can also tell it was the labour of love of a man with little talent, less budget, but all the gusto and drive of the greatest Hollywood directors of them all.