Plan 9 from Outer Space w/ Live Re-Score by DJ Cheeba
What
a fantastic way to warm up for the main FrightFest event; admittedly I
have never before this screening seen the Ed Wood 'classic' bad movie
Plan 9, taking the film by itself I didn't really get the appeal that
the films following fan base seem to adore with this shitty sci-if
b-movie, there are some really great highlights especially the comedy
gravedigging duo and the police officers and their incompetence and
laugh out loud dialogue and delivery, but on a whole the film itself has
large portions of lulls and bland bad storytelling. Saying that though
as a complete event the wonderful live performance from DJ Cheeba from
the use of soundscopes to emphasise the Science Fiction and sound design
for the Flying Saucers to the sampling of certain tracks with my
personal highlight being the use of Ready or Not by The Refugees and a
reoccurring theme tune that delivers such great kinetic energy into a
rather lifeless script. In a time where the sampling and re-editing of
films seems to be the most popular way of creating something new with
pre-existing material, this felt like a breath of fresh air that proves
you don't have to mess with the video of a film to create an entirely
new product that provides us with such wonderful entertainment, it's
such a shame that the turnout for this event was so low, that might see
that such events might not be repeated for future FrightFest events.
8/10
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