Showing posts with label PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2025

VAMPIRA IN COLOR


Pre-orders are now being taken at MONSTERS IN MOTION for the Vampira "Color Version" action figure from Executive Replicas. The figure stands about 12" tall and comes with various accessories.


Vampira Color Version 1/6 Scale Figure with Couch
Pre-order price: $349.95

From the Bleeding-Heart of Hollywood comes Vampira! You’ve never met Vampira… but you will. She’s been waiting for you for a long time. Perhaps you’ll run into her in one of those dreams that leave you icy. Still, if you’re lucky, you’ll see her appear at the stroke of midnight. Vampira is the ghoul that men are dying to meet.

She’s magnificent, exotic, a somewhat macabre slice of womanhood. She’s the girl who looks thrilling in a form-fitting shroud, a devil-doll who has werewolves panting at her door.

She’s also a girl with a mission – a midnight mission, if you’ll pardon me saying so. She’d like you to visit her in her attic playroom… a delightfully intimate place where cobwebs take the place of chiffon curtains and bats flutter restlessly in gilded cages. If the cocktail table happens to be a tombstone – so what? Vampira pours a drink that is out of this world. And that’s exactly where a few sips may take you.

The Vampira Show 1954
The Vampira show began on April 30, 1954. The T.V. cameras would broadcast those opening moments live to an unsuspecting audience. Flickering lights dim as a wasplike silhouette appears from a misty corridor. The advancing shadowy figure materializes, as it takes the form of a woman. Nearing the camera, she raises her talons and drags them through her raven black hair. And then she screams… loudly! She quickly composes herself and addresses the camera in an old Hollywood tone, “Good Evening,” she says… “I am… Vampira.”

Los Angeles tuned in weekly to watch Vampira bathe in a cauldron, share ghoulish cocktail recipes (“one jigger formaldehyde, two jiggers vulture blood, garnish with an eyeball”), and caress her pet spider Rollo.

Plan 9 From Outer Space Featuring Vampira “The Ghoul”
Vampira plays Bela Lugosi’s deceased spouse in the Ed Wood 1957 classic, Plan 9 From Outer Space. The film starts with narrator Criswell stating, “You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here.” Within the first 10 minutes Vampira kills two gravediggers and goes on a terror spree with her bald sidekick inspector Clay (Tor Johnson). Over the years Plan 9 has been considered to be the epitome of “so-bad-it’s-good” vintage cinema.




PRODUCT LIST
Heads:
  • One (1) Portrait with Normal Expression with Rooted Hair
  • One (1) Portrait with Screaming Expression with Rooted Hair
Body:
  • One (1) Seamless Body with Metal Skeleton and Over 30 Points of Articulation
  • Hands:
  • One (1) Pair of Open Hands
  • One (1) Pair of Horror Hands
Costume:
  • One (1) Black Dress
  • One (1) Belt
  • One (1) Pair of High Heels
Accessories:
  • One (1) Ring
  • One (1) Cigarette with Holder
  • One (1) Candle Stand (Polyresin)
  • One (1) Couch (Polyresin)

Saturday, May 14, 2022

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE


PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
One-shot (Official comics adaptation)
1990 (No month)
Malibu Graphics
Editor: Chris Ulm
Script: John Wooley
Art: Stan Timmons; Bruce McCorkindale
Lettering: Pat Brousseau
Cover: Madman
Pages: 60
Cover price: $4.95

Often said to be "the worst movie of all time", I beg to disagree. I got through PLAN 9, and while it was a bit of an effort, I have watched other horror films that were so bad I turned them off well before finishing them. Nevertheless, PLAN 9 has gotten a bad rap, and truthfully, it's largely well-deserved. But how can you deny that Ed Wood slapped together an ensemble cast of cult actors and Bela Lugosi in his last role as the "Ghoul Man" that made the film somehow watchable?