Reader: Plan 9 From Outer Space Is a Movie for Hipster Wannabe Geeks

A nice, snowy Saturday is the perfect time to watch a goofy, geeky sci fi movie. Cory Casciato recently listed The Five Most Important 1950s Geek Films in the latest installment of his Geekology 101. But one reader takes issue with the inclusion of Plan 9 From Outer Space. Says Andrew: Plan...

By Westword Staff

March 27, 2016

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A nice snowy Saturday is the perfect time to watch a goofy, geeky sci-fi movie. Cory Casciato recently listed The Five Most Important 1950s Geek Films in the latest installment of his Geekology 101. But one reader takes issue with the inclusion of Plan 9 From Outer Space. Says Andrew:

Plan 9 is a movie for hipster wannabe geeks who don't really like science fiction or fantasy and just see it as something to mock and sneer at. Better choices for the list: The Thing From Another World; The Incredible Shrinking Man; either of Jack Arnold's 3-D masterpieces, Creature From the Black Lagoon or It Came From Outer Space; War of the Worlds; 7th Voyage of Sinbad.

What's your favorite sci-fi movie? Read the Geekology 101 list here.

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