Plan 9 from Outer Space Blu-ray

The British Film Institute has provided complete details for its upcoming Blu-ray release of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 19.

Description: Controversially voted 'the worst film ever made', Edward D. Wood Jr's micro-budget 1950s sci-fi epic Plan 9 From Outer Space continues to delight fans and confound critics. On 19 October the BFI brings it to Blu-ray, newly remastered using 4K scans. Stacked extras include both a new and an archival audio commentary and much more.

For this strange story of alien invaders in flimsy flying saucers on a muddled-up mission to resurrect earth's dead, Wood juxtaposed pre-existing footage of his idol, the recently deceased Bela Lugosi, with new scenes featuring business associates, Hollywood has-beens and hangers-on. Amidst a claustrophobic cemetery set, crammed with cardboard tombstones, Plan 9 occupies a unique cinematic dream-realm where ineptitude and inspiration collide; where conventional criticism, time, space and logic no longer rule supreme. Can you prove it didn't happen?

Also included is Bride of the Monster, making its worldwide Blu-ray debut. Lovingly written by Wood for Lugosi, it immortalises the screen's master of menace – who usefully remained alive throughout production – in his last great performance as haunted, homeless genius Dr Eric Vornoff. Adrift and forsaken in a jungle hell, he's on an ungodly mission to create atomic superbeings – throwing anybody who gets in the way to his awful octopus.

Special features and Technical Specs:

• NEW 4K RESTORATIONS OF BOTH FEATURES BY BFI using 4K scans from 35mm Fine Grain Duplicating Positives
• Plan 9 From Outer Space presented in 1.85:1 and 1.37:1 ratios
• New audio commentary on Plan 9 From Outer Space by writer Ken Hollings and the BFI's Vic Pratt
• Archive audio commentary on Plan 9 From Outer Space by filmmakers David DeCoteau and Ted Newsom
• Criswell Predicts 2026 (2026, 11 mins): Ken Hollings celebrates Wood's masterwork in this video essay
• Mark Kermode on Plan 9 (2026, 4 mins): the critic introduces the film
• Out of Step: Other Worlds Are Watching Us (1957, 13 mins): journalist Daniel Farson investigates the British saucer flap in this groundbreaking Rediffusion television show
• Kadoyng (Ian Shand, 1972, 60 mins): another space visitor plans to sort out stupid humans in 1970s England, in this fab Children's Film Foundation feature
• All About Ed: Archive interviews with family and friends (2011, 96 mins total): interviews with Wood's entourage
• Bela Lugosi leaves the sanitarium (1955, 5 mins): the master of horror chats to reporters following his rehabilitation
• New audio commentary on Bride of the Monster by the BFI's William Fowler and Vic Pratt
• Archive audio commentary on Bride of the Monster by filmmakers David DeCoteau and Ted Newsom
• White Lite (1968, 3 mins): far-out film homage to Bride of the Monster by artist Jeff Keen
• Theatrical trailers
• Image galleries
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• First Pressing Only: Illustrated booklet featuring new writing by Will Sloan, Jaye Hudson, Mark Pilkington, Vic Pratt, William Fowler, Jane Giles and Jan Manthey