RE PLan 9:
That has been called “the worst movie of all time” in every place I’ve seen the title mentioned.
I remember it from Saturday Afternoon Chiller Theater on UHF stations...
Yeah, Bela Lugosi went from the horror icon Dracula down to a mere caricature. A shame...I believe he was actually buried in his Dracula costume because he loved that role so much.
As for Joan Collins taking her clothes off...well...
Nice rack...back in the day!!! (couldn’t resist)....
That was a Edward D. Wood, Jr. movie. His fame was making the worst lowest budget camp movies of all time, great to watch with friends in college when you are drinking.
Bella died before finished his scenes in Plan 9 so a stand-in walked around with a cape covering his face to fill in the movie. Add you can see the strings holding up the paper plate flying saucers.
Wood also hired Legosi to play in Bride of the Monster and in the final scene he falls onto a huge rubber Octopus that doesn't move and he screams "AHHHH", it's a classic camp film. By then Bella was addicted to pills or drugs.
Legosi’s most famous known role was Dracula in Abbott and Costello meet Frankstein 1948. That also starred Lon Cheney JR, another famous Monster actor who later fell on hard times. Karloff on the other hand always had a good career, his was the voice in the 1960s cartoon "How the Ginch Stole..." .