Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I rented this movie years ago, and I HATED IT!!!! It feels like a shitty student film (a MIDDLE SCHOOL student) that accidentally got left on the store shelves. I can't find a single person who could try to justify this THING but I'm sure that somebody has to receive serious penance for this. Don't waste your time or money on this like I did.

and by that I mean that The Raven is the most insultingly bad adaptation I have ever seen and very worthy of being on my "worst movies ever made list" actually doing the remarkable thing and knocking a Coleman Francis movie off the list. The reason for that is that Coleman Francis is a name movie buffs like to make fun of and he has only directed what? three movies? Whereas this guy manages to have a long career of producing the most pretentious, nonsensical pieces of crap. It seriously PAINS me to see this guy was in cinema for 30 years.So what's the story? Well as opposed to being set in the 1800's it is now set in the modern day. Lenore is the lead singer of a goth pop group (and no, this is not an alias to make her sound more goth, this is her real name) and she often has flashbacks of her grandfather (or... not) reading to her Edgar Allen Poe stories (oh and this is minor but the young Lenore doesn't look ANYTHING like the older one) and she is confronted only just now for some reason by a murdering evil spirit which I think is The Raven, I say this because I still have no clue what this is and apparently for an evil spirit he certainly does drive a lot. Either way Lenore must become the Lenore Edgar Allen Poe wrote about (who is also a Guardian Angel type figure to her) and defeat The Raven.Okay, if you have read the poem then you know this has next to nothing to do with the actual Raven story so I'll skim over that (although I refuse to let this go) and talk about how incompetent a guy with 30 years "experience" and working with prominent German directors has fared out. The editing is so fast in this movie, it flashes bright white lights every 2 minutes, cuts back and forth between power lines (maybe it's symbolism to show that one scene is actually connected to another... I don't know, it's annoying) and the fact that this wasn't edited by just one guy is really surprising. Oh and there are also these flashes of some guy talking with text over it that I really don't know what this has to do with anything... I think I have made my point in saying this has even less significance abut somehow happens more frequently then the use of the line "flags on the moon" in Beast Of Yucca Flats. To talk more technical stuff, every element feels like either a YouTube video from when it first started or some kind of soft core porn.This movie is also very pretentious as you probably may have read above but where it loses me is that even in context nothing makes any sense. Why is it that The Raven only decided to kill everyone she comes into contact with now as opposed to when she was a child? How does The Raven turn invisible yet in the final 10 minutes he is somehow warded off by a karate girl Lenore just happens to be friends with? Why is Edgar Allen Poe writing gibberish watching Lenore sleep and speaking of Lenore sleeping why are there candles all around her bedroom and black roses even if you make the argument that Poe writing that crap was symbolic? What is the significance of the telegraph wires that take up most of this movie's shots? Why is the Raven heavily breathing when it is revealed he's the ghost of someone Lenore killed and if that is the case why is Lenore free to move about instead of... you know, in jail? Why does the Red Death appear in this movie because he contributes absolutely NOTHING to the plot? Why is nobody alarmed when people Lenore starts getting into contact with disappear? At the end why can the karate girl fend off The Raven when he's meant to be invisible? and finally why is Edgar Allen Poe in modern times and if this is art house then why is it a "love conquers all" message when it's basically told to us? All these questions and probably a whole lot more will arise when watching this movie.As I said this is probably the most insultingly pretentious movie I have ever seen in my life. How Ulli Lommel can make a career out of making movies spanning decades and be THIS bad is beyond my comprehension. I would advise if you're an Edgar Allen Poe fan... It would be better to avoid this movie like a toxic waste dump.

What can I say ? Anyone who believes that "Plan Nine From Outer Space" is the worst movie ever made REALLY NEEDS to see this stinkburger. The writing is the essence of stupidity, the acting is an embarrassment, the direction is non-existent, the cinematography, done on disc and never even transferred to film, is horrible.This thing definitely has set an entirely new standard for how terrible a movie can be. As someone who has been an actor for 35 years, and has been a true lover of the medium of movies, and as someone who has seen ALL the bad ones, from "Plan Nine From Outer Space" to "The Undertaker and His Pals" to "Shining Through", I will tell you all that if you see this in a store or in a library STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM IT AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN !!!!! It's so bad that you shouldn't even read the cover !!!!

Many things in life don't make sense. That's what such movies remind us of.The director should at least be applauded for making us realize that many things in life don't make sense, they just happen. Like mistakes happen, but a mistake like making such a movie? This mistake should be punished severely. However on a serious note, if you have watched this movie then you should kill yourself or the director at least! And if you watch this movie after reading all these reviews and don't die of shame, I would kill you myself! :p