Daily Dialogue — October 17, 2018

“Greetings, my friend! We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable; that is why you are here. And now for the first time we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimonies of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places, my friend, we can not keep this a secret any longer; let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about the grave robbers from outer space?”

— Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), written by Edward D. Wood Jr.

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Opening Lines.

Trivia: Funded by a Baptist church. Several members of the cast let themselves be baptized.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The opening lines from Plan 9 are delivered by The Amazing Criswell known for his spectacularly wrong predictions about the future. His appearance here sets the tone for the campy quality of the movie