Plan 9 from Outer Space

Plan 9 from Outer Space is Wood’s most famous film. The plot involves aliens resurrecting the dead to stop humans from creating a weapon that could destroy the universe. The directing and production were notoriously shoddy. Scenes go from daytime to nighttime and back within…

Mildred Pierce (1945) Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Valley of the Dolls (1967) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Mommie Dearest (1981) Dynasty (1981–89)

…of the Monster (1956), and Plan 9 from Outer Space (filmed 1956, released 1959), all now unintentionally hilarious cult favourites. Lugosi was buried, as he wished, wearing the long black cape that he had worn in Dracula.

…Glen or Glenda (1953) and Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), which itself has been called the worst movie ever made. Leonard Maltin deemed this goofy science-fiction debacle, which stars Bela Lugosi, Vampira, and Tor Johnson, “so mesmerizingly awful it actually improves (so to speak) with each viewing.”

…infamous Ed Wood-directed cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) and Invisible Invaders (1959), in which aliens attempt to enslave the dead. By the 1940s zombies had also become a regular feature in comic books and pulp magazines, and it was in these media that they came to be…