Plan Nine from Outer Space

Here it is, the Golden Turkey Awards winner of the Worst Film Ever Made, directed by that master of the bad movie, Ed Wood and starring Bela Lugosi, (basically in one scene where he cries – the old boy died during filming) and Ed Wood’s dentist who covers for Lugosi by walking around with his arm up over his face. Also starring are Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, Vampira (Maila Nurmi) and the King of the B’s, Lyle Talbot. The narrator is the Amazing Criswell. Original title is Grave Robbers from Outer Space.

The plot…oh, why bother, it’s basically a bunch of childish nonsense involving aliens, who for some reason are concerned with what goes on down here, who raise the dead in order to prevent a nuclear holocaust, which really makes sense. One terrific scene to look for is where one of the detectives is variously scratching his chin with his loaded pistol and pointing it at his partner to stress a point. The film’s best line is almost Shakespearean in it’s profundity; “Because all you of Earth are idiots!.”