These days, we are spoiled for choice when it comes to bad cinema although whether this is a good thing depends on your taste. Mutant monsters caused by radiation seemed to pop up everywhere from the giant ants in Them! to the grand-daddy of them all, 1954's Godzilla. But aliens weren't the only thing causing fear and panic as the atomic bomb's shadow fell across Hollywood. Classics like Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, The Blob and The War Of The Worldshelped establish several genre clichés that continue to this day. The Fifties were a boom-time for sci-fi with the space race sparking interest in life beyond our atmosphere. Not So Great For: anyone looking for a horror film, the careers of any cast member involved, Tom Mason What Else Should I Watch? Great For: home commentaries, Bad Movie Nights, Wood's unique reputation, sci-fi geeks Together with a moronic script and dialogue that contradicts itself, Plan 9 From Outer Space is a remarkably hard film to follow - which is something considering how easy it should have been. All of the cast deliver lines as though reading them for the first time, the staging is hammy as well as incompetent, the special effects make the use of the word 'special' redundant and Wood's editing is spectacularly ham-fisted - take the shot of police cars speeding through the streets in daylight before arriving at their destination supposedly minutes late in pitch darkness. The film opens with an overly-melodramatic narration from then-popular psychic Criswell who pointlessly informs us that 'future events such as these will affect you in the future' and from there on, it doesn't get much better.

But even this had its moments - at one point, a character's skin turns inexplicably green before turning back again.

The film itself was colourized in 2006 (and was the version I saw) with only minor modifications. Copies of the original 35mm film reel are extremely rare with only twenty copies known to exist.She insisted that her character be mute as she disliked all of the lines written by Wood for her. Nurmi played the Vampira character as TV's first horror host, appearing in her own show from 1954.In fact, they objected to the film's original name Grave Robbers From Outer Space and successfully forced Wood to change the name. The film was funded by a Baptist church with several members acting as executive producers or even appearing in the film.

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