Mourners at his funeral discover the gravediggers' corpses. Lost in grief, the old man is struck and killed by a car near his home. They look outside and see a flying saucer land at the cemetery, where two gravediggers are killed by a female ghoul. Pilot Jeff Trent and co-pilot Danny are startled by a bright light, accompanied by a loud noise. Mourners gather around an old man at his wife's grave site as an airliner overhead flies toward Burbank, California. Plan 9 from Outer Space, full film runtime 01:19:03 It has since been called "the epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema" and gained a large cult following. Wood and his film were posthumously given two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Director Ever and Worst Film Ever. Plan 9 from Outer Space played on television in relative obscurity from 1961 until 1980, when authors Harry Medved and Michael Medved dubbed it the " worst film ever made" in their book The Golden Turkey Awards. By causing chaos, the aliens hope the crisis will force humanity to listen to them otherwise, the aliens will destroy mankind with armies of undead. The aliens implement "Plan 9", a scheme to resurrect the Earth's dead. The film's storyline concerns extraterrestrials who seek to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe. Other guest stars are Hollywood veterans Lyle Talbot, who said he never refused an acting job, and former cowboy star Tom Keene. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi (before Lugosi's death in August 1956, Wood had shot silent footage of Lugosi for another, unfinished film, which was inserted into Plan 9). The film stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and "Vampira" ( Maila Nurmi) and is narrated by Criswell. Retitled Plan 9 from Outer Space, it went into general release on July 22, 1959, in Texas and several other southern states before being sold to television in 1961.
The film was shot in black-and-white in November 1956 and had a test screening on March 15, 1957, at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles under the title Grave Robbers from Outer Space.
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 American independent science fiction- horror film produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood.
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