Plan 9 From Outer Space

Last night I was watching the film Plan 9 From Outer Space, directed by Edward D. Wood Jr., and is often described as the worst film of all time (it even says as much on the packaging). The film was released in 1956 and concerns the ninth attempt (the first eight having apparently failed) by a bunch of aliens to take over the world by resurrecting the dead. The film was famous as being the last role by Bela Lugosi, who only appears for a few minutes, and was replaced by a stand-in (Wood's wife's chiropractor) who is notably taller and younger than Lugosi and always has to have his cape drawn up to his nose. The special effects consist of model spaceships (in reality a children's flying saucer model kit) dangling from very obvious strings, and mis-matched stock-footage. The acting is atrocious, the script (which was apparently written in a few hours while Wood was drunk) is laughable, day switches to night at random several times (often inside the same scene), actors trip over the set, the cardboard gravestones fall over, and in one scene one of the zombies almost gets stuck in his grave.
The film has been called "so bad it's good", and author Stephen King described it as "a miserable waste of celluloid". The thing is that the film is funny, and actually quite entertaining. I've seen it about six or seven times now. The Tim Burton film Ed Wood, which stars Johnny Depp as Wood, has a very funny account of the making of this film.

I didn't go along to my parent's house today, as I was there yesterday. I'm just having a fairly quiet day in.