Plan 9 From Outer Space - Yes, it's so bad it's good

It's fair to say that 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' is a bad movie.  If you go into it expecting anything besides bad acting, bad special effects and a storyline that doesn't really make much sense, then you're simply going to wonder why this film is talked about so much.

It's about an alien invasion where the flying saucers don't simply arrive and nuke the White House, but instead decide to use the bodies of recently deceased humans against us.  And it's up to a pilot, a cop and some other random 'heroes' to save the day and defeat the aliens and the wires their ships are 'flown' on.

If you scour the internet for lists of 'the worst movies ever made' or similar trivia, 'Plan 9' will most likely be up there.  And, because of its seemingly never-ending negative reputation, it's developed a sort of cult following where people watch it to laugh and experience just how bad it really is.

And it is pretty bad.  The 'acting' if often carried out by people who aren't actually actors.  The sets sometimes wobble when actors pass by.  As I've mentioned the flying saucers are simply hung by strings in front of pictures of cities etc.  And the plot just kind of wanders from one scene to the next with little in the way of a plot or story to string it together.

But, whereas there are films that are just bad and you feel like you've wasted your time and got nothing out of the experience, this one will give you some small satisfaction - just make sure you know what you're in for.  It may not be how the creator (Ed Wood) actually envisaged it (he genuinely thought it was going to be an epic and scary sci-fi masterpiece - bless him), but it deserves to be watched at least once to be believed.

6/10 Should probably keep you awake if Freddy Krueger was haunting your nights