Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Perhaps the worst B- Movie ever made. Legendarily bad filmmaker Ed Wood’s masterpiece, featuring aliens who bring the dead back to life in order to wipe out the human race, this film is like three science fiction films all rolled into one, presuming that the rolling process was very damaging to the plot, acting, directing, script, editing, and cinematography.
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
A highly plausible film in which a man survives a nuclear missile blast, with only the minor side effects of becoming uglier, losing around 100 IQ points, and developing an inexplicable desire to go on a murderous rampage, which is a reasonable description of the effect watching this film will have on you. As well as the pioneering technique of not showing the characters’ faces as they are talking, the film is notable for the least convincing strangulation ever captured on film, and the most gratuitous inclusion of a shower scene with no relevance to the plot.
Manos: Hands of Fate (1966)
Fertilizer salesman Hal Warren made this film for a bet, and unsurprisingly, didn’t make enough money from it to retire. In fact it made him so poor that The Master’s Doberman was one of the only actors to get paid (in dog food), which accurately reflects the quality of the others. The dog later said, while casually licking his privates, that being in the film was one of the most embarrassing things he’d ever done.
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