Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958): This is probably where I should have chosen "The 400 Blows." But Ed Wood's low-budget sci-fi schlockfest is universally considered the worst film ever made -- and that makes it kind of awesome in its own way. A classic within the director's ignominious canon, "Plan 9" is a marvel of shoddy effects, continuity errors, bad writing and worse acting -- and Bela Lugosi's in it, even though he didn't exactly intend to ... more 

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958): This is probably where I should have chosen "The 400 Blows." But Ed Wood's low-budget sci-fi schlockfest is universally considered the worst film ever made -- and that makes it kind of awesome in its own way. A classic within the director's ignominious canon, "Plan 9" is a marvel of shoddy effects, continuity errors, bad writing and worse acting -- and Bela Lugosi's in it, even though he didn't exactly intend to be. But it's delightfully awful, giddily so, especially as depicted in Tim Burton's sorta-true biopic "Ed Wood," starring Johnny Depp as the oddball director. The plot? Something to do with angry aliens mobilizing the dead to take over the planet. Just sit back and enjoy the UFOs dangling from visible wires. less