Copies of the original 35mm film reel are extremely rare with only twenty copies known to exist.She insisted that her character be mute as she disliked all of the lines written by Wood for her. Nurmi played the Vampira character as TV's first horror host, appearing in her own show from 1954.In fact, they objected to the film's original name Grave Robbers From Outer Space and successfully forced Wood to change the name. The film was funded by a Baptist church with several members acting as executive producers or even appearing in the film.It has since been retrospectively described as 'the epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema' and has gained a large cult following. Wood and his film were posthumously given two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Director Ever and Worst Film. Plan 9 from Outer Space played on television in relative obscurity until 1980, when authors Harry Medved and Michael Medved dubbed it the 'worst film ever made' in their book The Golden Turkey Awards. The film was originally developed under the title Grave Robbers from Outer Space, but its financial backers objected to this title, considering it sacrilegious, and it was retitled Plan 9 from Outer Space prior to production. By causing chaos, the aliens hope the crisis will force humanity to listen to them otherwise the aliens will destroy mankind with armies of the undead. The aliens implement 'Plan 9', a scheme to resurrect the Earth's dead, referred to as 'ghouls'. The film's storyline concerns extraterrestrials who seek to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe. Plan 9 from Outer Space was theatrically released in 1959 by Distributors Corporation of America, which, at the time, was known as Valiant Pictures. Other guest-stars are Hollywood veterans Lyle Talbot, who claimed that he never refused any acting job, and former cowboy star Tom Keene. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi as a guest-star (silent footage of the actor had been shot by Wood for another, unfinished film just prior to Lugosi's death in August 1956). It stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and 'Vampira' (Maila Nurmi) and is narrated by Criswell.

Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 independently made American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood.

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