Claim: Bela Lugosi is an actor.

Plan 9 from Outer Space -LRB- originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space -RRB- is a 1959 American independent black and white science fiction-horror film , written , produced , directed , and edited by Ed Wood , that stars Gregory Walcott , Mona McKinnon , Tor Johnson , and Vampira . The film also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi as a star -LRB- silent footage of the actor had actually been shot by Wood for another , unfinished film just prior to Lugosi 's death in August 1956 -RRB- . Plan 9 from Outer Space was released theatrically in 1959 by Distributors Corporation of America -LRB- as Valiant Pictures -RRB- .   The storyline concerns extraterrestrials who are seeking to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe . The aliens implement `` Plan 9 '' , a scheme to resurrect the Earth 's dead , referred to as `` ghouls '' . By causing chaos , the aliens hope the crisis will force humanity to listen to them . If not , the aliens will then destroy mankind with armies of the undead .   Plan 9 from Outer Space played on television in relative obscurity until 1980 , when authors Harry and Michael Medved dubbed the film the `` worst movie ever made '' in their book The Golden Turkey Awards . Wood and his film were posthumously given two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Director Ever and Worst Film .