Film Forum

U.S., 1959
Directed by Ed Wood
Starring Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson
Approx. 79 min. 16mm print courtesy Harvard Film Archive.

Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Tor Johnson, a chiropractor in a cloak, washed-up cowboy actors, movie-crazy Baptists and The Amazing Criswell star in this tale of earth’s invasion by flying hubcaps and paper plates. Wood’s CITIZEN KANE, the picture he proudly called his ‘little gem’, is now widely considered the worst movie ever made.

Reviews

“SUBLIME ABSURDITY! [Wood] had the imaginative intensity of an artist with none of the craft, the dreams without the taste; he’s an auteur despite himself.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Unusually creative and oddly expressive.”
– Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader