When Medved and his brother published a follow-up in 1980, The Golden Turkey Awards, Plan 9 went straight to number one. It was barely seen in cinemas after its premiere in Los Angeles in 1957, but once it began being shown on late-night television in 1961, insomniac viewers noticed that this was no ordinary B-movie – or indeed C-, D-, or E-movie. Written, directed and produced by Edward D Wood Jr, better known as Ed Wood, the film is a cheap science-fiction/horror hybrid about aliens who zoom across the US in flying saucers, reviving the corpses in a small-town graveyard. The sci-fi that predicted modern crises One name was scrawled on nearly 400 of these ballots: Plan 9 from Outer Space. At the back of the book, they included a suggestions page that readers were invited to fill in and post to them. It celebrated such crimes against cinema as Valley of the Dolls and Robot Monster (also The Omen, which seems a bit harsh), but its authors, Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss, knew that there was plenty more dreck where that came from. In 1978, a book called The Fifty Worst Films of All Time was published.
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