Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1957 American independent science fiction-horror film produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood. The film was shot in black-and-white in November 1956 and premiered on March 15, 1957 at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles. Retitled Plan 9 from Outer Space, it went into general release in April 1959 in Texas and several other Southern states before being sold to television in 1961.
Theatrical release poster by Tom Jung
Pilot Jeff Trent (Gregory Walcott) confronts the aliens.
The corpse of Inspector Clay (Tor Johnson) attacks Eros (Dudley Manlove).
Plan 9's director, Ed Wood
Edward Davis Wood Jr. was an American filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, and pulp novelist.
Wood in Glen or Glenda (1953)