15 Films So Bad They're Good

6. Teenagers From Outer Space

When a group of youthful, English-speaking ‘Martians’ (named Thor, Moreal, Saul and Derek) arrive in Bronson Canyon in a flying saucepan lid, it’s revealed they intend to use Earth as a breeding ground for their Gargon herd (lobster puppets shown in silhouette), a plan that alarms the hippie-ish Derek. He’s been reading their history and has “learned how it once was….families, brothers and sisters. There was happiness. There was love.”

You see, these Martians are from a race so overdeveloped they’ve lost their humanity, have never known the meaning of family and passionlessly execute each task without question (also, not much acting experience). Switching his allegiances, Derek’s attempt at sounding the alarm brings him into contact with Betty (Dawn Anderson) and her Grandpa (Ed Wood regular Harvey B Dunn), who are so unperturbed by the sight of a bizarrely-garbed young man with no belongings or means of support that they allow him to live with them rent-free, unaware his former colleagues are in lukewarm pursuit.

Strange but true: director Tom Graeff later underwent a nervous breakdown and changed his name to “Jesus Christ II.”