10 Absolutely Terrible B-Movies That Have Become Cult Classics

Well before the likes of Tommy Wiseau and Neil Breen, there was Ed Wood. Perhaps the most prolific bad movie director of all time, Wood was responsible for a multitude of low budget embarrassments, many of which could have made this list. The likes of Glen or Glenda and The Sinister Urge are a couple of Wood's more memorable flicks, but Plan 9 from Outer Space is his best-known work.

Produced, directed, and written by Wood, the film starred veteran horror movie legend Bela Lugosi in what would tragically be his final role and follows an utterly bizarre storyline in which aliens resurrect zombies to stop mankind destroying the universe.

Dozens of very simple mistakes can be spotted throughout the movie from visible on-screen microphones to one actor actually reading directly from a script in his lap and some scenes randomly skipping from day to night and back again. The opening scene in which the narrator states that "Future events such as these will affect you in the future" also became one of the film's most unintentionally hilarious and beloved lines.

The calamitous special effects and bizarre dialogue helped to endear the film to a cult audience over the years, especially after radio host and film critic Michael Medved called it the worst movie ever made, and Ed Wood went down in history as one of the strangest directors of all time, even getting his own biopic directed by Tim Burton.