10 Cult Sci-Fi Alternatives To Star Wars: The Force Awakens You Must Watch

5. The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960)

Tasked with sabotaging the space mission, two cut-rate aliens take over the bodies of Jason Johnson and Katherine Victor during their Sunday drive, causing Johnson to lose control and wreck the car. He loses an arm in the crash, and his attempts to cope with the injury become something of a running joke, though it€™s hard to tell if they were supposed to be. When Victor reattaches the limb, a NASA guard dog undoes her good work and then trots merrily around the compound with the decomposing body part between its jaws, to the understandable surprise of the crew. Not one to cry over spilled milk, Johnson becomes a one-armed sharpshooter, somehow managing to shoot down two rockets with his €œdisruptor rifle€ before the flying pancake he takes orders from tells him to kidnap €œspecimens€ for their return home. If Robot Monster was director Phil Tucker€™s Plan 9 From Outer Space, then The Cape Canaveral Monsters is his Night of the Ghouls, the later, more obscure effort that€™s slightly better done but still likely to amuse fans. Comparisons to Ed Wood are apt as both directors released their respective debuts in the same year, worked with the same people (producer George Weiss, actor Timothy Farrell) and laboured on Plan 9, with Phil giving Ed uncredited editorial assistance.