10 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Horror Movies

It takes a special kind of bad movie to be so inept that its making gets chronicled in an Oscar winning film. Tim Burton’s Ed Wood celebrates everything delightfully naff about the titular director, and the centrepiece is this 1959 disaster which remains a synonym for celluloid folly.

The plot, for a low budget feature, is alarmingly complicated. After learning that humanity is building a weapon of world-ending mass destruction, aliens race to Earth to prevent this folly. Their plan to do so? Resurrect recently-dead humans by way of a distraction, hoping that in the aftermath mankind will forget what they were doing before the invasion.

This would be a lot for a competent director to be getting on with. In the hands of Wood and his cast of well meaning but inept performers, it quickly degenerates into gibberish.

Combine this with an always-overwrought script and unbelievably bad special effects and you have an undeniably charming, but unspeakably bad film. This was horror legend Bela Lugosi’s swansong - not the most dignified way to end a career, perhaps, but it certainly looks like a lot of fun.