The aliens implement 'Plan 9', a scheme to resurrect the Earth's dead, referred to as ' ghouls'. The film's storyline concerns extraterrestrials who seek to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe. Other guest-stars are Hollywood veterans Lyle Talbot, who claimed that he never refused any acting job, and former cowboy star Tom Keene. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi (silent footage of the actor had been shot by Wood for another, unfinished film prior to Lugosi's death in August 1956, and was inserted into Plan Nine later). The film stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and 'Vampira' ( Maila Nurmi) and is narrated by Criswell. It went into general release on July 22, 1959, in Texas and several other southern states re-titled Plan 9 from Outer Space, before being sold to television in 1961. The film was shot in black-and-white in November 1956 and had a theatrical preview screening on March 15, 1957, at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles (the onscreen title at this time read Grave Robbers from Outer Space).

Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1957 American independent science fiction- horror film produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood.

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