Movie Friends Michelle Rubinstein and Seth Vargas on the Strange Legacy of Ed Wood

Podcast: Make Me A Nerd with Mandy Kaplan · TruStory FM

Opublikowano: 2026-04-06

Here is a fun fact about the worst movie ever made: it was declared the worst movie ever made by people who hadn’t seen it. In 1980, the Medved brothers published The Golden Turkey Awards, a book crowning Plan 9 from Outer Space as cinema’s all-time nadir — a designation selected, in part, by a 16-year-old. The book was a hit. The label stuck. And for decades, that’s how Ed Wood got remembered: not as someone who made movies, but as a cautionary tale about making them badly.The thing is, when you actually sit down and watch Plan 9 — with its styrof...