There are movies that we lovingly declare to be among the worst of all time, ranging from the works of Edward D. Wood Jr. (Plan 9 from Outer Space) to the filmography of Uwe Boll (Alone in the Dark) ...

But they weren’t all winners. In fact, quite a few ’50s monster movies were extremely rough around the edges. But, of those lesser films, some of them continue to hold a compulsively watchable charm.