Prepare for 50s B-movie fun. Bring your lawnchairs to the Sundridge, Strong, Joly Arena on Friday, August 14 for an outdoor double feature of Robot Monster and the Ed Wood classic, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

That's right. Two of the most hilariously bad movies of the 1950s will be screened under the stars as part of the Sunflower Festival. Both are well-known to afficionados of classic 50s sci-fi, and what they lack in technical prowess, writing, coherence, continuity and special effects, they more than make up for in nostagia, unintended humour and the kind of pure fun audiences enjoyed in the days when science fiction didn't necessarily need to get the science right.

Robot Monster is a post-apocalyptic tale of human resistance to an alien invader made by combining a gorilla suit with a space helmet. Beware his deadly bubble machine!

Plan 9 has been called the worst movie ever made, but that hardly fits a fun movie about aliens raising a zombie army of Tor Johnson, Vampira and a chiropractor pretending to be Bela Lugosi, who died for real before filming was completed. Worth seeing just for the wobbly spaceships hanging from visible strings.