Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958)

Plan 9 From Outer Space by director, Ed Wood, is infamous for arguably being the worst movie ever made.  Most film noir movies seem pretty bad or cheesy compared to today's technologically advanced movies, but even by 1958's standards, the film was a beloved disaster for multiple reasons.

Here, when the flying saucers are invading the planet, the editing and effects are very weak.  The long shot of the "sky" is on the screen for a very long time as sounds of gunshots are heard.  The camera remains static and so do the saucers, making for an uninteresting shot.

In this scene, the director chose to shoot it all in a single long shot.  Again, the camera adds little to nothing to this potentially terrifying scene.  The only interesting parts are when the camera goes to a medium shot on the alien and undead on the left, then cuts to the aliens on the right.  I think this could have been enhanced by unexpected shots and angles, such as exteme close ups, canted angles, and low angles.

The use of space and mise-en-sene were not taken full advantage of.  This scene, for example, could have been made a lot creepier if the space wasn't so vast and bright.  The sense of fear in cinema is most often achieved by having trapped places or if the place is open, it should not be well lit at all.  The graveyard could have benefitted by having something more than just two crosses.  A few tombstones would be nice, or even a mausoleum.  There was a small mausoleum in the film, but it wasn't very well built.  It looked too tiny and like it was made of cardboard.
Bad acting, story-telling, and set aside, I liked this movie because it's so bad that it's good.  It did it's job to remind us that Horror/Sci-Fi films can be fun and ridiculous if you ignore all the rules of good cinema.