Fact Attack!

Wood started off using shop-bought balsa models for the flying saucers, but when he ran out of them switched to Cadillac hubcaps.

Vampira’s costume was “worn out”, with “a hole in the crotch”. She was paid $200 – union minimum for a day’s work.

Make-up guy Harry Thomas made extended chin pieces for the aliens, but Wood insisted they couldn’t spare the time to glue them on!

In 1959, Bunny Breckinridge was convicted of “perversion” after taking two boys to Las Vegas, and committed to a mental hospital for a year.