Though criticized as being the worst film ever made, maverick Hollywood director Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) constitutes a dream text that provides insight into the political unconscious of American culture in the decades following World War Two. This chapter traces the dream-logic of Wood’s film, arguing that it responds to biopolitical violence related to America’s use of atomic weapons against Japan in 1945—realities that, due to protracted US censorship, had only recently started to come to public attention at the time the film was being made. As a key text illustrating the transition from older, Voodoo-inspired zombies of 1930s horror cinema to the modern, viral zombie, my analysis of Wood’s film helps us understand the historical circumstances that contributed to the emergence of one of the novel monsters of the late twentieth century.