Plan 9 From Outer Space opens with a grand orchestral score, as the camera zooms in on an announcer, whose powerful and evocative lines "Remember my friends, future events such as these...will affect you in the future" resonate through the audience's minds. He then promises the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable, the very conventions of horror that the audience has rushed out to see. He then reveals that the following has been the testimony of survivors of this ordeal, providing the audience with the the knowledge that the horror about to unfold is based on facts, not fiction. His epic speech culminates a flash of lightning that signals the opening credits.