Well no brains actually get eaten in this one. What you do get is some aliens (who instead of coming from outer space tunnel up from inside the earth in a cone-shaped spaceship) that look like fuzzy slippers that enjoy taking over human brains. They take over Leonard Nimoy(misspelled as Nemoy in the credits) and use him as an interpreter to explain their dastardly plan. There's lots of zombie-fied people lurking about and goofy monster action that kinda reminds me of that stupid 80's CRITTERS movie. Not the best 50's creature feature but I guess if you've seen all the other ones and you hunger for more check it out.
Often paired up with this other 50's monster flick:
Maybe it's just me, but I was really disappointed with the production values on The Brain Eaters. The fluffy invaders just don't do it for me. Good premise, just lacking in execution.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there was clearly not a lot of money spent on this. Could have been a lot better.
DeleteRobert A.Heinlein sued them for stealing concepts from his 1951 novel "The Puppet Masters" and won. This proves it has some merit, even if stolen.
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