Note: I spell like y brain eas eated
Ther Brain Eaters
This is my review on The Brain Eaters from 1958
Its not based on a book The Pupper Masters, but was close enough to be sued by it
its directed by Bruno VeSota who did stuff in The Wasp Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches and was in Bonanza
It stars Ed Nelson (:ike Emma Nelson from Degrassi?) from Teenage Caveman, Joanna Lee from Plan 9 From Outer Space, and Leonard Nimoy from Star Trek when it was good
Its producerd by Roger Corman who's always entertaining
It starts with a narrator saying Riverdalre Illinois was a good place until a few weeks ago
then a guy bumps into another guy, they fight, and this glass thing 1 guy dropped oozes into the sewer
then title and credits with spooky effects of long bug legs
i never saw this b4 btw but some say it s-cked
btw, riverdale? like Archie??
sio then a day later this guy and his future wife were heading to town and stop for some reason and walk for a while
they find plattered cats and a metal cone with a hole in it
2 days later, dda gov looks into aliens and say da cone is 50 feet tall and they can''t figger it oot or bust through it
oh and a few citizens got iced and da gov guys choose to go to to check it out themselves instread of sening dudes to look for em and get iced
and 1 gov gyuy wants to make sure this other guy dont win from ity and wants to disprove the space cone thing
in there the mayors son sez the mayor vanished and others did too and got iced
in town is a guy holding a glowing thing and looking suuspect
the area is sealed off and gov guy gets there and wants to go up the cone to see how it is and get the guys movibg on eamining it
gov guy sez he heard there were markkings that vanished and head science nerd sez its impossible and the cone is indestructable
at night nerd shoots a gun in it but it rebounds a bit and anything they put in, comes back out
1 guy goes in da hole with a gun and crawls around like a centipede through a mans a55 pipes
later its day and neard comes back out and sez its ust tunneling inside
then the mayor reappears and struggles to not blow hios brains out
he puts da gun away as the gov guy and son come up andhe sez he left a message but no one knows of it
mayor wants to exile peope from town but when gov guy sez this is America, the mayor snaps and pulls a gun
nerd sees something on the back of mayors neck and mayor pistol whips a guy, spazzes out, fires at the flooe, cops fire on him, and he spazzes out of the room but gets capped by another cop
they autopsy him and find the thing on his neck was linked to his nevrous system and iit pooped out acid into him when crushed andd it f'd out his neervous system
so if they equip to someeone, it wacks em if they get it off
they say to keep it quiet and 1 cop drives off and finds a body in da road that comes to life and fights him
after beating him out, body annd glowing holding guy b0ne him or something as its offscreen and he comes to but zombified
meanwhile, nerd dissects the thing on the mayor andits got a reflex thing where it moves after being iced
1 piece of thhe thing comees to life and equips onti his arm but he gets it off with a fire burner
then he gets a call from a guy who has a plan and when they go to the place to meet, the roadblock signs are gone as are da guards
jinkies, what a mystery!
at da meeting place by the cone, a guy sez the cone is just a used fuel section of a rokket and the other thing is in spaace or w/w
nerd sez the things are parasites and need to feed off stuff to live
like the symbyote from Spider Man
and they can think and take over people and tried animals b4 but it was f''d
thee gang gets looking for other cone parts and when they call thee cop who got b0ned, he's spaazzing out over his bring controlled as if fighting it
ater not getting an answer from cop, they decide to call for help and call a civil defense drill to cover it to keep da people from going nuts
they decide to split uop in groups to find the other cone parts and meet at city hall
they look all day i think as the sun was up in some shots and its night and nerd finds a guy who was iced and has neck holes and they escape to a cabin
in there da door closes and lox andcatches fire
he busts a window and outside are controlleed guys but he shoots em off and they escape
they reggroup and say the state millita they called didnt getta answer and they find a jar the paraites were in that mayor mccheeze was gonna spread around town
gov guy tells a telegraph guy to give a message to call him but the telegrapph guy is controlled
is this a thing on communism?
how it infects humans and turns em commie into mindless slaves to to bad guys without free will or independant thought?
so then while someones slleeping, glow holder drops a parasitte in this chicks room annd we get a cool POV shot of it going to her
Its Baily Kippers, POV! His actor died of, HIV!
she comes down and drives with the guys
nerd comes up and finds she's been taken over
then they find a guy from a vanished medical thing by the cone and he's got neck holes
it left him cuz his heart is f'd and it didnt wantt him
kinda like with that plot point in species
they tend to him and tie him up as he might go nuts and nerd tallks to cop who gives eccuses for taking off da road blox
in da hospital they grill him and he sez they were from 200 million yeats ago when giant bugs were around
spoiler; the earth is only 6000 so they are probably daemons
so the parasites were from da earth deeop and the missing guy bbbtes it
sp goov guy wonders why the call from da gov didnt come annd he calls the ooperator who sez all lines are busy
they realize that communicationss is under the parasites control like how twitter google and facebook work for the democrats
so nrd and a guy stop by da telegraph place and the tellegraph guy attacks him
i think he punched the telepgraph guy in tthe hot dog
they get out and 1 guy on da radio gives a message to anyoone outisde of riiverdale but we dont hear it
at the cone site they check the recorder they had up thhere to see if anything came and some controlled guys climb up the metal jungle gym they buit and opens fire on em
they return fire and waste em and cap the parasites that were on them
then they enter da cone and find a professor who vanished and is working for the bad guys
hay its spock!!
oh and he's fused with a parasite and wants to take over da surface to force peace at the expence of freedom
so it is communism
oh and is really foggy
to the good guys open fire and the parasites come affter em and they get out and escape to the ravine (the place jay b0ned emmas mouth in degrassi next gen?)
nerd and a guy get a harpoon gun that uses air pressure and uses it to fire a cabe across da ravine and tie it to a tree and over the cone
they are gonna use the harpoon gun to fire a cabel into power lines to zap the cone but the controlled chick is on the jungle gy they built
she's trying to get them to not ice the parasites and she caps nerd but he nails get and holds her as this other guy uses thhe harpoon gun to zap cannon the cone with them by it
they check the cone and all the space monkeys are back in h e double chicago slums and tho=is guy kisses a dark haired chick and they walk off together
the end
that was pretty good
decent 50s sci fi commie movie
good acting and effects
you dont see the parasite and i thought it would be the hopping brains that got blown open by gunfire
its good fullscreen b/w classic and has a good plot that still holds true with the commies rising
i liked it and its only like an hour and doesn't drag
for the brain teaters 2 i want a mission too be sent underground to fight the brain eraters oon their home turf and its armed with power suit mech aermor and various weapons. they fight the parasites and try to wipe em out. its also a 16 bit sega genesis, snes, gba, tg16 atari jaguar beat em up where you pplay as mechs and fight in cav levels in this dantes inferno like la blue girl world.