The Atomic Brain

Starring:Marjorie Eaton, Frank Gerstle, Frank Fowler, Erika Peters, Judy Bamber, Lisa Lang, Xerxes (III), Margie Fisco, Bradford Dillman
Director: Joseph V. Mascelli
Studio: St Clair Vision
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2 greats and 1 skinflick

The Atomic Brain/Love After Death/The Incredible Petrified World
Starring: Marjorie Eaton , Frank Gerstle , Frank Fowler , Erika Peters , and Judy Bamber
Director: Joseph V. Mascelli , and Glauco Del Mar
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ASIN: B0000AKY4Z
Release Date: 2003-09-16

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2 greats and 1 skinflick.......2003-10-03

Okay, I'll assume that if you're here you already know somewhat of what you're in for. These are two Chiller Theatre reguars (perhaps I'll take this as an apology for what went on with the K. Gordon Murray collection...I want my Brainiac!) with an extremely oddball 1968 latin skinflick thrown in, which is actually a grade lower than "Curious Dr. Humph". Alpha offers 2 of these films but you know you're getting more bang for your buck here, no offense Alpha. With "Monstrosity" 3 girls are used as pawns by a body seeking crone and the doctor who is assisting her. Everything but the kitchen sink is in here, not bad for a flick that takes place in 4 rooms of a mansion. Atmosphere, bad acting and general insanity abound. The Spanish maid gets a cat brain and winds up on the roof just above the dogman - and here I thought we would have a good fight. Well, whatever... Mix the special effects of Hypnotic Eye with the good time cheese of Spider Baby, and this is what bubbles out. Next up we have "Love After Death", what looks to me to be a South American skinflick from 1968. Best special effect is the drag queen. Oh, and check out the miscasting of the dead guy's wife. Her, a virgin? Yeh; she's as pure as the driven snow... after it's been driven over a couple hundred times. Seems that her impotent man turns into a dynamo after he's buried- this guy rises from the grave in more ways than one!! But anyay, it looks like it was filmed in New Jersey for six bucks (check out the castle and you'll see what I mean. Can't find a castle, borrow a museum... (see Unhinged for more on that one. Nice little shock ending there, and actually was a fun little time spender. On to "Incredible Petrified World" another Chiller Theatre classic- just scanned through it as I have VHS from Sinister Cinema and have seen it a billion times. All I have to say is: see it for the lava. Pour whiskey on a cowpat and light, I guess...Gotta love this film. Also included are a slew of trailers and some great new music from Something Weird favorites The Dead Elvi. (If anyone reads this who can do something about it, how about an album or two on this website, it'd be much appreciated).

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Atomic Brain (Monstrosity)

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And they say 'Robot Monster' is bad????
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Mrs. March pussyfoots around
Monstrosity, The Atomic Bore
the best example of movies of its kind

Monstrosity: The Atomic Brain
Starring: Judy Bamber , Marjorie Eaton , Margie Fisco , Frank Fowler , and Frank Gerstle
Director: Joseph Mascelli
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ASIN: B00008J2GU
Release Date: 2003-04-15

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And they say 'Robot Monster' is bad????.......2007-05-11

Oh where do I begin with this one? The plot is pretty good. An ugly old lady wants to be young again. She foots the bill for a scientist to live in her basement and conduct experiments on brain transfer. Three young ladies are hired as housewives, and the old woman will choose who she wants to become. Personally I like the blond who says "I have the same measurements as Marilyn Monroe!" There is some double crossing and the old lady brain is transferred into the body of a house cat.

You think this sounds pretty good huh? A quaint old movie to watch on a rainy Saturday? Guess again. First of all the picture quality is terrible. The film is so grainy, you would think they filmed this with oatmeal on the camera lense. The acting isn't too bad, but the lines they are forced to regurgitate are inane. And why does this movie move so slow at times? DO we really need to watch the old lady walk down the stairs, down to the basement, and then back up again? Couldn't they just film part of this long journey and we can ASSUME she walked the whole way?

I love old movies, I love bad movies. I really love old, bad movies. But it will be a long time before I revisit this lost cinema gem.

ALPHA DVD VERSION.......2006-12-01

PURRRRFECTLY HORRIBLE...3 YOUNG GIRLS ARE HIRED BY AN OLD SPINSTER THAT MAKES THE WICKED WITCH FROM OZ LOOK CUTE. THE BIDDY PLANS TO HAVE HER BRAIN TRANSPLANTED INTO THE BODY OF ONE OF THEM. SHE CHECKS OUT THEIR BODS AS THEY DISROBE & POSE FOR HER. DR. FRANK(ENSTEIN?) LIVES IN THE BASEMENT LAB & IS ON STANDBY...TOTALLY INANE.
SEE THE DOGMAN! SEE THE BROAD WITH A CAT'S BRAIN! SEE THE ALMOST NAKED BRAIN-DEAD GIRL IN THE LAB! HEAR THE POINTLESS ED WOOD STYLE NARRATION THAT DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO FURTHER THE PLOT!
THEY SURE DON'T MAKE EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE...IN OTHER WORDS, A TOTALLY FUN ROMP DOWN SLEAZY-CHEESEY LANE!!! A TRUE CLASSIC OF IT'S KIND. NOT TO BE MISSED.
THE ALPHA DVD IS VERY ACCEPTIBLE, NOT GREAT BUT NOT BAD. A FEW MINOR GLITCHES, SOME SPLICES, SOME SCRATCHES, BUT ONE WOULD HAVE TO BE NITPICKING HERE TO FAULT THE SOURCE PRINT. I WAS PLEASED WITH THIS DVD & CAN RECOMMEND IT TO THOSE WHO NEED (THAT'S YOU) TO SEE THIS CLASSIC. AND BESIDES, THE DVD COVER WITH THE BRAIN-DEAD ALMOST NAKED GIRL IS A MUST HAVE!!!

Mrs. March pussyfoots around.......2006-06-18

This 1964 classic also known as "Monstrosity" starts out with "out of tune" horny or brassy type music. And the music keeps up until the end. There is some dialog but mostly it is a Bradford Dillman narration. On the plus side they show the pictures of the people with names attached so you get to know the actors. Bradford has made TV appearances well into the 1990's.
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Mr. Hetty March (Marjorie Eaton) a rich uggy old lady has plenty of money. With the help of a rogue scientist, Dr. Otto frank (Frank Grestle) kept on retainer, she intends to have her brain (through the miracle of modern 1964 atomics), transferred into a young body. The body is to be selected from three candidates. Which one will it be? Anita from Spain, Nina from Austria, or Bea from England?
What does her aged companion think of this? Will the scientist be able to gain something from this? And do you thing the three donors suspect what awaits them?

Do not get distracted by the naked female bodies with strategically placed metal straps.

Monstrosity, The Atomic Bore.......2005-01-26

This early 1960s black and white "horror" film is a prime example of the misunderstood evil genius-reanimated zombie genre typical of the era. The distinguishing features of this film are the extremely disagreeable spinster and the outlandishly bad acting, particularly of the three female victims. (I am especially fond of their skillfully crafted foreign accents.)

This one has it all: ornery old woman, evil genius, hokey pseudo-scientific sets and dialogue, wooden acting, and a cat brain transplanted into a nubile young girl. The one unifying theme of the film, however, is that of boredom. The film isn't one of the very worst ever made, but it ranks right up there on the all time boringness scale. I recommend that if you want to watch this film you buy the version featuring the MST3K guys and their trademark mockery: it relieves the boredom and makes the viewing experience infinitely more enjoyable!

the best example of movies of its kind.......2004-02-03

And such a deal! 72 minute running time actually feels like 144! Unbelievable schlock! Staggeringly bad! You know, it doesn't COST anything to focus the camera, but the director apparently thought it might. The one that American International let get away. Three girls are recruited as housemaids for an old lady. Little do they know, she has a scientist in the basement (why always the basement? Why not the second floor?) working on methods to transplant brains! The object of this exercise is to put her brain, preferably, into a sexy young lady's body. Rife with unintended sexual innuendo. See: the woman with the cat's brain! The man with the dog's brain! The Corrugated Tin Cyclotronic Brain Transplanter! Sit tight, and wait to see the cat with the human brain and the amazing imploding mansion. The screenplay took three writers! You can tell! Fabulous.

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No Danger of This Ever Becoming a Cult Classic
So Bad It Is Bad, and Funny, and Bad
Promises little and delivers even less
Worthless, except for a few weird scenes
The Atomic Bore

The Atomic Brain
Starring: Marjorie Eaton , Frank Gerstle , Frank Fowler , Erika Peters , and Judy Bamber
Director: Joseph V. Mascelli
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ASIN: B0001GH7MC
Release Date: 2004-03-02

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No Danger of This Ever Becoming a Cult Classic.......2006-01-29

Not likely to attain cult classic status, "The Atomic Brain" concerns a rich old woman, Mrs. March (Marjorie Eaton), who is funding researcher Dr. Otto Frank (Frank Fowler) to discover a way to transplant her brain into a younger woman's body. Otto has a small nuclear reactor in the basement of Mrs. March's house. The laboratory set looks even cheaper than similar stuff on the original "Outer Limits" television show.

The scientific basis behind Otto's experiments and the need to radiate his subjects is never adequately explained, obviously they needed the reactor to justify the original "Atomic Brain" title, the word fission is unconvincingly thrown around several times. I can only assume that the alternate title, "The Monstrosity", is someone's comment on the quality of the film. At the start of the movie Otto's success has been limited to the transplant of a dog's brain into a man (who has large teeth and looks a bit like the goon in one of shorts featuring "The Three Stooges").

Mrs. March is encouraged when the doctor steals a woman's corpse from the graveyard and reanimates it to zombie status. Needing fresh living bodies for her transplant she hires three attractive young girls from Europe serve as housekeepers. Mrs. March has no other staff at her mansion, only a wimpy "companion and gigolo" guy who is turned on by the young girls. His name is Victor and the narrator sums up his motivation with the movie's best lines: "Three new bodies. Fresh, live, young bodies. No families or friends within thousands of miles, no one to ask embarrassing questions when they disappear. Victor wondered which one Mrs. March would pick. The little Mexican, the girl from Vienna, or the buxom blond? Victor knew his pick, but he still felt uneasy, making love to an 80 year old woman in the body of a 20 year old girl; it's insanity!"

Despite the low budget and feeble scripting, the movie is not entirely awful. Eaton (who played the fortune teller in cult classic "Night Tide") is wonderfully evil and nasty. Fowler (a veteran of countless golden age television classics) is amusing as your basic mad scientist, and the house itself is appropriately sinister. In fact, when the girls first arrive I thought that it might actually turn into a decent film as things get very spooky and suspenseful. Unfortunately the three actresses (none of whom did any subsequent film work) are not up to even modest acting challenges and things pretty much fall apart until a nice twist at the end (which would have worked much better if they had not spoiled it with a second twist). Despite the frequent use of a narrator to explain much of the story, so much happens off camera that is never explained that it is likely there was a much longer original version that was extensively trimmed to get to the present 72 minute running length. This much slash and burn editing does have the benefit of requiring viewers to exercise their own atomic brains whenever a narrative gap occurs. But the story follows the genre's formula so closely that it is not too difficult to fill in the blanks each time this occurs.

Only fans of bad 50's-60's science fiction are likely to ever actually watch "The Atomic Brain" and they should find it fairly representative of this genre. At least the premise is decent, with a significantly bigger budget for sets and competent supporting cast members it could have been an entertaining movie.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

So Bad It Is Bad, and Funny, and Bad.......2006-01-11

This 1964 horror film is so bad it is almost funny in points. The plot is generally incoherent and the science in the science fiction is generally non-existent. In spite of all the negatives, this movie does have some redeeming characteristics.

We are introduced to mad scientist Dr. Otto Frank (Frank, Frankenstein; could there possibly be a connection here?) early in the movie, wandering around cemeteries looking for freshly dead bodies for his nefarious experiments. By coincidence, veteran actor Frank Gerstle played Dr. Frank. To be Frank...oh, never mind. Anyway, Dr. Frank is transplanting the brains of various critters into the bodies. He is funded by wealthy Hetty March (Marjorie Eaton; later Eaton and Gerstle played bit parts in the Steve McQueen film "Bullitt"), who wants Dr. Frank to learn how to place her brain into a young body so that she may live on. Dr. Frank has succeeded a couple of times, so there is a vicious creature wandering around the grounds of Hetty March's isolated mansion that has the brain of a dog and a beautiful young girl also wandering around with the brain of a cat.

Victor, who I think was March's boyfriend and is played by Frank Fowler, picks up three young women at the airport and brings them to the mansion, supposedly to be servants. March quickly chooses which body she wants. The pace really picks up after that (yawn). We see various scenes of the doctor's laboratory in the basement, which includes a couple of young women covered only by metal bands. There are other similarly titillating scenes in various places that I suppose were originally there to gain a young male audience. We also see bubbling liquids and inferences that the doctor is working with radioactive materials (oh my!). The movie never explains the relationship between the radioactivity and the brain transplants, but it all sounds very scientific.

Periodically the movie intersperses all the tension with a murder or other death, and the occasional brain transplant to remind you that this is a science fiction movie. Eventually we get to the exciting conclusion where mostly everyone dies, and there is the chilling, totally unexpected ending (yawn again).

Okay, this movie is pretty bad. Yet, it does have some redeeming value. Forty plus years down the road the movie is more humorous than scary, and the supposedly tense scenes are so bad that you want to laugh and then smack the actor or actress being murdered or dying for being so stupid. Perhaps intelligence was lower in those days. Certainly it was underutilized.

This movie was so good, or bad, or whatever, that it was lampooned in the fifth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It might be worth watching this version and then watching that version to see how your jokes compare with those of the MST3K crew.

Worthy of note is that the narrator is none other than Bradford Dillman in an uncredited role. Dillman was later a big star in movies and television in the 70s and early 80s.

This movie appears to have several titles. I have seen it called "Atomic Brain," "Monstrosity: The Atomic Brain," and "Monstrosity." The titles may be different, but the movie is identically campy in each case.

Promises little and delivers even less.......2005-04-23

Let's not beat around the bush here: The Atomic Brain just isn't any good. From the title, you might expect to see some sort of interesting, even intense, science fiction thriller; what you get in reality is a snooze fest that you're only too happy to forget once it's over. As far as the atomic stuff goes, all we learn is that some type of atomic rigamarole goes into the unsanctioned scientific experiments of Dr. Frank (a body-stealing doctor named Dr. Frank - brilliant!). Forget about the brains, as well, because we don't get to see a single brain anywhere (nor can I detect any brains whatsoever among the entire cast and crew).

This film is all about a grouchy old lady who wants to recapture her youth - actually, she wants to capture a second youth in the body of a stacked young woman. We all would like to avoid getting old and dying, but Ms. March (Marjorie Eaton) has something most of us don't have - a mad scientist in the basement perfecting the science of brain transplantation. Naturally, you don't just start out transplanting human brains, though; Dr. Frank's little menagerie of walking weirdoes counts among them a man with a dog's brain, a woman with a cat's brain, and a woman who walks around with no brain at all. Oddly enough, the woman without a brain is actually smarter than everyone else in this movie - she, unlike our trio of poor dumb victims, actually tries to leave the house and grounds at some point. The three foreign housekeepers Ms. March hires never even try to escape, despite the fact that they are pretty much on their own most of the time, know they are in danger, and have only a decrepit old woman and an aging lackey of a fellow standing between them and freedom. Don't give me any excuses about the "animal man" lurking out in the yard, either, because these gals watch the creature get chained up and still don't have the gumption to make a run for it.

Yes, it's the weirdest beauty contest of them all, as Ms. March ogles and feels up her nubile young charges looking for the perfect new body for her sick little brain. Miss England wows the audience and judge with a completely ridiculous accent (which seems to come and go quite a bit) and a hip-swaying walking style that only young, healthy hips can hope to survive. Should she, however, be unable to fulfill her duties for any reason (such as having her eye raked out by a fellow contestant who now thinks she is a cat, for example), the plainer yet passably attractive runner-up will be expected to take her place.

There's a bit of a twist at the end, but honestly, who really cares? Never before has the act of playing God been such a complete waste of time. Watching Ms. March shuffle down the stairs is pretty much the highlight of this boring film that promises little and delivers even less.

Worthless, except for a few weird scenes.......2005-03-28

There're brains involved, and atomic energy, too, but there's no "atomic brain." The title might lead you to believe there's a Mad Brain somewhere that wants to take over the world, but instead we're dealing with an insane scientist/doctor whose passion is transplanting brains. His little hobby leads to such bizarre creatures as a guy with a dog brain, who bears a vague resemblance to Joe Cocker, circa 1967, and a woman with a cat brain who hisses, purrs, scratches, and eats mice. Toss in a mean old rich woman who wants her geezery old brain transplanted into the body of one of three nubile young women, her dim-witted butler/assistant, a basement laboratory with dials and bubbling vat, and you've got a movie that makes you give thanks for fast forward.

The Atomic Bore.......2005-01-26

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Sci-Fi Movie Marathon Volume 6: 8 Movie Pack

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The legends of Science Fiction are gathered here for you in this definitive DVD collection of some of the greatest Sci-Fi classics to ever come out of Hollywood. This 8 DVD collection is sure to provide you with countless hours of entertainment. Volume 6 includes: Invasion of the Bee Girls directed by Denis Sanders and starring Anitra Ford; Queen of the Amazons directed by Edward Finney and starring Patricia Morison; The Atomic Brain directed by Joseph Mascelli and starring Marjorie Eaton; Hercules Against the Moonmen directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Alan Steel; Battle of the Worlds directed by Antonio Marghereti and starring Claude Rains; The Phantom Planet directed by William Marshall and starring Dean Fredericks; Evil Brain from Outer Space directed by Koreyoshi Akasaka and starring Ken Utsui; Sound of Horror directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde and starring James Philbrook

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