Friday, March 14, 2014

The Brain Eaters (1958)

How bad is it? It's a good film with bad special effects.
Should you see it? If you like good 1950's science fiction.

The lurid title belies a film that's based on the same material as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." A conical object, presumably a ship, appears and gets investigated. There are aliens that are able to take over the bodies of humans and acquire their intelligence (mind eating, rather than brain eating). It's then a case of not being able to trust anyone because they may be on the wrong side and a race to stop them before it's too late. The brains with tentacles slithering around are extremely shoddy and detract from the film, but they're not actually funny.

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