The Atomic Brain Movie Review

An old woman hires a doctor to transplant her brain into the body of a beautiful young girl. Of the three who are abducted, two become homicidal zombies and the third starts to act catty when she's given a feline brain. Oh, and did we mention the hairy monster chained to a tether in the back yard? A serious contender to Plan 9 from Outer Space’s title of Worst Film Ever Made, this is a treasure trove of tripe: drunk, horny mad doctors; wheelchair-bound old biddies living in dilapidated gothic mansions; forbidden experiments with atomic power; mutations run amuck; and trampy Euro-dames (with atrocious fake accents). Add screamingly inept dialogue (by FOUR screenwriters!), a droning narrator, and feel your own brainpan go nuclear. A must-see for bad-brain movie devotees; makes a cerebral double bill with The Brain that Wouldn't Die. Director Joseph Mascelli provided camera work for Ray Dennis Steckler's The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies the following year as well as authoring a highly regarded book on cinematography. Co-producer/writer Jack Pollexfen is an old hand in the bad movie biz, having helmed the Lon Chaney, Jr., electric-psycho flick The Indestructible Man. AKA: Monstrosity.

1964 72m/B Frank Gerstle, Erika Peters, Judy Bamber, Marjorie Eaton, Frank Fowler, Margie Fisco; D: Joseph Mascelli; W: Jack Pollexfen. VHS NOS, SNC