An evil alien brain from the planet Arous hijacks the body of an Earth scientist in order to control the Earth.An evil alien brain from the planet Arous hijacks the body of an Earth scientist in order to control the Earth.An evil alien brain from the planet Arous hijacks the body of an Earth scientist in order to control the Earth.
- John Fallon
- (as Thomas B. Henry)
- Colonel in Conference Room
- (as Kenneth Terrell)
- Military Man at Meeting
- (uncredited)
- Prof. Dale Tate
- (uncredited)
- …
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- GoofsWhen the plane explodes, a piece of the model, still attached to the support wire, swings back into frame.
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Steve March: Now this is my plan: I want all of your uranium, plutonium, all your atomic resources. I want your factories, railroad shipping, all your industrial facilities. Your workers will labour around the clock day and night, following my blueprints to build a most powerful invasion force ever gathered in the universe.
General Brown: You mean to enslave the world?
Russian: Russia would never agree to it!
Steve March: There's a simple answer to that: There'll be no Russia. Your United Nations building will be turned over to me. I will teach your engineers to build a fleet of interplanetary rockets, to be armed and manned by your joint military forces. All under my command.
General Brown: What would you do with all this power?
Steve March: I will return to my planet Arous, and through its vast intellect, I will become master of the universe. After I'm gone, your Earth will be free to live out its miserable span of existence, as one of my satellites, and that's how it's going to be.
- ConnectionsEdited into Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
While the films special effects are cheap, they are no better or worse than those in most other programmer films made on this budget from the same period. The film does has some really ludicrous moments already mention by previous reviewers. Some complaints mentioned in this forum are unjustified and seem to be the result of straining. Like the commentator who complained about bodies not decaying. It's absurd, but it is the kind of mistake that turns up all the time even in "good" movies.
One of the films main problems is John Agar. As film historian and 50's science fiction expert Bill Warren has pointed out, John Agar tries, but he can't pull it off. When he becomes possessed and tries to be evil, he comes across more as comical than menacing. If a much better actor was cast, perhaps this film might be more highly regarded. I think a good example would be to compare Agar's performance to that of Lew Ayers in DONOVAN'S BRAIN (See my entry on that film). DONOVAN'S BRAIN has a similar theme: evil disembodied brain bent on world conquest takes over the body of a scientist. Ayers was convincing, Agar is not.
Perhaps the strangest thing about this film is that when it first came out, reviewers dismissed it as a "routine programmer" "conventional science fiction" and "just another double bill shocker." Regardless of what you think of this film, I'm sure you will agree those words certainly don't apply to BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS.
Till next time...Your Old Pal Jim.
- youroldpaljim
- Dec 2, 2001
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- Die Augen des Satans
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- $58,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 11 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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