Nice effects though.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Sure, there are some... shall we say.. LAPSES in THE BRAIN EATERS, but it's not overall a bad little movie; in fact, there are some interesting CANTED shots early on (that PROMISE more than the movie DELIVERS, actually, but they're still interesting) and the music helps build a bit of genuine SUSPENSE from time to time. The crawling brain effects were simple but effective, though I would've a) left the pipe cleaner antennas off or b) used black pipe cleaners. The two-fisted action is pretty good throughout and the ending comes as a bit of a surprise. Leonard Nimoy's scene is the strangest thing about the movie: it looks like a scene from ANOTHER movie altogether, though I must admit that it was good to hear his voice again.

After a series of strange communication failures in a small town, a rescue party finds the cause to be rooted in a strange alien-like parasite from the Earth's core latched onto the necks of the townspeople, leaving them to stop the impending invasion.This one wasn't all that great but is certainly worthwhile. The big thing with it is the fact that the film is not even an hour long, so it's got major problems already in trying to cram enough material that actually works in a decent, full-length release into a shorter amount of time, rushing along through everything despite their being no need to do so, cutting down the action to a few brief inserts that are fun but definitely could've been stretched out, a totally pointless narration running over everything that doesn't need to be there and several other rather big problems that really don't help to elevate it's 50s Sci-Fi origin, admittedly fun suspense in the part of who's under the spell and who isn't and what happens once the creatures are loose, which is barely explored but could've been good. Overall, this one was fine but had a lot of problems going for it.Today's Rating/PG: Mild Violence

**SPOILERS** The only thing new about this aliens from space movie is that the aliens, or as their called in the film parasites, don't come from other space at all they come from deep down in the earths core.It take's a while for Dr. Paul Kettering, Ed Nelson, and the person put in charge of this pressing matter by the US Department of the Interior Senator Warren K. Powers, Cornelius Keefe,to realize what exactly their up against. These strange brain-eating creatures are in fact 200 million year old amoeba-like brain-suckers who emerged from their home deep down in the earth's crust. The creatures are planning to take over the human race by destroying their victim's brain cells after they took over their bodies. They, the Braineaters, plan to accomplish this feat by first taking over the brains of the unsuspecting humans in the little town of Riverdale. Turning the town's population into mindless zombies the parasites then plan go on to the next town city and then country until the entire human race is no longer a factor or obstacle to their eventual conquest of the earth!With little money on hand the film "The Braineaters" lacks the very things that would make it worth watching decent, not spectacular , special effects. The "spaceship" that the parasites came from is nothing but a 50 feet tall aluminum tepee with a hole in it's nosecone. The Braineaters themselves are nothing but sponge-like creatures with pipes sticking out of them. These pipes are used to latch on to their victim's necks and then, after taking over their bodies, suck their brains out and cause their victims to die within 24 to 48 hours.It's after the town chief executive Mayor Cameron, Oville Sherman, flips out and goes bananas and is shot and killed by the police, whom he's in charge off,that Dr. Kettering realized that he was in fact taken over by some strange creature, the underground parasite, who had him do its bidding. Little by little the parasites take over a number of the townspeople including Dr. Kettering's girlfriend Alice Summers, Joanna Lee, making it almost impossible to know who's the good guy or parasite.It's only when it's discovered that there's a number of persons inside the "spacecraft" that the truth comes out to what exactly is going on. One of the men inside the craft turned out to be Prof. Helsingman, Saul Bronson, who mysteriously disappeared five years ago. Helsingman lived just long enough to tell Dr. Kettering what the real purpose of these strange creatures really is: To take over the earth's surface.Later going into the craft Dr. Kettering is confronted by the also long missing Dr. Cole, Leonard Nimoy, the late Prof. Helsingman's close friend and associate. Dr. Cole, looking like the old man of the mountain,tells the astonished Dr. Kettering that he and his fellow humans should just lay down their arms and give up, resistance is futile Dr. Cole tells him, to their superiors the parasites.Of course Dr. Kettering is not at all impressed with Dr. Cole and his army of brain eating parasites and comes up with a fool-proof plan to put them out of business: 60 to 80 thousand volts of electricity. It , Dr. Kettering's plan, was just about to be put into operation when an unexpected glitz developed at the very last moment! The sudden appearance of of girlfriend the brain damaged, and parasite controlled, Alice Summers! Predictable ending with Dr. Kettering unable to do what he at first planned to do in ridding the earth of the underground parasite invasion. It took the sharp-shooting ability of the late Mayor Cameron's son Glenn, Alan Frost, to in the end finish the job that the reluctant, in not being able to off his parasite-controlled girlfriend Alice, Dr. Kettering was unable to do.

Parasitic creatures which attach to the back of their human hosts's necks, leaving vampire-like puncture marks(they also secrete acid)threaten the existence of human-kind and they're believed, at first, to have came from a mysterious cone-shaped capsule found in the country-side on the outskirts of a small town. It's up to scientist Dr. Kettering(Ed Nelson)and Glenn Cameron(Alan Frost)to stop the little leech-like monsters before the populace is overrun by these things. Senator Walter K Powers(Cornelius Keefe), from Washington DC, comes a barking orders to his heroes. The parasites have taken control of the sheriff and telegrapher, with "human agents", carrying orb-tanks with those things inside, working to spread the monsters throughout the town.Obviously inspired by "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", I did wonder if aspects from this flick were lifted from those who wrote ALIEN. The film isn't too bad, but does leave some connecting stories unanswered, specifically the human agents spreading the creatures and particularly the sheriff who isn't apprehended at any time. Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy has a cameo at the end as a certain human host within the capsule carrying tanks containing several of those parasites.The film's low budget definitely shows. Those loose ends untied(Powers proclaims the human agents will be apprehended he guarantees, but how can he be so sure?)did leave me rather unsatisfied..but, the little movie did leave me rather entertained. Not a great, or even good, film, but passable as a time-consumer. Popcorn fare, nothing more.