That was an excellent one.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Blistering performances.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

A couple are driving down a country road and see a bright flash,so of course they pull over to investigate. It cuts to a crazy angle shot of them and some high voltage power lines so you know those lines will have something to do with the lame plot. So they start walking into the forest(why not?) and it immediately becomes dark outside.There ends up being many times when it goes from dark to light when the camera switches angles. They find some weird dead animals and a "space ship",a senator is sent to take charge,a scientist goes inside the ship and says its just one big spiral tunnel(while you can clearly see its a big empty space inside). So the group which consists of 2 scientists,a few random girls,the senator and others,decide to search the forest in pairs,great idea. Of course they all have guns and constantly use them.They always point the guns at the ground and to the right of the person but the person dies. Two of them run into some guys from the ship,there's a little smoke and the woman goes way overboard on the fake choking.I've seen enough of these crappy movies to know that smoke means something.Just not sure what. They later go into the ship again but this time it's not just a spiral and there are people in it.The entire thing is full of smoke so you can't see how dumb it looks. This movie is only good for making fun of it.

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.

Terrible low budget science fiction/horror flick about alien parasites invading a small American town and taking over people's minds. A small band of brave uninfected individuals tries to stop their hostile take-over. Lousy story, boring execution and mostly non-existent visuals, courtesy of schlock production studio American International Pictures (AIP), specializing in only the cheapest of horror and science fiction flicks to provide drive-in theaters with content to show to teenagers who aren't watching anyway because they're engaged in other activities. Noted science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein sued the producers (including Roger Corman, an expert in producing this type of quick, cheesy, cheap cinema of the late fifties) for stealing the plot of his book 'The Puppet Masters'. Otherwise this movie is only noteworthy for featuring Leonard Nimoy (of Star Trek fame, obviously) in one of his earliest roles, playing the host to the Brain Eater Overlord: unfortunately his last name was misspelled as 'Nemoy'.

I was really primed to watch this one - expectations were high (how could they not be with a title like "The Brain Eaters"?). Well, as often as happens in life, the reality didn't match the expectation. Actually, this movie made me a bit angry because of the wasted potential. I love seeing old black and white monsters, but this movie showed virtually no monsters. What's the point of making a "monster movie" if you only show the monsters for a total of 10 seconds out of an hour - very lame! Plus, NONE of the characters in this film are likable, which is a very important aspect of a successful film. I didn't care about any of them. They were all either stupid or jerks or arrogant or useless. The doctor was the only one who showed any good qualities, but his stupidity outlined below rendered him useless.1. A lot of damage was done by the people who were infected by these creatures. ALL of that damage could've been avoided by checking everybody to see if there was a little furry thing attached to the back of their necks. It seems pretty obvious to me... 2. How about when the doctor shot the bullet into the cone and it bounced around and he said, "The point of origin is the point of return." If that's true, why didn't he get injured as the bullet came back to the point of return?3. The doctor crawls into the cone and is gone for a long time. Everybody is worried about his safety. He finally comes out and says that the tunnel in the cone just winds around and there was nothing inside. WHAT!?! Where were the two missing doctors that appeared later in the film? Where were all the creatures that were with them? This point really got on my nerves.4. In the lab, the doctor dissects one of the creatures and tells his assistant/girlfriend that the creatures can split apart and regenerate. While he's telling her this, he leaves a piece of this thing HE KNOWS has the ability to hurt people unguarded on the table. While he is distracted, the thing crawls onto his arm and injures him. He uses fire to get it off, but then hurries out of the lab without making sure the thing is really dead. And what about the big piece he cut the little piece off of? Nobody seems very concerned that these two pieces could hurt people in the future. 5. Later, the doctor and the mayor's son go to the teletype office to see if any message came back from the governor. They end up fighting two people that are controlled by the monsters. After our heroes beat these guys up, they just leave them there. What's up with that!?! Kill them, tie them up, get the monsters off their backs, but don't just leave them lying there to cause more damage later. ARRGGH!Sorry, but it goes on and on and on...