dougdoepke Oh my gosh, it's a floating blob of jello with droopy eyes, using earthling John Agar to take over the universe. Right away I was looking for a chair to crawl under. But not to worry. There's a good jello blob who wants to take out the bad blob. I guess planet Arous has its own police force. But wait, Agar's eyes turn into fuzzy marbles when he's under alien possession and things start blowing up, like the Nevada Proving Grounds. And here I thought all that was because of atomic testing. But then that's just history and movies are so much more fun. Then too, the glandular bad blob has these really randy fits when he has Agar maul poor Joyce Meadows. I guess all that pawing and kissing got past censors since it's not really Agar but the bad blob that's doing it. Come to think of it, there's the solution to those 1950's censorship problems—just blame the erotica on demonic possession. Anyhow, Bronson Canyon gets a big workout, including the infamous bubble-blowing tunnel of Robot Monster (1953). Plus, I nominate Agar for a Golden Monster Award since he's really good at playing arrogant, even popping out a maniacal cackle now and then. And while we're at it, let's give poor beleaguered Joyce Meadows an 'I Can't Take It Any More' Award for bearing up under the strain. So how did I miss this drive-in epic back in '57. Must have had empty pockets. Oh well, I hate to say so, but I rather enjoyed this 70-minutes of nonsense. Sure, much of it is laughable, but then that's better than those 50's big-budget snoozers that provide nothing but zzz's.

ebiros2 I saw this movie as a child, and couldn't remember its title for ages, until I found it on the internet, so my comment contains influences from the impression of the film from my childhood years. Seeing the film after 30 or so years, I'm impressed how much story they can get out of a sci-fi film that has hardly any special effects. I kind of like this format as the main character is not the special effect, but things happening around what seems like an ordinary life situation. Although this film is a low budget '50s sci-fi, there's something about it that's more entertaining than going to sci-fi channel and watching shows loaded with CGs. There's some good story telling, and actors that really looks like ordinary people who've found themselves in the most bizarre situation. I find this kind of refreshing. There's real lack of intrigue in more contemporary mass produced sci-fi flicks, which drives me back looking for these classics from time to time.

carlso63 As a kid growing up on Long Island in the 1970s, I was lucky enough to watch TV shows like "Creature Features" on Channel 5 and "Chiller Theater" on Channel 11. Movies like "Brain from Planet Arous" were staples of these SciFi and Horror- themed formats....I have just ordered a copy of this movie and am anxiously awaiting seeing it for the first time in probably 30 years! I don't remember a ton of the plot details but I do remember that John Agars silver/black eye pupils were FREAKING CREEPY LOOKING, and the "Brain" monsters were pretty scary... at least to a 10 year old. Definitely a MUST SEE MOVIE for any serious SciFi buff!If I had to list the Top 5 Best / Scariest SciFi movies from when I was a Kid they would be:#5)"Fiend Without a Face / Night of the Blood Beast" - 2 different movies; one of these was pretty scary. (I just don't remember which one...)#4)"Attack of the Crab Monsters" - The giant crabs faces and voices were pretty scary, as I recall...#3)"Brain From Planet Arous" - As a kid, I used to imagine Gor (the evil Brain) was hiding in my bedroom closet, waiting to "get me"...#2)"The Killer Shrews" - our basement was dark, had a space under the stairs AND a wet bar; just like the one where the Killer Shrew hid and waited to bite his victim!#1) My ***All - Time Favorite Scariest B-Movie*** is "Terror From the Year 5000", with the mutant woman who fries you with her shiny Lee Press-On Nails and then steals your face!!! (Salome Jens, you totally hot mutant babe, you!)

Johann The 1950s was a great era for making low budget monster movies in California. All you needed was a camera, a cheap monster, and Bronson Canyon, and boom, you've got a monster movie. This film is no exception. It definitely has a place in there with "Teenagers from Outer Space," and "Robot Monster," but isn't quite so bad. Don't get me wrong it delivers the cheese, but somehow it isn't quite as bad, it's just kind of boring.John Agar plays a nuclear scientist who works too much. He and his assistant discover radiation emitting from a mountain in the middle of nowhere and go out to investigate. They end up finding a brain from outer space that uses Agar as a host and kills his dorky assistant. The brain takes a hankering to Agar's fiancée and tries to woo her by making him act like an even bigger idiot than he already was. The alien brain has the power to unleash atomic explosions using Agar's eyes. The brain has a scheme to take over the world (every evil alien brain does) by blackmailing the governments of the world. Oh, and there's a good brain from the same planet that comes to help the fiancée and her father stop the bad brain by living in the family dog (I kid you not).The special effects weren't that good (you could see the wire when the brain was "floating") and the special effect with Agar's eyes was pretty lame, but they needed to do something to show the change. The acting was alright (nothing to write home about) and the plot was the same old space monster thing.If you need to see some cheesy space monster movie, this isn't that great.