Evil Brain from Outer Space (1966)

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This hilariously stupid film was edited together from three episodes of "Supa Jaiantsu," a Japanese TV show about an extraterrestrial superhero called Starman. (Funny, he doesn't look Jewish.) Balazar (sp?), the evil leader of the planet Zumeria (again, I'm guessing at the spelling) has been killed, but his brain was kept alive and plans to add the Earth to the Zumerian empire. He will do so by arming his soldiers with nuclear weapons and dispatching the mutants created by Zumerian scientists. In response, the high council of alien leaders (from their base on the Emerald Planet) orders Starman to Earth to stop the invasion and destroy Balazar's brain.From there, we get a lot of strangely choreographed fight scenes that I swear have a "West Side Story" groove to them. These scenes show the Zumerians to be a bunch of wimps. All Starman has to do is kick a few butts, and the Zumerian soldiers flee for their lives. The mutants-- who I've nicknamed "The Radioactive-Steam Breather" and "Hawkwoman"--were so damned silly-looking, I laughed uproariously when they first appeared on-screen. And the high council looks as zany as any gathering of low-budget aliens you'll ever see.Starman is a rather stodgy, uncharismatic superhero. If you played a drinking game based on how many times he changes facial expressions, you would die of thirst. Not to mention Starman's preposterous costume, which gives him a male camel toe that enters the room before he himself does.When the Zumerians "disguise" themselves as Earth people (by dressing like Humphrey Bogart), we're told they paid for their food and clothes by robbing banks. Why they didn't just steal the food and clothing directly is anyone's guess. That's just one of many sub-plots the film introduces and just as quickly abandons. (Tommy Wiseau must have been taking notes.)Still, this is a piece of entertainment made for Japanese children some 50-odd years ago. Its utter stupidity and silliness have endeared it to me. THE EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE is 78 minutes of mindless fun that I likely will watch again someday.

I got this film in the Pure Terror 50 Movie Pack - which is suppose to be all horror films. Why this film is in the Pure Terror horror pack I'll never know. This film is pure science fiction action. It would be better off acquired in a sci-f film pack. LOL. I'm not complaining though because this is a weird but fun sci-fi film.This one is childish but so much fun. If you like the older superhero TV shows and films then you might like this movie. The alien is more like a superhero than anything else.I have to say this film is awful in a good way. It's corny enough to keep sci-fi and superhero fans entertained - fans of the older or classic films/shows.4/10

Combination Japanese mob movie, "Flash Gordon" rip-off and Asian "Father Knows Best", this is delicious bad taste at its most delightfully bizarre. An apparent dub of old Japanese science fiction movies mashed up in one big potato, it had me howling from the first minute. The most outlandish script has been thrown in for bad dubbing, utilizing comic book style bad guys to frame what little story exists. Outlandishly ridiculous names and one-dimensional villains are all parodies of the old serials. The monster meeting in outer space (with a cardboard Saturn in the background) features creatures that resemble huge air conditioning units I see in businesses with ventilation issues. I truly could not believe my eyes (or ears) as Ultraman like heroes battle vampire like monsters and various other creatures that look anywhere from the carrot monster from "It Conquered the World" to the hot dog monster from "The Horror at Party Beach". There is a heroic character known as "Space Pope" who is "very gifted" below the waste, an elderly evil leader who is a combination of George Zucco and Colonel Sanders, a Vampira like demoness who is also part killer clown from outer space and part Martha Raye in "The Buggaloos". At least the choreography is memorable; It is part zeppelin party scene from "Madam Satan", part "So you think you can dance" Halloween special. Much of the transitions do not make sense, and the pacing often slows down ridiculously. Hideous narration is even worse than "Plan Nine" which gives me the notion that this was plan number two. This is definitely a film to watch and get drunk with a group of friends.

I wouldn't say anything about this film is particularly 'bad' (except the effects and the dubbing)- This film had my two kids (three and five respectively) held in awe for it's duration, and my five year old was in absolute stitches every time Starman started laying into the scores of bad guys who took him on. You know that film Independence Day? Well, this film is kind of like that, only much, much better. An Evil Brain from Outer Space is now on Earth and ordering it's armies of mutants to cause havoc everywhere in preparation for an all out invasion, causing some aliens to have a meeting (must be seen to be believed) and come to an agreement to sent Starman to Earth to sort the brain out. He's got a watch that can make him fly through space, by the way. Meanwhile, on Earth, some guys have got wind of the invasion and one even manages to steal the brain before being mistakingly caught by the police and dropping the brain (which is in a suitcase) into a river. This guy's boss is one of the bad guy mutants (along with his one legged sidekick and an owl), who have a secret passageway in their garden which leads to their underground lair (and that's only one of three secret passageways in this film!).Don't run off - there's more! Another professor (there's loads in this film) gets a mutant set on him and you should see this - After rather creepily materialising in this guy's office, this strange, strange looking creature gets into a punch up with Starman while randomly teleporting around a dock (so funny) before splitting in two after being shot with a policeman, then flying through the air in a jaw dropping manner. Wait - there's more! Starman keeps getting into these huge fights with the bad guys who also try and kill off world leaders, use nuclear grenades, and have this ghost like witch creature appear and randomly kill everyone while two guys who look like Ziggy Stardust era-Bowie try and kill even more professors while two kids get involved and everyone starts chasing everyone else about.There's even more! Meanwhile, yet another evil professor is formulating a germ warfare plan all sourced from a single huge, pulsating germ (to which he emotionally blackmails) before Starman turns up and kicks all his goons heads in too. But where's the brain? Oh, don't worry about that, I'm sure Starman will find that too.Just a head splitting 100mph crazy sci-fi action film with bizarre aliens, pulsating bladder effects, crappy 'Starman' flying sequences, full on narration, several billion secondary character (most of which are scientists or policeman, Evil Brain from Outer Space was so much more enjoyable than your usual Hollywood product that costs the GNP of a fair size African country. I loved it, and have three more Starman films to get through. My kids were even playing 'Starman' later on, so that should tell you something. Brilliant.