Review by

DeadNuns

 The Brain Eaters
Release Date September, 1958
Black and White

Producer:
Edwin Nelson
Director:
Bruno Vesota
Written By:
Gordon Urquhart

Starring
Edwin Nelson
Alan Frost
Cornelius Keefe
Joanne Lee

This film takes place in the 1950's in Riverdale Illinois. While returning home form a trip to the country. A young man and his fiance' see a bright light in the sky.. When they stop to see what it was, they notice dead animals lying around everywhere. Continuing their search, they run into what looks to be a spaceship.

Not long after this discovery, townspeople start to disappear and murders start being reported. The Government is informed and sends out investigators, Dr. Kettering (Edwin Nelson) and Senator Walter K. Powers (Cornelius Keefe) to go and check out these wild stories. Upon their arrival, the Senator immediately starts covering up all rumors of the Spacecraft and the Aliens.

But as the body count starts to mount, this becomes harder and harder to do. And besides they are finding more and more evidence of a much more disturbing nature. The cause of death seems to becoming from small puncture holes in the back of the victims necks. And the victims are turning into zombie like beings. (Zombie like beings that are hard to tell apart from the person that they have now taken control over. SHADES OF DOOM! SHADES OF DOOM!! How will it all end??

I know that this movie, by todays standards is pretty tame. And that you will have to more than likely be a person of a somewhat earlier vintage to appreciate this one. But for its time. I bet this one probably scared the pants off of the earlier movie-goer. Pretty entertaining all in all.
I give it a Thumb Up

DeadNuns is a columnist/critic for NOCS & can be reached by email at

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