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"The Brain That Wouldn't Die" is undeniably a cheap, tacky, sleazy film, but it isn't the absolute worst film ever made (try sitting thru Al Adamson's "Horror of The Blood Monsters" sometime!). If you have the right cheese-craving mindset for it, it can be quite a hoot! The decapitated head residing in a lasagna pan, the mad doctor's search for the *right* kind of slutty body for the aforementioned head, the monster in the closet that resembles Zippy the Pinhead...all of these add up to a truly unique cinematic experience. It IS a bad movie, but I'm not sorry that it was made.

That's right--"The Brain From Planet Arous" is _indeed_ John Agar's best science-fiction movie...but that's not saying very much. While it is undoubtedly _cheap_ (the giant alien brains in their natural form look a lot like balloons!), and while the storyline is sheer goofiness bordering on surrealism (one of the brains inhabits the body of a dog!), it _is_ somehow fun to watch, in spite of (or more likely because of) its low-budget limitations. And John Agar IS fun to watch; you can tell that he's doing his best here--in the scenes where he's possessed by the evil brain, he had to wear some very uncomfortable silver contact lenses--but the odd, yet by-the-numbers script doesn't give him much to work with. Still, if you're willing to put your own brain on hold for a little while, you might get a kick out this movie.

This Bill Rebane "messterpiece" takes everything a halfway-decent movie has to offer--and gets it all wrong! The "plot" of this flick is practically non-existent; it's pretty much the science-fictional equivalent of a snipe-hunt...with the hapless viewer holding the bag!