Crawling, slimy things terror-bent on destroying the world! Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Producer Ed Nelson , who also stars, created the parasites himself using little wind-up toys covered with fur from an old coat and pipe cleaners for antennae.
Goofs Leonard Nimoy 's name is misspelled in the opening credits as "Leonard Nemoy". Quotes Senator Walter K. All cuts were waived in when the film was granted a 'PG' certificate for home video. User reviews 38 Review. Top review. It's no classic, but I can think of worse ways of wasting away an hour. One of B-movie legend Bruno VeSota's three directorial efforts, 'The Brain Eaters' shows enough promise to make one wish he had split his time more evenly between acting and directing.
We are once again in the realms of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' and 'I Married a Monster from Outer Space', with aliens trying to take over the population of an isolated American town. The spaceship turns out to have burrowed up from beneath the earth's surface, letting loose vindictive slug-like creatures which attach themselves to peoples necks, taking over their minds.
The plot manages to lose itself despite a running time of only 60 minutes, but at least 'The Brain Eaters' recognises its limitations.
The film prevents the normal ridicule caused by feeble special-effects by not having any and within the boundaries it sets itself, there is nothing to offend. Like most releases from American International Pictures the film is primed for entertainment value, if not artistic merit, and it is none the worse for that.
I remember a particularly good scene where the camera follows one of the malevolent slugs point-of-view as it stalks its victim ready to latch onto the neck - an early influence on Spielberg for 'Jaws' maybe?? Wilbur Sep 30, Details Edit. Release date September United States. United States. Attack of the Blood Leeches. Pomona, California, USA. Corinthian Productions. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 1 minute. Black and White.
Related news. Dec 4 Trailers from Hell. Oct 29 MovieWeb. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap. See more gaps Learn more about contributing. Edit page. Child Stars, Then and Now. While working with Alice in the lab, Kettering experiments with a piece of the creature taken from the mayor's body.
It attaches itself to his arm just like a parasite, but he is able to free himself by burning it with a Bunsen burner. Wyler calls Kettering at the lab, and they drive out to the metal cone. Along the way, they discover an abandoned electric company utility truck. A call to the sheriff from Sen. Powers goes unanswered, as the sheriff struggles with being possessed. Three groups are organized to search for other strange metal objects.
Kettering and Alice find the dead body of the utility truck's driver with two puncture wounds on the back of his neck. While searching, Glenn and Elaine are locked inside an empty cabin. The three groups later reassemble at the mayor's office. There, they discover two glowing containers containing more parasites.
The senator calls the telegraph office to send a warning to the governor. The telegrapher Henry Randolph takes down the message, but being possessed, does not send it. Three men drive to Alice's apartment building and plant a parasite in her room.
She is possessed and joins the three men in their car. Paul and Glenn later discover she is missing. They drive back to the spiral cone and discover a dying man they recognize as Prof.
Helsingman Saul Bronson , who vanished five years earlier along with a scientific expedition team. They discover marks on his neck and take him to a hospital.
Kettering questions the professor, but he only utters the word 'Carboniferous', referring to a geologic time period millions of years ago. Powers tries to make several telephone calls, but is consistently told that the lines are busy.
Glenn and Paul go to the telegraph office to find out if the warning was sent to the governor's office. They are attacked but manage to subdue their assailants and flee. Kettering climbs the metal object's scaffolding to check on his equipment. He realizes the two deputies on guard are now possessed, and both are shot and killed. Kettering and Glenn crawl inside the spiral metal cone and discover, behind a sliding tunnel wall, a room filled with a heavy mist.
They are greeted by another member of the missing expedition, an old, bearded man Nimoy. He tells Kettering he was once Prof. Cole and explains, 'Now I hold a position of a much higher order'. He provides details about the parasites' invasion, which is coming from inside the Earth, and says, 'We shall force upon Man a life free from strife and turmoil. Ironic that Man should obtain his long sought utopia as a gift, rather than as something earned'. After the possessed Cole disappears, Kettering shoots and kills the lurking sheriff.
Parasites on the loose chase Kettering and Glenn outside. Kettering formulates a plan using the abandoned power company truck. He connects an electrical wire from one end of the ravine to the other using a harpoon gun.
He prepares to shoot a connecting wire from the metal object to an overhead high voltage transmission line, completing a circuit. Before Kettering can finish, Alice exits the spiral cone and appears on the scaffolding.
Kettering climbs up to rescue her, but being possessed, she refuses to come with him. She pulls a pistol and shoots him, and he falls to his death. Glenn fires the harpoon gun, making the connection to the overhead transmission lines, which engulfs the grounded metal cone in high-voltage sparks.
Alice collapses as the parasites inside the object are electrocuted. Powers and Glenn crawl inside and verify that the menace has been eliminated.
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