Movie Notes: Brain Of Blood
Note: This is an entry in the second Webomatica So Bad They’re Good movie contest.
0 stars
So Bad It’s Good Rating = –9 stars
Starring Grant Williams, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol
Directed by Al Adamson
Synopsis
Amir is the dying leader of the nation Kalid. His body is flown to America where Dr. Trenton (Kent Taylor) tries to save his life by transplanting his brain into another body. Naturally, everything goes horribly wrong, not the least of which is the plot, which not unlike the dying leader, soon collapses and must be put on life support.
The Good
- N/A.
The Bad
- A hallmark of any decent terrible / bad movie are the characters explaining things to the audience as if in anticipation of the stupid plot.
- Holy hell, the credits music is terrible with a tuba, timpani, and female chorus, set to an extremely gross animation of blood filling a skull.
- Amir’s corpse is covered in tin foil. I guess if it’s good enough for paranoid hats, it can preserve the recently deceased.
- Oh crap, the doctor’s assistant is a dwarf. Is this Mike Meyer’s inspiration for Mini Me?
- An assistant is told, with hefty amounts of reverb, to find a young, healthy strong body. He hides in a girl’s closet. She disrobes, only to faint when she sees… a big tall bald dude. What the hell is going on here? The tuba music has no answers.
- Ugh. Buckets of blood (red paint) in closeups of cutting open a head. The mysterious vials of green, bubbling liquid are no better than the tuba music in providing explanations. A huge, disgusting, bloody, brain is put into a bowl.
- Then there’s another man who has a scarred face (John Bloom). Turns out he got that way because his friends doused him with battery acid (depicted via flashback).
- Eventually the leader of the other country has his brain put in the battery acid dude’s body. When he awakes, he’s pissed. Maybe less because of the body and more because he’s trapped in this awful picture.
- A long sequence where the battery acid dude runs around and the doctor tries to reel him in using a radar gun. He’s chasing the brunette (Vicki Volante) who escaped earlier by stabbing the dwarf in the stomach with a syringe. She had spiders crawling on her and her blood drawn.
- Best part — battery acid face dude chases a blond off a cliff. Loud, voice-over scream, yet it’s so obvious her body is an inflatable dummy. LOL moment.
- At movie’s end, the doctor places the leader’s brain in a more suitable body that is operated on to look like the leader. Yet, the leader is now under complete control by the doctor who will operate things behind the scenes. Then there’s a flashback of like — everything that just happened. Now that’s scary.
Conclusion
A bit of cursory Internet research revealed that the director Al Adamson made several schlocky B-movies specifically for drive-in movie audiences, of which Brain Of Blood is one of the best. I’m not sure what this means in the context of the So Bad They’re Good movie contest except for a sigh of relief on my part that I was spared the worst. Which should have been the best.
IMDB: Brain Of Blood
Rotten Tomatoes: Brain Of Blood N/A
Wow. Again I apologize. The silver-lining to all of this (for the rest of us) is that your review was pretty funny
and that the movie was “free” right?
gosh thats all badddd, if i tell you i also seen a movie having 9.2 rating and i found it more or less 7 it was The dark Knight for some reasn movie was’t near good for 9.4 imdb rating =(
It was actually pretty funny. Oh, and in terms of the rating, more
negative numbers means “better” in the sense of the So Bad It’s Good
rating. I think I gave Battlefield Earth –20+ stars…
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Your rating is quite high for the movie, I would not give it higher rating, still I liked it.
Cheers
Rocky