One
of the sure signs of a movie being horrible is that it doesn’t even use
original footage. To me, that indicates
low production values. Sure, there are
exceptions. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist was
successful, but as a comedy. That was
the entire point of using old footage.
However, Evil Brain from Outer Space was lifted from three separate
movies.
Here,
the movie would seem to be about an evil person who is all but killed. His brain survives and moves to Earth to take
over our planet. Starman, a hero made of
steel, comes to protect us. He’s given a
watch that allows him to fly and talk in all human languages.
What
follows is more than an hour of sloppy fight scenes, inane dialogue and cheesy
costumes. Judging by the costumes alone,
the movies that this was compiled from weren’t that great, either. The council that sends Starman to Earth is
made up of people who apparently communicate by waving their arms up and down
or sideways.
Balazar
the Brain can’t be destroyed, so of course, Starman takes the first scientist
he comes across and tasks the scientist with destroying Balazar. That sounds easy enough. While the scientist is doing that, Starman
fights off several henchmen at once, often reusing a scene from earlier. Occasionally, he’ll have to fight off a
mutant. This means taking on one person
in some weird costume. One of them can
even fly standing up.
I
have to wonder if this movie was even meant to be taken seriously. With Kung Pow, it was all part of the
joke. It would be pretty sad to think
that someone was really putting some effort into this. It’s exactly the kind of movie that belongs
in those 50-packs of movies you get online.
It’s really horrible and not at all worth its share of the purchase
price.
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