I always knew Brainiac to be a Superman villain, making his first appearance in Action Comics back in 1958. This movie's Brainiac came out four years later; I wonder if there were any repercussions over copyright infractions.
Oh well, this is about as cheesy as you can get as far as Sixties sci-fi/horror goes. Burned at the stake for heresy, witchcraft and necromancy among other things in 1661, the Baron Vitelius d'Estera (Abel Salazar) vows to return in three hundred years to seek his revenge on the descendants of the Grand Inquisitors who sentenced him to death. He arrives on a comet and is dropped to Earth in a meteor, immediately seeking out the offspring of those who did him wrong. Fortunately, all of the intended victims happen to live and work in pretty much the same general locale, a long shot after three centuries but that's what the writers went with.
Be prepared for the Baron's first transformation into the avenging creature, he's got a Wolfman-like face with a foot long forked tongue and furry lobster claws for hands. His victims all appear to have vampire inspired holes on the back of their necks that investigators compare to being made by a drill. Somehow, the avenging Baron extracted the entire brain from his victims through these small incisions, occasionally sampling them like a salad for some purpose unexplained in the story line, other than to state that they were his 'medicine'. You have to wonder how the autopsy experts missed that little detail.
Like a lot of these Sixties flicks, the finale is almost anti-climactic, as the chief police investigator (David Silva) and his sidekick Benny (Federico Curiel) inexplicably arrive with flame throwers to confront the Baron's monster form and reduce him to burnt skeletal remains. Fortunately, an hour and fifteen minutes or so isn't too much to endure for this excursion into monster revenge, and if you go for this stuff like I do, you'll put up with just about anything.
Oh well, this is about as cheesy as you can get as far as Sixties sci-fi/horror goes. Burned at the stake for heresy, witchcraft and necromancy among other things in 1661, the Baron Vitelius d'Estera (Abel Salazar) vows to return in three hundred years to seek his revenge on the descendants of the Grand Inquisitors who sentenced him to death. He arrives on a comet and is dropped to Earth in a meteor, immediately seeking out the offspring of those who did him wrong. Fortunately, all of the intended victims happen to live and work in pretty much the same general locale, a long shot after three centuries but that's what the writers went with.
Be prepared for the Baron's first transformation into the avenging creature, he's got a Wolfman-like face with a foot long forked tongue and furry lobster claws for hands. His victims all appear to have vampire inspired holes on the back of their necks that investigators compare to being made by a drill. Somehow, the avenging Baron extracted the entire brain from his victims through these small incisions, occasionally sampling them like a salad for some purpose unexplained in the story line, other than to state that they were his 'medicine'. You have to wonder how the autopsy experts missed that little detail.
Like a lot of these Sixties flicks, the finale is almost anti-climactic, as the chief police investigator (David Silva) and his sidekick Benny (Federico Curiel) inexplicably arrive with flame throwers to confront the Baron's monster form and reduce him to burnt skeletal remains. Fortunately, an hour and fifteen minutes or so isn't too much to endure for this excursion into monster revenge, and if you go for this stuff like I do, you'll put up with just about anything.