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The inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.The inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.The inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.
Ed Nelson
- Dr. Paul Kettering
- (as Edwin Nelson)
Alan Jay Factor
- Glenn Cameron
- (as Alan Frost)
Cornelius Keefe
- Senator Walter K. Powers
- (as Jack Hill)
Phil Posner
- Sheriff
- (as Greigh Phillips)
Leonard Nimoy
- Professor Cole
- (as Leonard Nemoy)
Hampton Fancher
- Zombie
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Gordon Urquhart
- Robert A. Heinlein(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- GoofsLeonard Nimoy's name is misspelled in the opening credits as "Leonard Nemoy"
- Quotes
Senator Walter K. Powers: I'm here, and I want action!
- Alternate versionsWhen originally released theatrically in the UK, the BBFC made cuts to secure a 'A' rating. All cuts were waived in 1991 when the film was granted a 'PG' certificate for home video.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chiller Theatre: The Brain Eaters & The Headless Ghost (1975)
- SoundtracksTristan und Isolde
- Prelude to Act III
Composed by Richard Wagner
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Strange visitors come to Riverdale
I have seen The Brain Eaters a couple of times and is quite enjoyable, despite the low budget and reading some bad reviews about it. This movie was first released on video in the UK as part of the Drive-In Classics series, of which I own a copy. It has since been re-released on video and now DVD.
A strange alien cone shaped craft of unexplained origin appears in the small town of Riverdale. Some scientists and government officials are sent to investigate the craft and at the same time, some of the local residents start acting strange and then die. All of the people who have died have bite marks on the back of their necks and it turns out these are the work of parasites from the cone. These turn out to be millions of year old aliens who want to rule the world and have been living underground all this time. Some of the people enter the cone and are attack by more parasites and are defeated in the end.
The movie's cast is mostly made up of unknowns, although Ed Nelson has appeared in several drive-in movies of this kind including Attack Of the Crab Monsters and A Bucket Of Blood. Also look out for a then unknown Lenard Nimoy, some years before he played Mr Spock in Star Trek.
This is a worth seeing, especially if you are a fan of 1950's science fiction like me.
Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
A strange alien cone shaped craft of unexplained origin appears in the small town of Riverdale. Some scientists and government officials are sent to investigate the craft and at the same time, some of the local residents start acting strange and then die. All of the people who have died have bite marks on the back of their necks and it turns out these are the work of parasites from the cone. These turn out to be millions of year old aliens who want to rule the world and have been living underground all this time. Some of the people enter the cone and are attack by more parasites and are defeated in the end.
The movie's cast is mostly made up of unknowns, although Ed Nelson has appeared in several drive-in movies of this kind including Attack Of the Crab Monsters and A Bucket Of Blood. Also look out for a then unknown Lenard Nimoy, some years before he played Mr Spock in Star Trek.
This is a worth seeing, especially if you are a fan of 1950's science fiction like me.
Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
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- Budget
- $30,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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