Wow! Such a good movie.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I haven't read all the comments, but I'm sure someone has already mentioned that the planet's name, AROUS is but missing an "E" at the end, and that it is pronounced throughout as "eros". Someone has, however, mentioned that Joyce Meadows is hot! Gor may have been a bad guy, but I'll bet John Agar was happy to have him aboard for those pashing scenes with this underrated, sensual actress. Some of the more erotic scenes you'll see in films from the white-picket Fifties.That aside, if you discount the asinine brain special effects, John Agar is truly scary in a few scenes, especially when his eyes become metallic bursts, and the comment on unbridled power sought after by so many right wing maniacs in history brings it succinctly into the atomic age.

"The Two Brains From Planet Arous", actually. This stupid little sci-fi cheapie features an alien who must have inhaled a life-long supply of laughing gas; how else to explain the incessant laughter which precedes and follows every act of violence against the poor, defenseless Earthlings? Agar's performance is so hammy, so campy, so silly, and invariably stupid that it reduces the already flimsy story to a sub-superficial comic-book level.The evil brain, Gor, dominates the movie with his endless displays of power. On the other hand, the good-guy brain, Vol, promises at the outset that his powers are equal to, if not greater, than Gor's, but what happens? Vol enters a dog's body, and does practically nothing to stop Gor; so much for greater power than Gor... In fact, for most of the movie Vol is just a useless dog, licking his masters or his own balls (a new sensation for him, no doubt). And what's with this Gor? His plan is to have the Earthlings create a huge inter-planetary fleet which would invade Arous and establish him as ruler of that planet. There's just a tiny, tiny, tiny little hitch: won't the other brains from Arous have the same power as he does, and simply annihilate any fleet that attempts to take over the planet with the power of their mind? I also find Gor's newly-acquired taste for female flesh - and a ravenous appetite it is - to be quite silly.

As a kid growing up on Long Island in the 1970s, I was lucky enough to watch TV shows like "Creature Features" on Channel 5 and "Chiller Theater" on Channel 11. Movies like "Brain from Planet Arous" were staples of these SciFi and Horror- themed formats....I have just ordered a copy of this movie and am anxiously awaiting seeing it for the first time in probably 30 years! I don't remember a ton of the plot details but I do remember that John Agars silver/black eye pupils were FREAKING CREEPY LOOKING, and the "Brain" monsters were pretty scary... at least to a 10 year old. Definitely a MUST SEE MOVIE for any serious SciFi buff!If I had to list the Top 5 Best / Scariest SciFi movies from when I was a Kid they would be:#5)"Fiend Without a Face / Night of the Blood Beast" - 2 different movies; one of these was pretty scary. (I just don't remember which one...)#4)"Attack of the Crab Monsters" - The giant crabs faces and voices were pretty scary, as I recall...#3)"Brain From Planet Arous" - As a kid, I used to imagine Gor (the evil Brain) was hiding in my bedroom closet, waiting to "get me"...#2)"The Killer Shrews" - our basement was dark, had a space under the stairs AND a wet bar; just like the one where the Killer Shrew hid and waited to bite his victim!#1) My ***All - Time Favorite Scariest B-Movie*** is "Terror From the Year 5000", with the mutant woman who fries you with her shiny Lee Press-On Nails and then steals your face!!! (Salome Jens, you totally hot mutant babe, you!)

"The Brain From Planet Arous" is one of the best 50's sci-fi films of that genre. In the 60's and 70's it was on WOR, or WPIX TV about twice a month. If you are a fan of this film, you should absolutely buy the DVD. It's part of the Wade Williams Collection, and put out by Image Entertainment. The DVD transfer is excellent! One of the better things about this film, is that it is in B & W, not color. John Agars' performance is the ultimate campy overacting, but it fits in just great! There is a small, but good part played by a very young Robert Fuller in the beginning. This film rates up along with another from that time period. "Attack Of The Crab Monsters!" [email protected]