NOTE: Over the holiday break, I decided to take in some wacky public domain movies on archive.org... I thought I'd write a crazy post about it... what do you think?!
| Steve and Dan detect gamma-rays emanating from Mystery Mountain |
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After a cosmic ball of light causes an explosion at a desert mountain, miles away, scientist Steve March picks up on fluctuating radiation signals. After some blabbing about cold-war era atomic energy mumbo-jumbo, he's off to investigate with his assistant, Dan.
They conveniently find a pile of rocks recently blasted into position and follow their geiger counter to the dead-end of an empty cave. A huge phantom brain with menacing eyes fades into sight, impervious to their bullets, blasting them with radiation and bright light. While Dan is roasted alive like a piggy at a luau, Steve is inhabited by the malicious entity named, “Gor”.
| 🎵 “He's a brainiac, braiiiiiiniac named ‘Gor’ — and he's dancin' like he's never danced beforrrrrrre ” 🎵 |
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| George the dog says, “Stop making out, ya perv!” |
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A week having gone by, Steve rolls up to his honey's house, playing it cool. Steve (now controlled by the power-mad brain guy, “Gor”) doesn’t seem the same, suffering terrible pangs and animalistically snogging a shocked and troubled Sally. He oversteps his welcome and gets attacked by the family dog “George”, before storming off in an intergalactic tizzy.
In sheer torment, Steve, while alone with his oppressor, vows to resist both Gor’s attempts at nabbing Sally — and his plans for world domination, but resistance is futile. When invited to lunch, Steve accepts, but then gets fully taken over by Gor and does a really dramatic nutty, sending Sally's father off.
| Steve does a nutty when asked to go to a cookout so they can figure out just what the fudge is wrong with him. |
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| Sally and Pops do some cave exploration of their own and find Steve's fellow scientist, Dan, roasted by atomic brain thoughts. |
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Both Sally and her father investigate the cave where all this started, finding Dan's sizzled remains and realizing Steve lied about Dan's trip to Vegas. What happens in the cave, stays in the cave! They're approached by another monster-brain, “Boll” — a benign being who explains that Gor is a psycho criminal on the run — they are both from the same planet, Arous. Later, they hatch a plan to kill or capture Gor without harming Steve. Boll decides to inhabit the mutt and keep an eye on things.
| George the Dog: “I thought I TOLD YOU to STOP making out, ya jackwagon!” |
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| A general shoots at Steve/Gor before getting gamma-rayed in the face |
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| Steve uses a window of opportunity to *axe* Gor a very important question! |
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Retreating to his lab, fatigued by a long day of blowing stuff up and out-governmenting the governments, Gor exits Steve's body and solidifies in order to recuperate. Steve sees a note that Sally left, instructing him to give Gor a whack in a vulnerable spot. Since Gor doesn't have typical male vulnerabilities, Steve repeatedly axes a particular fissure. He dead! Boll, having accomplished his mission to destroy Gor, floats off back to the cerebellum nebula, leaving Sally and Steve the task of both rebuilding their jacked-up lives — and cleaning about 300 pounds of alien space brain off the laboratory floor.
Please let me know what you think - I plan to make a few more of these soon!
