Monstrosity

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Georgan G So bad it's good, if you enjoy campy, low-budget sci-fi. Silly special effects that made me smile. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/16/24 Full Review Audience Member Just another dull 60's horror film with bad writing, unnecessary music, dialogue that is nauseating. I give Monstrosity zero out of five stars. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review martin a An interesting B movie from 1963, not brilliant quality and some shaky acting, but a great horror story. A rich old woman whose body is failing hires a mad doctor to try to transplant her brain into the body of a younger woman, sadly when dead bodies stolen from Graveyards fail to work, they hire three young women from abroad to work for them, with the plan to use the bodies to try and perfect the transplant, the problem is the girls find out, but become locked in the house. Great stuff. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member AKA, "ATOMIC BRAIN" There's actually the kernel of a decent idea here, a mix of decrepit body snatching and capitalist vampirism and modern Frankenstein, but the movie is ultimately just cheap and chauvinist. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Campy ultra low budget science fiction/horror story about a rich old woman who plots with with a mad scientist to put her brian into the body of a young woman. The old woman hires three immigrant women as servants, who then become the unwitting test subjects for the mad scientist's experiments. In his first test, the mad scientist put the brain of a cat into one woman, who now has all the instincts of a cat, and (SPOILER ALTERT!) falls to her death while trying to climb onto the roof, because of course. I'd like to think there's an intellectual subtext to film film as a searing indictment of capitalism, with it's story or poor immigrants being exploited by rich and powerful white folk, but that would be giving this ridiculous movie way too much credit. Following the cat lady's death, the film gets even sillier and I don't want to ruin the goofy fun of it all, but there are monsters chained to walls and more weirdo experiments, which make "The Atomic Brain" enjoyable on a so-bad-it's-good level of camp entertainment, if that's your sort of thing. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Watching some of the old MST3K episodes available for streaming on Hulu and Netflix (there is a different random selection on each platform). Whether it is Joel or Mike watching these awful movies with the bots I do not envy their torture. Their snarky comments add some entertainment value, but my ratings are based on the movie's quality itself and not the commentary broadcast from the satellite of love. AKA Monstrosity. A completely misogynistic plot. It only exists to objectify women. Mascelli, the author of The 5 Cs of Cinematography was given directing credit. Strangely two women share screenplay and associate producer credits (as well as props and wardrobe credits) so perhaps there is some overt subtext in the self-hatred and fear of growing old from the lead old woman (Eaton) wanting her brain transferred to a young sexy body. A low-budget producer named Jack Pollexfen also receives uncredited writing and directing credit on IMDb. Too much narration covers for lack of audio quality or simple lack of script and shooting quality. This obnoxious mess is truly a monstrosity. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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