The Brain Eaters (1958) Leonard Nimoy, Ed Nelson | Sci-Fi, Horror | Full Movie | Subtitled

[@Vashti0825]

This is the kind of movie I'd love to watch on late night TV when I was a kid.

[@conniewojahn6445]

Had fun nightmares, did you?

[@leet7489]

amazing how movies used to do so much with so little back then

[@boudewynwagener7653]

What a stunning Ford Thunderbird. Love these oldies to also see the cars of the time🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@johnvan6803]

I thought the same thing! Love those early Ford Thunderbirds!

[@Larkinchance]

Black and white is under-rated. A film in B+W depicts an idea or fear like a memory or a bad dream better than color. Color is vivid but it can distract from the central idea. I saw this corny movie as a kid and it scared the sh*t out of me and haunted my memory in a way that color movies do not.

[@conniewojahn6445]

Still scared, are you? Try watching "Highway Patrol" the early procedural cop show with Broderick Crawford. That'll straighten you out so you can sleep knowing all is right with the world.

[@Larkinchance]

agree@@conniewojahn6445

[@bonniemoerdyk9809]

5 years ago I came down with the worst case of Shingles our hospital had ever seen. To help keep the pain from being as noticeable, I watched and noticed that Black & White shows were better than color, the colors being too much with my nerve pain. I watched every episode of Lassie, Highway Patrol and My Favorite Martian, and a couple episodes of Mr. Ed. As much as I Loved Mr. Ed as a 7 yr old, I just couldn't dig it as a 63 yr old! The show that freaked me out as a kid was Twilight Zone, one episode in particular where a man is hit by a car, but it only damages his arm. He walks around to the front of the car to use the headlights to see better. He pulls back the broken skin and see wires and blinking lights....HE'S A ROBOT!🤖 I was a crying mess for the next 2 or 3 years, at bedtime, absolutely sure I was a robot too!!😂😂🤣 btw .... the show is season 4, episode 1 "In His Image"

[@Johnny_Guitar]

For all you homies, Leonard Nimoy only has about a 3 minute part all in one skit....and that is it! You'll barely see it towards the end when they go into the 'Cone' and he's the one behind the smoke scene sitting down, wearing a hood with a huge white beard at the 50:55 mark....that's him and that's it! Nuthin' more!

[@bkc8h10n4o2]

I loved when he said "Hello Neo, I am the Architect."

[@melanie_luv2_sew]

Damn, I'm here For Nimoy. I'll stay for kicks. thanks for the time index. luv a time index.

[@EstrafaDC]

They couldn't even spell his name correctly in the opening credits: "Leonard Nemoy" -- the most famous person in the cast and the only reason anyone would watch this B movie footnote.

[@iramoser6136]

That's why I watched it. Luckily, his voice is easy to pick out.

[@graemesmith6721]

He looks like the wizard Shazam.

[@Q.Q.Kachoo]

Don’t get too excited, Trekkies, Leonard Nimoy has a very small role. 😔

[@TheSaltydog07]

Aw.

[@reverendlundell7732]

Like none

[@andreasrafalski776]

That's too bad... his name way even spelled incorrectly in the credits at the beginning: Leonard Nemoy! Seems he didn't have a name yet. Lets make sure history doesn't forget the name of Leonard NIMOY! 🖖

[@Lyralope]

It must have been a extremely small role because I watched it twice and still did not see him. Maybe he was disguised as one of those little bug aliens? LOL I would need a timestamp of where he is in the video. :(

[@gregoriopalofuego9808]

@@Lyralope Lyra~ I looked carefully and never saw him. Maybe he was mind-melding with a Horta and we missed the scene? ⚛️

[@paulkramer9666]

Cold War teenagers all looked like they were over thirty years old.

[@duvidl]

In 1959 I saw this on a doublebill with "The Spider"

[@jimmylee2678]

I not only enjoy your movies, but the quality is so good. Thank you!

[@fredrickmarsiello4395]

Thank God this is in black and white. The colorized version was gross.

[@jimmylee2678]

@@fredrickmarsiello4395 I don't care for colorized movies either. I prefer the original black and white versions.

[@conniewojahn6445]

@@jimmylee2678 Black and white rules!! Part of the noir of classic films.

[@hokehinson5987]

They headed for capitol hill in D.C. starved to death in first week....

[@robertcampbell6349]

Good one!😂😂😂

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

Half an hour in, and I have to say the plot has some refreshingly different elements from the same old formulaic creature features. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in the rest of it!

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

The poster has gone to a lot of trouble with this post! Not only is the image and sound quality high, there are subtitles in multiple languages, and the video even has those segment-by-segment summaries if you hover the cursor over the bottom of the frame.

[@claudemarillier6258]

I watched it with French subtitles and they're quite correct. Far better than all those AI produced ones vainly trying to understand anything but very basic words!

[@martygould5114]

Leonard Nimoy would have been unrecognizable had it not been for his distinctive voice.

[@SusanChristopher-hl7eq]

Thanks for the head's up!!

[@davidmende4438]

And the ears.

[@spotify_ERROR404]

0:50:00 leonard nimoy beard man " a group of people..." final characture

[@psidvicious]

🖖Live Long and Prosper

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

@@spotify_ERROR404 CORRECTION: Nimoy's part actually starts at 50:53 and ends at 52:58.

[@mickeyray3793]

The location of this movie is supposed to be Riverdale. So where is Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead. 😮😊

[@helenpoornima5126]

Hai my dears ! I miss u !!👸

[@matthewmorton7386]

Hi helen

[@brendakrieger7000]

Hello dear😊

[@TorontoJon]

It could be worse. It could be 'The Brian Eaters'. Watch out, Brians of the world. ;)

[@jamesvokral4934]

For an extremely low budget it was still better than many overproduced special effects blockbusters.

[@prof.heinous191]

3:36 "In Washington a hastily summoned ufo committee anxiously awaited to see a special screening of Top Secret Army films." Those were the days...

[@ming60640]

Interesting premise, poor editing, dopey script, wooden acting. An hour film that felt like three. I guess Ed Nelson and Leonard Nemoy had to start somewhere.

[@erynlasgalen1949]

The brain eaters are going to starve to death in that town.

[@mindless-pedant]

"They can think?". They've built a space/underground ship that's travelled heaven knows how far. Of course they can f**king think!

[@mickeyray3793]

Gotta love it in these 50s cheapo sci Fi movies whether the location is supposed to be Illinois or even Miami, there is always South California mountains in the background. 😮😅

[@davewitter6565]

1958 a couple of people and a few police men. In 2023 there would be 500 police, military with automatic weapons. 50 media personalities and politicians trying to make a name for themselves.

[@philrichards9761]

The musical score is a riff on Shostakovich's Symphony #5. How fun is that!

[@zanti209]

Also elements of soundtrack from Alexander Nevsky!

[@philrichards9761]

@@zanti209 I wonder how Tom Jonson avoided a copyright lawsuit. Maybe they never found out.

[@conniewojahn6445]

Who's symphony? Never heard of it.

[@philrichards9761]

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[@tombishop2222]

​@@philrichards9761🎉

[@gregoriopalofuego9808]

With a magnificent title: The Brain Eaters, it was a *must see* movie. Here is my review: Casablanca, #1 best movie ever made. On The Waterfront, 2nd best movie ever. The Brain Eaters #3 best movie ever.

[@denisestover2416]

Ed Nelson is one of my very favorite actors. I disagree with the person who said that this movie was the third best movie ever. I've seen very good movies and very good stories made in this same time period. This is okay.

[@gregoriopalofuego9808]

@@denisestover2416 Denise~ That was full-on sarcasm on my part. The Brain Eaters is just another lame-brained (pun intended) sci-fi movie from the '50's. However, I was being honest about Casablanca. "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine." 🍸

[@conniewojahn6445]

Nah, Gone With the Wind was the best movie ever. Of course, you're entitled to your opinion.

[@nedludd7622]

@@gregoriopalofuego9808 I thought that you had gotten it confused for "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" made two years earlier.

[@gregoriopalofuego9808]

@@conniewojahn6445 Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

[@zipjok8850]

This movie doesn't even have Leonard Nimoy in it. It has Leonard Nemoy. @1:15

[@buddy5335]

@50:45 Nimoy was the old man in the cone wearing the white robe.

[@zipjok8850]

​@@buddy5335@1:15 it says Leonard Nemoy.

[@robertdoherty2001]

Unrecognizable, but that’s his voice alright.

[@saulchapnick1566]

Same person. This was a B movie. They couldn’t afford an editor who would have spelled his name correctly. 😊😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@cmillerg6306]

Hmm, the music of Dmitry Shostakovich is used heavily in the score, esp his 1st symphony. With an occasional phrase of prokofiev's music thrown in. I guess whoever spliced in the music likes Russian composers. For example, at around 23:20, a short quote from Prokofievs "Alexander Nevsky". Then back to Shostakovichs 1st symphony. At 33:00, another short quote of prokofievs "Nevsky" and back to Shostakovich. Just highly unusual. The character of Senator Powers is, uh, really silly. Then again, the script isn't very sophisticated.

[@zanti209]

the perceptivity and musical erudicity here knows no bounds.

[@uslines]

No royalties to pay. Public domain music?

[@conniewojahn6445]

What's with you people stuck on the music? Is this some kind of cult? Music cult? Ok, just asking. Maybe I should be paying more attention to the music?

[@williamleahy8478]

Did they misspell Nimoy's name or did he go by Nemoy in his early days?

[@gregoriopalofuego9808]

Bill~ Proper spelling was not a priority back then. Neemoil, Neamoy, Niimooy, Namoi-oi and Nemmoy are all close enough. 🪐

[@JamesSeaberry]

Did anyone notice that at the 24 minute mark, when the parasite is crawling towards Ed Nelson, they borrowed a bit of Sergei Prokofiev's score from "Alexander Nevsky"?!?!??

[@chavruta2000]

obviously. duh.

[@JamesSeaberry]

@@chavruta2000 I'm glad you are so perceptive! You have my admiration.

[@zanti209]

Da! 😄

[@chavruta2000]

@@JamesSeaberry its from eating lots of brains.

[@JamesSeaberry]

@@chavruta2000 Yum! In a light wine sauce, I hope.

[@Del-Canada]

55:02 One of Alan Alda's early roles.

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

4:11 -- "The cone stands fifty feet high, has a base diameter of fifty feet." This is immediately followed by a top-to-bottom view of the cone that shows ... that the height is clearly at least 50% greater than the base diameter.

[@conniewojahn6445]

First thing I noticed. They really screwed that up.

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

​@@conniewojahn6445 They couldn't do math in the 50's.

[@psidvicious]

Thank you Pythagoras.

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

@@psidvicious You're welcome. I'll send you a bill at the end of the month.

[@LauraPeterson-tf6zb]

These old movies are interesting. They didn't talk about sex or cuss and swear. But they were brutal. My mother told me that she would watch them later on in her life and laugh because just like the horror movies we watch these days they were far fetched and the special effects were incredible. Just like Dracula and Frankenstein. The monsters were just actors in costumes.

[@zanti209]

This is the original movie CHILDREN OF THE CONE

[@robertcampbell6349]

Mmmmm. Brains.

[@CultCinemaClassics]

@robertcampbell6349 🤯🤯🤯

[@marywaldron2695]

This actually was a pretty good suspenceful B movie. Ed Nelson was a really good actor and helped make this movie alot more watchable. A little overkill on the mayor though.😊

[@busterbiloxi3833]

Combat.

[@anacatarina1388]

What an amazing Invasion of the Body Snatchers inspiration👽🎥⭐⭐⭐

[@michaelbreault5]

Mountains in Illinois?

[@zrxdoug]

I can see why Heinlein sued...and why he didn't want his name attached to this film.. Still a better story than the the movie they finally made that WAS based on "The Puppet Masters" though..

[@shaneconrad7816]

I remember seeing the as a kid, scary stuff then. Strange that I didn’t notice the hot ladies with the pointed bra’s. Notice them now though…

[@geraldvanhees779]

I was looking for nemoy, hopung id see him in the beginning. Turns out the movie WASNT THAT BAD. Then ri continued to warch until nearly the end, saw nemoy, said to myself i forgot why i started to watch this movie in the first place. Not to corny for a 50s sci fi thriller! This might be the best 50s sci fi i ever seen👽

[@CultCinemaClassics]

@geraldvanhees779 Glad you gave it a try and enjoyed it so!

[@moonprincessRN]

Nimoy. The credits spelled his name wrong.

[@troutbassncat3025]

That would have been worth hiding in the trunk of a car for.

[@nowaythishappened]

Read Puppet Masters by Heinlen....much better story.

[@Morboeatspeople]

52:43 For anyone wondering about Leonard Nemoy, *ahem*, I mean, Nimoy.

[@Julie-bp8jd]

Come on Svengoolie I'm waiting for you to play this,👍👍🧠👀

[@pressureworks]

The Doctor will drop everything and rush mainly to a quarry in England whenever there is a Alien, etc threat, but the Timelord rarely bothers to help whenever other countries are endangered. And where the heck is Spaceghost ?

[@Mrcharrio]

I never knew this happened to Archie and the Gang in Riverdale

[@cmodzins]

I like the women being controlled at the 40:00 minute mark. She should have not put on a robe or slippers.

[@goodchessactor]

This movie should be titled "I Don't Know" since they say that so much.

[@rosimeremedeiros6630]

Thank you.

[@kevinhoffman6592]

The remake with RFK jr is really scary

[@scarletibis3158]

Credits say Leonard Nemoy. did he change it later to Nimoy?

[@jariheikkila4782]

I've never seen this film before. It's great thanks for sharing this and thanks finnish subtitles too🎬🇫🇮

[@CultCinemaClassics]

😉 @jariheikkila4782

[@Wuchtamsel]

This movie is so bad, it feels as if someone was chewing on my brain...

[@vaccavo]

Mmmmmm... I don't know.

[@RJD1308]

It reminds me of Robert Heinlein's book The Puppet Masters from 1951. Also Star Trek Operation Annihilate.

[@zrxdoug]

It reminded Heinlein of his book as well...he sued Corman. Corman claimed he'd never heard of "The Puppet Masters," but after reading the book, agreed with Heinlein and settled out of court.

[@poopololo]

thank you cyberpunk 2077 ;)

[@psidvicious]

At 39:15 did she fart while rolling over in bed? 💨🤢

[@bond0666]

Nimoy is professor cole, inside the cone

[@Johnny_Guitar]

50:55

[@CissyBrazil]

I like Ed Nelson in this. Often he plays scoundrels. 😊

[@valstone52]

Right he did play creeps a lot of the time. Very unlikeable.

[@oliverscratch]

This movie is so bad it's fun to watch.

[@graemesmith6721]

So, Leonard Nimoy plays the wizard Shazam. Also, voiceover narration should be illegal. It violates the rule of "Show, don't tell." Any information the audience needs should be conveyed either visually or through dialogue. Narration should never be used once the setting has been established, and it certainly should not be used to describe things we can actually SEE happening! Apart from that, it's not a bad little low-budget sci-fi flick, though basically a rip-off of the far superior "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" from two years earlier (Nimoy was also in the 1978 remake of that movie). Interestingly, it was directed by long-time Roger Corman actor Bruno VeSota, who appeared in Daddy-O, Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Undead, and many other AIP productions.

[@cruncherblock3834]

This is the first "Puppet Masters".

[@celiaabbott184]

Love Walter K Powers!!

[@nedludd7622]

This was plagiarized from a Robert Heinlein novel "The Puppet Masters" though it was rather far from the main story of the book. Even in winning Heinlein lost because a proposed movie from his book was canceled.

[@RolandoMartinez-bp1ox]

The Conus Horror!

[@STho205]

This movie style is the basis for The Outer Limits of the mid 60s. TV series were typically derivative of movies the decade before: Perry Mason and the earlier Perry Mason movies in the 40s Star Trek and Forbidden Planet MASH as a sanitized version of the raunchy and gruesome movie along with Catch 22 Gilligan's Island and The Amazing Crieghton/Paradise Lagoon Brady Bunch and Yours Mine and Ours

[@bkc8h10n4o2]

31:44 best scream ever

[@reesaserik3759]

The top of the cone looked like a giant screw. You could clearly tell that it came up from beneath the surface. Any true fac of TOS Trek, would have recognized Nimoy's voice. No need to see the face.

[@brendakrieger7000]

I'm sorry I was absent from this evening's entertainment. I was at the fair tonight🚜🐇🐐🐷🐄

[@tedthesailor172]

Okay for the genre vintage, but I found the incidental music a bit too loud and distracting. Thanks for sharing though...

[@uweinhamburg]

Good old USA! The next gun is never more than 10 meters away...

[@unclecreepy4324]

Film was based on 'The Puppet Masters' by Robert Heinlein.

[@cindydott452]

Isn't this the movie that Robert Heinlein sued the produces of, because they blatantly stole the plot from his book "The Puppet Masters"?

[@violadamore2-bu2ch]

Shostakovich's music for background.

[@anubisawakened3250]

Warning: Nimoy is like 3 minutes of this movie.

[@busterbiloxi3833]

Where. Time-stamp or STFU!

[@Johnny_Guitar]

50:55

[@busterbiloxi3833]

Thanks.@@Johnny_Guitar

[@normanriggs848]

I wonder how Nimoy felt about his role in this? Great stuff for it's time though.

[@المصباحالسحري-ذ4د]

السلام عليكم 🎉ممكن فلم البحث عن الكنز

[@jorgezarco9269]

They misspelled "Leonard Nimoy". Spock and Dr. Kibner won't be happy. Highly-illogical.

[@psidvicious]

Acknowledged 🖖

[@nelsonx5326]

So, this is the movie with the giant ice cream cone. Missed this one on Chiller Theater.

[@pressureworks]

4:16 " it's only a model".......shhhush....

[@wayne9094]

Based on a true story. But it is a small type caterpillar that lives in the Brazilian rain forest. The caterpillar will crawl in a animal or humans ears while sleeping. Then lay eggs after chewing threw the ear drum. Eventually finding it way to the brain. There it lays hundreds of eggs. And dies. The smaller larva hatch and start eating the animal or humans brain. One person had been getting bad headaches. Then started going blind. Eventually went to a hospital. They took a x-ray of his head. And there were so many larva eating the man's brain. It looks like fly maggots by the hundreds on a dead animal. There was nothing that could be done but give the man pain killer medication. Eventually after several weeks the lava turned to little caterpillar looking insects . And would come out live when he would blow his nose. Some came out underneath his eyes his ears and he eventually died as hundreds made it to his throat. And he choked to death. This might sound bàd. But luckily it never really happened and I just made it all up.😊

[@geraldvanhees779]

That's a night gallery episode: the caterpillar w/ Lawrence Harvey.

[@wayne9094]

@@geraldvanhees779 I think I saw that one. Guy was trying to kill the wife's husband. And hired a guy to put a earwig in the husband's bed to crawl in his ear. And eat threw the ear canal and go into the husband's brain. But the guy put the earwig in the guy who hired him bed. And it lay eggs in the guys head. Rod Sterling was a great writer. Died young at around 50. Smoked 4 to 5 packs a cigarettes a day.

[@ahashdahnagila6884]

Leonard Nimoy had such a small role that they even forgot how to spell his last name, in the credits. Leonard who? Leonard Knee Moyle? Oy veh! Such a moyle!

[@psidvicious]

He only worked for tips 😄

[@catchup3623]

...sooooo,,, I never saw Lenard Nemoy??? What's up with that???

[@Johnny_Guitar]

50:55

[@TrumpFacts-wl2ik]

Its a helter-skelter - a spiral slide frequent in UK, where the ladder is up the middle and the slide goes out around it.

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

Stop.

[@pressureworks]

The Cone.

[@luisitocano8276]

thank you so much for this movie!

[@lauriefrancisco1084]

Not bad.

[@normabeatrizitabarbo2397]

👏😊

[@pbr-streetgang]

👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

[@TorontoJon]

It looks like I picked a bad time to be on a brain-free diet. ;)

[@CultCinemaClassics]

@TorontoJon 🤣🤣🤣

[@melanie_luv2_sew]

they spelled Leonard Nimoy's name incorrectly. they spelled in N E M O Y. the horror.

[@CultCinemaClassics]

@melanie_luv2_sew where is it misspelled?

[@melanie_luv2_sew]

@@CultCinemaClassics the opening credits of the movie. time index 1:18 "...and Leonard Nemoy"

[@lauraspencer9855]

The height and diameter of the cone are not both 50 feet. As a retired geometry teacher this is the sort of thing I notice first. About 4 miles from Riverdale Illinois is the William W Powers State Park. Powers had been a Chicago alderman on the Chicago City Council and Illinois General Assembly legislator in the 1920s. Maybe W stands for Walter? Coincidence?

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

Calc the volume of the cone, please.

[@lauraspencer9855]

@@satanicmicrochipv5656 Just using any given length, the scale of the still shot @4:16 can be used to observe the height is twice the diameter. Maybe the speaker(script writer) meant the base diameter is 50 feet but then the height would be closer to 100 feet. But, then estimating the height of the man on the scaffold to be about 6 feet (an easy number to work with) the cone is about 5 times his height. Even with foreshortening the height would not be 50 feet or 100 feet. I know it sounds trivial, but this could have been an easy edit. To answer your question, using height of actor=6ft, height of cone=30 ft, radius of cone = 7.5 ft (since the diameter would be 15 ft), the volume is about 1767 cubic feet, depending on rounding.

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

@@lauraspencer9855 HaHa!! Pythagoras would be proud. 🤘🤓🥃

[@e.s.l.1083]

🍽

[@brodok4252]

Who built the damn cone for them?

[@fonziebulldog5786]

The cone people.

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

I've waited and searched a long time for this movie on KZbin 😻

[@carlosmanuelgomez6961]

😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@conniewojahn6445]

Was it worth the search and wait?

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

@@conniewojahn6445 It's exactly how I expected it to be, so I guess yeah :)

[@cosmojose5264]

It's this movie public domain?

[@gregoriopalofuego9808]

Cosmo~ "I don't know."

[@cosmojose5264]

@@gregoriopalofuego9808 so, it can be piracy?

[@georgeszilva1223]

Now I know whats wrong with Democrats!!

[@valstone52]

You mean rumpsters.

[@boydlewis8747]

where was Nimoy?

[@STho205]

Voice of Prof Cole.

[@Johnny_Guitar]

50:55

[@jay55also]

Nimoy as prof. Cole with a father time beard and a shroud. With so much smoke & fog , really couldn't see him well enough.

[@psidvicious]

@@jay55also Only really recognizable by the voice.

[@timp1051]

No democrats were harmed in the making of this movie.