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This plot of this film is really out there-an arrogant evil alien brain named Gor possesses the body of Steve March(here played with gusto by John Agar) and plans on using it to help her conquer the world!(and also get real friendly with Steve's girlfriend Sally-played by Joyce Meadows). A good alien brain named Val inhabits Sally's dog to try and stop the evil alien brain. It's amazing how entertaining and fun this film really is--watching it is always a good time.

Now this is the ultimate in 50s low budget drive-in outer space silliness. A rogue Brain from planet Arous comes to Earth to overtake body of an good boy atomic scientist and (surprisingly) conquer the Earth! Later, second Brain arrives to stop him, overtaking the body of poor doggie. Special effects look like the ones from Attack of the 50ft Woman (see-through monsters etc.) and the plot is similarly goofy. John Agar´s performance as an atomic scientist turned fiend is overacted as ever, which but adds to whole goofiness of the film. Recommended to any 50s B-movie fan.

'The Brain From Planet Arous' is a compelling tale of a scientist who becomes possessed by an alien with an attitude. The scientist is played by b-grade legend John Agar ('Attack Of The Puppet People' and dozens of other gems) and the alien is a giant floating brain with eyes. Did I mention that the alien is sex-starved and has the hots for Agar's fiancee good girl Joyce Meadows? Meadows and her Pop (Thomas Browne Henry) desperately plot to save Agar before he can a) jump her bones and b) enslave the world, their only help being another (good) alien who hides inside their faithful pooch. Yes, this is one ridiculously entertaining movie that will be enormously enjoyed by any bad movie buff. Highly recommended sci fi silliness!

This film gets off to a decent start. I like films set in the desert. And the acting of Robert Fuller is adequate. But too soon, we leave the desert, Fuller leaves the movie (to save his career no doubt). And we're left with a dimwitted plot, campy looking aliens that wouldn't scare a bird, and John Agar's "acting".

All suspense is lost early on when we see the evil alien, an uninspired floating ball with two sleepy eyes. And of course the ball speaks English, convenient for the film's characters --- and the intended audience. Near the end of the film, the alien makes a little speech (in English of course), rambling on about Caesar, Napoleon, and Hitler. Seems our alien is both talkative and well educated.

The film's plot is painfully anthropomorphic. The idea of a criminal "brain" hungry for power is hardly alien; it's all too human. And John Agar's performance has to be seen to be believed. His facial expression right before he kills the sheriff is true camp. The abrupt ending of the film gives the impression that it ended simply because the producer ran out of money.

This campy, 1950's sci-fi flick is a lot of fun. I get more laughs out of it than I do out of some contemporary comedies.

For Pittsburgh viewers, 1957's "The Brain from Planet Arous" has become known as the very first movie broadcast on Chiller Theater on a Saturday afternoon, Sept. 14, 1963, kicking off 20 years of Chilly Billy until its inevitable end on New Years Day 1984. It was a production of Howco International Pictures, serving theaters throughout the South from Arkansas to North Carolina, an obviously Poverty Row outfit below even American International or Allied Artists, on par with Lippert ("King Dinosaur") or Astor ("Frankenstein's Daughter"). The same filmmakers went on to greater cult glory with Allied Artists' 1958 "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman," director Nathan Juran, using the pseudonym Hertz, and producer/cinematographer Jacques R. Marquette, the star a game John Agar, just one year removed from the Universal days of "Revenge of the Creature," "Tarantula," and "The Mole People," still stuck in the science fiction rut he'd hoped to escape. As nuclear scientist Steve March, Agar and his assistant (Robert Fuller) are based in the Mojave Desert to examine odd bursts of radiation at desolate Mystery Mountain, represented by Bronson Caverns, the ubiquitous outdoor location not just for Westerns but all low budget genre producers since 1933's "The Vampire Bat." His assistant ends up dead and poor Steve is then possessed by disembodied criminal alien brain Gor, from the distant planet Arous (air-us), which causes consternation for Steve's pretty fiancée Sally (Joyce Meadows), not expecting her intended to return a crazed sex fiend with mad desires. Fortunately, she soon learns everything from benign lawman brain Vol, keeping close tabs on Gor/Steve from inside the family dog, one victim after another becoming a burnt corpse behind Steve's glare, the thick contact lenses quite painful for the actor, who nevertheless relishes the rare opportunity to go against type as a villain. On a reported budget of $58,000 the acting could have been a lot worse, the outlandish premise and outsized props featuring in a climax that leaves poor Steve literally brainless (a more sober treatment of the same plot was done in 1966's small scale British entry "Invasion").

That's right--"The Brain From Planet Arous" is _indeed_ John Agar's best science-fiction movie...but that's not saying very much. While it is undoubtedly _cheap_ (the giant alien brains in their natural form look a lot like balloons!), and while the storyline is sheer goofiness bordering on surrealism (one of the brains inhabits the body of a dog!), it _is_ somehow fun to watch, in spite of (or more likely because of) its low-budget limitations. And John Agar IS fun to watch; you can tell that he's doing his best here--in the scenes where he's possessed by the evil brain, he had to wear some very uncomfortable silver contact lenses--but the odd, yet by-the-numbers script doesn't give him much to work with. Still, if you're willing to put your own brain on hold for a little while, you might get a kick out this movie.

My friend, who's a John Agar fan, clued me in on this. I saw it on video the other night. It's one of those movies that is so bad, that it's pretty good (or at least not a complete waste of time). I especially like the scene where Agar's character, while driving a jeep through the desert, crashes into a huge rock that he couldn't possibly have missed, then says something like "well, I guess we walk from here." The ending is completely beyond belief; you have to see it to believe anyone would end a movie like that.

This is a surprisingly entertaining sci-fi flick from the 50s despite some very obvious shortcomings such as the actors walking off camera leaving us with no action or the brain suspended with visible filament. It's also refreshing when the military and politicians readily accept extra-terrestrial causes for some unexplained events. And with scant evidence to boot! All this is laughable but in a way charming in an innocent way, as if a child's imagination had been allowed to run wild.

The main actors were rather enjoyable as well. John Agar plays his part with gusto and his evil genius laugh is classic. But it is the shapely Joyce Meadows who raises this movie above the pack. Her scenes with Agar exude sensuality, especially while Agar is inhabited by the evil brain. In the first one Agar becomes so passionate that Meadows wonders what has possessed him. This of course begs the question as to how he could have helped been passionate before. Meadows is not a classic beauty but she is hot! This is definitely a fun movie. It doesn't take itself seriously and when one comes into it with no expectations it proves to be a surprise find.

Generally speaking there are two types of Sci-Fi movies from the 1950's. First and foremost you have the timeless and indisputable classics. These are the highly influential milestones that everybody knows and appreciates, like "The Day The Earth Stood Still", "Forbidden Planet", "This Island Earth" and a selected few others. Secondly you have the massive overload of low-budgeted, insignificant but tremendously amusing campy B-movies. These movies handle about the weirdest and most grotesque alien invasion stories and feature the craziest monster designs and special effects. The majority of those films are long forgotten and very obscure by now, but if you happen to stumble upon a cheap DVD version, you're guaranteed to have a great time! "The Brain from Planet Arous" is such an irresistible camp oldie. The plot is preposterous, the titular monster is a ludicrous creation and the script is chock-full of slightly perverted undertones and insinuations. Dig this: the eminent scientist Steve March and his assistant head out to the remote area of Mystery Mountain because there are unusual fluctuations in the radioactivity measurements. Once there, they run into an evil alien from the planet Arous that goes by the name of Gor. Gor is in fact a gigantic floating brain with a pair of evil penetrating eyes who promptly kills the assistant and possesses the body of Steve. Gor wants to do very sexist things to Steve's fiancée Sally, but his main objective nevertheless remains dominating the entire universe. His hobbies include burning people's faces and causing planes to explode in open air. Luckily, for our planet's sake, Arous also sent a good alien named Vol to prevent Gor from executing his fiendish plans. In order to stay close to Gor, Vol possesses the body of Steve's loyal dog George! Now, through this brief plot description it's probably clear already why "The Brain from Planet Arous" isn't ranked amongst the biggest Sci-Fi classics of the 50's decade, but it's definitely great entertainment. The film is fast-paced and doesn't suffer from dullness at all. Genre expert Nathan Juran ("The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", "20 Million Miles to Earth") assures a tight direction and John Agar is the B-movie veteran actor at your service. There are numerous memorable highlights to be found here, like watching how Agar painfully struggles with his black contact lenses or the meeting of the world leaders gathered in a small office in Indian Springs; Nevada. The abrupt ending leaves many questions unanswered (like how is Steve every going to talk his way out of what happened) and the whole thing only gets sillier if you think about it, but "The Brain from Planet Arous" definitely comes warmly recommended to all tolerant fans of Sci-Fi nonsense.

What happens to a scientist and his assistant when they check out atypical radiation levels in a cave blasted from the heart of a desert? The answer lies behind the story of The Brain from Planet Arous as a huge renegade alien brain has come to our world from Arous to be the all-powerful force in the world. John Agar becomes his human vessel who demands world dominion from the major nations of the world. Who or what can stop him? Yeah, okay - you get the general premise of this somewhat cheap, very campy, oft times lamentable science fiction offering from the golden era of science fiction - the 1950s. Director Nathan Juran( a good director of such films as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, etc...)shows a bit of flair here and there but really does a flat job directing this film in many ways. The script certainly offers little help, and the budget is minuscule. The brains look like super-imposed "ghosts" that look like they are not there but are suppose to be. I laughed at the meeting with the leaders of the world in a small little office. Apart from that there are really no special effects to mention. The acting is okay. Agar really hams it up whilst having the alien use him, but the rest of the cast is very dull(excluding the dog). The love interest for Agar is Joyce Meadows and she is very wooden. The Brain from Planet Arous just does not seem to pack the punch of so many low-budget science fiction offerings from the same decade. Why? I don't really know. It has the components for a pretty decent film with Juran, Agar, and a weird, absurd premise but comes off rather stilted and dull for the most part.

Next to the movies that come out today this is 2001 A Space Odyssey. Actually it is pretty good if you can get past the hilarity of brains floating around with two eyes. The eyes were very expressive. I call them phony Disney eyes. You know the eyes all the Walt Disney cartoon characters have had since the 80's.

John Agar who married a very young Shirley Temple years ago is the star of this movie along with the pet pooch. I understand he had a little drinking problem and that did not help his career. Still he was skilled enough not to make this into a over acted mess like most of actors who portray superhuman aliens that can destroy the universe. He acted like a regular guy most of the time.

I am not going to give away the whole movie other then to say it looks like Gor a alien from this planet escaped the police and landed in John Agar's brain. We know this because Vol is another alien from Arous but he is cop looking for the elusive Gor. Vol is also a floating brain but he decides the family dog is the best place for him to hide out. In the meantime John Agar kills his colleague because he is a rival for Joyce Meadows affection. Vol let's Joyce and her father know that her boyfriend is acting strange because Gor has taken over his body.

Gor/Agar can blow up airplanes just by looking at them and he does. There is a Atomic Age sub story. Gor shows his might by demanding a meeting by all the superpowers take place so he can show them he is even more powerful then the A Bomb. This is all very entertaining. I like the idea that the Joyce Meadows character is not your typical blithering idiot girlfriend. Gor/Agar becomes a little frisky with Joyce but the dog is not going for it, The Alien in the dog is a good idea because the dog can hang out with Gor/Agar without any suspicion being cast. So as silly as it seems, it works. It it much better the Vol hiding outing in a human whose presence has to be explained.

The end comes quickly and I am not going to give it away. But this was a nice little movie that is not as bad as the title makes it seem.

This movie is probably the only place where John Agar's natural talent for cackling like a demented chicken and mugging the camera with a goofy, forced-looking grin is actually appropriate for the role. Otherwise, the film has little to recommend it. The thin, conventional plot is stretched way beyond its limits. Scenes end up being repeated in slightly altered form simply to pad the film out to the requisite hour and ten minutes. The only talented actor in the film, Robert Fuller, plays a character that gets killed five minutes into the film, which coincides with the disappearance of anything mysterious, tense, or mildly interesting from the movie. The female lead, Joyce Meadows, plays her role in a depressing monotone, and always seems like she's just about to throw up. The rest of the cast is even flatter and more non-descript than that. The special effects are crude (toy airplanes on visible strings, the brain obviously nothing but a painted balloon) and descend into the ludicrous at the end, when they are most needed. And, once again, for the umpteenth time in a 50's horror film, the monster is radioactive for no reason whatsoever. If there is an archetype for a lousy 50's horror film, "Brain from Planet Arous" is it.

The first time I ever saw or heard of BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS, I was twelve and it was shown on "Creature Features." When I first saw it, I thought it was kind of cheap, but I enjoyed it. Years later I heard of its bad reputation but I had my memories of it not being all that bad. Seeing it again as an adult, I actually found much the films ludicrousness entertaining. Not just that, I was surprised by the films slightly unusual premise: the alien brain named Gor bent on taking over the Earth is a criminal. The rest of the Arousians are like Vol- a policeman from Arous sent to arrest the evil Gor - basically peaceful. It's slightly unusual for a film from this period for the alien invader to be portrayed as not representative of his race. The idea of alien police man stalking an alien criminal (as a previous commentator in this forum has noted) has turned up in few science fiction novels. This plot also shows up in the excellent 1987 thriller THE HIDDEN.

While the films special effects are cheap, they are no better or worse than those in most other programmer films made on this budget from the same period. The film does has some really ludicrous moments already mention by previous reviewers. Some complaints mentioned in this forum are unjustified and seem to be the result of straining. Like the commentator who complained about bodies not decaying. It's absurd, but it is the kind of mistake that turns up all the time even in "good" movies.

One of the films main problems is John Agar. As film historian and 50's science fiction expert Bill Warren has pointed out, John Agar tries, but he can't pull it off. When he becomes possessed and tries to be evil, he comes across more as comical than menacing. If a much better actor was cast, perhaps this film might be more highly regarded. I think a good example would be to compare Agar's performance to that of Lew Ayers in DONOVAN'S BRAIN (See my entry on that film). DONOVAN'S BRAIN has a similar theme: evil disembodied brain bent on world conquest takes over the body of a scientist. Ayers was convincing, Agar is not.

Perhaps the strangest thing about this film is that when it first came out, reviewers dismissed it as a "routine programmer" "conventional science fiction" and "just another double bill shocker." Regardless of what you think of this film, I'm sure you will agree those words certainly don't apply to BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS.

Till next time...Your Old Pal Jim.

This film is one of the great camp science fiction classics of those paranoid years of the Fifties. Though I will say that the Russians do come somewhat together with the free world to combine forces against a greater threat.

The threat is this criminal brain from the planet Arous wherever in the Universe that is. It may only be a floating brain but this brain has powers and abilities way beyond those of man. Including the power to take over human bodies like that of scientist John Agar. These folks are kind of like the Organians in that classic Star Trek episode. But the Organians are happy incorporeal beings who just want these lower creatures to leave them alone. These Arousian brains occasionally want some earthly pleasures as the brain remarks he'd love to have some pleasure with Agar's fiancé Joyce Meadows. Since they're just brains just how does an Arousian arousal manifest itself?

Anyway a good brain from Arous comes to fight the bad one, but it can only be done when the brain has to leave its corporeal host for a breather. The good brain to keep an eye on the situation inhabits Joyce Meadows dog. Can this get sillier? Yes it can, but I don't want to give too much away.

The Brain From Planet Arous or maybe the two brains is a cinematic hoot from start to finish. If you live science fiction camp, this is your film. See John Agar almost take over the world.

The 1950s was a great era for making low budget monster movies in California. All you needed was a camera, a cheap monster, and Bronson Canyon, and boom, you've got a monster movie. This film is no exception. It definitely has a place in there with "Teenagers from Outer Space," and "Robot Monster," but isn't quite so bad. Don't get me wrong it delivers the cheese, but somehow it isn't quite as bad, it's just kind of boring.

John Agar plays a nuclear scientist who works too much. He and his assistant discover radiation emitting from a mountain in the middle of nowhere and go out to investigate. They end up finding a brain from outer space that uses Agar as a host and kills his dorky assistant. The brain takes a hankering to Agar's fiancée and tries to woo her by making him act like an even bigger idiot than he already was. The alien brain has the power to unleash atomic explosions using Agar's eyes. The brain has a scheme to take over the world (every evil alien brain does) by blackmailing the governments of the world. Oh, and there's a good brain from the same planet that comes to help the fiancée and her father stop the bad brain by living in the family dog (I kid you not).

The special effects weren't that good (you could see the wire when the brain was "floating") and the special effect with Agar's eyes was pretty lame, but they needed to do something to show the change. The acting was alright (nothing to write home about) and the plot was the same old space monster thing.

If you need to see some cheesy space monster movie, this isn't that great.

THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS is a great title for a rather ordinary little B-movie science fiction flick from 1957. The story involves the titular floating giant brain, a wonderful special effect, which possesses a scientist and causes him to do evil as the narrative progresses. Luckily there's a good brain too to help fight back. This one's notable for the quality of its special effects: the brains look great, as does the creepy contact lenses worn by the main actor. The rest is very talky, understated, and low budget throughout, failing to build up much suspense as it all gradually unfolds. Average overall.

In the 1950s and 60s, John Agar made a ton of ultra-low budget horror films of varying quality (though most were pretty poor--at least when it came to the technical aspects of the films). While many would make fun of the films, I like them because of their campy qualities and sense of nostalgia. So, when I found THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS, I was thrilled to see it. Oddly, however, the film is a combination of an excellent and rather original plot and super-duper cheese!

The film begins with some sort of light crashing in the nearby desert. Agar and an expendable friend go to investigate. It turns out that there is a giant translucent brain with eyeballs named Gor who is waiting to be "rescued"--because he plans on taking over a body and setting about taking over the Earth. You really have to see this stupid special effect to believe it--it's incredibly dumb. Also, having already seen the really bad Peter Graves sci-fi film, KILLERS FROM SPACE (1954), I knew that nothing good would be waiting for him in this cave!! Too bad Agar's character hadn't seen it--he would have known that only bad things are waiting inside!

Once back home, you know that the alien living within Agar is evil, as the dog doesn't like him and Agar is really interested in sex---reaaallly interested! This SHOULD have let his fiancée know that he was an alien or a Communist or something bad (as every clean and good American can only think of sex once legally married) and eventually she and her dad go to the cave themselves. This is an interesting point in the film, as ANOTHER floating eyeballed brain appears to them, but this is a good one. It seems that Gor is an evil being that escaped from his prison and he's come to help the Earth rid itself of this over-sexed alien.

Who will prevail? Will the evil Gor become our overlord? Is the nice alien really nice or able to defeat Gor? Will Gor get laid? Tune in and find out for yourself! Just be forewarned that the final scene with the inflatable brain suspended by wires is a sight you won't soon forget!! Overall, while silly and cheesy at times, the plot is interesting and it's fun to watch Agar, as he really does great in this sort of role. In other words, while a low-budget horror film, Agar puts a lot of energy into it and plays up the "evil Agar" to the hilt! While for years he's gotten a lot of ribbing for bad acting, in this film he was perfect for the role and I think that sometimes he's unfairly attacked. While certainly no thespian, what could you expect from Agar with the sort of parts he was offered in the years following his divorce from Shirley Temple? Plus, his antics as Gor were just darn funny--and were meant to be.

While not a film I'd recommend to the average person, for lovers of 50s sci-fi, this is an absolute must!

My 10/10 rating of course only applies because I assume that only '50s-B-movie fetishists would even take any interest in "The Brain from Planet Arous". But previous reviewers have noted that this movie takes a slightly different approach: criminal brain Gor comes to earth to inhabit a man's body and thereby rule the universe, while police brain Vol arrives in search of the criminal brain (meaning that most of the brains on Planet Arous are good guys). Therefore, even non-fetishists should take some interest in this movie.

The characters are pretty much what one would expect: the men are all hot-headed, while the one woman is desperate. The main character Steve March is played by John Agar, aka Shirley Temple's first husband. I also saw him in "Journey to the Seventh Planet" (although I paid slightly more attention to the hot babes in that one). Maybe he starred in '50s and '60s B-sci-fi movies because his reputation as Shirley Temple's ex limited his opportunities (actually, I don't know whether that limited his opportunities). Also starring are Joyce Meadows as Steve's hubby Sally Fallon, Thomas Brown Henry as her father John, and Dale Tate as the voices of Gor and Vol. If this had ever gotten shown on "MST3K", Mike or Servo or Crow probably would have said "If Planet Arous has a brain, why didn't the people behind this movie?" But I personally didn't think find this a bad movie. Like any '50s sci-fi flick, you have to accept it for what it is.

my gosh.. to me that was the scariest series. I would love to see creature feature come to the scifi channel, the best movies but most off, the scariest intro, scenes when returning to and leaving from show for commercials, both in sound and imagery. I clearly remember it in black and white as that was the TV I most watched creature feature on.

This was the 2nd or 3rd scariest show, especially when the brain w/eyes comes zooming in. Its creepy looking enough as it is. That alone makes it worth watching this film. The best was house on haunted hill, 2nd was some movie that maybe someone could put up here but all I remember was a china closet slowly spookily moving across the room in sort of an attack fashion but this is definitely either 2nd or 3rd best.

A definite must see, scary in a creepy sort of way, 7.0

When a megalomaniacal alien brain (Gor) takes over scientist Steve Marsh (B-perennial John Agar) as a step towards universal conquest, a second brain (Val) inhabits the scientist's dog (George) in an attempt to thwart the cerebral villain's plans. Unfortunately, the film does little with the clever premise of extraterrestrial 'cops and robbers' hiding within humans (a similar premise, likely not coincidentally, to Hal Clement's 1950 novel 'Needle'). The aliens are silly-looking floating brains (with eyes) that are usually incorporeal, translucent, and indestructible (explained as being in the 'transition' stage) that can drift into an organism and take over its mind; however, (conveniently) they have to return to solid form (still a giant floating brain but now trailing a spinal cord) to reoxygenate, during which they are vulnerable. Marsh/Gor is a typical smirking, gloating (and leering, at least when Marsh's girlfriend Sally (Joyce Meadows) is around) supervillain/brain who can destroy things and kill people at a glance (and claims to be able to do the same to cities halfway around the world). George/Val is a friendly, soft-spoken good-guy dog/brain who, despite claiming to have powers beyond Gor's death-ray eyes, does nothing useful beyond telling Sally where the vulnerable spot in a floating brain is (the implied surgical precision appears forgotten in the climatic fight). The film makes little or no sense and is full of 'but why?' moments, and the final line ("You and your imagination!") is a ridiculous classic: Marsh, who has spent several days possessed by an evil floating brain (the mashed remains of which are somewhere near his feet), laughs off Sally's claim that an alien brain had inhabited the dog. Agar is adequate when he is Steve but his toothy grimacing, pop-eyed glaring, and villainous chortling when channeling Gor is laughable (just look at the posters). The rest of the cast OK in typical roles (the doomed buddy, the worried girlfriend, the concerned older guy, etc) considering the overly-ripe lines they are given to deliver. The special effects are limited to a single floating brain prop, some weak superimposition, black contact lenses (which are actually reasonably effective), and a couple of unconvincing model planes. With its wonky storyline, Agar's hammy attempts to appear menacing, and the silly-surreal images of the bobbing alien brains, the film has earned its place in the 'so bad they're good' pantheon of crap. Co-released with the abysmal 'Teenage Monster', which was banged out solely to accompany the brains in a double feature.

The concept, though not brilliant, could have worked -- but the amateurish treatment spoils the effort. While conducting field work in the desert, scientist John Agar encounters a huge floating brain which turns out to be a sadistic, power-hungry alien name Gor, a fugitive from it's home planet. The alien can become translucent and fade into Agar's body, controlling him while it uses its telekinetic powers and delights in the pleasures of human flesh. But it has to come out every twenty hours to `re-oxygenate' (?). Admittedly the alien is not badly designed (the brain has strange glowing eyes with no pupils).

Whenever Gor/Agar is using his telekinetic powers, Agar's eyes become shiny black orbs (an nice bit of makeup). Gor/Agar demonstrates his mental powers of destruction for a group of generals and diplomats by `willing' an atomic explosion to occur in the nearby desert (great stock footage of buildings being destroyed by shock waves and heat flashes). Then Gor/Agar orders them to put Earth's population to work creating a space fleet so he can return to his own planet and conquer it.

Meanwhile, a second alien name Vol comes to Earth to save it from Gor. To spy on Gor, Vol takes control of Agar's dog. Vol/dog elicits the aid of Agar's fiancé (lovely Joyce Meadows). She's glad to help, because she already knew SOMETHING was wrong with Agar after he turned kinky and tried to rape her on a lawn chair.

Beware: the finale is a short and unexciting struggle between Agar (armed with an ax) and the floating Gor brain. And Agar's closing line to his fiancé' is painfully stupid. When she tries to tell him that a good-guy alien has been in control of the dog, John doesn't believe her. He just laughs and says, `Oh, honey -- that imagination of yours!'

If you're absolutely desperate for a 1950s sci-fi flick you haven't already watched to death, this one might be worth watching -- but only to laugh at.