{"id":2889,"date":"2011-05-22T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T15:15:07","slug":"sunday-matinee-the-atomic-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/05\/22\/sunday-matinee-the-atomic-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Matinee &#8211; The Atomic Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5696\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/23\/christmas-lotsa-wavy-hair-liberace\/movie-matinee-header\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,145\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"movie-matinee-header\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5696\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?resize=640%2C145&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/movie-matinee-header.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/atomic_brain_1964\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis film which was also known as <strong><em>Monstrosity<\/em><\/strong> is an utter piece of crap, but it&#8217;s one of those things that I saw on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/2375177484\/\"><em><strong>Dr. Shock<\/strong><\/em><\/a> when I was in grade school, and it remained lodged in some dusty corner of my brain. It doesn&#8217;t make much sense, but it makes sense in the way that dreams make sense while they are being dreamt. A rich old battle-ax is bankrolling a mad scientist&#8217;s brain transplant experiments in the hopes that she can trade in her old carcass for a newer, sleeker, sexier frame. She takes out ads for live-in domestics that are unwitting potential body donors. It&#8217;s a well-worn cliche, but it has its moments. For instance, the scientist experiments on the recently deceased, but the transplants don&#8217;t quite take, and the results wander the grounds like ghosts. The real kicker and the part I remembered creeping me out as a kid is the gal who has a cat brain popped in her noggin. She crawls around the lab hissing and mewling. Great stuff!<\/p>\n<p>There has always been a penchant for remakes at the movies which is becoming ridiculous just lately. Somewhere, someone decides to remake some great or merely okay film with the results usually being mediocre or disastrous. Why not remake bad films? You can only do better than the original. I want to see a remake of <em><strong>The Atomic Brain!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film which was also known as Monstrosity is an utter piece of crap, but it&#8217;s one of those things that I saw on Dr. Shock when I was in grade school, and it remained lodged in some dusty corner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/05\/22\/sunday-matinee-the-atomic-brain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[368,4],"tags":[389,387,390,76,23,196,388],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-matinee","category-news","tag-389","tag-brain","tag-cat","tag-horror","tag-monster","tag-movie","tag-transpalnt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-KB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4598,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/16\/brain-die\/","url_meta":{"origin":2889,"position":0},"title":"The Original Re-Animator","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I wish I could summon the late, great John Williams to do my intros like the one below which was a staple of UHF television and has stuck in my head for years. ...but I digress. 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We've all heard that cleanliness is next to Godliness, but it's also next to homosexuality in Billy's mind. So instead of washing up, he plays cowboy all by himself and basks in his own filth. 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