Marjorie Eaton is Hetty March, an embittered old lady who longs to be youthful again. This granny look-alike ain't carrying around no birdcage with a tweety bird in it and a black and white "putty tat" following her with a knife and fork. She is pure evil, living in an evil looking mansion with an evil looking gate, and is surrounded by an evil looking aging gigolo, an even more evil looking mad doctor, and a very evil looking black cat. Like the legendary Elizabeth Bathory who allegedly drank the blood of young virgins after torturing them in order to keep herself young looking and beautiful, Hetty is determined to find the perfect body to have her brain transfered into so she can live another 70 years and continue to live an evil life until once again she has to find another young body to transfer that old, demented brain of hers into.To say that this is a wonderful piece of camp celluloid is an understatement. It is obvious that Eaton is having a wonderful time being so dastardly, yelling constantly for each of the three foreigners she has hired as "maids" to do her bidding, humiliating the kept man she really has no future use for (after her plans are finalized) and finally barking last minute orders at the doctor as he prepares to strap her into a gurney. The old hag isn't even above murder to make sure her evil plans are accomplished. I thought the choice of the name "Otto Frank" for the doctor, however, to be disrespectful to the memory of his daughter Anne and the famous diary. It would have been simpler and with better taste to simply have chosen another name for this character. At only just over an hour, this seemed more like one of those old fashioned stage melodramas which traveled around community theater barns in the 1930's and 40's, and in the wake of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and subsequent "frightening old lady" horror epics might have worked in a higher budgeted version with someone like Tallulah Bankhead or Judith Anderson as the evil millionairess. The narration of the piece gives us the insinuation that she is just one of many wealthy old people looking for younger bodies to transfer their brains into. That part of it is extremely hokey and dominates much of the narrative, but a twist at the very end is outrageous and left me shaking with laughter. My wish for the ending, however, would be for the old hag in a new body to be accused of murdering herself and the last shot of her (in the new body with the old brain) being strapped into an electric chair with a genuine look of horror (but no atonement) on her face as she realizes her next stop will be the firey pits of Hades.

"Hetty March" (Marjorie Eaton) is a wealthy—but extremely old and greedy—woman who uses her money only for her own selfish ways. Realizing that she have only a few years left in life she finances a brilliant—but equally self-absorbed—scientist by the name of "Dr. Otto Frank" (Frank Gerstle) to conduct experiments concerned with the transplanting of a brain from one body to another with the intent of having Miss March's brain transferred to the body of a beautiful, young woman. To that end she hires three young ladies by the names of "Beatrice Mullins" (Judy Bamber), "Nina Rhodes" (Erika Peters) and "Anita Gonzalez" (Lisa Lang) from foreign countries to work as housekeepers at her mansion. At least that is what she tells them. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this was a low-budget project which fails to rise above its limitations. Thankfully, it doesn't last that long (only 64 minutes) otherwise it would have been an even bigger waste of time. As a matter of fact, other than the presence of Judy Bamber and Erika Peters there was really nothing worth much interest at all. Accordingly, I rate this movie as below average.

This horror about electrical vibrations is clumsy, derisory and boring, _unendearing. THE ATOMIC BRAIN, directed by Mascelli, scored by Kauer, and played by Erika Peters, Judy Bamber and Lisa Lang, whose names alone should suffice to recommend a movie, a ghoulish script mixing radioactivity and body—snatching, crazy science and stern warnings …. Warm—hearted fun masquerading as a warning, absolutely dis-respectable as to the required movie craft. Curious about how could one use a cyclotron for transplanting human brains? It begins in full Gothic—with a body—snatching …. It has a certain sense of the necessary elements of such a grim tale (the crazy scientist; the villain—here, an old lady; the graveyard; the mutants; the murders; the corpses; the creepy mansion; the senile gigolo)—all, to derisory, risible results. A rich old broad finances the researches of an encyclopedic scientist, _atomist and biologist at once, one of those marvelously learned people blessed with complete scientific and technological autonomy, by their own efforts towards an all—encompassing knowledge, who uses the cyclotron to transplant animal organs on stolen human corpses, in order to find a method of securing the rich hag with a new human body as a host for her old brain. She finances him to experiment; to steal girl corpses and transplant on them various animal organs. The flick is made _charmlessly and clumsily, though with some attempts at cinematographic ingeniousness and as a matter of fact, a bit better paced than other Z horrors of the age. At least it has some tones and suggestions of timid _sexploitation. Not that it might pervert your children. Be merry!

Rich old woman who wants to live forever works with a scientist to perfect a means of transferring her brain into the body of a beautiful young woman.Out there and then some odd ball drive-in classic that must be seen to be believed. The plot is the sort of thing that went out of style in the 1930's, but here it is all shiny and new. I don't know if the film is any good. Its a bit bottom of the barrel and awkward in someways, and yet in other ways it hangs with you. You watch the film, as I have several times (hey I'm not proud) and despite your best efforts you find that the film hangs with you. Where other better films fall away but this one stays. Particularly the bit about the cat. I'll say no more other than to say if you're in the mood of a strange little film give it a shot.