Steve (John Agar) and Dan (Robert Fuller) make important scientific discoveries and dangerous expeditions into the desert, because they are male, while Sally (Joyce Meadows), Steve's fiancée, just stays home in the kitchen and worries they may not be in time for dinner – that's the 1950s for you. When their Geiger counter shows strange radioactive readings which suddenly appear and disappear again, Steve and Dan go to Mystery Mountain where a cave has recently been blasted into the rocks. Soon they find traces of an alien, the brain from planet Arous, which looks like a painted balloon and is greeted by the Earthlings in the traditional way (with gunshots). When Steve returns later to Sally, he seems to remember nothing and acts strange. The big brain has an evil influence over him, obviously. Even Steve's kisses become threatening. Sally now goes to the cave with her father, where they find the body of Dan and another brain which politely explains it is chasing the first one because that brain is a dangerous criminal with plans to conquer the world...Typical B movie silliness, mostly good fun. The painted balloon aliens (superimposed, so you can see through them) are something to remember. Since the story is not simply men vs invaders, but also involves a helpful alien, the flick is more interesting than most of its kind.

This is yet another underrated John Agar Schlocko-Sci-Fi Movie from the Fifties and Sixties. Its pacing appears immediately as a problem(far too SLOW in building towards the film's plot points and overall plot), but, to paraphrase past video/movie reviews from "Video Review" magazine, of the no less SCHLOCKO and Rather-Reaganesque, uber-CONFORMIST 80's, ... if you're looking for some "Vegematic movie" Laughs, "The Brain From Planet Arous" will NOT let you down!"The EVIL Brain" of course, steals the cinematic show, even from the flick's star, Mr. Agar, whose body this "Salacious, and Sex-Starved, Fiend from The Deepest Fathoms of Space" has tragically, ... overtaken.Will leave the rest of the story of this again, underrated John Agar flick, to You, The Viewer, to decide IF this really is an underrated work by Agar, and this film's also, often too underrated Director, NATHAN H. JURAN.Mind you, Dear Viewer, this movie is not as effective as Agar's starring roles in such SCHLOCKO Masterpieces as "Tarantula," or "The Revenge Of The CREATURE," ... but still on my "Schlocko-B-Movie Scale," it's gotta rate, a well-earned 8 out of 10! Alright, so I have far less TASTE and "Culture" than that-there LEONARD MALTIN Lad! So what! I still appreciate the STRONG acting PERFORMANCES, in this Fifties Sci-Fi movie, as well as in many other such flicks, wherein the actors, the entire CAST is challenged by the truly cheesy "Special Effects"(well by our now, 21st Century Standards, of course they're cheesy!), to truly convince "We the viewers," that there IS indeed a real existential threat coming "right at us," from this "Womanizer-Wanna-Be' of a "Brain," ah-hem, from indeed, HIS{and it IS surely a MALE Brain, Folks!) Planet, of "AROUS"! Wonderful performances are turned in as well by JOYCE MEADOWS as the attractive source of the Ever-Loving Lustfulness, from this disgustingly, sexually AGGRESSIVE, from this "Interstellar SEX-ADDICT," really, from this Stinkin' Space CADET, ah-hem, I mean, from the "Space Brain," and yes, I do believe that IS, the notable B-Movie Actor Thomas B. Henry, who plays Ms. Meadows' Dad.Enjoy it! And it's NOT only for kids and CHRONICALLY-WACKY, Emotionally IMMATURE "Adults," like me, either, folks, believe me, ... it is not.

"The Two Brains From Planet Arous", actually. This stupid little sci-fi cheapie features an alien who must have inhaled a life-long supply of laughing gas; how else to explain the incessant laughter which precedes and follows every act of violence against the poor, defenseless Earthlings? Agar's performance is so hammy, so campy, so silly, and invariably stupid that it reduces the already flimsy story to a sub-superficial comic-book level.The evil brain, Gor, dominates the movie with his endless displays of power. On the other hand, the good-guy brain, Vol, promises at the outset that his powers are equal to, if not greater, than Gor's, but what happens? Vol enters a dog's body, and does practically nothing to stop Gor; so much for greater power than Gor... In fact, for most of the movie Vol is just a useless dog, licking his masters or his own balls (a new sensation for him, no doubt). And what's with this Gor? His plan is to have the Earthlings create a huge inter-planetary fleet which would invade Arous and establish him as ruler of that planet. There's just a tiny, tiny, tiny little hitch: won't the other brains from Arous have the same power as he does, and simply annihilate any fleet that attempts to take over the planet with the power of their mind? I also find Gor's newly-acquired taste for female flesh - and a ravenous appetite it is - to be quite silly.

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