The Brain
Year: 1962
Genre: Science Fiction, Crime, Horror
Studio: Raymond Stross Productions, CCC Filmkunst
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Anne Heywood, Peter van Eyck, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Ellen Schwiers, Siegfried Lowitz
Crew: Freddie Francis (Director), Robert Banks Stewart (Screenplay), Philip Mackie (Screenplay), Curt Siodmak (Novel), Kenneth V. Jones (Music), Robert Huke (Photoscience Manager)
Runtime: 83 minutes
Release: Sep 05, 1962
IMDb: 5.57/10 by 15 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Germany, United Kingdom
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0

Instrument of Terror! An adaptation of film noir legend Curt Siodmak's novel, Donovan's Brain, The Brain offers up a murder mystery narrative to go with the mad science angle. It's not particularly thrilling but it does tick along nicely and director Freddie Francis has a keen eye for scene staging. Cast features Peter Van Eyck, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker and Bernard Lee, and they all do what is required to make the material work. Stand out moments involve some delightfully monstrous paintings, a lie detector scene and all the sequences where Van Eyck is possessed by the brain of the powerful industrialist who was murdered by person or persons unknown. Good and safe "B" schlocky fare for the so inclined. 6/10