Fiend With the Electric Brain: The Fiend with the Electronic Brain is - sort of - Al Adamson's 1965 movie Psycho-A-Go-Go which is also - sort of - Blood of Ghastly Horror.
Psycho A-Go-Go is all about Joe Corey taking part in a diamond heist with the stolen contraband hidden inside a little girl's doll when it isn't about Tacey Robbins singing.
This remix has Joe Corey's madness explained as he is an injured Vietnam vet who is experimented on by Dr. Vanard (John Carradine). Everything that happened in the first version also happens here but Joe is off the hook, I guess, because of the surgery on his mind.
Venard wanted to heal the soldier's shrapnel injuries with electric shock therapy, but he turned Joe into a woman-killing monster who is now hunting him down. He straps Dr. Vanard to his own lab equipment and electrocutes him before we somehow find ourselves back in that jewel robbery, the diamonds in the doll and the forest haunting of the woman and her daughter, all before Joe gets shot and falls off a cliff.
Beyond also being Bloof of Ghastly Horror and also The Man with the Synthetic Brain, a Sam Sherman retitling for TV. You could see this movie four times and be taken every time as you're seeing the same story with little tweaks along the way with footage being Xeroxed over and over and over.
I get upset when Spielberg or Lucas comes back and meddles with their movies but I am in no way upset that Al Adamson just kept trying to make this movie better. Arguably, he didn't. He tried and you have to give it to him for that.
Blood of Ghastly Horror:Dr. Howard Vanard (John Carradine) implants a strange electronic machine into the brain of 'Nam survivor Joe Corey (Roy Morton) who becomes a psychotic killer.
This is the same story that we saw in The Fiend With the Electronic Brain.
Joe Corey steals some diamonds and the jewels are thrown into the back of a pickup truck. They end up in a doll, which is taken by Linda and her daughter Nancy to a cabin. A cop saves them by shooting Joe and the villain falls off a cliff to his demise.
This is the same story that we saw in Psycho-A-Go-Go.
Seven years later, Dr. Vanard's daughter Susan (Regina Carrol) begins to get psychic prank calls from Elton Corey (Kent Taylor) and his zombie Akro. Elton is the father of Joe and wants revenge on everyone connected with the death of his son. Sgt. Cross (Tommy Kirk) gets his partner's head in the mail and tracks down the witch doctor mad scientist just in time to watch Akro kill Corey and die himself. Also, for some reason, they age Susan and turn her into a zombie but she gets better.
This is not the same story.
The Man With the Synthetic Brain, however, is pretty much the same story without all the nightclub moments. That was Sam Sherman's version for TV.
I have a weird way of thinking about movies. If a major studio did this, I would be angry. But when it's Independent-International, I am so pleased with their ingenuity.
Psycho A-Go-Go is all about Joe Corey taking part in a diamond heist with the stolen contraband hidden inside a little girl's doll when it isn't about Tacey Robbins singing.
This remix has Joe Corey's madness explained as he is an injured Vietnam vet who is experimented on by Dr. Vanard (John Carradine). Everything that happened in the first version also happens here but Joe is off the hook, I guess, because of the surgery on his mind.
Venard wanted to heal the soldier's shrapnel injuries with electric shock therapy, but he turned Joe into a woman-killing monster who is now hunting him down. He straps Dr. Vanard to his own lab equipment and electrocutes him before we somehow find ourselves back in that jewel robbery, the diamonds in the doll and the forest haunting of the woman and her daughter, all before Joe gets shot and falls off a cliff.
Beyond also being Bloof of Ghastly Horror and also The Man with the Synthetic Brain, a Sam Sherman retitling for TV. You could see this movie four times and be taken every time as you're seeing the same story with little tweaks along the way with footage being Xeroxed over and over and over.
I get upset when Spielberg or Lucas comes back and meddles with their movies but I am in no way upset that Al Adamson just kept trying to make this movie better. Arguably, he didn't. He tried and you have to give it to him for that.
Blood of Ghastly Horror:Dr. Howard Vanard (John Carradine) implants a strange electronic machine into the brain of 'Nam survivor Joe Corey (Roy Morton) who becomes a psychotic killer.
This is the same story that we saw in The Fiend With the Electronic Brain.
Joe Corey steals some diamonds and the jewels are thrown into the back of a pickup truck. They end up in a doll, which is taken by Linda and her daughter Nancy to a cabin. A cop saves them by shooting Joe and the villain falls off a cliff to his demise.
This is the same story that we saw in Psycho-A-Go-Go.
Seven years later, Dr. Vanard's daughter Susan (Regina Carrol) begins to get psychic prank calls from Elton Corey (Kent Taylor) and his zombie Akro. Elton is the father of Joe and wants revenge on everyone connected with the death of his son. Sgt. Cross (Tommy Kirk) gets his partner's head in the mail and tracks down the witch doctor mad scientist just in time to watch Akro kill Corey and die himself. Also, for some reason, they age Susan and turn her into a zombie but she gets better.
This is not the same story.
The Man With the Synthetic Brain, however, is pretty much the same story without all the nightclub moments. That was Sam Sherman's version for TV.
I have a weird way of thinking about movies. If a major studio did this, I would be angry. But when it's Independent-International, I am so pleased with their ingenuity.