Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: The Brain Eaters

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the 1958 sci-fi movie “The Brain Eaters,” which doesn’t actually feature brain eating but is still a lot of fun. We're re-running it during Trek Week because it features Leonard Nimoy! (originaly published 02/11/2022)

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:08.5	Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema.
0:10.8	This is Rob Lamb.
0:11.9	And this is Joe McCormick, and we are bringing you an older episode of Weird House Cinema today.
0:17.1	This is the Brain Eaters.
0:19.2	Ooh, this one's got a young Leonard Nimoy in it, doesn't it?
0:22.5	That's right.
0:23.1	That's why we picked it for rerun duties today
0:25.4	because it is, of course, Star Trek Week here on Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
0:28.8	This episode originally published February 11th, 2022.
0:32.6	Enjoy.
0:37.2	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:47.0	Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.
0:51.3	And this is Joe McCormick. And today we are doing a movie that I'm so excited for.
0:56.2	I've had it on the list for a while, mainly because it has one of my all-time favorite
1:02.8	1950s drive-in movie posters.
1:05.7	And I'm kind of a connoisseur of 1950s drive-in horror movie posters.
1:10.4	In fact, I'm sort of surrounded by them right now. I've got
1:13.3	the It Conquered the World poster, the Attack of the Crab Monsters poster. But this movie,
1:20.3	I'd say the poster is the best of them all. It is a 1958 film called The Brain Eaters.
1:28.2	Yes.
1:28.8	And if you haven't seen the poster for this, look it up.
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