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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.

This is Rob Lamb, and today we have the excellent 1962 Mexican monster movie, The Brainiac.

This one is a ton of fun.

This one published last year, and we are rolling it out for you here today. Hope you enjoy.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House, we're going to be talking about the 1962 Mexican horror film The Brainiac, starring Abel Salazar, Rosa Maria Gallardo, or Guyardo, and Rubin Rojo. And this is one that I saw many,

many years ago. I think I watched this with a friend in high school. I remembered very little about it,

except the exquisitely bizarre design of the monster. And this was such a treat upon revisit. It is so absurd,

but it also just takes your soul on a ride. And in counterintuitive ways, is more thought-provoking

than some viewers may think. Yeah, I had seen it previously, I think, in a Rift Tracts form,

so Rift-upon. I was not expecting to have my thoughts provoked much at all, and yet they were provoked, so I will agree with you on that.

You know, I haven't referenced Michael Weldon's Psychotronic Encyclopedia film recently,

so I made sure to bust it out to look up his entry for The Brainiac. And sure

enough, he also praised the creature design as well as quote surprisingly surreal elements in

the picture. And then also adds, if you can't find it on television, rent the video cassette,

which makes sense considering that this is a film that was widely

seen on cable television, at least back in the day, and probably pretty capable television

as well. So it has had a long, a long history of popping up unexpected on television sets

and then as a rental across various formats.

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