Today's A.V. Club sponsored movie at Crackle.com: Creature With The Atom Brain (1955)

The A.V. Club has agreed to sponsor 10 days of programming in Crackle.com’s Summer Drive-In Series. We’re providing a preview of each day’s movie (or movies) here.

Up today: Creature With The Atom Brain (1955)

Today: A relative obscurity. In fact, we don't know much about this movie at all other than it's directed by the extremely prolific Edward L. Cahn, who made 100+ movies, and written by Curt Siodmak, who wrote the novel Donovan's Brain and the screenplay to The Wolf Man and others. Also, it feature a creature with an atom brain of some sort. And it inspired this song by Roky Erikson (well, the movie and other things):

So consider this one a mystery on our end and let's discover it together, okay?

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