They Saved Hitler's Brain

Rating:
Summary: Fall out the bottom, come out the top!
Review: Absolutely idiotic in every way imaginable, and for that reason sidesplitting. Nazis in South America have Hitler's (still-winking) head in a box, with attendant plans for World Conquest. Gaspingly stupid movie that was patched together with footage shot (quote obviously) 20 years after the fact -- it gets the extra star for sheer camp value. Watch with beer.

Rating:
Summary: My all-time favorite bad movie
Review: I first saw this in the wee hours of the morning, several years before the proliferation of the video tape recorder. I remembered it and watched it again when it turned up a year or two later. I've always thought that watching bad movies in the wee hours when you're half asleep is the only way to go. Watching them on video destroys the ambience! The movie is indeed a pastiche of two separate films with separate casts, shot years apart. However, I take issue with Leonard Maltin and the others who refer to the Stanley Cortez footage as being from the 1950s. The actors are dancing The Twist in the Dos Palabras club in one scene. The Twist became a craze in the Fall of 1960, and remained all the rage for the next couple of years. The original Madmen of Mandoras was released in 1963 (I have a 22X28 poster, complete set of lobby cards, and some stills from this flick); all this is consistent with an early '60s filming of the Cortez footage. The added footage was probably filmed in the late 60s. I have the autographs of a number of the cast members of this masterpiece. Nestor Paivia, who plays the police chief, is perhaps best remembered as the skipper of the skiff in Creature from the Black Lagoon. Joe Bob sez check it out.

Rating:
Summary: My all-time favorite bad movie
Review: I first saw this in the wee hours of the morning, several years before the proliferation of the video tape recorder. I remembered it and watched it again when it turned up a year or two later. I've always thought that watching bad movies in the wee hours when you're half asleep is the only way to go. Watching them on video destroys the ambience! The movie is indeed a pastiche of two separate films with separate casts, shot years apart. However, I take issue with Leonard Maltin and the others who refer to the Stanley Cortez footage as being from the 1950s. The actors are dancing The Twist in the Dos Palabras club in one scene. The Twist became a craze in the Fall of 1960, and remained all the rage for the next couple of years. The original Madmen of Mandoras was released in 1963 (I have a 22X28 poster, complete set of lobby cards, and some stills from this flick); all this is consistent with an early '60s filming of the Cortez footage. The added footage was probably filmed in the late 60s. I have the autographs of a number of the cast members of this masterpiece. Nestor Paivia, who plays the police chief, is perhaps best remembered as the skipper of the skiff in Creature from the Black Lagoon. Joe Bob sez check it out.

Rating:
Summary: The worst film I've ever seen - I loved it!
Review: Let me start by prefacing that I am a huge fan of bad film, and this film is the worst ever. I was originally dared by my high-school English teacher to watch this film for extra credit and fell in love with it. The premise: Nazi troops preserve Hitler's brain (actually his entire head) in order to save his strategic saavy and flee to South America. Of course, Nazi hunters happen to run into them and discover the *shocking* truth about their plan to use Hitler's Head on a Box to rise again and dominate the world. The Nazi hunters foil their plan and save the day. What makes this film truly enjoyable is that you'll spend the entire time trying to figure out what is going on. The beginning of the film was shot 20 years after the rest of the footage and has 70's b-movie actors discovering the Nazi hideout in South America, leading to the gratuitous exploding car. Then we are whisked away to South America, the original film stock, where the rest of the movie unfolds. The funniest thing about this film is that the Nazis preserved Hitler so he could say two words over and over again: 'Hurry up!' (translated from the German). Good thing they saved his head! This film is bad, bad, bad; so bad it is enjoyable to watch, just like an Ed Wood film.

Rating:
Summary: Extremely bad and extremely funny!
Review: Many say it is the worst movie ever made, it is. But, when you think about it, its very funny, from the backward swaztica, to the pointless begining, to the fact that the C.I.A. is accedently the C.I.D, and finally..Hitler's head melts in the end! Great fun! The DVD has no special features, although the menu is very funny, with hitler's head "turning" on and speaking giberish. They Saved Hitler's Brain definently belongs in your bad movie collection along with Plan Nine From Outer Space, and Cat Women From the Moon.(My real screenname is christopop but i'm using my moms account.) :)

Rating:
Summary: A SAN-S PRODUCTION
Review: Mention this title today to anyone and they will think you're joking. Who really would have ever made a movie called THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN?... well, I've seen the movie, and I have the DVD now, and I still don't know who would have made this kind of movie... but here it is. Started in the 1950's and completed by a few UCLA students in the 1960's and then finally released to the world, T.S.H.B. is considered by many to be the true "worst movie ever made". Does it steal any thunder from PLAN NINE? Oh yes, this is indeed a poor movie all around... yet made by experienced people. The 1960's additional scenes serve merely as exposition, filling in the missing details and information and star a Young Ron Jeremy type working with the CID, who is partnered with a Well-Fed Alicia Silverstone wannabe dressed as a ready and able (and seemingly willing) school girl (who is perhaps the best actor in the 60's footage) who drives a beat up VW Bug. They are not in it for long, and are in fact killed off... big surprise. As for the rest of the movie... it's a trial. Painful. A true test of will... can you sit through it? RHINO has done a good job with the transfer and actually has added perhaps one of the best, and funniest, antimated menu's I've ever seen on any DVD. It features the head of Hitler spouting some unintelligable German. His eyebrows move, his mouth, and his head dances around when he talks... very odd, but lay down funny. I recommend this movie, and I recommend buying this DVD if only to impress your friends that you actually own something called... THEY SAVED HITLERS BRAIN.

Rating:
Summary: Hindu Hitler?
Review: Now if you ask me, and plenty of folks do who are interested in interesting and absurdly bad moving pictures, then this here moving picture is quite possibly the best bad movie ever filmed. It smacks of cheapness... a cheapness that is reminiscent of fortified wine (Night Train and Thunderbird come to mind) and furniture rescued from the county dump (our front room collection of odds and ends come to mind). That, my friends, if how I done watched this moving picture - seated on a recliner that I salvaged from the Chesterfield County Dump, and with one bottle each of Night Train and Thunderbird. That is the only way to truly appreciate this here moving picture... unless you are a chain smoker, then of course you will want to have a carton of no-name cigarettes at your side. I do not smoke (on account of the obvious health risks and growing social rejection associated with smoking.... Plus that I just can't afford the things any more) and therefore I was quite comfortable to lean back in my new-used recliner (slightly soiled) and screw the top off the bottles and commence to watching.

You can always tell the class of fortified wine by the number of twists it takes to get the screw-off cap off the bottle. Them bottles what feature a cap requiring only two twists are generally to be avoided. The fine, higher class fortified wines always feature a cap that requires at least four turns of the wrist to get the disposable cap off. Also, it is good to note that once the cap has been removed, even though you are physically capable of replacing the cap for later enjoyment of the beverage, it is best to toss the cap away and commence to emptying the bottle. This is due to the mellow flavors and the strong, woody bouquet of the fortified wine not lasting beyond about ten minutes. After ten minutes it starts to smell more like paint thinner mixed with perfume... and you wouldn't want to drink that.

There is simply one issue in this moving picture that is a point of concern for me., They continuously display the swastika going in the opposite direction of the German swastika. Therefore, are we to assume that it is a Hindu/Buddhist swastika? Them Hindus and Buddhist have been using the swastika long before them krauts picked it up and started toying with it as a symbol of Aryan superiority. If you gallivant around Asia you will still see it displayed prominently in all sorts of places... and it is always going in the opposite direction of the Nazi swastika. To what then therefore is this moving picture attempting to direct our attention? Are they wanting us to assume that this new Hitler Brain thingie is a Hindu or Buddhist?

I done stayed awake two nights running over this puzzler and am bound and determined to figure it out tonight before I lay there awake all over again. Hope you don't have the same experience if you look at it.

Rating:
Summary: Hummm
Review: Saw this one at the Drive in, a long long time ago and now that
i purchased and viewed, its as strange a i remember it.
The first 1/3rd of the film runs like a home made movie that they
appended to the film..once gone the film is more interesting.
Nothing like seeing Hitler's head on that box with lots of dials
on it. One movie that should make your bad movie collection

Rating:
Summary: They Saved Hitler's DVD
Review: This is one for bad movie fans. UCLA film student picked up the rights to an unreleased turkey called “Madmen of Mandoras,” added some incompetent, unrelated new footage at the beginning, and released it under the new, more lurid title “They Saved Hitler’s Brain.” The result is the absolute bottom of the barrel of cinema – and a delight for bad movie fans like myself. Night turns to day turns to night during a car chase, the plot suddenly changes around the 20 minute mark, and der fuhrer’s head melts in a fiery car crash.
The DVD, released by Rhino, claims to be “remastered from original film elements.” It still looks pretty miserable and sounds absolutely atrocious, but I suppose that should be expected. It’s presented in the 1.33:1 aspect ratio, despite being shot at 2.20:1. There are no special features unless you count a list of similarly themes Rhino titles. The menu is absolutely hilarious.

Rating:
Summary: Save your own brain then
Review: This movie is the best in the world - if you want a real bad movie. If you want a good B-Movie - its ....
First third or so filmed nearly a century after the main "story" (not that it has a real story) - the main actors of this part stumble around without much of a connection to the earlier (here later) part, and are all killed. That is, of course, they couldn't join in with the other actors ten years back in time.
The rest of the movie isn't much better - forget about the storyline. You sit around the whole time thinking: "When does the story start - wheres the action, the thrill, the humor, the sense?"
Even my hopes for an evil, entriguing or even power-mad super-villianous Hitler were eradicated. This guy (who by the way dont looks a bit like the old "Gröfaz") just stares out of his jar and, I suppose, wonders, why not one of his plain stupid Nazi henchmen speaks one word German.
The rest is 50s B-Movie standart: Screaming girl, smart hero, dead villains, etc.. The damn brain - which is the whole head in truth - not even gets a cool showdown or death scene. It simply burns to death in its car - still staring around helpless.
The most frightening on this movie is the hair-style of the main charakter in the first part.
Only good thing about this movie is the fact, that people are surprised (or shocked) when they see it in your movie collection. Nobody believes, that somebody ever did a "They saved Hitlers Brain" movie.
Here in Germany, where I live, its double shock.