Monster of the Day #3024

Updated on May 5, 2020 By Ken Begg 14 Comments

So the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube just posted our old friend They Saved Hitler’s Brain, which like Curse of Bigfoot was an old, short silly movie that filmmakers later added half an hour of related footage to so as to make it movie length for TV sales. Still, the image of Hitler’s head (or as the film calls him, to my delight, “Mr. H”) in a jar is just pulp movie perfection. They will soon be adding the fun Bela Lugosi Poverty Row flick The Corpse Vanishes. No monsters, but a quick, entertaining watch.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Wasn’t this photographed by Stanley Cortez? I guess everyone has to buy groceries….

  • Gamera977

    I’ll grant you Charlie Chaplin’s head in a jar is kinda disturbing but I’m not sure it’s all that terrifying. Maybe if it were Jimmy Kimmel…

    I’m still waiting for ‘They Saved Tojo’s Brain’…

  • KeithB

    … And it would cybernetically control the battleship Yamoto as it battles Godzilla.

  • Ericb

    Or ‘They Saved Mussolini’s Chin.’

  • This one just isn’t as fun as it should be. There are great moments but it’s a real slog to get to them, especially with all the added footage that doesn’t even pretend to be in the same universe as the rest of the movie. Worth seeing once for the dedicated Bad Movie buff, but not one to pull out at a party unless you are trying to get everyone to give up and go home.

  • Gamera977

    That would be the awsomest movie ever!!!

  • Eric Hinkle

    This movie needs to exist.

  • Eric Hinkle

    ‘They Saved Stalin’s Mustache’?

  • Rock Baker

    All I’ve seen is the original MADMEN OF MANDORAS version which, while not great, is at least a decent little espionage picture. Drags a bit during the climax, unfortunately, but as you note the preserved head of Hitler is iconic exploitation movie stuff. Sort of a shame the better cut of the film is almost forgotten.

  • thunderclancat

    I liked The Corpse Vanishes, I first saw it on Mystery Science Theater 3000, but it isn’t a bad little film at all. I liked the relationship between the reporter heroine and the newspaper photographer, and Bela adds his own charm.

  • thunderclancat

    I actually was able to find a DVD wchich included both versions at a Tractor Supply store of all places, and you’re right, the Mandoras movie isn’t too bad.

  • Ken_Begg

    It’s shorter, and that seldom hurts.

  • Ken_Begg

    Sandy P and I telewatched Voodoo Man recently, and those poverty row films really hold their charm. Again, the 60 minute run times don’t hurt.

  • Gamera977

    With a little more thought I think it should have a legion of killer androids that look like Japanese schoolgirls.