This is yet another movie that follows the well-worn 50s sci-fi/horror formula. If you have ever seen one of these, you will know how the plot will go. Strange killings happen, the military investigates, a woman has a relationship with the main military guy, the military finds out that the evil things are the result of a scientific experiment gone wrong, the evil things are killed, the main military guy and the woman kiss, and the credits roll. The creatures, known in the movie as "fiends," look like disembodied brains with an attached spinal column. They move around by crawling along the ground like inchworms. When they attack people, they jump up and put a strangle hold on the victims with their spines. All of this is done with the magic of stop motion. The quality isn't very good, unfortunately, especially in the sequences where the fiends are killed and buckets of glop squish out of the brain. Maybe they should have gotten Ray Harryhausen.

One thing that is interesting about this movie, however, is its stance on nuclear reactors. In an age where anything radioactive was frightening, the movie presents nuclear reactors as fairly safe. One of the funniest scenes in the movie is when the control panel is blown up on the nuclear reactor to stop the reactor from melting. If you aren't burnt out on this type of movie, you might have more fun than I had with it.

Rating: 2 turkeys.

Scene to watch for: The brain gooshes out goopy stuff.

Best line: "I had created a fiend!"

Things that make you go "Huh?": Would blowing up a nuclear reactor control panel be a good idea, especially when it is going out of control?