MONSTROSITY In Color - 1963

Here's a recently colorized sci-fi flick, originally filmed in 1958, it wasn't released until 1963 because the money ran out before production was finished, followed by years of re-editing until the producers were ready to release it. Alternate title is THE ATOMIC BRAIN.

The story's about a wealthy old woman who plots with a scientist to have her brain transplanted into a sexy young woman. It stars Marjorie Eaton as Mrs. March, Frank Gerstle as Dr. Frank, Frank Fowler as Victor, Erika Peters as Nina, Judy Bamber as Bea and Lisa Lang as Anita. Also, Bradford Dillman was the narrator.

We start with this guy, one of Dr. Franks weird experiments, who also serves as his helper when needed. The MST guys refer to him as Stephen Stills!

Here's Dr. Frank's latest creation, a walking dead girl.

Mrs. March is interested in such things, as she plans on getting a body like that one soon...

Speaking of bodies, Mrs. March is waiting impatiently for her assistant, Victor, to return from the airport with three European women that she can pick out her new body from...

Mrs. March has the girls strip down so that she can check out what she'll look like in a few days from now.

Probably the most disturbing thing in the movie is the way she looks at the girls, with pure delight, fantasizing about the way she's going to look! The girls think she's a little weird, and they have no idea what she has in store for them.

Anita is the odd girl out, Dr. Frank has a special experiment he wants to perform on her, like, giving her a cat's brain!.. Hmmm.

Well, Anita gets her cat brain and immediately scratches one of Bea's eyes out! Then later, Anita falls off the roof to her death!

Bea is kept under sedation by Dr. Frank until he can give her a new eye later on.

Nina begs Victor (who hates Mrs. March) to help her, which he does. He has her sign the legal papers so that she will inherit the estate...

But, guess who was standing behind the curtain? Victor gets it in the back!

So, it's time for the operation to put Mrs. March's brain in Nina's body.

So, Nina wakes up to find out that Dr. Frank put the old lady's brain in the cat!! How?? Then Dr. Frank decides he needs to get rid of Nina to get the inheritance. He goes into the radiation room to get it prepared for Nina, but...

The cat with Mrs. March's brain locks the door behind the doctor, flips a switch, drops some levers and pushes the 'danger' button. Crap, he should not have shown the old biddy how the damn thing is operated, oops!

Now it's the doctor's turn to face the atomic music!

The place is starting to shake as the atomic machine goes into self destruction. Bea gets to the lab and helps Nina get loose.

But, Bea sees her new eyeball and goes to look at it, and gets a face full of fire and radiation!

Goodnight sweet Bea!

Nina barely gets out of the place alive, before...

The place goes up in flames! Nina runs away, followed by the cat with Mrs. March's brain! Well, there you go.. don't play with atomic matches, kids!