Creature with the Atom Brain (1955 film)
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| Directed by | Edward L. Cahn |
| Written by | Curt Siodmak |
| Screenplay by | Curt Siodmak |
| Story by | Curt Siodmak |
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| Cinematography | Fred Jackman Jr. |
| Edited by | Aaron Stell |
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Clover Productions
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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69 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Creature with the Atom Brain is a 1955 B movie zombie film produced by Sam Katzman and directed by Edward L. Cahn from a screenplay by Curt Siodmak. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures as the bottom half of a double bill with It Came from Beneath the Sea. The cast included Richard Denning, who starred in a number of similar 1950s B movies, as well as Michael Granger and Gregory Gaye.
Deported American gangster Frank Buchanan (Granger) forces ex-Nazi scientist Wilhelm Steigg (Gaye) to create zombies by resurrecting corpses through radiation in order to help him exact revenge on his enemies.
The film was made for Katzman's Clover Productions.
In The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle wrote, "Good '50s fun abounds, with all the twisted gender ideology and antiseptic social ideals that that implies, packed in a tightly-wrought action film with strong (if entertainingly dated) conceptual support". David Maine of PopMatters rated it 6 out of 10 stars and called it "a thoroughly enjoyable, noir-ish SF chiller, if you can get past the dingbat wife and cutie-pie kid".
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film on DVD in October 2007 as part of the two-disc, four-film set Icons of Horror Collection: Sam Katzman, along with three other films produced by Katzman (The Werewolf, The Giant Claw and Zombies of Mora Tau).
Creature with the Atom Brain inspired the name of the Belgian rock band Creature with the Atom Brain, as well as the 1980 Roky Erickson & The Aliens song of the same name.
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