Special Event: The Mads Are Back: THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS

February 6, 2025 4:29 PM

MST Club presents! An alien brain sets up shop in the body of an Earth scientist, and it's only vulnerable at those times when it temporarily leave it to absorb oxygen. Another brain, a good one, comes to apprehend el cerebro diablo, although for some reason it's stuck in the body of a dog. Contains the phrase "fissure of Rolando." Riff first released November 2020.
posted by JHarris (1 comment total)

I'd heard of this some time ago, and assumed that, because of "Arous", it was some kind of sci-fi sex thing. The description sounds an awful lot like the later film The Hidden, though, and apparently they're both based on the SF novel Needle by Hal Clement. Wikipedia also tells me that the metallic contact lenses were like the ones used in the second Star Trek pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:45 AM on February 7 [1 favorite]