A Roger Corman film unriffed???!!!

Ye Gods! C'mon people, pull y'fingers out!

What are you waiting for?

Furry toys with pipe cleaners, Leonard Nemoy, lumps of liver, what more could you ask for?

While we're about it, maybe you can figure out why, in the opening moments of the film, driving along, the car stops, its passengers get out, and after we look up at electricity pylons and cables, they start walking down a slope.

This is seriously good riffing material. The story is odd and formulaic but still somewhat amusing with bizarre inner space aliens trying to take over mankind with windup toys and Leonard Nimoy! Even amateurs can watch this and come up with some funny bits for certain scenes. It's also very sixties as in Ed Wood sixties. It has real potential for riffing...check it out!

A 'Brain Eater', a 'Zombie', and 'The Brain from Planet Arous' go into a bar and the bartender says:

Bartender: Welcome gentleman, what can I get for you?

Brain Eater: Well, I have lived inside the planet Earth for millions of years, and I would really like to attach myself to the back of your neck, and stick my two razor appendages into your brain to control you and conquer the Earth.

Zombie: Well, I would like to have your brain on a plate, with a side dish of fava beans, and some ketchup if you got it it.

Brain from Planet Arous: Well, I would like to take control of your brain and use it enslave all of mankind, if that's OK with you. Do you have any free pretzels?

Bartender: Gentleman, you must have mistakenly thought that this is one of those trendy hot new millennial restaurants, not a sleazy little dive bar that people go to consume large quantities of alcohol.

Bartender: Tell you what... for 'The Brain Eater" I will make you a brain martini, shaken not stirred, for 'Brain from Planet Arous', I will make you a 'Flaming Einstein' with some high grade rocket fuel from NASA that I keep here for my 'special customers', and for Zombie, I will make you a fantastically delicious brain Daiquiri topped with a little umbrella.
The total drink bill will be $47.50, not including what I hope will be a generous tip.
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE!.

Brain Eater: I just emerged from under the Earth after millions of years, I don't have any...what do you call it...MONEY?

Brain from Planet Arous: On my planet Arous, our highly evolved society did away with monetary compensation thousands of years ago.

Zombie: Hey, I'd love to slap you some dough friend, but my unemployment checks stopped after I died over sixty-five years ago.

Bartender: Unhuh! Just as I thought. Alright, get out of my bar you deadbeats and don't come back until one-of-you has some cash, or a credit card, and absolutely NO CHECKS!

Brain Eater: Gee, what a highly emotional guy. I don't think that I shall ever patronize this bar again.

Zombie: Somehow this all makes me think that this should originally have been a very funny joke.

Brain from Planet Arous: From the guy that wrote this? Are you freeking kidding me? The guy that wrote this wouldn't know how to write a funny joke if it was already written down and all he had to do was copy it.

Brain Eater: Just our luck to get stuck with a clueless no-talent joke writer to write our dialog.

Brain from Planet Arous: Hey, let's go visit Rifftrax and have them write us some funny dialog? Maybe they can even re-write this bar joke and actually make it funny. And if they can't or won't...we can always have their brains, which is much more then we ever got from the brainless writer we have here.

Zombie: Great plan...let's go.

What do you mean that MST3K and now Rifftrax has never riffed the 1958 movie, 'The Brain Eaters' before? The poster artwork for this movie is really great and scary looking. But you would never use the words 'great' or 'scary' if you were to describe this movie. For some reason, probably because of that great poster, I always thought that this film was a cheesy graphic gore fest, but it is actually a very goofy, cheaply made, poorly written, mostly badly acted film that has Ed Nelson, and if you look hard, you might see Leonard Nimoy in a small role. The intentions are admirable, just really poorly executed. (God Bless You Ed Wood.) The filmmakers use narration in a number of places to try to move the film along and maybe fill in some plot holes, but it doesn't help. With all of that said, I really liked this film. There are so many opportunities in this movie for Rifftrax to riff on, it is almost like the filmmakers were able to see way into the future like Nostradamus could, and knew that they were making this movie to be riffed and enjoyed by the millions of Rifftrax fans who need a good laugh today more than ever.
This movie could become a Rifftrax classic, but then again, I say that about every movie that gets riffed.
What do I know?