{"id":5105,"date":"2010-10-15T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T03:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2010-10-15T23:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T03:18:49","slug":"brainiac-the-baron-of-terror-1962-chano-urueta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5105","title":{"rendered":"Brainiac: The Baron of Terror (1962, Chano Urueta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t set out to watch <em>Brainiac: The Baron of Terror<\/em> &#8211; nobody does.  But these blog posts don&#8217;t write themselves.  Sometimes when I&#8217;m sitting and writing about horror movies, I wish I was simply watching more horror movies, so I&#8217;ll half-watch some half-assed movie while writing.  I doubt this one even makes it up to quarter-assed, so I&#8217;ll be brief.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/brainiac1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Is this set in Spain, or did the Spanish Inquisition make it to Mexico?  Very promising opening: in 1661 the Baron, who has magical powers to release himself from his chains (so, why doesn&#8217;t he simply escape the inquisitor?) is sentenced to burn, swears he&#8217;ll take his revenge in 300 years.  Not a bad looking movie (except for a ludicrous optical effect of a comet) or story.  But then comes the revenge, wherein the Baron puts on a silly hairy rubber mask with a long plastic tongue and puts his hands on his victims&#8217; shoulders until they fall down.  Supposedly he is sucking out their brains with the evil tongue, which he then stores in a canister and eats when needs some quick energy.  At the end our hero discovers the canister, and I figure he&#8217;ll chuck it against a wall and the Baron will lose his magic, but instead two guys with flamethrowers bust in and torch the Baron &#8211; didn&#8217;t see that coming.<\/p>\n<p><em>Heroes: Rub\u00e9n Rojo of King of Kings and Rosa Mar\u00c3\u00ada Gallardo of Los secretos del sexo d\u00e9bil<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/brainiac2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A few translation problems: the grand inquisitor accuses the Baron of using spells &#8220;for clumsy and dishonest purposes,&#8221; and later an astronomer states &#8220;This is the most interesting thing about what I am telling you.&#8221;  From the director of <em>Blue Demon vs. The Infernal Brains<\/em> (the guy had a thing for brains) and starring the movie&#8217;s own producer as the Baron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t set out to watch Brainiac: The Baron of Terror &#8211; nobody does. But these blog posts don&#8217;t write themselves. Sometimes when I&#8217;m sitting and writing about horror movies, I wish I was simply watching more horror movies, so I&#8217;ll half-watch some half-assed movie while writing. I doubt this one even makes it up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,1134,54,137],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-brains","tag-horror","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}