Have you seen this cutie before? It's been called "The Fiend with the Atom Brain", "Fiend with the Electronic Brain", "The Love Maniac", "The Man with the Synthetic Brain", and "Psycho A Go-Go"].
This is a movie which has endured more surgical alterations than Joan Rivers. Each version has been equally horrid, not horror movie.
In 1965 Al Adamson produced and directed a very low budget quickie called "Psycho A Go-Go". His direction credentials would make Ed Wood look like Otto Preminger. There an ex-Viet Nam vet is turned into a zombie-slave-killer by criminals who implant an electronic chip in his head. The film died along with the hero, but at the box office..
1969 Adamson added new scenes and title: "Fiend with the Electronic Brain". Guess what? This new version died.
You have to give Adamson some credit for persistence. In 1971 Adamson added more film and subplot using Kent Taylor and John Carradine similar to the way in which Ray Burr was added to Godzilla.. Adamson stuck his booblicious wife, Regina Carrol in also as Carradine's daughter. All her acting chops were between chin and hip.
Wierdest of all, he got Tommy Kirk (Disney child star) out of the closet to play a balding police detective who stumbles onto the fact that of the four people he had investigating a murder, he's the only one left (hint hint).. If you're expecting another title, you won't wait too long. It's now: "The Man with the Synthetic Brain".
And this time---------the film died at the box office.
Adamson waited, gave the film another new title but no new tweeks and released the version (I think) "Blood of Ghastly Horror" you're seeing above, and incredibly got it on the circuit again. Naturally the film big flopped again because America's taste for grindhouse was still notches above this dreckfest..
Never say die to monsters and terrible movies. Later the movie was released under the title's "The Man with the Atomic Brain" and "The Love Maniac".
Are you still with me?
Most of the protagonists, except Kirk who has disappeared from Hollywood for the past two decades are dust now, but if you ever see a movie released as a long lost treasure with a goofy title like "Zombies of the 70's" with one of the last great performances of John Carradine, save your $5.
You've already suffered through it right here in insufferable pan and scan right here on Hulu.
Doesn't tthat make you want to go right out and get Huluplus? Maybe you can see the other versions on that service.