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Movie Summary  Movie: The Atomic Brain: Director Joseph Mascelli sloughs his gut allover the screen in this awful example of creepy voyeurism trying to pass as sci-fi/horror. The troll-like Mrs. March lures a bevy of international lovelies to her Selznickesque mansion, where she ogles and pats them until she finds the one perfect for her experiments. In the basement, leathery scientist Dr. Frank uses some flashy equipment to suck the brains out of naked ladies. Back upstairs, Mrs. March's eunuch-like manservant Victor ogles right along with her, because soon the desiccated old broad plans to put her brain in the body of their favorite au pair, Bea. Outside, a sort of monster-like fellow who resembles a drooling Stephen Stills starts to disappear the girls one by one. Well, it goes downhill from there, with a long hide-and-seek contest, a girl who gets her eye poked out, a really angry cat, and a big explosion. Dark, strange, and utterly sad, but you do get to see a woman eat a live mouse. — Kevin Murphy Host Segments  Prologue:  Off we go with a lively send-up of the theater arts world, sending up the old off-Broadway psalter Love Letters in what borders on the femmiest sketch of all.  Invention:  Mike and the 'Bots give it right back to Forrester and Frank by dressing like their mad tormentors, bringing the Mads' Jungian quirks and failings right to the surface. The Mads try to turn it right back. Frank gets his head stuck in a fishbowl and suffocates.  Segment 2:  It's our own Tom Servo, all tricked out as Weather Servo Nine! He goes out in space and gets toasted by a meteor shower.  Segment 3:  Mike terrifies the 'Bots with his chin puppet.  Segment 4:  Magic Voice takes center stage, repelling the unctuous advances of the suave voice-over from today's movie.  Segment 5:  Mike reads a letter from a kid who's built his own Crow; Frank gets a consultation from Dr. Fist.  Stinger:  Foreigny victim lady screams. Reflections There's nothing really "atomic" about this movie, there's not much in reference to a "brain" either. There's lots of leering though, and it's definitely the first film we've ever done with a dirty old woman who paws young women. It's the kind of movie that makes me want to take a shower, you know, nice and hot, with lots of soap. Paul Chaplin wrote a couple neat little operetta-type ditties we sang to the disturbing chamber music sound track ("There's a girl/ on the roof/ and she thinks/ she's a cat"). It didn't go very well, and I think it broke Paul's heart, 'cause he really went to bat for it, poor dope. Oh, and Mary Jo Pehl, who plays the part of Magic Voice with her characteristic aplomb, triumphed in her first sketch completely dedicated to Magic Voice. She is strong, she is invincible. — Kevin Murphy