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A dying benevolent Middle Eastern leader has his brain transplanted into the body of a mentally challenged and disfigured (burned with battery acid by some drunk bumpkins) behemoth by the name of Gor (with a name like that, he was doomed to be a hulking monster and of course he’s played by John Bloom) at the hands of a doctor working on the cutting edge (i.e. bullshit) of brain science, Dr. Trenton (Kent Taylor from Brides of Blood). Things go very wrong because that’s just inevitable and eventually a brutish beast with a new but failing brain is causing a problem for more than a few people. You see, what Trenton was keeping to himself and far from the concerned compatriots of the beloved leader from the made up nation of Khalid, is that for the transfer to work the body needs to be very fresh… like, we gonna have to murder somebody fresh. That goes wrong because the corpse of the burglar/probable-rapist Gor tosses from a building is in no condition to be of much use, which gets the doctor thinking Gor is his best option as the clock winds down on his ability to successfully pull off his bs science and laugh in the face of all those fools who doubted him. That’s not all that’s working against things because possible political bullshit, definitely fatal scheming and the malicious sleaziness of Trenton’s dwarf assistant (Angelo Rossitto probably best remembered from Freaks, although I’ve seen him in at least a dozen other things) have further complicated matters, it’s almost like transplanting brains illegally is a business that just calls to untrustworthy lunatics. Her loveliness Regina Carrol (lovely in a 60’s backup lounge singer way, that is) is around as the fiancée of the unfortunate leader (also his top secret agent) who gets called in by her future husband’s personal physician (holy shit, it’s Grant Williams from The Incredible Shrinking Man) after he manages to escape an assassination attempt. Everything goes to Hell because you just can’t trust anyone. Al Adamson unleashes some more drive-in fun with this mad scientist trash classic featuring chained women, an evil dwarf, an unlikely dungeon, a science gun that looks like it belongs in a movie from two decades earlier and Count Dracula himself Zandor Vorkov! That’s a big deal if you’re as big of a fan of Adamson’s Dracula vs. Frankenstein as I am. The drag is felt at various points as dungeon exploring, low-budget spy movie hijinks and plenty of chatter drag things to a halt but we’re always just a few minutes away from Regina Carrol’s humongous hair (Al Adamson’s most impressive special effect), low-rent laboratory tomfoolery and dangerous science.
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