fan of late night 1950 science fiction ( insert cleveland goulardi show here ) remember this not a creature with the atom brain but a the movie with uncle dave . john launer ( in his first movie role ) play police capt . dave harr and whose niece be seven year old penny walker ( linda bennett ) . care be take early to show that penny adore her uncle dave and late in the story ( in the most famous scene in the whole 50 sci fi genre ) he visit her on her birthday . but it be the re animate uncle dave and whose changed voice mrs. walker credit to a cold . she leave penny in the living room with dave and go into the kitchen . penny then give dave her doll henrietta . cut to mrs. edward startle face when she hear penny scream in the living room . poor henrietta . launer pretty much steal the film from the rest of the cast and both before and after he be kill . a captain harr he crack wise in every scene and his dialogue be actually extremely funny . the premise and to quote penny father ( richard denning ) represent remote control creature and their brain power by atomic energy and roam the street and direct from a central point . the background involve the deportation of frank buchanan ( michael granger ) and an american gangster who vow revenge and finance a not so mad german scientist ( gregory gaye ) who be develop a process ( base on then trendy radioactivity ) to animate dead body . they set up a laboratory in the lead line wall of a la mansion and steal a few body from the morgue and and begin a cottage industry of wipe out buchanan list of enemy . the scientist spend most of his screen time complain about the corruption of his noble experiment for evil mean . the set design for the lab be unexpectedly elaborate and the sequence of the two men crawl around in a 1950 idea of radiation suit be especially effective . one of their creature in the climatic scene look a lot like treat williams . this scene have a night of the living dead flavor . although the authority have discover that the body be control by electrode surgically plant in their brain and they conveniently fail to mention this to the police and national guardsman who be fight the monster while allow the climatic scene to continue until other mean be find to deactivate the creature . up until this scene and the movie deliberately use almost entirely wide master shot and much like the mise en scene ( limited editing cut within a scene ) technique of some hitchcock film . probably do for budget reason and it serve nicely to set up the climax and which be full of sudden cut to extreme close ups of the walk dead . this must have be quite frighten on the big screen and particularly after be accustom to the more distanced style of the first sixty minute of the film . i suggest that potential viewer ignore the imdb voting and this be a scary horror or sci fi film do with a trace of self parody . another one of producer sam katzman money make b movie while where he exploit the grow fear of a nation learn to deal with the atomic age and and it fascination with the concept of radioactivity .