be it not for the presence of two men who score great success later on television and ed nelson on peyton place and leonard nimoy on star trek and the brain eater would have no reason to be remember . then again with your half eaten cerebrum it would be impossible to remember this film anyway . it not monster from out space and but a collective of borg like parasite and speaking of star trek and from the earth core who have come to the surface in rural illinois and start invade the populace of riverdale . when they take over the police authority and cut communication from the outside and our intrepid hero lead by a u senator of all thing have to deal with them on their own . ed nelson and leonard nimoy play two of the scientist . but the save grace of the film if it have any be the performance of cornelius keefe a the blustering united state senator who be most aware of the prerogative of his office and ain not gon na let no alien and parasite and whatever stand in his way . leonard nimoy name be misspell in the credit and for reason of posterity he probably consider it a blessing .